Upping my temperature monitoring game!

[SquirrelyWrath8]

 

[Slimpicker]

 

[Murphy's Law]

I love their hats! I am wearing mine to a Dave Matthews concert tonight!

 

[GrillMeister]

Welcome to the club, The Fireboard Club!

 

[raggededge]

Where in the pit are you guys putting your ambient temperature probe?

 

[RayClem]

If you are only using one probe to monitor the pit, place it close to the main protein. Just make sure it is not touching the grate or the cook as you want to measure air temperature.

You might want to check the temperature at multiple spots around your grill at least once so you know if there are any hot spots or cool spots. You can use that knowledge to adjust your cook when doing multiple items. For example, place smaller cuts of meat in cooler spots so they do not overcook.

 

[MidwestSmoker]

Where in the pit are you guys putting your ambient temperature probe?

I am going to assume that you also have FireBoard.

If you only have one FireBoard ambient probe then it should be placed right next to the Traeger pit probe.

However, one of the wonderful things about FireBoard is their competition probes and you should absolutely get those for use as meat probes. If you do that then there is the issue of what to do with the two regular meat probes that come with the base FireBoard 2 system. The answer is to use them as ambient probes! The FireBoard website clearly states that these are no different than the ambient probe except for the shape.

In my Pro 575 the Traeger pit probe is on the right, so the main FireBoard ambient goes there next to it. Then I place another ambient probe (a fat meat probe) on the upper shelf to the left.

 

[SquirrelyWrath8]

I know it's been said.... But dang 20ish degrees off

 

[Slimpicker]

I know it's been said.... But dang 20ish degrees off
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So now you use your Fireboard only if you have a pit probe installed, IGNORE what Traeger says and just use the APP to turn your grill up or down in temp...

20°??? You're lucky, some guys deal with 25-30 the whole cook

 

[Timmy]

So now you use your Fireboard only if you have a pit probe installed, IGNORE what Traeger says and just use the APP to turn your grill up or down in temp...

20°??? You're lucky, some guys deal with 25-30 the whole cookView attachment 10238

Yep, mine gets worse higher the set temp.

 

[SquirrelyWrath8]

Just used the FireBoard on an eleven hour pork butt smoke. Worked great.

One big thing I noticed was the Traeger reported temperature got more and more accurate the longer the cook.

Around hour 6-7 the Traeger and the FireBoard were reading the same temp, plus or minus a degree or so.

 

[Slimpicker]

Just used the FireBoard on an eleven hour pork butt smoke. Worked great.

One big thing I noticed was the Traeger reported temperature got more and more accurate the longer the cook.

Around hour 6-7 the Traeger and the FireBoard were reading the same temp, plus or minus a degree or so.

Today ( I should have took the pic) I look at my readings with the ribs going, 30° diff... it wasn't the whole time but I was pretty surprised when I saw it. For me tho, NO, my Traeger and both fireboard probes never even out.

 

[sbarbrack]

My Fireboard Spark crapped out last night. I've only used it on about 10 cooks. The probe pulled clear off the unit.
Time to find out how good their customer service is.

 

[sbarbrack]

I am going to assume that you also have FireBoard.

If you only have one FireBoard ambient probe then it should be placed right next to the Traeger pit probe.

However, one of the wonderful things about FireBoard is their competition probes and you should absolutely get those for use as meat probes. If you do that then there is the issue of what to do with the two regular meat probes that come with the base FireBoard 2 system. The answer is to use them as ambient probes! The FireBoard website clearly states that these are no different than the ambient probe except for the shape.

In my Pro 575 the Traeger pit probe is on the right, so the main FireBoard ambient goes there next to it. Then I place another ambient probe (a fat meat probe) on the upper shelf to the left.

Brilliant. I wish I had heard that before I bought the ambient probes

 

[sbarbrack]

My Fireboard Spark crapped out last night. I've only used it on about 10 cooks. The probe pulled clear off the unit.
Time to find out how good their customer service is.

UPDATE The customer service is wonderful. They are sending me a new unit !!