I bought a $18 digital thermometer from Target the other day. The kind that is supposed to be used for a piece of meat in the oven. It has a temperature "stick" connected to a temp reading guage by a long wire.
It was great to be able to monitor my temps without opening the MT - I was holding mash temp 153F, right on!
As I was heating my sparge water, I needed a temp reading, so I pulled it out of my MT and put it into my hot water. It read 213 deg. F!! I knew this couldn't be correct as my water was not at a boil.
I put my old trusty floating thermometer in and it read 192.
I then put both the dig. and floating thermometers into my MT. The digi read 153 while the floating read 145. My attentuation was terrible! Not sure how to calculate how bad, but my OG was supposed to be 054 and I got 036 so I added a LOT of DME.
My conclusion is that technology is cool and all, but I will be going back to my floating thermometer...
It was great to be able to monitor my temps without opening the MT - I was holding mash temp 153F, right on!
As I was heating my sparge water, I needed a temp reading, so I pulled it out of my MT and put it into my hot water. It read 213 deg. F!! I knew this couldn't be correct as my water was not at a boil.
I put my old trusty floating thermometer in and it read 192.
I then put both the dig. and floating thermometers into my MT. The digi read 153 while the floating read 145. My attentuation was terrible! Not sure how to calculate how bad, but my OG was supposed to be 054 and I got 036 so I added a LOT of DME.
My conclusion is that technology is cool and all, but I will be going back to my floating thermometer...