Thermometer?

[Creekheat]

So after much discussion and talking to professionals, old burners, new burners, and a good slice of the wood community demographic I have decided that I am going to stick with a single thermometer. Stove top type. I am using a cheap one from TSC now. I would like to get a really good one. Suggestions?

 

[UPswede]

I have a Condar Inferno that works well on my stove. It reads about the same compared to my IR gun thermometer.

 

[Grisu]

Condar certainly gets better grades here than Rutland in terms of accuracy.

 

[Creekheat]

They are nice but I don't think they make a stove top model. Aren't they all probe types?

 

[Grisu]

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Really nice is of course an IR thermometer that can also be used at other places around the house. You can "calibrate" your cheap TSC one with it and then just occasionally check with the IR.

 

[firefighterjake]

I'm a bit partial to Condar thermometers . . . last time I checked the temp against the IR thermometer it was pretty close.

 

[BobUrban]

for the most part the spring type thermometers are just a "suggestion" and can be 50-100 degrees off. If you know what the stove is doing it really doesn't matter if it is spot on - just that it is in the right place on the dial for safe burning. You can also calibrate them to some degree by turning the nut/screw on the backside. Put it in boiling water to get a feel for accuracy as that is a known temp.

 

[Huntindog1]

I bought two SBI thermometers and all the paint was like cooked off them. Turned to like a powder.

I have had condar for 30 years and still has a good paint job on them.
I do need to replace them but still its has quality paint.

 

[pen]

They are nice but I don't think they make a stove top model. Aren't they all probe types?

Nope. www.condar.com

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Notice, the Medallion has a scale for the stove top and the inner markings are what is preferential for the stove pipe as far as temp (kind of a 2 for one with that thermometer)

Or for straight stove pipe

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[Huntindog1]

At one time the graphic was like this but has changed.
I like the numbering on this one better.
Pen's picture is how they come now.

 

[Creekheat]

Snagged an inferno from Condar. $18.95 seems like a good deal.

 

[Knots]

I like my Tel Tru with the tell-tale, but the Condar tracks with it pretty well.