Bluetooth/Airport Meat Thermometer?

Does this exist? I have a kitchen counter meat thermometer from All-Clad (purchased at Williams Sonoma) that works very nicely, with a little wire that leads from the probe to a stainless-steel display thingie that sits on your counter, but I wonder if anyone makes the same thing only wireless. Seems like it would be a great idea but I haven't come across one like that.

http://www2.oregonscientific.com/shop/p ... 69&pid=284

Never used one, just a quick google-search. Bluetooth doesn't have a very large range, it's probably just RF.

There are plenty of wireless probe thermometers out there, although none I know use 802.11a/b/g/n (airport) or bluetooth.

Here's one example, which I've never used, but there are tons of others out there if you google:

http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Remote-C ... B00004SZ10

Thanks, guys. Don't know why those escaped my search. Actually, now I do, now that I think about it. I searched at sites like W-S and other kitchen places for all the meat thermometers they had, rather than trying google with the term "wireless."

(The bluetooth/airport thing in my subject heading is just a synonym for "wireless" in my mind--don't really care what wireless technology is used, as long as it works. I'm technologically illiterate enough not to know that bluetooth and airport are only two kinds of wireless technology among many.)

While I guess google has results aplenty, I'm glad I asked here, rather than asking google--because here, some folks might have experience with one or another wireless thermometer, experience I would trust.

gleam wrote:There are plenty of wireless probe thermometers out there, although none I know use 802.11a/b/g/n (airport) or bluetooth.

Here's one example, which I've never used, but there are tons of others out there if you google:

http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Remote-C ... B00004SZ10

I actually own one of these. I used it a grand total of once, when I was smoking a prime rib for the first time. Since then, I've learned to rely on my instincts and no longer use thermometers (other than the occasional instant read). If someone were interested, I'd dig it out of storage and let it go for a very reasonable price.

Boy, my thermometer is a hell of a lot better than my instinct. I'd be lost without my trusty Polder when I'm smoking brisket or a butt. My instinct would have me taking meat out of the smoker way before it's done, and I've been smoking for 25 years. In my case, it's kinda like instrument flying, trust your gauges or crash and burn.

I own and use that looks very similar to the one listed in Gleam's Amazon link. If I remember correctly I bought it at Bed Bath and Beyond. I've found it to be very handy when roasting in the oven or on the grill, especially when I don't want to have to keep running to the kitchen/patio to see what the temperature is. In my experience, the 100' range is only when you don't have a lot of walls between the transmitter and receiver. From the grill on the patio I can usually get no more than 50' inside before I lose signal, but that's going through a brick wall, at least one floor and possibly an interior wall. Checking the BB&B website, the one I have is here...

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product ... U=12123876

It's the same price as the Amazon model, but you can use the 20% off coupons they send out all the time.

LabRat wrote:I own and use that looks very similar to the one listed in Gleam's Amazon link. If I remember correctly I bought it at Bed Bath and Beyond. I've found it to be very handy when roasting in the oven or on the grill, especially when I don't want to have to keep running to the kitchen/patio to see what the temperature is. In my experience, the 100' range is only when you don't have a lot of walls between the transmitter and receiver. From the grill on the patio I can usually get no more than 50' inside before I lose signal, but that's going through a brick wall, at least one floor and possibly an interior wall. Checking the BB&B website, the one I have is here...

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product ... U=12123876

It's the same price as the Amazon model, but you can use the 20% off coupons they send out all the time.

We received this model as a wedding shower gift. I use it all the time. Nothing beats sitting on the couch and still knowing how the meat is doing in the oven.

Flip

stevez wrote:

gleam wrote:I actually own one of these. I used it a grand total of once, when I was smoking a prime rib for the first time. Since then, I've learned to rely on my instincts and no longer use thermometers (other than the occasional instant read).

Curious why you rely on your instincts and not the thermometer. What info does the thermometer give that steers you wrong when your instincts steer you correctly.

lougord99 wrote:Curious why you rely on your instincts and not the thermometer. What info does the thermometer give that steers you wrong when your instincts steer you correctly.

There's nothing in the thermometer that steers you wrong as far as temperature goes, but there's more to making good BBQ than just getting the meat to temp. With pulled pork, for example, the meat has to stay at temperature long enough for the connective tissue and collagen to melt and get to "pulling stage". A thermometer won't tell you when that is, only experience will. I guess I've just cooked enough BBQ that I find I don't need the thermometer to know when the BBQ is done. Usually a poke with my finger is all I need.

I use my wireless thermometer all the time, both in my grill and oven. It actually saved my a** one thanksgiving when it was very windy and the wind blew out my grill (yes it’s a gas grill and I know I should be using charcoal but I’m single and charcoal is a bit impracticable). My brother and his wife came up for dinner. He and I were up in my home office playing a game online (he and I were on separate computers, I’m a super Geek I actually have 13 in my house) and my sister-in-law was on my couch watching TV and surfing the internet. I had the remote for the thermometer on the desk next to me and when I glanced over I noticed the temp went DOWN. I grabbed the remote and ran down to my patio and re-lit the grill. Had I not had the wireless thermometer it could have been easily over an hour before I knew the grill was out. So the turkey would have been marinating in propane for that time. Not good eats. The other nice thing about the wireless thermometer is that you don’t have to lift the lid of the grill, or open the oven, unnecessarily thus letting the heat out.

Flip wrote:

LabRat wrote:I own and use that looks very similar to the one listed in Gleam's Amazon link. If I remember correctly I bought it at Bed Bath and Beyond. I've found it to be very handy when roasting in the oven or on the grill, especially when I don't want to have to keep running to the kitchen/patio to see what the temperature is. In my experience, the 100' range is only when you don't have a lot of walls between the transmitter and receiver. From the grill on the patio I can usually get no more than 50' inside before I lose signal, but that's going through a brick wall, at least one floor and possibly an interior wall. Checking the BB&B website, the one I have is here...

