Reddit reviews Famili Digital Meat Thermometer (Digital Meat Thermometer)

I find one of these oven thermometers handy when heating water to strike temperature. Easy to get distracted, not so easy to ignore the incessant beeping. Or whatever the wireless ones do, I don't have one of those.

You do have to be careful not to put the probe too deep in the water, if it gets through the point where the probe is crimped to the wire you'll probably need a new probe.

Here's the link to the one I got. I think Christmas may have increased the price.

Famili MT004 Digital Kitchen Food Meat Cooking Electronic Thermometer Probe for BBQ, Oven, Grill, and Smoker with Timer/Alarm and Large LCD Display https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013A81VW4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_myctyb31YXAFF

get one of these: http://amzn.com/B013A81VW4

works fantastic! Goes up to mid 400's so you can use it to check the temp of your oven too and as a candy thermometer.

Odds are you will be fine, chicken has a parasite (forgot the name, doesn't matter) that doesn't die at 145 like bacteria do but at about 160. If you tested the internal temp and got above 140 then the outer parts would have hit this temp so at least 1/2 the chicken would be completely sterile. Odds of the rest being contaminated by the parasite is low.

IF you aren't sure, look at the fibers of the meat. they should be tight. If they are loose and ill defined you could toss them back in or a stint in the microwave.

Thanks for your reply! I'm thinking about getting this one - I can't imagine being able to successfully monitor the doneness without having a leave-in thermometer. I don't see it written explicitly for that item, but I'm pretty sure it's a leave-in.

Pump? Oven? Cellar? These things don't normally go together.

I take it that English isn't your first language, and that's OK, but it's really hard to figure out what you're after based on what you've written.

If all you want is a remote thermometer, there's a thousand ways to do that -- most of which don't even involve the complexity of a computer like the Raspberry Pi.

What about a thing like this that you just extend the wire on?

Something that I use all the time when cooking is a digital thermometer that you leave in the meat while cooking (I'm not endorsing this specific one, it's just an exemplar and is inexpensive) like this one. It can take a lot of the guess work out of cooking meat and let you hit the safety zone without over doing it. I got mine after I saw Alton Brown using it a lot.

Also, I highly recommend watching "Good Eats" reruns wherever you might find them. Even if you might not like the specific dish he's making that episode, he is great at teaching you the whys and why-nots of cooking and baking. It's more of a teach to fish vs give a fish kind of show.

Do you guys know of any thermometers that have a wired probe that I would be able to have a continuous display of the temperature?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013A81VW4/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=IEY1MSEMJ2YHZ&colid=2JOZX62QOQJ54

I like the idea of this one but I'm not sure if the probe wire could take the constant heat of the brew. Ideas?

I bought a cheap one from amazon and thread the wire through the gap on the hinge side of the door. I put the probe on a shelf above the meat

Famili MT004 Digital Kitchen Food Meat Cooking Electronic Thermometer Probe for BBQ, Oven, Grill, and Smoker with Timer Alarm and Large LCD Display https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013A81VW4?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf