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[Wingfat]

I have always been a huge geek/techie guy (my dad designs microchips, and growing up I had PCs and gadgets all over the house)
now that i am older and have my own fam and house and such. I find that my new love is cooking.
I have four different BBQs now, two offset smokers and have been doing Rib Comps as much as i can afford to do ;-)
I have a wireless temp monitor that i got at Sears, but i hate it. it doesnt allow me to set what temps i want the meat to get to, it has set temps for pork, beef, turkey and chicken.. but i cook Lamb and all sorts of things. and i dont like my chicken / pork to be rubber so i normally pull it off before it gets to temp and let the meat rest like you are suppose to..
has any one seen any cool apps or made and AHK script for monitoring meat temps? I have been lookning for some type of USB monitor or some sort of wireless thing i could do. so that i could set the meat temp and then go inside and play games (Diablo 3 now) for hours with only going out to add more coals and wood to the fire..

[G. Sperotto]

Sounds like you are trying to develop a complete gadget. I think it is possible to have AutoHotkey do most of the software part on the computers side, but the whole projects costs will probably surpass the price of the existing gadgets in the market by the time you get an actual prototype.

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[Wingfat]

I'm thinking of using my WebCam to view the diplay on mine (close the the Maverick link on Amazon above) then using AHK I will be able to have it monitor the display screen and with the OCR have it relay to me when the temps get to where i want
I was just seeing if anyone else has done something like that, or if any other coders here like BBQing as much as i do ;-) hehehe

[Tilter_of_Windmills]

Damn, that looks good! When you make the sauce, do you do a ketchup based sauce or a vinegar based sauce? They use vinegar here in NC, but I'm used to the red sauce of Tennessee.

[Morpheus]

Maybe this would help?

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[codybear]

Sorry for the non helpful post, but I might just have to steal a car and head to Cali for some bbq. Got room for one more? hahaha

[Wingfat]

Damn, that looks good! When you make the sauce, do you do a ketchup based sauce or a vinegar based sauce? They use vinegar here in NC, but I'm used to the red sauce of Tennessee.

I do a Mustard based one that i make. Have been working on a sweet and spicy teriaki sacue for ribs, i use a chinese five spice as the rub. makes for some very tasty ribs that you wont find at most places. I got 4th place out of 17 at a comp with that sauce.