O\T Meat thermometer - mercury????

December 25, 2008

My MIL who is staying with us put the turkey in the oven with the meat

thermometer in the turkey It's not an oven-proof thermometer and now

the plastic cover of the thermometer is melted and the thermometer no

longer works! My worry is obviously mercury, but I have no idea about

the content of these particular thermometers.

It's got a stainless steel rod and is an instant read model from

Norpro and it looks just like this one:

ie=UTF8 & s=kitchen & qid=1230217008 & sr=1-16

I've been searching for a while but can't find the content of this

particular type of thermometer. I'm hoping that someone is online

today that knows something about this & can offer (hopefully good)

advice. Has anyone ever looked into this? What's normally used in

these stainless steel quick-read thermometers?

We have guests coming for dinner in a couple of hours!

Merry Christmas everyone.

December 25, 2008

This device is a thermocouple, not a thermometer (despite what the

package says)

T.J Seebeck discovered in the 1820s that an electric current flows in

a closed circuit of two dissimilar metals when one of the two

junctions is heated with respect to the other.

I recommend that you eat the Turkey

--penumbra

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