Grill/Smoke/Roast = SnS Grills Kettle + SnS Deluxe Insert & Drip n' Griddle
Grill/Smoke/Roast = Hasty-Bake Gourmet Dual Finish with HB rotisserie and Grill Grates
Smoke = Weber Smokey Mountain 22.5"
Pizza = Blackstone Propane Pizza Oven (Stacy's, but she let's me use it sometimes)
Indoor Cooking = LG Studio 30" gas range
Camp Cooking = Coleman 2 burner white gas stove
Thermometer = FireBoard FBX2 with 2 ambient and 6 meat probes
Thermapen Mk IV = Light blue
Thermapen Mk IV = Black
PID Controller = Fireboard Drive + Auber 20 CFM Fan (FB gen 1 fan)
PID Controller = Fireboard Drive + Fireboard 20 CFM Fan (FB gen 2 fan)
Knives
Wusthof Classic Ikon set: 9" carving knive, 2X 8" Chef's Knife, 7" Santoku and three utility knives
Kamikoto Kuro set: 7" Santoku, 6.5" Nakiri, 5" Utility
Amazing Ribs Brazilian Steak knife set
Favorite wine = whatever is currently in the wine rack
Favorite beer = Sam Adams Boston Lager or Shiner Bock
Favorite whisky = Lagavulin Distiller's Edition 16 year old single malt
Best Cookbooks - Meathead's "The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling", Chris Lilly's "Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book", Aaron Franklin's "Franklin BBQ", Raichlen’s “Brisket Chronicles”
Current MCBS - Momofuku
Current fanboy cookbook - "Chasing Smoke: Cooking Over Fire Around the Levant"
Okay, my kids gave me a MEATER+ a couple years ago and I have just got around to playing with it. A couple things seem problematic.
1. It uses a AAA beater in the base and that charges the Meater itself. So, how do I make sure if I haven’t used it for a few days that it is charged. I pulled it out tonight for some chicken and it was dead. And I can’t just hook it up to a regular charger
2. How accurate do you think it is? The ambient temp seems to take a LONG time to get to where it is telling me the right temp.
I just got one, and I think that because the ambient piece is so close to the meat it reads lots colder than the ambient temp of your grill. My Sobot ambient reading was 40 to 50 degrees warmer than the MEATER reading. The charger needs to be near the MEATER probe to get a reading. I am not sure, but I think the app will give you feedback as to how much of a charge the probe has. When you download the app they have some short helpful videos.
This is why i returned the TempSpike I bought earlier this year. It always read a low ambient temperature because of proximity to the meat. I didn’t like that I could not confidently run a smoker with it without another ambient probe.
Yeah, that is really causing me problems. During the couple cooks I’ve done, I finally put in a Fireboard probe because the Meater was obviously wrong.
One thing the combustion guy pointed out- the ambient sensor is close to the meat, that is the temp the meat is experiencing, and that is what cooks the meat.
Little different than what we are accustomed to. He mentions this in his turkey video. Go to the 2:55 mark.
ecowper def make sure the square end is bright and shiny. I use a white magic eraser.
I have occasionally backed it up with a wired probe from SnS and found the ambient readings to be spot on.
Jerod Broussard. - I agree with the logic there, but would have to recalculate the cook to accommodate a temperature near the meat vs. the temp of the air leaving the cook chamber. Too much math makes my head hurt.
You know, that is a very interesting point. We've been conditioned to always put our grate probes 2" or so away from any meat, else the coldness of the meat would affect the reading....but if that is the air that is actually cooking the meat....hmmm.
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