sly_karma
Crew Member
My daughter gave me a Meater wireless temp probe for Christmas. I used it right away for cooking the turkey, with excellent results. It has two temperature sensors, one reads the internal meat temp and the other monitors ambient (oven or BBQ) temp. As the end of the cook, I inserted my trusty handheld meat thermometer right beside the Meater probe and they showed identical temps.
This is a great tool for longer cooks like roasts, or in environments with less precise controls, such as charcoal and wood fired BBQs. Now it's easy to monitor charcoal setups with a lot less need to lift the hood, as the BBQ temp is right there on your phone. No wires to interfere with oven/BBQ/smoker door seal, or to tangle on a rotisserie.
The probe snaps into a small magnetized holder, which also functions as a charging unit and a wireless repeater. Place this unit 2-5 ft from the oven or BBQ to send signal to phone or tablet. The whole thing is as long as a teaspoon. After cooking, the probe snaps back into the holder, which contains a single AAA battery for recharging. The maker says that AAA will last two years of cooking one steak a week.
The app has presets for commonly cooked cuts of meat; after a few minutes in the oven it will calculate a finish time. I told it whole turkey, stuffed, bird weight, medium-well done, and it did the rest (default setting was displaying degrees celsius). The green line on the graph is oven temp (set at 325°F
It appears that the makers are discontinuing the entry SE model. As far as I can tell, the Meater Plus is functionally identical, the sole difference is the Plus has a bamboo finish on its holder/charger unit. Some online retailers are blowing the SE out at under a hundo at the moment. There are also dual and four-pack sets so you can get everyone's steak done just so. Impressively simple product, set up and connected in a couple of minutes. Good bang for the buck.
This is a great tool for longer cooks like roasts, or in environments with less precise controls, such as charcoal and wood fired BBQs. Now it's easy to monitor charcoal setups with a lot less need to lift the hood, as the BBQ temp is right there on your phone. No wires to interfere with oven/BBQ/smoker door seal, or to tangle on a rotisserie.
The probe snaps into a small magnetized holder, which also functions as a charging unit and a wireless repeater. Place this unit 2-5 ft from the oven or BBQ to send signal to phone or tablet. The whole thing is as long as a teaspoon. After cooking, the probe snaps back into the holder, which contains a single AAA battery for recharging. The maker says that AAA will last two years of cooking one steak a week.
The app has presets for commonly cooked cuts of meat; after a few minutes in the oven it will calculate a finish time. I told it whole turkey, stuffed, bird weight, medium-well done, and it did the rest (default setting was displaying degrees celsius). The green line on the graph is oven temp (set at 325°F
It appears that the makers are discontinuing the entry SE model. As far as I can tell, the Meater Plus is functionally identical, the sole difference is the Plus has a bamboo finish on its holder/charger unit. Some online retailers are blowing the SE out at under a hundo at the moment. There are also dual and four-pack sets so you can get everyone's steak done just so. Impressively simple product, set up and connected in a couple of minutes. Good bang for the buck.
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