Bull Temperature is off

[miasmactic]

Hi, I just got my Rec-Tec RT-700 2 weeks ago and I absolutely love it. I mainly got this unit because of the accurate temperature they advertise. Last week I did a test and set the temperature to 200 and place 2 oven thermometer to see if it actually is 200. The set point and the actual is at 200 and so I check and the oven thermometer is 170. So I bump it up by another 50 degrees and let it hold for 30 min then check again. It was 30 degree off again. I tried this test on 300,350 and 400 and they were all off by 30 degrees. Weirded out, I thought my oven thermometer is off and put them in the oven to test them. The oven temp and the thermometer temp is match accordingly. So I called Rec-Tec and the gentlemen over there said the smoke temp and the oven temp are different. Is that true? Is there another way to accurately measure the temp?

 

[Wslayer]

Digital thermometer such as Maverick, Therm Pro, or Inkbird that's has been checked in ice water and boiling water. Oven thermometers are "not" accurate from what I have experienced

 

[ifican]

There are plenty of oven thermometers that are accurate, to keep your sanity pick a spot inside and calibrate that spot to what you want. You are never going to get every single spot across the grilling surface to match. Mine to was quite a bit low upon receiving, after calibrating to my liking, i have not had a significant issue since.

 

[Buckeye smoker]

There's a few threads on here for syncing your probes... Just do the best you can and go from there. After that use a decent meat thermometer to DBL check internal temps and you're good to go. Remember that adjustments to your Bull's meat probes are in °degrees and the grill area probe is in %percentage. Also it's based on a RecTec algorithm. So don't super stress it being perfect Like I did*...haha. good luck!