For Sale: Meat Thermometer, Only Used Once

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Brand new meat thermometer used for the first time today in a 350 F oven.

[VinL]

I can probaly fix that. How much do you want for it??? I’m a bachelor, do a lot of quick cooking— do you know if it will work in a microwave? Thanks.

[QBFimi]

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. C.S. Lewis

[Clay Moore]

It’ll buff out. LOL!

[Chode]

it's kinda like a popup, when it melts, it mean the bird is done...

[poindexter]

There’s your problem, right there!

[gunsequalfreedom]

There was nothing [prominent] on the packaging that said not to place it in the oven, though that LR44 battery should have been a give away.

New York (AP) - Hospitals have been overrun with people reporting feeling ill following misuse of battery powered meat thermometers used to determine the temperature of a turkey.

Consumer protection spokesperson Gill Reed reports that NOT everyone that left the thermometers inside the oven as the turkey was cooking became ill. Only those whose thermometer used a LR44 battery seem to have been affected.

Symptoms seem to set in a few minutes after posting to on line forums and include a flushed, red face and general uneasy feeling at having to admit to their daughter that they destroyed a really neat present.

Sorry. Could not resist. Think of it this way, the women in your life never forget right? You'll get a chuckle out of this every Christmas for many years. "Remember when dad put the thermometer in the turkey and left it in the oven?"

[gunsequalfreedom]

You realize this will become an annual FR Thanksgiving thread, right?

bttt

[VeniVidiVici]

My son gave me a wireless one for Christmas last year... Took me awhile to figure out I had to run the cable through the door so that the transmitter was on the outside of the oven/smoker. Love it but it took awhile to get the smoke stains off... :)

I heard those work well as rectal thermometers too. You should probably wash it first though.

;-)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Actually, my involvement was minimal. I did open and [superficially read] the package and remove the little tape to allow the battery to operate. We’ve used an oven proof meet thermometer for years and hardly gave it a second thought. I would have taken it back if I knew you had to stick it in a hot turkey, possibly more than once. I’d just use the old familar metal and glass one.

[stormer]

"You're a layman, aren't you."

[FlyVet]

I have a Taylor digital similar to that. It replaced a Taylor analog that didn't last very long.

I washed it. It wasn't waterproof.

Live and learn. Besides, isn't plastic-flavored turkey delicious?

[gunsequalfreedom]

I hope I am not being too harsh. I was really having a boring Thanksgiving. My wife just popped in and asked what was so funny.

[I Drive Too Fast]

Idiots. That model is for microwave oven use only.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No offense taken.

[stormer]

[TChad]

Has kind of a nice Salvador Dali look.

[Lazamataz]

I, too, have a meat thermometer, but it has been used more than once.

[I Drive Too Fast]

Oops.

[Errant]

You should probably wash it first though.

Don't use it for that if it's still HOT...

[Kirkwood]

“I would have taken it back if I knew you had to stick it in a hot turkey, possibly more than once. “

Yeah that is really tiring. You do that 2 times and you are done for the day.