Is there a trick to cleaning a regular meat thermometer?

[simondsjt]

I did a smoke yesterday using regular meat thermometers and by then end of the smoke, the thermometers were very hard to read. My wife thinks I may have ruined them. Is there a trick to cleaning them?

 

[packplantpath]

Is this the ones with clear glass over a dial and the glass gets kinda dark?

 

[cman95]

Elbow grease and Dawn dish washing liquid.

 

[simondsjt]

Sweet. Thanks. I thought I ruined them.

 

[fred420]

a friend put one in the dishwasher--it survived but had moisture inside until dried in oven for a while...

 

[fatback joe]

Spray some Pam on them and they should wipe right off.

 

[kookie]

I like the pam idea never thought of that one........

 

[cajun_1]

Works for me ...

 

[packplantpath]

Using a bar of soap and rubbing it on the dial before the smoke makes it come right off too. Though it works better on pans you don't want to get ashy, because you don't want to look through them.

 

[white cloud]

Food grade silicon spray. Gordons carries it.