Finding a Polder thermometer

Fisherman, I found a polder type themometer at target but if you want to try online I would suggest either looking at Yahoo shopping or Amazon.Com and using polder as the search.

Mornin',fisherman.

If you are at a store,just describe it as a probe type oven thermometer.

Lowe's,Target,Home Depot,Service Merchandise,Walmart,Bed n Bath,etc.

One that has an Off switch is nice to save batteries.

Hope this helps some.

Most of the cheapskie stores have these, but in "name brands" like Corning, West Bend, Sunbeam, Farberware etc. instead of the Polder brand. Some very slight differences in features. Last fall, the cheapest were at Target.

I have used the Polder remote thermometer. It is good but I am now looking for a Maverick with two probes.

I have a couple of things I don't like about the Polder. First, the settings for the Polder don't let you use varied temps for some kinds of meat (chicken and turkey, for instance, only allow one temperature setting). So, I have used the programmable setting for all my uses. Second, the remote sometimes starts beeping for no apparant reason.

I like the idea of two probes because that will allow me to put one in the meat and another in the CS. Or, I can monitor the temperature in two pieces of meat.

The Maverick is more expensive than the Polder. The Polder retails for $50 (I found one at Bed, Bath & Beyond) and the Maverick is $80. I found one on backorder through a web site for $60.

Found on today,but not a polder.
I work part-time at the Black and Decker outlet store; Tanger Mall, Williamsburg,Ia. After work I walked down to the kitchen collection store and they had one. Has a timer on it and also a temp. alarm. Should work well. $20
Thanks for you're responses..

Ya gotta have a cookshack..

I just picked up a "Taylor" Professional Digital Cooking Thermometer/Timer for $19.00 off of Amazon.com.
$3 for shipping, and I had it 2 days later.
Save your money for the Briskets and ribs.

I bought a Maverick in January from High Mountain Jerky for $47. A short time later, I had some trouble with it when I dried some mushrooms. Too much humidity in the CS for the Maverick Probes and that caused them to give abnormally high and incorrect readings. Talked to People at Maverick and they told me that this unit was not really designed for slow cooking. They did send me some new probes though. Just before I got the new probes, I desperately needed a probe on a butt. So I tried it again and it worked (after drying out for two weeks). I put the other probe in the oven and dried it out and it worked after about 1.5 hours of drying.

I do not think these units are made that well though. While they say the remote can be as far as 75 feet away, 15 is probably a more realistic figure. An then it it not always reliable in terms of updating the temps. from the sender unit.

It is a nice unit if it would work as it is advertized to. Unfortunately it needs some additional quality control refinement.

I'm new to cookshack, haven't phoned in my order yet but probably will this week. Been seriously bbqueing for about two years now. I too had heck finding a polder. I wound up going to a bar-b-que store here in houston and getting their Acurite brand digital thermometer with a 3 inch braided steel clad cord and remote sensor. It was about $30. I looked at Acurites online yesterday and some site has em for $19. I did a google search to find the site "acurite thermometer digital" I think were the keywords. You only get about 20 hits and only one seems to be selling them on the web.... dchem

Think I can get a Polder in Alaska? Not yet, anyway. I also can't order online as we are not credit card users (thank gawd). Since CS advocates them in som many ways, wouldn't it be nice if we could order thru them? (AHEM!)

Try http://www.alliedkenco.com for the polder. They have all kinds of toys for smokin.........Don

Allied Kenco is about 25 miles from my home and I shop there all the time. Great butcher/sausage-making store amongst other things. I deal with Julie, since she's by far the sharpest one on staff there. The guy from Alaska could probably contact em and make arrangements for them to take a check for his purchase + shipping.

DCHEM! The "guy" from Alaska, is a Girl! Okay, a w-o-m-a-n! LOL! I get the A.K. catalogs. I just would like to buy local!

Ooooops! My mistake. Say, where's Moose Pass? I've been to Anchorage, Fairbanks, Kenai, Nikiski, Homer, and of course to the Slope. Never came across Moose Pass. One dang large state

If mymemory serves, you went through Moose Pass on the way to Homer/Seward on the Kenai. Beautiful area! Andi correct me if I'm wrong.
Richard

Almost right. Kenai is on the way to Homer. Moose Pass is on the way to Seward. The road takes a Y right after Summit.

Got 14 lbs. of sausage hanging and going to be smoked after the bloom. They look like Hillshire Farms! Will take pics!

I am in a boggle, though, over maple or hickory! These are Moose with pork added. Beef suet. Coriander, mustard, ginger, garlic, cure, lampong pepper, salt and cane sugar. Maple or hickory?

Why not put a small chunk of each in Andi. I'm sure the moose will be happy whichever wood you use.

andi,
if you send me a couple pounds of that sausage i will send you a couple pounds of new jersey tomatoes this summer. you might try smokin them up there.
tom r

Jersey Maters? Now you're talking! Got another load in there as we speak!

Maple yesterday! Hickory today.

Also, if you folks haven't tried Wild Grape Vine on a Grilled Steak, you ain't lived! I am gonna do a whole roast in the smoker with it when I can. Great on red meat!

Andi,
How about some halibut for some Georgia vidalia onions?
Richard

you guys & gal drive this administrator nuts...



The thread is about Polders and you end up talking about onions



Please start new threads. Please.

The idea is that when I file these in the archives, you wonder comments about the off topics won't be lost in a sub thread where future generations won't be able to find them...

Just Smokin'

(that's my administrator mandatory comment for the month)

OK Back to thermometers. I got mine at the Kitchen Collection at the outlet Mall in Williamsburg, Iowa where the Fisherman works a couple of doors down at the Black and Decker Store. He turned me on to it on this topic and I stopped over by there on my vacation. I have used it about 5 times now and it seems real nice. It has both a temperature alarm and time alarm that you can preset both together or independently.

Very Nice for $19.00

Maybe the Fisherman should be the official thermometer guy.

Kevin

I was surfing the other night for foodsaver bags and came across a web sight for the temperature probe I got that the fisherman told me about. I got it at the Kitchen Collection in Williamsburg, Iowa. Well, low and behold for the heck of it I typed in temp probe and there it is for less money at the store, but I have to pay shipping. Still a good buy. I might get a couple more.

I'm real happy with mine. It has a alarm for both time and temp. I really like mine.

Temperature probes at the Kitchen Collection

Hope this works.

Iowa Man