Why not feed digital thermometer through analog hole?

[Attjack]

Has anyone removed their analog thermometer and fed their digital probes through the top of the Weber?

[JCGrill]

Meaning just through the dome to get a dome temp? And not a meat or grate temp?

[Jon Solberg]

Great questions

[Pirate Scott]

I like having the Analog temp gauge because I can see changes directly over the fire. It really is not really inaccurate, it is just not grill temp. But there is no reason you couldn't use that hole if you wanted too.

[RonB]

I don't know if the hole is big enough for any Thermoworks probes to fit all the way through. However they make both a 6" and 12" probe that would probably reach the grate - IF you can keep it in position.

I do use the lid thermometer as a check though - just to make sure I'm in the ballpark.

[EdF]

Yeah, I still use it as a rough guide too.

[rodkeary]

I have not removed the dome thermometer. I use the dome air vents for penetration of my probes. They are always open at least enough to accept the probe and because I have a hinge on my Weber it is directly across from the S&S. As such, the probes themselves easily reach the grate or meat being monitored. You just have to be careful when lifting the lid to take a look at what's happening inside.

[JCGrill]

I don't think I would be a big fan of the probe feeding through, down to the meat or grate for the very reason that it would create issues raising the lid. Which is why I was trying to clarify the question. On the other hand, it seems like a dome temp would only be useful as a rough gauge anyway, since what I really want to know is the temp down by the meat.

[Attjack]

JCGrill I mean for your meat and grate temps. You could take a dome reading with an instant read thermometer through the top vent if you wanted to.

I was envisioning using extra long probes, and routing them neatly along the dome to their respective locations in the meat and to the grate in some fashion. I currently just put the lid down over the probe wires, and it works fine. I see a lot of you going through the top vent which I'm sure works fine as well. For some reason I don't want to do it that way. I don't pay any attention to the analog thermometer anymore so it is entirely superfluous. I was just trying to come up with a more elegant system.

[Jon Solberg]

Set up what your thinking about and post a pic. I'm very interested

[Steve R.]

Occasionally I just subtract ~75 F from what the dome thermometer says and rock on. That will get me pretty close with my particular kettle when using the SnS, which is always. YMMV.

[JCGrill]

I know a lot of guys don't like drilling holes in their grills, but I think I'd be inclined just to make a small hole in the bottom half of the grill and route up.

[Attjack]

That may be the way to go. Just kicking around a new idea. I am still planning to add a front handle to my 26" and when I start drilling I may as well drill out a probe hole as you suggest if I'm not going to remove the analog thermometer. I'm not in a hurry because I'm still experimenting with SnS placement. Currently have it sitting at 12 o'clock. But 9 o'clock was what I went with previously. Wherever I decide it should be most of the time would dictate where I would drill a probe hole.

[Kevin Fuess]

Thermoworks makes a industrial high temperature probe for the ThermaQ that is small enough to fit through the hole of an analog thermometer. I replaced the one on my BGE with this. And I have found that the dome temperature and grate temperature are very close, maybe not the same with other type grilles.

[Scout1]

I have a low end Weber 22" grill and the Thermoworks amateur kit with the instaread probe, the ceramic probe, and the armored stay in probe. Anyone have a diagram of a good setup for these? I read about drilling a hole above the top grate but as I look at the probes I am struggling with how they should be put in, especially if there are the two probes. I want to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving and would like to use both the in meat probe and cook temp monitoring ceramic probe.

[Huskee]

Welcome!

[Steve R.]

I recently picked up a Weber Ranch Kettle, and my old method of threading the probe wires down through the exhaust vents in the dome was definitely out of the question. I had already drilled a hole near the top of the bottom section for the Guru ambient temp probe. Turns out that hole was big enough to accommodate about 3 of my meat probe wires, in addition to the Guru wire.

I would leave the analog dome thermometer alone, if for no other reason than to avoid having another path for air to leak.

[FireMan]

Boy, reading the title to this thread initially twisted my brain. T’was an eye catcher.

[Mudkat]

Doh!