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I’ve been using my iQue110 several times now over the past year on my drum. It does seem to hold temps stable, however, they seem to be low. My therms on the grill are placed 1) short one placed at rack level on the side of the grill and 2) short one placed in middle of the lid, using the orginal drum lid. Those two therms always seemed to read about a 50 degree difference with the outside edge therm being the lower of the two. I’ve had good luck manually controlling the fire in keeping the outside edge around 200-225 and the lide around 250-275. A 12 hour butt cooked yield excellent pulled pork.
I also smoke butts in an electric smoker, set the temp to 225 and smoke for 12-hours. Excellent results. So with the iQue110 I’ve been putting the prob half way between the edge and the middle of the grate. Figured I would split the 50 degree delta difference. I would set the iQue110 for 225 degrees and let her rip. The iQue does seem to control the temp at a stable level, however, it appears very low. I’ve checked with therms and it seems to say 180 degrees. Also, leaving in for 12 hours does not produced very good pulled pork.
Yesterday I called the company and asked. I’ve seen some negative comments here about their customer service. To be honest, I chalk their attitude up to being yankees. Meanly a little gruff, but they seemed helpful. I talked to a lady and she said I could check the accuracy with an oven. So I tried that.
I concluded the temps seemed to be correct. So I need to do a bit more research as to why the pit temp seems low when I use the iQue. Maybe the thermcouple measures a different type of heat than the standard therms we typically use? I design IR cameras for a living. I think I’m going to bring a handheld home and try and do a thermal analasis during my next cook.
First test: set oven to 250, insert probes (I have two units) and see what happens. Both came up with a steady green light:
Next step was to set the iQue to 300. This time I set the oven to 275 and worked my way up to see where the light would stay green (indiciating at temp). It camp to temp at 290:
I then raised it to see where it would go out of temp, that was at 310, seems to be a good accurate range:
I tried again at 350. Forgot to record at what temp it finally recorded at. I think it was 350 on the dot. 335 was still flashing:
It went out at 375:
I also smoke butts in an electric smoker, set the temp to 225 and smoke for 12-hours. Excellent results. So with the iQue110 I’ve been putting the prob half way between the edge and the middle of the grate. Figured I would split the 50 degree delta difference. I would set the iQue110 for 225 degrees and let her rip. The iQue does seem to control the temp at a stable level, however, it appears very low. I’ve checked with therms and it seems to say 180 degrees. Also, leaving in for 12 hours does not produced very good pulled pork.
Yesterday I called the company and asked. I’ve seen some negative comments here about their customer service. To be honest, I chalk their attitude up to being yankees. Meanly a little gruff, but they seemed helpful. I talked to a lady and she said I could check the accuracy with an oven. So I tried that.
I concluded the temps seemed to be correct. So I need to do a bit more research as to why the pit temp seems low when I use the iQue. Maybe the thermcouple measures a different type of heat than the standard therms we typically use? I design IR cameras for a living. I think I’m going to bring a handheld home and try and do a thermal analasis during my next cook.
First test: set oven to 250, insert probes (I have two units) and see what happens. Both came up with a steady green light:
Next step was to set the iQue to 300. This time I set the oven to 275 and worked my way up to see where the light would stay green (indiciating at temp). It camp to temp at 290:
I then raised it to see where it would go out of temp, that was at 310, seems to be a good accurate range:
I tried again at 350. Forgot to record at what temp it finally recorded at. I think it was 350 on the dot. 335 was still flashing:
It went out at 375: