My son and his girlfriend cooked at our house this afternoon while we were gone. Wife is putting dirty dishes in the dishwasher and holds up my thermapen classic, asking if this was supposed to be wet - it was in the bottom of the sink of dirty dishes. It’s still comes on but water was all back in the hinge area. I took the batteries out and it’s in a bag of rice for a few days.
Son apologized and blamed it on his girlfriend of course! If it doesn’t survive he owes me a new one, regardless I’m hiding all my good tools from the kids going forward! 😟
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I've left mine outside sitting on the smoker overnight in rain and it was fine. Buried under 6" of overnight snow once too and it's still ticking. Being your was totally submerged for awhile might be a different story. Wouldn't be surprised if it survives though. Good luck!
Equipment
Primo Oval xl
Slow n Sear (two)
Drip n Griddle
22" Weber Kettle
26" Weber Kettle one touch
Blackstone 36†Pro Series
Sous vide machine
Kitchen Aid
Meat grinder
sausage stuffer
5 Crock Pots Akootrimonts
Two chimneys (was 3 but rivets finally popped, down to 1)
cast iron pans,
Dutch ovens
Signals 4 probe, thermapens, chef alarms, Dots, thermapop and maverick T-732, RTC-600, pro needle and various pocket instareads. The help and preferences
1 extra fridge and a deep chest freezer in the garage
KBB
FOGO
A 9 year old princess foster child
Patience and old patio furniture
"Baby Girl" The cat
Thanks, I am hopeful. I'll let it sit in the bag of rice for a few days, then put the batteries back in and check the calibration. If its acting up I will send it in to Thermoworks. In the meantime, my son DID order a replacement for the RT600C pocket thermometer he took to his girlfriend's parents house and lost. Right now I will have to rely on my Dot or Smoke if I cook anything. I had a couple of chuck roasts to smoke, but told SWMBO to just toss em in a crockpot and make pot roast with them, as its fixing to rain hard today anyway.
Hi, my name is Darrell. I'm an OTR truck driver for over 25 years. During my off time I love doing backyard cooks. I have a 48" Lang Deluxe smoker, Rec-Tec pellet smoker,1 Weber Genesis 330, 1 Weber Performer (blue), 2 Weber kettles (1 black and 1 Copper), 1 26" Weber kettle, a WSM, 8 Maverick Redi Chek thermometers, a PartyQ, 2 SnS, Grill Grates, Cast Iron grates, 1 ThermoPop (orange) and 2 ThermoPens (pink and orange) and planning on adding more cooking accessories. Now I have an Anova sous vide, the Dragon blower and 2 Chef alarms from Thermoworks.
I've taken many of my RC hobby electronics for a swim in fresh water. Remove power or battery as quickly as possible, dry out in sun for a day, rice, oven at 150....all seems to work.
Salt water dunking is a different story (don't ask me how I know or I will have to relocate again....)
Well, after a couple of days in a bag of rice, I reinstalled the batteries and the Thermapen reads 32.0 when I make the prescribed ice bath to test calibration. So, for now, I think we are good!
I'd check high(ish) temp also. Just run your hottest tap water into a container and compare the thermapen to your dot and/or smoke (under the assumption that those two are accurate and that your hot tap water represents a typical target temp for rare or medium rare beef). It doesn't matter what the absolute temp is ... just how consistent your thermapen is with the other two.
Hi, my name is Darrell. I'm an OTR truck driver for over 25 years. During my off time I love doing backyard cooks. I have a 48" Lang Deluxe smoker, Rec-Tec pellet smoker,1 Weber Genesis 330, 1 Weber Performer (blue), 2 Weber kettles (1 black and 1 Copper), 1 26" Weber kettle, a WSM, 8 Maverick Redi Chek thermometers, a PartyQ, 2 SnS, Grill Grates, Cast Iron grates, 1 ThermoPop (orange) and 2 ThermoPens (pink and orange) and planning on adding more cooking accessories. Now I have an Anova sous vide, the Dragon blower and 2 Chef alarms from Thermoworks.
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