SmokinAl
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Judy & I have both had colds for the last couple of weeks & I haven't smoked anything.
We both were craving meatloaf & I had an opportunity to test out a new therm, so I thought meatloaf would be a perfect thing to try it out on.
This is just a basic meatloaf recipe that we took off the back of the Lipton Beefy onion box.
All mixed up & into a loaf pan in the fridge overnight to firm it up.
Here's the new Fireboard therm. It comes with 3 probes, but it has the capacity to monitor 6 probes at once.
Extra probes are $15 each at fireboard.com.
I tested all 3 probes in ice water & boiling water & the results were very accurate.
The probes themselves are the most heavy duty probes I have ever seen.
And they are completely 100% waterproof.
Along with the 6 probe ports & the USB charging port, there is an extra port for future accessories.
A possibility of a fan to control the pit temp like a Guru has been mentioned.
It can be run indefinitely if plugged in or up to 24 hours on it's built in battery.
The unit is both blue tooth & WiFi capable. I had mine hooked up to my WiFi network.
My smoker is in the backyard & where it is located my iPhone doesn't always want to hook up to the network.
But the Fireboard stayed hooked up the whole time.
It comes with a standard clip for the pit probe, & they also have a threaded probe that would screw into a factory therm hole.
I'm going to do a full review of the Fire board in the product review section.
Back to the meatloaf, I took it out of the fridge & put it on a rack with some ketchup & onion on top.
Over an aluminum pan with some water in it.
Into the Lang with a probe in both sides. Not really needed but I wanted to use all the probes for the test run.
As you can see you can name the probes so you don't get mixed up which is which.
I named these meatloaf L, meatloaf R, and Pit temp.
You set the alarms right on your phone, iPad or desktop.
When the temp gets out of range it sends you a text message on your phone.
There is about a 30 second lag between the time it goes out of range & when you get the message.
You can change the view to see all the channels or just the active ones.
Here I'm on SMF & am using a double screen shot to monitor the smoker while I play.
Here it is on my iPad. I could pick up any device & it was giving me real time data on all three.
Windows computer, iPad, & iPhone.
As you can see I also was able to name the session "2/24/17 Meatloaf"
The top line is the smoker temp. In the beginning I was opening up the smoker lid a few times to get the temp down & have the alarm go off.
I wanted to see how long it took before I got the warning. So that's what all those spikes are about in the beginning.
Then it ran pretty steady until I cranked up the temp the last 45 minutes or so to get it done sooner.
We were starving, so I opened up the dampers & foiled the meatloaf to finish it up. So that's the spike at the end.
With about 1 hour to go I put a CI pan on the firebox with a little bacon grease.
Didn't take long to melt.
Judy threw in some potatoes & onions.
They browned up real nice in the CI pan.
She put some fresh dill on them & we just had to have a quick snack.
OK finally the meatloaf is done.
It's a happy meatloaf!
It turned out nice & juicy & the flavor was spot on.
Had to have my veggies!
Judy found a piece of frozen pie dough in the fridge & whipped up a strawberry pie for dessert.
It turned out to be a great meal & the Fireboard is quite an impressive thermometer.
Like I said above it will get a full review in the product review section in the next couple of days.
If you want to take a look at them or buy one they are available at Fireboard.com
Thanks for looking fellas!
Al
We both were craving meatloaf & I had an opportunity to test out a new therm, so I thought meatloaf would be a perfect thing to try it out on.
This is just a basic meatloaf recipe that we took off the back of the Lipton Beefy onion box.
All mixed up & into a loaf pan in the fridge overnight to firm it up.
Here's the new Fireboard therm. It comes with 3 probes, but it has the capacity to monitor 6 probes at once.
Extra probes are $15 each at fireboard.com.
I tested all 3 probes in ice water & boiling water & the results were very accurate.
The probes themselves are the most heavy duty probes I have ever seen.
And they are completely 100% waterproof.
Along with the 6 probe ports & the USB charging port, there is an extra port for future accessories.
A possibility of a fan to control the pit temp like a Guru has been mentioned.
It can be run indefinitely if plugged in or up to 24 hours on it's built in battery.
The unit is both blue tooth & WiFi capable. I had mine hooked up to my WiFi network.
My smoker is in the backyard & where it is located my iPhone doesn't always want to hook up to the network.
But the Fireboard stayed hooked up the whole time.
It comes with a standard clip for the pit probe, & they also have a threaded probe that would screw into a factory therm hole.
I'm going to do a full review of the Fire board in the product review section.
Back to the meatloaf, I took it out of the fridge & put it on a rack with some ketchup & onion on top.
Over an aluminum pan with some water in it.
Into the Lang with a probe in both sides. Not really needed but I wanted to use all the probes for the test run.
As you can see you can name the probes so you don't get mixed up which is which.
I named these meatloaf L, meatloaf R, and Pit temp.
You set the alarms right on your phone, iPad or desktop.
When the temp gets out of range it sends you a text message on your phone.
There is about a 30 second lag between the time it goes out of range & when you get the message.
You can change the view to see all the channels or just the active ones.
Here I'm on SMF & am using a double screen shot to monitor the smoker while I play.
Here it is on my iPad. I could pick up any device & it was giving me real time data on all three.
Windows computer, iPad, & iPhone.
As you can see I also was able to name the session "2/24/17 Meatloaf"
The top line is the smoker temp. In the beginning I was opening up the smoker lid a few times to get the temp down & have the alarm go off.
I wanted to see how long it took before I got the warning. So that's what all those spikes are about in the beginning.
Then it ran pretty steady until I cranked up the temp the last 45 minutes or so to get it done sooner.
We were starving, so I opened up the dampers & foiled the meatloaf to finish it up. So that's the spike at the end.
With about 1 hour to go I put a CI pan on the firebox with a little bacon grease.
Didn't take long to melt.
Judy threw in some potatoes & onions.
They browned up real nice in the CI pan.
She put some fresh dill on them & we just had to have a quick snack.
OK finally the meatloaf is done.
It's a happy meatloaf!
It turned out nice & juicy & the flavor was spot on.
Had to have my veggies!
Judy found a piece of frozen pie dough in the fridge & whipped up a strawberry pie for dessert.
It turned out to be a great meal & the Fireboard is quite an impressive thermometer.
Like I said above it will get a full review in the product review section in the next couple of days.
If you want to take a look at them or buy one they are available at Fireboard.com
Thanks for looking fellas!
Al
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