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Sugar Thermometer

Fail

Prices span $3.61–$14.96, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Sugar Thermometer is a Fail.

Flapen Score
40
40 / 100
Ranks 4,839 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −11 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£147K/yr158K searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
79%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Sugar Thermometer against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Sugar Thermometer is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

40Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Sugar Thermometer market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Sugar Thermometer 158K times last year and spent an estimated £147K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 40 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

12.0% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 158K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 12.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £147K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
158K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.8%
Conversion, latest week
12.0%
Market size, estimated
£147Ka year
Peak month
December3.5× the quietest month
Top search term
sugar thermometer uk32K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.75.

Listings sell for £7.75 on average, from £3.61 to £14.96. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At £7.75 that is £8K to £10K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.75under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.61–£14.96
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
£8K–£10K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

75% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #21 within Kitchen Thermometers. It carries 4,868 reviews at 4.42 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
75%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.9%
Average rank
#21in Kitchen Thermometers
Average rating
4.42 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
4,868per listing
Listings tracked
12

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Sugar Thermometer products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 79% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£15K£29K£44K£59K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

41

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • Tala35%
  • BOMATA27%
  • Thermometer World15%
  • Houdian6%
  • defull4%
  • Generic4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 9%)

Demand

Sugar Thermometer search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

7K5KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.5×

Search terms

Top Sugar Thermometer search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • sugar thermometer uk32K/yr
  • jam thermometer uk27K/yr
  • sugar thermometer39K/yr
  • candy thermometer22K/yr
  • jam thermometer17K/yr
  • candy thermometer uk13K/yr
  • jam thermometer for jam making5K/yr
  • sugar thermometer for jam uk3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sugar Thermometer

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Functionality-Overall19%−0.15

it never worked properly again

Didnt work

Try a different product - this doesn't work well

Durability14%−0.11

Failed within a year

Broken straight away

They dont last

Heating11%−0.05

Didnt record correct temperature so ruined jam

went haywire would not register high temp resulted in burning everything

went wrong - reporting 75 degrees at room temp

Quality-Overall9%+0.81

Rubbish dont bother

Poor quality, broken after a few uses

Poor Quality

Measurement/Reading Accuracy6%−0.06

Inacurate - boils at 92C

The reading jumps around a lot in a boiling mixture and is very inacurate and unstable

Love

Quality-Overall17%+0.81

Highly recommended well made item

Very good quality. I've had the silver one.

Great quality

Ease Of Use16%+0.97

Easy to read and accurate

Easy to use

A very useful tool

Value For Money15%+1.29

Affordable

Excellent value

Good price

Advertised Vs Actual Product12%+0.95

Just what I needed

Does the job

works as expected

Temperature Control8%+0.24

Correct temp

Turn on, reads the temperature, job done

USEFUL FOOD THERMOMETER

Return

0.7% Return rate 10% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall29%▄▆▅█▃▄

it never worked properly again

Didnt work

Try a different product - this doesn't work well

Heating10%▃▃█▂▃▄

Didnt record correct temperature so ruined jam

went haywire would not register high temp resulted in burning everything

went wrong - reporting 75 degrees at room temp

Display-Overall9%█▄▂▁▃▅

Display unreliable

difficult to read the red temperature line

Half of the digital screen stopped working 4-5 months after purchase

Measurement/Reading Accuracy9%▂▄▁▃█▁

Inacurate - boils at 92C

The reading jumps around a lot in a boiling mixture and is very inacurate and unstable

Size-Overall8%▇▁██▁▄

FAQ

Common Sugar Thermometer questions

Answered from the same tracked data.