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I should have never bought this thermometer. There are plenty of negative reviews, and I should have taken the time to research. First use out of the box started off fine, but within minutes the temperature reading begin climbing at an odd rate. Within a couple hours, it was telling me the meat was 421 degrees (it woudl have kept going higher but I turned it off in disgust). My smoker maxes out at 275 degrees, and I only had it set at 225 when I was given this reading. I'm sending it back to CHEFScatalog.com, and losing $10.50 to their return policy for restocking fees. I won't order from CHEFScatalog.com any more, or "MR BBQ" anything. Burn me once.....
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The first time I tried to use the themometer it started to work correctly and then, about 15 minutes into cooking, the unit beeped and displayed HH for the temperature. The little booklet gave no information on this malfunction, the HH display. Later I learned that this possibly meant the probe had burned out, but, the probe was well away from the flames, the grill lid was on somewhat subduing the fire, fire was not overly hot, cable wasn't pinched or stressed. The unit has no manufacture ID on it, always a bad sign. Booklet also shows no manufacture, no phone number. The cable on the unit, which sits by grill, was a little short for reaching into the grill but I had a table at hand to place the unit on. The unit supposedly gives you options for cooking rare, medium rare, medium and well done but those options are not all available for certain types of meat, none for chicken. The temperature for white meat chicken should be 160 but if you select chicken on the unit it defaults to 180. Usually 175 is the done temperature for dark meat. Fortunately you can dial the unit back to 160 from the 180 but you do it one degree at a time. If you turn off the unit and turn it back on it reverts to the 180. Too bad the unit failed on the first use.Best Deals for Mr. Bar-B-Q Remote Digital Meat Temperature Gauge
I own two of these and for the first month or so they both worked fine. After that neither one works, I would not recommend this product to anyone.Thay have no manufacturers label or any way of getting in contact with the manufacture. I gave this one star as there is no lower rating.Honest reviews on Mr. Bar-B-Q Remote Digital Meat Temperature Gauge
I bought this several years ago when it was sold under a different name ("Smart BBQ"). They've reorganized the buttons slightly, but the remote and sending, or base, units appear to be identical otherwise.The first couple of times I used it, it worked well, although you've got to be sure there's a "line of sight" between the transmitter (the little stand it sits in) and the gauge. Like so many electronic devices, I got the impression whoever wrote the instructions had never actually seen or used the thermometer. There's no way of knowing from the read-out when it last received a temp reading from the base unit, although at the time it sends a change of temp, it shows a little icon for a radio tower.
Unfortunately, after a couple of uses, the thing became very erratic. One day it would work well, the next day the temperatures it reported were ridiculous--it would, for example, say meat you had just placed on the grill was 350 degrees. I replaced the batteries, to no avail. (There are several batteries, since they're in both the remote and the base.) Some reviews here for other digital thermometers suggested the probe could be faulty, so I tried the probe from another thermometer--it didn't make any difference.
My brother has this kind of device from another manufacturer and says it works well. This one, not so much.
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