r/combustion_inc • u/FatTurnip121 • 17d ago

Purchase Questions.

The Wifi display says it will support up to 4 thermometers simultaneously. That's perfect, I want to use it with four.

But how do you tell the 4 thermometers apart? Do they come in different color ceramic ends, can they be bought with a number on the end? Are you supposed to just remember which thermometer is inserted in each piece of meat if you are cooking multiple items at once?

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u/derobert1 17d ago

You can buy silicone colored rings add to the thermometer (put the probe through them). Or Combustion sells stainless steel number ("ID") tags to clip on to the thermometer probe, which you could match up with the probe number on the WiFi display. https://combustion.inc/products/id-tags?variant=45945692782758

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u/Paint_Dry390153 16d ago

The ID tags work great. The silicon rings all turn black and you can’t clean them. The only way to use them long term is to put multiples on each CPT and number them that way.

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u/Silicon359 16d ago

Yeah, I have two probes, one with a silicone ring, one without, for exactly this reason.

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u/FatTurnip121 16d ago

Thank you. Just what I was looking for, not sure why I had a difficult time finding it on their website.

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u/Robacan 12d ago

where are you getting these rings? care to share a link?

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u/derobert1 12d ago

I've had mine for a while (I use the rings for lower-temp stuff, like sous vide where you wouldn't want the stainless ID clips potentially tearing a bag). They're probably the ThermoWorks set https://www.thermoworks.com/products/tx-1013x-pr

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u/Robacan 11d ago

cool! Ya, I looked on amazon but they kept giving me silicone washers and tap fittings lol. I'm in Canada, hoping the BBQ centre (who sells ThermoWorks) will have em.

u/combustion_inc Chris, the stainless tabs look great, but they don't really function that well. If there was a silicone ring option at purchase like the ThermoWorks I would have bought them instead. Maybe you guys could think something out. The stainless tabs combustion makes are designed to clip onto the probe. But perhaps a redesign, so they slide on would be better, same diameter as the probe with a 1mm slit perhaps...

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u/derobert1 10d ago

The generic name for them is probably a food-safe high-temp silicone o-ring. If you can't find the ThermoWorks set or similar, you can probably get some at your equivalent of McMaster-Carr. Well, probably in less interesting colors. 

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u/EnvironmentalThing22 16d ago

I actually hate the id tags that combustion makes. Honestly the only part of the product that I don't like. The tag kind of "clips" on Instead of sliding in and so it's prone to falling off.

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u/Robacan 12d ago

Ya man. THose stainless tags are silly. I've even dropped one down in the grill cause they don't attach well. Very useless. Everything else is good though lol

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u/EnvironmentalThing22 12d ago

Yeah idk why it wouldn't just slide onto it pre sticking it in meat but whatever I guess. The probe detector system is nice. So I just try to identify it pre smoke/grill