Digital thermometer recommendation

[nickjdavis]

Inkbird IHT-1

https://inkbird.com/products/instant-read-thermometer-iht-1p

Accurate compared to my Hanna digital thermometer which is calibrated. Can apply an offset if you find it is out. Magnetic so in my case it just sits, immediately to hand, stuck on the side of one of my shelving units. Best of all....USB rechargeable.

 

[YeastFace]

I have two IHT-1s (one brewing and one cooking), but have definitely killed the brewing one through liquid ingress. That's user error though and have had a good experience with them at the price point.

 

[Sadfield]

Doing a very quick and rather unscientific test of dunking them all into the same jug of hot water just now, the cheapo meat thermometer reads 43.2ºC and the three band-gap sensors read 43.6, 43.8 and 43.8. That's good enough for me!

I could almost be convinced that was some form of calibration you've felt the need to attempt, there.

 

[DocAnna]

Going back a few years before I had such nice things as waterproof thermometers, I did resort to using this from my bag. It is pretty accurate but the risk of damage while brewing is too high to risk it these days. If you had a normal plastic version though it would work…. And definitively no risk of contamination

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Going back a few years before I had such nice things as waterproof thermometers, I did resort to using this from my bag. It is pretty accurate but the risk of damage while brewing is too high to risk it these days. If you had a normal plastic version though it would work…. And definitively no risk of contamination
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OMG I remember trying to use one of those when our son was a baby… never managed to get the darn thing lined up properly…

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Going back a few years before I had such nice things as waterproof thermometers, I did resort to using this from my bag.

No doubt for beers hopped with Earnest and Keyworth's Early?