How do you clean your probes or don't you?

[Dan Leighton]

Just curious how other members clean their temperature probes or if you don't. After several uses my Smoke probes are getting smoked up plus a little crud from cooks. This would only be my grate temp probe used with the clip. I've just been wiping the wires with a damp paper towel and the metal tip with fine steel wool to get it back to shine. Thoughts?

 

[Chip N]

That is about all i do too. My wires are getting pretty nasty.

 

[Mark Twelve]

I lightly clean off the probe tips scotch bright sponge and then take an alcohol pad over the whole thing. I keep a box of alcohol pads for use on the Thermopen as well. Does a pretty good job for the most part for the wired portion.

 

[MikeLucky]

Quick wipe with soapy dish sponge, rinse, quick dry with the dish towel. I don't want to clean it too much and lose all that seasoning..... lol

 

[MartinB]

I wipe down with soapy water

And let the heat steribilize them while smoker heats up

 

[Kelley Brown]

Never cleaned one.

Edit - I was thinking about temp probes for the grills.

For meat probes, I wipe them down with a clean rag when I pull them from the meat. I've been using the Inkbird stuff for over a year now with great results.

 

[timothy]

Wipe em off on my shirt sleeve.

Tim

 

[Tim K]

I wipe mine down with a Clorox wipe after each use and thats about it. Tim

 

[Dwain Pannell]

Tell the truth, I haven’t pulled the temp probes out in a while. I just set it and forget it now. But when I did use them, I just wiped them off with a damp cloth.

 

[D Livingston]

I wipe mine down with a Clorox wipe after each use and thats about it. Tim

That's what I do as well.

 

[Bruce Bissonnette]

Hot water, a green scrubby pad and spray them with bleach, almost like new.