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Question: How long is the probe wire? It looks very short in the picture.
Document: Long story short, I had the run around as well until I saw a review from 7/2009, that ultimately narrowed the company down. Contacted them briefly [Robinson Home Products (800-245-2433)] and received my new probe in no time.Note: You do have to be very careful with the probe and its been widely reported that they can fry, wear out, or just plain die if you don't.
Don't immerse the cord in water. Just wash the tip with soap and water or use a gentle scrubbing pad. If the cord does get wet and the probe fails to read accurately then just put the probe in a 300 degree oven for about 30 minutesand the water should evaporate. Then it should work fine. I think most of the bad reviews for short life spans, failed units, and inaccurate temp readings were because the operator got the probe wire wet.
loved this (the temperature alarm) while it lasted, which wasn't long. wish i could get a new probe...
I wonder if other reviewers with problems have been pushing this limit? If the probe is off by as much as 10 degrees as some claim, that might explain the short lifespans.I've liked this probe so far, although admittedly I haven't used it yet for its primary purpose (measuring internal meat temperatures). Instead I've used it as a kitchen timer and oven thermometer to monitor the oven air temps when proofing dough in it (don't want to kill my yeast!) by lodging the probe in a rack.
They will think the wire is food and they will eat it.I've lost two probe wires because I forgot to put the probe and unit away properly. That can be costly and you end up with many units but only one working probe. You might repair chewed up cords but their accuracy will be affected.
unit probe registered 220f deg in my kitchen, and i wasn't dead so it was wrong. checked for shorts in the wire, but no change, beat the unit vigorously on the counter and managed to change the temp up to 225 so i beat on it some more, but with no result. no joke - prob went out after four uses. no good don't buyand i had a turkey to back.
I have a Polder and a Pyrex, both of which I bought around the same time over a year ago (use them for bread baking and meat roasting). In the last few months, the meat started to be inexplicably overdone when using the Pyrex. Tried it again for the Thanksgiving turkey. When the turkey seemed to be taking too long, I plugged the probe already in the turkey into the Polder unit instead. Suddenly my 132 degree temp reading went to 158 and the turkey was almost done!
Anybody who does any roasting or aspires to needs a good, reliable and accurate oven thermometer. This is a good, reliable and accurate oven thermometer. The probe has a nice pointy end to let you stab it into the right position and a nice long cord to attach to the main unit. A large start/stop button lets you start the timer or stop the alarm when it goes off. Timer and temperature are easy to set using the buttons. Temperatures can be displayed in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
Mine has never worked properly -- it took a while before I noticed, but the way the probe is plugged into the unit (not the meat side, the machine side) affects the temperature reading. Wiggle the wire slightly and you have an entirely different temperature.From reading other reviews, it sounds like mine is worse than most - but there's something wrong with the design and manufacture of the probe if these kind of problems arise.
I ran into the kitchen and found the probe from the old silent thermometer and plugged it into our Pyrex thermometer, and it told me the room was 72 degrees, exactly what our thermostat says it is.Apparently the probes on digital thermometers are quite sensitive, and if you aren't very careful about getting the end that the wire come out of wet, water can get down inside the probe and damage the temperature sensor in the tip of the probe.
Answer: About 3 feet long I think.  It's definitely longer than in the picture.