Aldi digital thermometer.

[smeghead]

Hi Chaps, does anyone have an opinion on digital thermometers, the one you just point at the surface and they instantly give a read out? Aldi have on this week at a silly price and I wondered if it would suit my home brewing? https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/t ... ermometer/

[vacant]

Hi Chaps, does anyone have an opinion on digital thermometers, the one you just point at the surface and they instantly give a read out? Aldi have on this week at a silly price and I wondered if it would suit my home brewing? https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/t ... ermometer/

Same one on eBay is £5 cheaper delivered to your door.

[Wezzel]

It says accuracy is plus or minus 1.5 deg C. Probably not ideal for mash temps.

[DarrenSL]

Not only that , this will only measure the surface temp of the mash which will probably be a bit cooler than deep in the grains. You cant go wrong with a simple analogue glass thermometer (unless you drop it!!). I've found with some of the digital ones that if you get any humidity inside the probe it throws the reading out so I don't trust them.

[Stanna]

I bought one, for gods sake don't bother for some reason when I pointed it at my boiler today it said 23 degree c when it was a rolling boil, but the freezer said it was at -18 c so opened the door and it read -18 c, doesn't seem to like shiny surfaces

[tourer]

I bought one, for gods sake don't bother for some reason when I pointed it at my boiler today it said 23 degree c when it was a rolling boil, but the freezer said it was at -18 c so opened the door and it read -18 c, doesn't seem to like shiny surfaces

Ohhh great, just bought one those

[rpt]

These IR thermometers need calibrating for the emissivity of the surface. Cheap ones can't be adjusted. Reflective surfaces have low emissivity so I'm not sure how useful they are in brewing with shiny pots.

[chris2012]

Couldn't you point it at the wort instead of the shiny metal

[Stanna]

I did another mash today and it was useful and accurate when pointed inside the boiler at the dark coloured wort whilst chilling with the wort chiller, apart from that I cannot find much use for it.

[orlando]

I did another mash today and it was useful and accurate when pointed inside the boiler at the dark coloured wort whilst chilling with the wort chiller, apart from that I cannot find much use for it.

Useful to those of us that are interested in "yeast ranching". To be able to check yeast temp without "touching" it is very useful. Whether reconstituting dry yeast, pitching into a starter or into a full batch, knowing it is within a couple of degrees of what it is going into assures a good start for it and no contamination risk.