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product ... U=12123876

It's the same price as the Amazon model, but you can use the 20% off coupons they send out all the time.

We received this model as a wedding shower gift. I use it all the time. Nothing beats sitting on the couch and still knowing how the meat is doing in the oven.

Flip

Question about this bedbathandbeyond item...From the picture, it looks like there is a wire coming from the probe which connects to a stainless steel wired-up display, and in addition there is a black plastic unit which must be the remote readout. Does the wire have to be connected to the stainless steel thing for the remote readout thing to work? (I.e., does the remote readout pick up its signal from the stainless steel thing, rather than from the probe?) My ideal would be to find a unit that needed no wire from the probe at all, just a probe and a remote readout device. Perhaps the bedbathandbeyond item is this, but the picture is giving me the wrong impression?

BBQ Gone Wrong

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G Wiv wrote:BBQ Gone Wrong

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Oh my God - and not a cold beer in sight! I'm all for precision in lots of things in life but 'cue should be a low-key labor of love. It's one great way those who tend to tight-windings, like me, can find their place of Zen and peace. And the bonus is that you get to eat well in that Zen-like state.

Davooda

G Wiv wrote:BBQ Gone Wrong

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G Wiv wrote:BBQ Gone Wrong

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Apollo 11 had less technology than this---

HI,

I have the same wireless thermometer Steve Z has. I used it several ways:

- Stick the probe into a pot of water, then return to my desk with the receiver. Once it hit 212 degrees, I would go back upstairs to throw in the pasta. It kept me from returning too early.
- Rib roast in the oven - I would stick in the probe in from the beginning. I could read the newspaper and at a glance check on its progress on the receiver without moving from a chair.
- Used it for making jam to turn down the heat when it reached temperature.
- I did use it once with my WSM largely for entertainment purposes. Unfortunately the readout on the transmitter does not respond well near a heat source. It tends to scramble the monitor. Unless I locate chair or ledge for the transmitter to sit on and away from the heat, it is not too usefull.

For a while, the transmitter was stored in a drawer under my cooktop. It appears the heat permanently scrambled the monitor. I was hoping the receiver could still receive a clear signal, but that hasn't worked out.

Steve - I might be interested in your thermometer.

Regards,

riddlemay wrote:Question about this bedbathandbeyond item...From the picture, it looks like there is a wire coming from the probe which connects to a stainless steel wired-up display, and in addition there is a black plastic unit which must be the remote readout. Does the wire have to be connected to the stainless steel thing for the remote readout thing to work? (I.e., does the remote readout pick up its signal from the stainless steel thing, rather than from the probe?) My ideal would be to find a unit that needed no wire from the probe at all, just a probe and a remote readout device. Perhaps the bedbathandbeyond item is this, but the picture is giving me the wrong impression?

No, that's how they work: There's a probulator, wired to a transmitter, and a receiver with a range measured in tens of feet.
But it makes sense: the point of your probe may be inside the meat which hopefully doesn't exceed boiling temperatures -- and in all but a few cases should be much lower than that -- but the transmitter, battery, etc., need to be in a slightly more friendly environment.

JoelF wrote:But it makes sense: the point of your probe may be inside the meat which hopefully doesn't exceed boiling temperatures -- and in all but a few cases should be much lower than that -- but the transmitter, battery, etc., need to be in a slightly more friendly environment.

I never thought about that, but of course you're right--a transmitter/battery etc. inside a hot oven seems inadvisable! Thanks for explaining it so clearly, Joel.

cito wrote:

G Wiv wrote:BBQ Gone Wrong

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Apollo 11 had less technology than this---

Actually, the first space shuttle went up with less technology than this. It went into orbit with one of the first "cpu's" which was an intel 8088. I still have one somewhere in my house. Would you go into space in a craft made by the lowest bidder?

MikeW665 wrote:Would you go into space in a craft made by the lowest bidder?

Like most of the Astronauts, I'd go any way they'd let me..

stevez wrote:

MikeW665 wrote:Would you go into space in a craft made by the lowest bidder?

Like most of the Astronauts, I'd go any way they'd let me..

I think I'd rater go with Richard Branson.

Bumping this--we've had issues the last few years with my MIL's ancient oven and I thought it might be a good idea to get one of these to avoid opening the oven a dozen times trying to determine if the turkey is done. Anyone have recs on a good, reliable wireless probe thermometer that I can pick up today?

boudreaulicious wrote:Bumping this--we've had issues the last few years with my MIL's ancient oven and I thought it might be a good idea to get one of these to avoid opening the oven a dozen times trying to determine if the turkey is done. Anyone have recs on a good, reliable wireless probe thermometer that I can pick up today?

I have one of these and I've been happy with it. It's made for grilling but in the questions section they confirm its suitability for oven use:

https://www.amazon.com/iDevices-IGR0001 ... B00I25PGZO

Home Depot appears to sell a Weber-branded model for $50, but if you have Amazon Prime, PrimeNow sells it at the Amazon price with delivery today.

I have this one (or one very similar.) https://smile.amazon.com/Ivation-Wirele ... 01M22ILJ1/ It's made by Maverick and rebranded. It seems to be reasonably good and Maverick has stepped up to the plate when I had a probe fail prematurely.

I used to use it religiously when smoking in my WSM. These days I just operate from the lid thermometer or drop a BBQ thermometer through the lid vent on my Weber kettles. Early on I feel that it was invaluable in helping me to get good results and as I have gained experience I feel like I need it less.

OTOH I did see the value of recently getting a Thermapen with the flame theme...