How to calibrate a thermistor?

Same cr0sh, BTW...

I don't think there is a product code on any of these (unless they microprint them); the thermistors I have are maybe 1-2mm in diameter.

I don't need super accuracy, and if I could get enough data points (ie, this voltage reading equals this degrees celcius), the curve could then be interpolated. The only problem I have is how to do this in an automated fashion using stuff one can find "at home" (or at least buy for a reasonable amount).

If I had unlimited funds (or if I didn't have a mortgage), I could simply get one of those computer controlled lab water-bath things, where you can set the temperature on a PC, then ramp it up, degree by degree, and take a reading with the thermistor, going from freezing to boiling, and corellate the readings with the temperatures (heck, they probably make instruments that does this for thermistor manufacturers!).

Sure, I could sit there and take the readings and write them down, but do you know how long it takes for water to go from being frozen to boiling? Many hours, and I can't do that for each thermistor (and this assumes the thermistors only measure from approx 0-100 degrees celcius; I have no idea how I would measure anything lower, at least going higher could be done in the oven).

Maybe my question and needs are impossible to do at home; if that is the case, so be it. It isn't as if thermistors with specs are expensive to source, I just have a few "unknown" ones that I would like to put to real-world use if I could...

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