Moisture in thermometer

Petunia

The last couple of cooks I have noticed moisture in my dome thermometer. Could be from my last cook before that which was pizza in a raging blizzard. It is right around the center of the thermometer so you can still read it all right. Is there some way to get it out? What do you recommend for a replacement thermometer?

Boilermaker Ben

I've got some moisture in mine, too. Just showed up for the first time...it's about 1.5 years old. Mine is also right in the center of the dial, so it doesn't affect my ability to read the temps. Since the thermometer still works fine, I'm just going to wait it out. I'm guessing that a nice dry hot June day will take care of it.

Spoon

Mine is only a few weeks old and seemed to get moisture in it after the first week. :(

Kenny 13

Mine is only about a month old and it has some moisture too, but I know exactly when it got there. I got rained on while cooking a tri-tip last week and had that moisture in the dial face by time the egg cooled enough to cover.

Doug in Eggmonton

The accepted solution to this is to drill a very small hole in the bottom center to give the air someplace to evaporate the water through. Worked for my but I used too large a bit and cracked my faceplate.

Doug

Bacchus

I had condensation in one of mine. It was there a couple months, and as soon as I had gotten used to it, it evaporated.

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

you can do this...


or put it in a low oven maybe 180 or so, or a cooling egg, to drive off the moisture

or you can get a tel-tru

(yes, jeffersonian, i said tel-tru. )

Grand Oeuf Vert

Moisture in mine comes and goes. Nothing to worry about.

JBUG99999

That's strangely coincidental that so many of us now have moisture in our thermometers. Ours just did this about a week ago. We've had some warm/dry days and it still hasn't dried out. Hopefully, we'll be as lucky as Bacchus and as soon as we get used to it, it will disappear.

No Trash

I used the drilled hole solution and it works...

EggerDan

Thanks for the drawing. I'm a visual kinda guy.

Daniel

EggerDan

Thanks for the drawing. I'm a visual kinda guy.

Daniel

LT

Live in Charleston SC so humid. Moisture covered the interior of the glass covering the temp reading scale within a couple of days and has been there ever since. Is this normal or a defective thermometer?