Oh'come on now Janice, wouldn't that just take all the fun out of it? Where would be the challenge in that? It's a challenge! It's Pete against the turkey. They keep stealing his thermometers and he wants to get even!!!
Melted the plastic cover again dammit. You'd think they could make one with a glass cover.
Get one of the kind that has a probe you stick in the bird, and a unit with the readout that stays out of the oven. They're magnetic; you can stick it to anything made of metal.