Recent content by Philip B

From 1981 to 2008 (28 years total), the engineers at Weber felt that a lid-mounted thermometer was not needed for the WSM. What changed their minds? Popular perception, that's what. Perception is reality and sites like the one you are reading popularized the idea that obsessive temperature...

@Kevin L - Yeah, because the majority is always right aren't they? Weber puts cheap and effectively useless analog thermometers on their grills because that is what the majority of buyers expect to see. I have yet to find a single one of these thermometers that is accurate to begin with and...

I had the dripping thermometer problem w/ my 14.5" Weber smoker. Yanked it and rigged some metal over the hole. Once upon a time, I bought into the temperature control mania. Now I believe that Weber was completely right with both their simple-minded cooking instruction booklet and no...

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