Tools to monitor stove, stove pipe and chimney temps, and draft

That again looks to be a thermistor sensor based device. It will only work for some parts of a wood stove, the combustor and firebox temps. will destroy the probes. Also the wiring is plastic or Teflon coated and again, high temperatures will fry the insulation and again destroy the probes, and that happens at considerably lower temps. than the probes themselves will withstand.

Of course it will work on certain parts of a wood stove, as you mention you are using it for that use. What I find most useful to me is the firebox and car. temps. and again, both will wipe out thermistor probes on the first use.

For cooking use, I find the Sorakin 6 channel Wifi device works pretty well and is only about $50 including four (I think) probes, though the unit can use six. Works well for the smoker and OK for a grill or sear box although on the higher heat of a grill again it destroys the probes if their cables happen to touch the grill plate. I tend to go through two or thee probes / year but they are pretty inexpensive. Funny thing about that device but the probes come with color- coded beads, one for each end of the probe so you can tell which channel is placed where in the food or in the smoker.... until you use them one time and then the beads are all the same color on the probe end- black.

 

Now you understand why I tagged BDF

one does not need to be smartest person in room on every subject!! Just know those that are!

 

Probes are good to 700*F as I recall...my wires are SS mesh coated.
But yes, not good for internal firebox temps...

 

Yes, that is the outer, wear sheath. But inside, the wires themselves are coated with a soft material, either plastic or Teflon, and if heated much above 400F, this insulation melts and the wires touch and short. The readout will still read but it will always read 454F (if memory serves) no matter what the temp. It is not the probe itself or the thermistor that fails but the wires leading back to the plug. This is my problem with them on a grill or hot, direct flame smoker (used in grill mode)- the insulation fails and the wires short. Honestly, with what smoking, BBQ'ing and similar accessories and devices cost, and what people seem to be happy to pay for them, I am surprised that no one is making or selling a thermocouple based temp. food temp. measuring device. Even the one shown in this thread is not being sold as a cooking accessory.

Thermocouples have a hard, woven fibrous material on each wire to act as an insulator. That stuff is pretty tough and will take lying across the nastiest temps. found on a wood stove without complaint.

I have been eye-balling the short, stub probes that have a transmitter built into them to eliminate the wire entirely but I am wary that the small block that is on the end of the probe, the electronics, will also 'toast' on a hot grill with flames licking at it.

 

The one I linked to does take K type thermocouples...says so in the link description, so it should be no different than the one you’re running now it seems, unless I missed something.

 

Yes, it is similar to the unit I use on my wood stove and oil- fired boiler. But I was also talking about the Sorakin 6 channel temp. measuring device that I use on my smoker and grill. Two different devices. The Sorakin is a thermistor probe device and not usable with thermocouples as they use two very different measuring schemes.

The reason I brought up the Sorakin is because I have never been able to find a thermocouple based device for food temperature monitoring, only thermistor based units and I burn up a few probes per year.

Again, to clarify, a 4 channel thermocouple reading / recording device on the wood stove, and a 6 channel thermistor based device for outdoor food temperature monitoring.

The device you show in your link in this thread may well work for food temp. monitoring also, and the cables of the probes will not be overheated and destroyed by grilling temperatures.