SFU EHS will swap your mercury thermometers with non-mercury alternatives for free. Simon Fraser University is committed to eliminating non-essential uses of mercury and mercury-containing products.

See which meat thermometers could take the heat after testers used them for grilling, smoking and baking. There are certain tools that, once you begin using them, you wonder how you managed ...

Mercury is toxic to the touch and would be dangerous should the thermometer bulb break. Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing temperature of mercury is around -38F, so a mercury ...