Bought a cheap wireless meat thermometer off Amazon and lost a whole brisket to false readings

The probe said 203 degrees but when I pulled it off and checked with my old wired ThermoPro it was only 165 and the flat was completely dried out, has anyone else had a cheap thermometer fail on a big cook like that?

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rose_grant785d ago

@noah_webb makes a good point about the app warnings, but heres something nobody brought up yet - were you using it near any other electronics? I had a cheap wireless one that would go haywire sitting next to my pellet smoker controller and even the microwave in the kitchen. Interference messed it up bad before I realized what was happening.

noah_webb5d ago

The part where you said "the flat was completely dried out" really hits hard... that's the worst feeling after babysitting a brisket for hours. But I gotta ask - were you monitoring the temp the whole time or did you just trust that one reading at the end? Because cheap wireless thermometers often fail slowly or disconnect without telling you, so you might've been cooking blind for a while and not even known it. I've seen people say their Bluetooth one dropped the signal halfway through and they kept cooking without realizing the probe was just sitting in the air. Did the app show any warnings or did it just keep reading a steady fake number?