About an hour into the cook I decided to take a walk through the neighborhood. The reason was to find out if the range was really 260 feet. While with some “cabled probe” wireless thermometers, you need to clamp an ambient thermometer to the grill’s grate and then the probe into the meat. Hi, I found that the mixture was much too dry for it to work in my Lem stuffer with the casings. I needed to add almost 3 cups of ice cold water to prevent it from blowing out around the gasket and blowing out of the side of the casings due to the small horn required. I used high temp cheddar cheese too, it holds its shape much better. The added water took longer to evaporate, but the results were very good.

The ability to link multiple probes to the same app is always excellent. Still, the ability to monitor your barbecue from outside your home is what we like to think of as the Gold Standard of thermometer tech. It would be great to have this option if you make a mistake during setup. The only way to make a change is to end the cook and start over. You can see a chart of oils and smoking points here. Peanut, sunflower, corn and palm oils have smoking points around 450 °F or 232 °C. Refined canola oil is a good alternative with a smoking point of 400 °F or 204 °C. While you are cooking, the App shows you the elapsed and remaining cook times. The remaining time calculator estimates cook time based on ambient and target meat temperatures. This lets you know how long it will take for your meat to reach the target temperature.With excellent battery life, beautiful app design, and decent wireless range, either of these thermometers will help make your cooking processes more precise and consistent. Setting a cooking program or an alarm is super simple. For internal temperature alarms, you can set both a final temperature alert and a pre-temp alert which lets you know when your meat is getting close to being finished. This can be super helpful if you're searing steaks in cast-iron skillets or on a grill because the finishing temperature can approach much faster than with smoked meats.

I tried 'baking' them in the smokehouse first, but gave up after 40 minutes as the internal temperature was rising very slowly and the fat near surface started to melt. The Mini has a temperature sensor resistance of up to185 degrees, so it will not work well for smoking large cuts of meat like pork butts and briskets. Sure, you can still use it to monitor the process of the cook, but you will need an instant-read to fine-tune the end of the cook. I could tell because the App sent me a notification when the range was exceeded. I also lost the extender, Bluetooth and battery icons on my phone. You can also set up permissions for your Local Network. This is only needed to share information with other devices on your WiFi network. I set this to OFF because I would only be using my iPhone device. You can customize the pre-programmed doneness levels, change the temperature levels, and add your own titles to the cook. The App will save the cooks, and you can access these cooks and settings on later cooking sessions.I put the pork loin in the oven and pressed the Start Cooking icon in the App. This caused temperature monitoring to begin. Our award winning Pure Range is made from the finest cuts of 100% fresh meat... that’s it! Grain and gluten free – no additives, no preservatives, no fillers…. nothing! I can confirm that 260 ft is pretty accurate. I was about 3 minutes into my walk before the connection dropped. If you must restrict sodium for health reasons, talk to your doctor before beginning a low-carb diet. FAQ BUT, here is where you can definitely use these wireless meat probes, rotisseries! It doesn’t matter how good of a wireless thermometer you got unless it is a true WIRELESS device; those cables will keep you from using it with a rotisserie.