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Offline Jeff Renner

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Re: The BEST thermometer in the World
« Reply #30 on: February 24, 2010, 07:05:22 am »
Does anyone have experience with a wireless remote read thermometer?  That would really be handy, especially when heating mash water out in the garage in winter.  I could hang out in the house where it's warm.

My daughter has one for cooking, but I have no idea how accurate it is.
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Offline dean

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Re: The BEST thermometer in the World
« Reply #31 on: February 24, 2010, 07:10:40 am »
Just try it and see how well it works, do comparisons with what you normally use.  Once I got my mash temp, I'd leave it anyway and just monitor with the remote if I thought there was a reason.

Offline tygo

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Re: The BEST thermometer in the World
« Reply #32 on: February 24, 2010, 07:18:21 am »
I looked into getting one of them but the ones that I was finding were for sticking in a turkey or a roast and weren't completely submersible.
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Offline babalu87

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Re: The BEST thermometer in the World
« Reply #33 on: February 24, 2010, 10:44:11 am »
Does anyone have experience with a wireless remote read thermometer?  That would really be handy, especially when heating mash water out in the garage in winter.  I could hang out in the house where it's warm.

My daughter has one for cooking, but I have no idea how accurate it is.

Probes on those things fail pretty frequently and liquids..................... forget it.
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Offline Thirsty_Monk

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Re: The BEST thermometer in the World
« Reply #34 on: February 24, 2010, 03:41:31 pm »
I have it submerged all the time when I mash.
Otherwise I would say 10 sec.

What do you use to keep it standing upright so it doesn't fall down into the bottom of the mash? 

I hang it on side of mash tun.
That works with round 10 gal cooler.
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Offline rob_f

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Re: The BEST thermometer in the World
« Reply #35 on: February 25, 2010, 10:30:12 am »
Does anyone have experience with a wireless remote read thermometer?  That would really be handy, especially when heating mash water out in the garage in winter.  I could hang out in the house where it's warm.

Set up a web cam pointed at the HLT thermometer, then just watch it on you PC.  This would come in handy all throughout the brewday...hands-off brewing!
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