Does anyone have a suggestion on a meat thermometer for rotisserie cooking?
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Maveric makes one for the food . Meat probe with a remote read. I had one on My Amazon wish list for a while but deleted it. so have never tried one.
What I do is hang the oven probe of my 732 on the rotisserie spit near the meat to monitor oven temp only. When I know it may close to being done I just quickly lift the lid on the grill and check meat temp with an instant read thermometer and go from there. -
Thanks, Yeah I'm looking for one that I can insert into the meat while using the rotisserie on my Weber kettle.Comment
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Run the probe cables under the rotisserie bushing. Place 1 probe in the meat and the other you can rig a hose clamp, or even a binder clip, to hold the probe on the spit perpendicular to the rod. then attach the send unit to the spit handle with rubber bands or velcro strap, and you should be good to go. I have done this - it works.
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I had the set up at my vacation home but my 2 piece rotisserie rod broke. I replaced it with a heavy duty rod and the cables no longer pass under the bushing, so I can't get a pic. But I really had it working. The key is passing the cables between the bushing and and the rod so they don't get chafed when the rotisserie spins.Comment
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For meat IT, I just use the fast Thermapen to poke it quickly while it's turning. At rotisserie speeds, a couple or three seconds is plenty of time.Comment
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Here is the one I want: MEATER: The First Truly Wireless Smart Meat Thermometer
It was a kickstarter here is the link (haven't checked in a while to see if its still going?)
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to bad it does not exist yet. : ) I hope it does but the magic 8 ball says ..... -
The Meater is what in the software business is called "Vaporware". It'll never happen.
Kickstarter is, in my estimation, just a means of getting questionable product funded by underfunded firms. If the idea is so freaking wonderful, a guarantee you there is venture capital to fund it.
Just my 2¢.
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I used to have a wireless rotisserie thermometer. It came with an over sized bushing that the probe wire would pass under. It didn't last very long and I did not replace it. I just looked on Amazon, and they don't show one.Comment
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Yeah, I'm just lazy. Want to stick the probe in set my grill temp and wait for my phone to beep telling me my food is done. I don't have an engineering mind and I'm having trouble visualizing the ideas I've heard. What GadjetGriller is talking about is exactly what I need.Comment
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A little old fashioned, but effective. I've had this for ~3 years, and used 40-50 times. Checked calibration several times but never needed adjustment. Similar model from tel-tru gets silver from AR review.
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Originally posted by Draugo26 View Post
Well dude, I guess you just need to stick a probe in there and take a reading from time to time. : )
It's grillin , Its not for everyone.Last edited by Jon Solberg; May 29, 2016, 06:39 PM.Comment
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Ok, broilking4 and Draugo26 and anybody else who's interested. I just dummied up a demo of what I had in Va and took some photos.
These are my Maverick 733 probes. The spit rod has only the normal sized bushing that came with it. I had to remove the bushing to get the probe rods through, but then it goes back on and both cables can move snugly between the busing and the rod. You can also get an oversized bushing to replace the stock one which would let you put the probes through without removing the bushing. What you see in this photo is one probe - which will plug into the Cooker port on the 733 send unit, which is being held in place perpendicular to the spit rod by a small binder clip. This monitors the ambient cooker temp right next to the food. The other probe is laying across the forks in this photo. That would go into the meat/bird. You can also see another small binder clip holding the cables in place to keep them from flopping around.
This photo shows a the bushing in place with the cables passing between it and the spit rod.
This one shows the cable slack being gathered and held in place by a medium binder clip. I highly recommend the 3 foot probe cables for this purpose as there will be much less cable slack to manage. Unfortunately, here at home I only have 1 3 foot and 1 6 foot which is why all of the slack. If I had a spare set of 3 foot probes, I could leave them in place all the time on the rod. I have them in VA and will probably bring them home next time I go down. If you wanted, you could wrap the rod and cables with some of that foil tape right where it passes under the lid cut-out for added protection against chafing or getting caught when it rotates while cooking.
This one shows the send unit of the Mav rubber banded to the rotisserie handle. I strongly recommend using self stick velcro tape to hold the unit in place on the handle, plus the rubber band or a strap for added security.
As you can see, this is not high tech or any fancy engineering. It takes no tools or anything. I whipped this together in about 10 minutes this afternoon. As I said, I have used it in VA and it works.Comment
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