"thermometer probe" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the part of a thermometer that is inserted into a substance to measure its temperature. Example: The chef inserted the thermometer probe into the center of the meat to check its internal temperature.
Daily temperature readings were taken by inserting a thermometer probe into three perforated bamboo pipes of approximately equal sizes mounted in each pile.
You insert your fancy new digital thermometer probe, stabilize the cooker at about 225°F and go cut the lawn.
Hypothesizing that the stall might be evaporative cooling, but still wondering if it may be fat melting, Blonder took a lump of pure beef fat from the fridge, inserted a thermometer probe, and placed it in a thermostatically controlled smoker.
The thermometer probe was dipped in oil prior to measurements.
Rectal temperature was monitored using an electronic thermometer probe (Thermalert TH-5, Physitemp, Clifton, NJ).
A thermometer probe was immersed into the sample solution.
They fitted two identical grills with seven digital thermometer probes each, and learned that by volume, not weight, and volume is how most of us measure charcoal, especially if we use a chimney, the two burned about the same for about 30 minutes, but after that the briquets held heat longer and the lump turned to ash faster.
All fluids are available in resus and rectal thermometer probes are in the top drawer of every resus trolley.
But how does an ear thermometer, whose probe never actually touches the surface of its target, the eardrum, achieve an accurate reading?
Once the oil hits 160C (if you don't have a thermometer or probe, drop a small blob of batter into the oil: if it starts to fry and brown quickly, it's ready).
The thermometer's probe is longer because horses, cows and dogs, for example, have deeper ear canals than humans (as well as body temperatures that average several degrees higher than humans').
