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bbq4life
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 Posted: Oct 16 2009 Post subject: Easy Question, I Hope |
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| Can someone please explain the thermometer through a potatoe sitting on the grill grate, please? |
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kurtsara
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| Posted: Oct 16 2009 Post subject: Re: Easy Question, I Hope |
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| bbq4life wrote: | | Can someone please explain the thermometer through a potatoe sitting on the grill grate, please? |
You put a thermometer through a potato to monitor the temp of your pit, the potato keeps the probe off of the grates to get a more accurate temp of the pit
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Skidder
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| You can also save a taters life and use a block of hardwood with a hole drilled in it or a ball of aluminum foil. |
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jeepdad
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It provides the temp at the grate as opposed to the internal temp of the meat being cooked.
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whitey
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Yep What they said..You can use an apple if You would rather,or a cork,or well You get the picture. 
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SmokeHound
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| Skidder wrote: | | You can also save a taters life and use a block of hardwood with a hole drilled in it or a ball of aluminum foil. |
Yep, a little ball of aluminum foil here. . . . . (I won't ever harm a good tater!) 
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| SmokeHound wrote: | | Skidder wrote: | | You can also save a taters life and use a block of hardwood with a hole drilled in it or a ball of aluminum foil. |
Yep, a little ball of aluminum foil here. . . . . (I won't ever harm a good tater!) |
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