Multiprobe thermometers

Nu Temp will support up to 3 remotes and probes.

http://www.nu-temp.com/701.htm

I'm sure that there is one out there,or one that could be built.

A thought might be ,from experience and talking to a lot of other cooks,to stick with independent units.

If you have a problem with this multiple/master unit,while on the road,you could be in dire straits.

You can find sales on Amazon,etc ,where you can get four for three and get free shipping, on units like a Taylor.

Makes the unit price less than $10.

Maybe buy a Maverick,and a couple of Taylors,and still get free shipping.

Many of us have a Maverick,cordless remote,so it will alert us for large increases,or decreases in cooker temp ,while we sleep in the truck,or trailer.[ or at home in bed ,during the pouring rain]

Of course many of us FEC cooks set it up and go to the motel until morning at contests.

Many won't probe their large meats,until early morning,and then usually check doneness with an instaread.

I don't know of a time that I would have moved large meats around, because of a minor "hotspot" in an FEC.

Now a wired remote in your butts,and another in briskets can be handy.

The nice thing about a $10 Taylor,is if you crimp a probe,drop the reading unit off the truck,while driving across the parking lot,drop the reading unit in the dishwater and can't find it in the dark,etc,you just get another out of your kit and stick it in.

Now personally,reading the ambient temp would only be useful if you were concerned about a hard freeze,and maybe your water hose freezing up.

The $10 remotes will give you current internals,and alarm when a target temp is reached.

Just my $0.02

I use the Stoker. It has unlimited leads, and can be set up to work with a Palm TX for a two hundred foot range. It also has an IP address, so you can monitor your temps from any computer, and there is a program that will draw a temp graph for your whole cook. STOKER

Thanks guys.
FF.....I love the sounds of that stoker.
Can just the monitor and probes be purchased without the blower?
Its only for monitoring purposes and the thoughts of being able to monitor and map on the computer is dynamite.
Roger

Hi Mop

You can buy just what you want. One Stoker will monitor two pits at once. Food probes and temp probes are unlimited. Tell John Fast Freddie sent you. He is a personal friend of mine and I have to compete against him at California contests.

We know Fast Freddie to be a fine comp,and volume cook,and after he honed his cooking skills,finds ways to help his specific applications.

I guess I've been taught ,over the years,to learn my cooker,and my meats,and then start making lots of adjustments.

Just a thought.

There is some neet stuff on there web site. Another choice is a custom control system. That would consist of several items such as a progamable controller and thermal input cards. If you have ever seen the cost of this type set-up on machine control systems then you won't think much of the cost of comercially made multi systems. Compare $1000.00 plus to what they offer and its not to bad.