Turkey roaster?

[Sasquatch]

Has anybody ever tweaked their turkey roaster to get higher temps?

[cowboy]

Sounds interesting though. Hmm

[Tower]

I had one go haywire & would shoot up to 750 degrees on the 200 setting.   I blew up 3 loads before I figured out what was happening.

[Sasquatch]

That incident is what started the idea.

[bowmo]

I didn't tweak mine, but it originally had max dial temp of 500. With the tray out the corners get well above 600 if you want them too though.

[Sasquatch]

I wonder if you could just hook the heating coil to a light dimmer switch (dial type) then adjust the temp by the amount of volts running through it?

[Tower]

I would think so. The dial is just a simple potentiometer.   When mine went haywire it smelled like it was too hot.  Maybe they are not designed for that high a temp.

[le0n]

my first guess would be to reposition the thermostat/thermocouple probe to a slightly cooler area of the roaster.

if it's an electrical thermostat, perhaps take a reading with an ohm meter at a range of temps (low/med/high).

then do some math so that the correct resistor can be added to 'limit' the true temperature reading by the desired percentage.

[Sasquatch]

Great thoughts everybody,

I was only hoping to get another 100'degrees out of it.  575-600 max.