Marty W
TVWBB Member
I have a question for everyone that uses a Maverick ET-732 or any other digital pit probe in the WSM. I was doing my first cook this weekend on my 22.5" and everything was going I brought the WSM up to temp nice and slow it was pretty steady at 250 when I decided to put the two 9# pork butts on the lower cooking grate. That is where I had the pit probe placed and I was going to be putting spares on the top rack later.
So I put the butts on and to make room I slide the pit probe all the way to one side of the grill and the butt was about 1/2" away from the probe.
The question I have is could the close proximity of the butt and the inner wall of the WSM effect the readings I was getting on the pit probe? Should I keep the pit probe as close to the center of the cooking grate as possible? My pit probe was reading 230 but when I went outside the dome temp was reading almost 340. I know the pit and the dome temps will not match but I haven't read about one that was over 100* off. I pulled the Maverick and tested it in a ice bath and it was good. So I put it back in the WSM this time on the top rack right in the center and the dome and Maverick probe was 15* off. Just looking for some suggestions of what might have went wrong.
So I put the butts on and to make room I slide the pit probe all the way to one side of the grill and the butt was about 1/2" away from the probe.
The question I have is could the close proximity of the butt and the inner wall of the WSM effect the readings I was getting on the pit probe? Should I keep the pit probe as close to the center of the cooking grate as possible? My pit probe was reading 230 but when I went outside the dome temp was reading almost 340. I know the pit and the dome temps will not match but I haven't read about one that was over 100* off. I pulled the Maverick and tested it in a ice bath and it was good. So I put it back in the WSM this time on the top rack right in the center and the dome and Maverick probe was 15* off. Just looking for some suggestions of what might have went wrong.