Oven Digital Meat Cooking Thermometer - Best High Temp Stainless Steel Probe Safe To Leave-in BBQ, Grille or Smoker - Large Touchscreen and Timer - Grill Food, Chicken, Turkey - Accurate Precision

I have had this digital thermometer now for a while, and have used it enough to form an opinion of it to share.Great thermometer! However, there is room for improvement...PROS - Easy to use, nice bright backlit display, good presets and the capability to modify and custom program for a session if required. Alerts are optional and while I did not calibrate and test temperature sensing, it was enough in the ballpark to accurately get meats to the standard ranges of rare, med-rare, etc. Is it exactly 164.3F Degrees for Medium Rare? Who knows.. but for 90% of the cooks out there that are just concerned with the standards, this is a good fit. If you need something so exacting that the kitchen might burn down if it is a few degrees off, well then - perhaps you need to consider a professional or scientific thermometer.CONS - I don't understand some of the design/programming choices on the thermometer. For instance, there are two switches on the back - one for ON/OFF, and the other to select using the devices as a thermometer or a timer. However, global options that might be set once are done through the touchscreen and are NOT remembered. For instance, selecting between Celsius and Fahrenheit readings... since I am in the US (as are most people through the .com (no country designated) site), I have to switch to Fahrenheit every time I turn the device on. It seems [logically] that this would be a switch on the back (or remembered if soft set) as I would much more frequently switch between Timer and Thermometer then I would change between "C" and "F". Also, there is no dedicated button for this... it is a long press on a button with strange labeling that short presses have absolutely no correlation to temperature at all...Further, the backlighting is not on all the time (nor is there a way to force it). Obviously as a battery operated device, this is desirable to save battery power. But once it goes off, the text is almost impossible to read... you can, of course, turn it back on - but only by pushing an area of the touchscreen that corresponds to a button which can cause havoc with the settings you have.I think some better "User Experience" research needs to be done on this product. All in all functionally, it is great - but it's quirky things keep it from being all in all great.

I used this thermometer for the first time a few weeks ago on a turkey breast. I got out my new thermometer, and watched the instruction on the website, as instructed. The turkey was really really moist since the thermometer kept me from overcooking it. Had I stopped there, this would have been five stars. It defaults to Celsius, but I'm in the US and had to find where the setting was for the F/C temps by watching the video on their website again. I thought once set it would stay on there, but that wasn't the case.However the next time I went to use it, I had to look up how to select Fahrenheit, not Celsius again. This meant looking for the box so I could locate the website where the instructional video was located. Then I had to listen to about half of the video to get to see how this was done again. Most annoying. This could have been avoided if there was a small instruction manual so I could save it in my kitchen drawer with all the other little manuals. If there were written instructions on how to set the thermometer on the page with the video, I could have printed it out and saved it with manuals for kitchen items. Or if there was a US version of the item for US customers that defaults to Fahrenheit.The thermometer works great, and I love being able to see the temp without opening the door and losing heat in the oven. Just this annoying issue with the F/C setting. I just hope I don't lose the box...

I have had this product just over 1 month and used it 3 times. The 4th time I tried to use it and inserted the probe I am receiving the same error others are receiving with the HHH on the display. I liked the way this product worked the first three times and believe it has a lifetime warranty and would like a replacement of this but will still be nervous that if after 3 uses and the product failing I'm concerned this may be a recurring issue.If the company could contact me to stand behind their product that would be appreciated. Right now I am not happy with this product plain and simple.Update:I contacted the seller/manufacturer and they shared some additional information that I had not had before or failed to read in the manual. When using on a BBQ with open flames they told me that ANY PART of the cord or probe that exceeds the maximum temperature will result in the probe being damaged. I'm not sure how you are supposed to use this thermometer on the grill if that is the case? Seems like a poor design that they will be constantly replacing probes for people like me that bought this to USE on a BBQ! Use in an oven or smoker and there's no issue because no open flames...but on a BBQ you risk damaging the unit which results in them having to send you a new one. Had this been clearly communicated when I was in the market and emailing back and forth with them I would not have purchased this unit. I am not sure if all thermometers of this style have that same restriction/constraint/design flaw or not but this one apparently does and now I'll have to work around that and be careful. Seems like I have something that will not be entirely useful for my needs but it is mine now and I have no choice.Beware if you are planning on using your thermometer on your BBQ as you could end up with the same HHH results that so many of us have gotten and only now do I learn the cause...again I do not know if it is in the literature or not but if this is a restriction...you would think they would clearly communicate that somewhere on the packaging because lets be honest...how many people really read the manual?