Big smoke planned for Sunday (Pork ribs and beef ribs)

[Stuarty84]

Cheers for the replies lads, it's appreciated!

I'm only back from a holidays and now I'm looking to get my thermometer sorted out. What would you all recommend? I am NOT buying another piece of dung from Hong Kong lol

I dont want to be spending a fortune to be honest but I want something reliable! I'm looking a website at the moment that sells Tel-Tru thermometers, they look the business! But of course the site is american...

Thanks in advance for any help!

Stu

[paulandabbi2013]

Cheers for the replies lads, it's appreciated!

I'm only back from a holidays and now I'm looking to get my thermometer sorted out. What would you all recommend? I am NOT buying another piece of dung from Hong Kong lol

I dont want to be spending a fortune to be honest but I want something reliable! I'm looking a website at the moment that sells Tel-Tru thermometers, they look the business! But of course the site is american...

Thanks in advance for any help!

Stu

I recently bought a Heston Blumenthal double oven probe of Amazon for about £15 and its a decent probe. By no means incredible but when I tested both probes there was only 1c difference.

[CyderPig]

Hi Mate
UD's don't normally cook as hot as other smokers unless you have a forced air system, and you are right the cheap temp gauges can be out by up to 50 degrees.
Start off by starting your basket minion style and adding a 3/4 filled starter full of lit with all vents open and get to temp, mark the crappy gauge at that temp so you have a rough idea what its true reading is.
Add meat this will cause temp to drop, and then fiddle with vents.
Invest in a forced air system, there are these on sale here on the forum from Toby.
I can run burns at 325f using one of those for upwards of 12hrs on one full basket of charcoal.
My next build will have 4 inlets to enable me to get higher temps without the need for a controller so I can use my rottiserie on the UDS.
Cheers
Si