| | |  | Cold Therapy Products | Home » » » Maverick Redi-Chek Dual Stainless Steel Probe Remote Thermometer | | | | | | | Description: | | Meats (choose from six: beef, turkey, pork, veal, lamb, or chicken). Taste or doneness (rare, medium, medium well, well done) as appropriate for each meat, or choose your own target Set temperature up to 410º F (210º C), and in your choice of ºF or ºC. Actual internal food temperatures for one or two different foods. Elapsed cooking timer (alternates digits with meat by pressing the MODE button). Model ET-7 is our largest receiver unit, allowing the user to monitor two different foods at one time, for example, chicken and beef, and each food can have its own temperature taste setting. Transmitter & 2 probes included. | | | Features: | |
• Taste or doneness (rare, medium, medium well, well done) as appropriate for each meat, or choose your own target Set temperature up to 410º F (210º C), and in your choice of ºF or ºC.
• Transmitter features a display of actual internal food temperature, and a red LED indicating transmissions (which occur whenever temperature changes by ½ degree).
• The probes are stainless steel, with flexible braid stainless steel sheathed connecting wire, 40 overall length.
• Transmitter measures 3 ½ x 2 3/8 x ¾, weighs 2.8 oz., and includes 2 AA batteries. Signal is sent on 433.92 MhZ.
• Receiver measures 5 5/8 x 3 x 1 1/8, weighs 6.8 oz., and includes 2 AA batteries and Warranty: 90 days.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 3.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 185 reviews |
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 Horrible productMar 07, 2010
This is a great idea and it would be awesome if it worked. Too bad it doesn't work half the time. I tried everything to get it to be reliable. What really sucks about this is it will just fail randomly, and it will fail. Worst of all, you won't know when it fails. When it desyncs or stops getting a signal there is no visual indicator that this has occurred unless you really watch it. There is a small satellite looking symbol that will flash when it receives data but it only does this about once every minute or so. Really annoying.
I'm not a novice at electronics or wireless devices. I tried everything to get this to maintain a connection. I replaced the batteries with brand new fresh from the store Energizer Lithium Ultimate batteries and it still didn't work. It stop receiving as soon as I went inside or turned around.
Others have had success with it, it might be hit or miss. Maybe there are just lots of bad units out there. If you want to play roulette with this product you can give it a shot, it'd be really awesome if it worked as advertised. It is possible that Maverick just has a horrible or nonexistent QA department. For as much as they charge I really expected something better than I got.
To me though, even if I got one that did work it's too unreliable since there's no visual indicator of signal quality. You could be sitting watching TV totally unaware you haven't been receiving temp updates for hours. Good way to ruin your meat.
I promptly returned this product and ordered a ThermoWorks Original Cooking Thermometer/Timer. I recommend this if you have no probe thermometer. If you already have a wired one, forget wireless and just keep using what you have. After reading the reviews on here it seems no one can make a half decent reliable wireless one. ThermoWorks makes a USB one, maybe I'll just use a laptop and remote desktop, hah.
 PROBESMar 05, 2010
Love this product. We are a competition BBQ team and they work great when you have several meats that need to be monitored at the same time.
 Wish it workedMar 04, 2010
Seems like sort of cheap plastics, but that would have been ok if it had worked. I set it all up and started a rib roast, and everything seemed to be working fine. But after a while, the remote unit would lose the current temperature, and display three dashes --- instead of the temp. Resetting it would get it working for a while, but it kept blanking out, sometimes after quite a while, sometimes after only a couple of minutes. I probably had to reset it a half-dozen times during the cooking of a single roast. It would have been more times, but when I knew I was only midway through and the roast wouldn't be done for a while, I didn't bother to reset it and left it at --- for a while.
The final straw came toward the end of cooking when, although the remote unit display hadn't blanked out, it seemed like the temperature hadn't updated in a while. I reset it and sure enough, the temp on the roast had been rising but the remote display was stuck at a lower temperature until I reset it! So worse than no display, wrong display.
***** for the idea, *** for the quality of build, and zero *s for not working.
Great Tool!Mar 03, 2010
An absolute must if you're cooking in a smoker or large cuts on the grill. Easy to use and having the remote sensor is great.
Definitely serves a purposeMar 02, 2010
I've used this product several times now and have mixed feelings. I like the convenience of knowing the temperature of the meat and my big green egg by looking out the window (when the transmitter isn't working - which is usually). The transmitter doesn't work well at all. The first time I used the product, I was unable to use the transmitter in my breakfast area less than 10 feet from the smoker. I changed the batteries this past weekend and the transmitter would update immediately if the receiver and transmitter were together or every 10-15 minutes inside approximately 12-15 feet away. This works fine for low and slow smoking, but wouldn't work for other cooking styles.
The temperature has generally been accurate. This weekend, it registered the internal temperature of my turkey breast to be 167. I checked it with another thermometer and it registered at 150. After re-inserting the probe, it registered more accurately. That was frustrating, but it was quickly resolved.
All-in-all, I would not buy this product for the transmitter - it is not reliable. But it is definitely worth the money for smoking meat. Even without the transmitter, this product is cheaper than most single probe thermometers.
I would give it a 4 star if the temperature was more accurate or the transmitter worked better - a 5 star if both worked.
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