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TIL my thermometer was lying to me by 15 degrees for months
Pulled my chicken out at 165 per my probe, turned out it was reading 150, so I ate pink thighs for like 3 weeks before I checked it in boiling water, has anyone else trusted a cheap probe that long?
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nancygrant4d ago
I saw a thing on youtube where a guy tested like 12 cheap probes in ice water and boiling water and most of them were off by 10 to 20 degrees. The wild part is they were all off in different directions so you can't just add a number to fix it. He said the calibration drifts over time too so even if it's right when you get it, six months later who knows. I check mine every couple weeks now in boiling water, takes like two minutes and saves you from mystery meat situations.
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