Thermometers?

How often do you replace your thermometer in your smoker?

Or next question how do you know if one or both have gone bad?

I was using my WSM to do some brisket and pork butt. Had it up and running about 275Ëš. I was curious so I put in a different thermometer and it went up to 325. So I grabbed a fourth one and it went up past 300 as well.

So who knows how long I have been cooking hotter than I thought or wanted. Things seemed to be getting done quicker lately. But then I didn't load it with as much. So I thought this might be it.

Any thoughts?

I will try to get pictures of my temperature probe set up.

You can easily check them for accuracy in some water that has just come up to boiling (100 deg C or 212 deg F). Make sure to submerge the probe in the water far enough to get an accurate reading. You can calibrate most analog thermometers.

on my cg i set the oven for 250 and set the thormater in it then adjusted it acordenley