Mike-GA
TVWBB Super Fan
Last night my Thermoworks Dot rejected the Meat Probe while indirect cooking my 1st beer can chicken in my 22” Kettle (using 2 Weber Char-Baskets flanking a drip pan in middle). I used probe about 8 times and started this cook reading perfectly. Well… the 7lb chicken toppled safely over the drip pan with probe still inserted into breast.
…But, some excess wire hovered closely over the grate above a side Char-Basket for about 15 seconds but wire did not touch grate. Dot started flashing "No Probe". I don’t see an issues visually on wire – no crimps, no frayed wires, nothing melted… First 10 inches of wire near probe end has normal soot and rest of wire looks new. The TW Dot works fine with an Air Probe I tested, so I think it is just the meat probe.
Is there any way to salvage the probe?
![No Probe issue_Thermowork Dot.jpg No Probe issue_Thermowork Dot.jpg](https://tvwbb.com/data/attachments/62/62908-11efd000e740a0b382bfb7412139e406.jpg?hash=Ee_QAOdAoL)
…But, some excess wire hovered closely over the grate above a side Char-Basket for about 15 seconds but wire did not touch grate. Dot started flashing "No Probe". I don’t see an issues visually on wire – no crimps, no frayed wires, nothing melted… First 10 inches of wire near probe end has normal soot and rest of wire looks new. The TW Dot works fine with an Air Probe I tested, so I think it is just the meat probe.
Is there any way to salvage the probe?
![No Probe issue_Thermowork Dot.jpg No Probe issue_Thermowork Dot.jpg](https://tvwbb.com/data/attachments/62/62908-11efd000e740a0b382bfb7412139e406.jpg?hash=Ee_QAOdAoL)