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txhoosier
Guest
greetings and salutations fellow diners of the smoked flesh.
I've always been curious/worried about the accuracy of my smoker thermometer. As luck would have it, I work in a calibration laboratory that has a temperature lab with several oil baths designed to measure and help calibrate devices (used in manufacturing) within extremely tight tolerances.
This week I took mine in (and my neighbors, he is a member of this forum too) to do a performance test to see how accurate it was. Well, mine sucks. Threestick's therm was much closer, just 10 degrees out on the low temp band.
Heres the how it lined up:
reference point.................dial reading
200....................................215
250....................................275
It was really out of whack when it got hotter - as much as 50 degrees wrong.
I realize that everyone doesn't have access to a Hart Scientific oil bath to check yours, but please beware. Check yours against others/freinds/what have you. Mine is a New Bransfels brand, silver dial with a red band. Reads in F & C. Says "outdoor gormet" on the bottom of the dial. I'm gonna look for a better therm. Anybody got any ideas?
Sincerely,
txhoosier
I've always been curious/worried about the accuracy of my smoker thermometer. As luck would have it, I work in a calibration laboratory that has a temperature lab with several oil baths designed to measure and help calibrate devices (used in manufacturing) within extremely tight tolerances.
This week I took mine in (and my neighbors, he is a member of this forum too) to do a performance test to see how accurate it was. Well, mine sucks. Threestick's therm was much closer, just 10 degrees out on the low temp band.
Heres the how it lined up:
reference point.................dial reading
200....................................215
250....................................275
It was really out of whack when it got hotter - as much as 50 degrees wrong.
I realize that everyone doesn't have access to a Hart Scientific oil bath to check yours, but please beware. Check yours against others/freinds/what have you. Mine is a New Bransfels brand, silver dial with a red band. Reads in F & C. Says "outdoor gormet" on the bottom of the dial. I'm gonna look for a better therm. Anybody got any ideas?
Sincerely,
txhoosier