Question on checking temperatures?

Deetwood

Has anyone ever tried to stick a polder probe through the place for the standard egg temperature?[p]I"ve got a remote thermometer now, but would like to use it to check dome temp remotely instead of meat temp?

Pakak

Might not be a good idea. It depends on what you're cooking but, from what I understand the probes are only good to about 350° or so. I've fried a couple myself.

The Naked Whiz

Deetwood,
I've read that if you subject a probe to high temperatures, even though it may still function, it will not read accurately any longer at lower temperatures. FWIW....[p]TNW

Borders

Whiz, how high is "too high" IYHO?

The Naked Whiz

Borders,
What I read was on the order of 200 degrees. We all use them to do pork butts up to 200ish temps, so maybe it has to be a little higher. Or maybe it isn't a light switch kind of thing, but that's what I read. And by now, everyone should already be guessing that I can't remember where the heck I read it... LOL!
TNW

Unknown

Deetwood,[p]I do this all the time without any problems. [p]Dave

Angie2B

The Naked Whiz,
I have one of those pampered chef probes and it has a candy setting on it..to get to the hard crack stage of candy making you have to bring the syrup up to 300. Do you think this will fry my probe , if I use it for that? I didn't get the impression pampered chef thermometers were that good. What do you think?

Smoked Signals

Angie2B,
I have a pampered chef probe ... though I have not made candy with it. I have done many a low and slow without protecting the wire on the probe. After 2 years of cooking my probe finally died the other night. Good thing I had already bought a back up probe. Even though I have had good luck with PC ... I think I am going to switch to a more available brand. Its tough to wait around for a party to order your cooking equipment.

Unknown

Deetwood, The Redi-Check I have states the max probe remp to be 410 F. Your probe is probably the same.