Bought a $300 wireless meat thermometer and it ruined a whole brisket

I was so pumped to try this new gadget, said it would connect to my phone and give perfect temps. Put it in a 16 pound packer last weekend, went to check after 6 hours and the app said 'signal lost'. The internal temp was way off, ended up with a dry, overcooked mess. Has anyone else had a wireless probe just fail on them like that?

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jason52423d ago

Spent three hundred dollars on a thermometer? That's insane to me. I would never trust a gadget that much with a big piece of meat. My cheap wired one has never let me down. It feels like these fancy wireless ones just add more things that can break. What a waste of a good brisket and all that money.

tyler49223d ago

Man, "signal lost" is the worst thing you can see when you're hours into a cook. I feel your pain. Jason524 has a point about the cheap wired ones being solid, but I fell for the wireless hype too. My fancy probe once told me a pork butt was at 205 when it was actually still cold in the middle. I guess we all learn the hard way that more tech just means more ways to mess up dinner.

charles9198d ago

Yeah, that cold pork butt story hits home. I went back to a simple wired probe after my own wireless disaster. The battery died mid-smoke on a brisket and I didn't notice for an hour. Now I just run the cable out the vent and set a cheap oven timer as a backup. It's not fancy but it hasn't lied to me yet.