The meat thermometer recommendations thread

IronGiant

Read the reviews, like most bluetooth thermometers unless you live in a paper house the range can be as little as 4 metres

I have both generations of the Igrill bluetooth (now owned by Weber) and the range is terrible

imightbewrong

Well here's my review of the Umwie dual probe wireless meat thermometer:

Delivery: 5/5 - very fast
Build Quality: 2.5/5 - quite flimsy plastic - plug not perpendicular to side so looks wonky
Display: 4/5 - with good batteries nice and clear, with good viewing angles
Flexibility: 3/5 - comes with two probes however only one socket so you could leave your probe in and move the sender unit from dish to dish I guess
Features: 3/5 - various timers/meat cookedness/tenderess settings/alarms etc.  Can select Celsius or Fahrenheit
Unboxing experience: 1/5 - plain cardboard box with everything jammed in.  box too small really - packaging bursting out the cracks
Temperature accuracy: 0/5 - did not display meat temperature

Overall score 3/5

IronGiant

Does that lower the overall score rather more than what you awarded it ?  

imightbewrong

Just a wee bit of average score humour

IronGiant

Does neither probe work?

imightbewrong

Neither.  When plugging the probe in the transmission led starts blinking, but the receiver never picks anything up.

IronGiant

Have you tried the rest button on the receiver? although it does sound like you have a dud

imightbewrong

I went through everything on the sheet - no dice.

I did change my cook style though - left the lid on much longer - about 5 hours after loading up with suitable smoking wood.  Have started to just believe in the process a lot more.  Got good reviews all round so will probably just stick to my reliable old OXO

nabby

Should have gone with the Maverick

imightbewrong

It looks good but I don't need £50 worth of thermometer