this is the meter smart thermometer and it could change the way you cook so this
tiny thing is very impressive it is a Bluetooth smart meat thermometer
it is a food grade stainless steel body there's a couple of temperature sensors
inside there's one about a third of the way up here and that's the one that
measures the internal temperature of the meat that you're cooking and there's one
on the end as well and that one is measuring the ambient temperature of the
the oven or the grill or wherever you're cooking things the internal sensor can
handle up to a hundred degrees Celsius 212 Fahrenheit
the sensor on the end here much hotter to 75 Celsius 527 degrees Fahrenheit you
can use this for cooking meat on barbecues on frying pans and grills in
ovens you cannot use it though underwater in deep fat fryers pressure
cookers or in the microwave so how does it work when it comes in a rather
attractive wooden charging case and as soon as you pull it out of the case it
starts sending temperature data to your phone over Bluetooth the app in the
phone has a selection for the type of meat you're cooking for the cut of meat
you have and also for how well or rare you would like it done that's all based
on USDA guidelines if you want you can set up a custom cook if you're doing
something special but usually what you do is you would stick this into the meat
making sure that this temperature sensor here is about in the thickest part of
the meat to ensure that everything cooks properly select what you're cooking and
how you'd like it done and put it on the heat temperature data continually flows
from these two probes over bluetooth to your phone and after a couple of minutes
your phone is going to be able to figure out the rate at which the temperature is
rising the radio has to go to and therefore when it's going to be ready
and you get a count down on the phone telling you when your meats gonna be
ready five minutes before it's ready now there's a little extra alarm to warn you
that time is getting close and then at the exact moment that you should take it
off the heat the app sounds an alarm and you can do that it's not finished once
it's off the heat it can Tinh used to monitoring for the resting
period when temperatures are stabilizing and then as you sit there looking at it
going come on come on come on it finally tells you that you can cut into your
piece of meat and enjoy it and every time I've used this so far the meat has
come out perfectly it hasn't disappointed yet I did it with a couple
of steaks at different times to make sure that it wasn't a fluke both came
out wonderfully I did it with a chicken the chicken came out 99% perfect there
was one tiny small area that was a little bit undercooked and later
I sort of deduced it was probably because I had the temperature probe in
slightly the wrong place it wasn't in the thickest part of the meat so
something as you start using this is you will need to start getting very good
about where to put this but if you position it correctly no problems so far
so yeah Bluetooth Low Energy from here to your phone one of the disadvantages
of that means that your phone then has to be close to where you're cooking
because it's Bluetooth range if you're cooking over a flame you're probably not
gonna go very far anyway but if you have say a chicken in the oven for an hour
you don't want to be sitting in the kitchen all of the time monitoring this
so if you have another device that has bluetooth on Wi-Fi you can leave that in
the kitchen and then through the app all of the data from this will be broadcast
across your local home network so that if you have another device your phone or
something you can be in another room and you can monitor so you can have a device
to send it on to Wi-Fi just needs to act as a relay the battery as I said charges
up in here there's a double triple a battery in the back and the case holds
on with a magnet and there's a couple of extra magnets here so you can put this
on the side of your refrigerator or on the side of your grill or something like
that for when you're not using it takes a few hours to charge up about two or
three hours to charge up when it is charged up and you take it off 24 hours
of continuous data flowing from here to your phone before the battery is gone so
this is easily going to last you a whole grilling day if you have a big fourth of
July party or something like that it costs $69 for one of these
and that comes with the charge in block there is a another version that's about
to come out the probes are the same but you're gonna get four of these probes
and a slightly more complex charging block that includes that bluetooth to a
Wi-Fi bridge function and that's going to be a hundred and ninety-nine dollars
so that's the meter wireless smart thermometer I'm looking forward to using
it in the future