Chef iQ Smart Wireless Meat Thermometer

The little voice and the app together would make a potentially blind friendly product. Easy to use and lots of preprogrammed cooking instructions including temperature and cooking time.

Two features that are missing are the ability to set alerts for the ambient temp and total current cook time. If I am cooking on my offset an alert for when the ambient temp drops below a certain threshold so that I know I need to add another split to the fire would be helpful. Also showing the total cook time would be helpful. I know I can go to cooking history and view the current cook, but why have to go to history to see the current cook? Just a lot of extra clicking around that is not necessary. I believe these features could be introduced in an app update since the data is already in the app. This would make this thermometer the best overall with its wifi connectivity that a lot of other probes do not have, but these key features do exist on other non-wifi thermometers.

You can see the temperature from anywhere, comes in a great box and and have a wonderful charger station. Great quality. Not your average cheap sensor. Also app is very good

I bought this to be able to monitor food cooking on my BBQ. Little did I know that the app basically is a computer that tracks cooking and has recipes and does much more.
You enter all the necessary info and the app calculates everything for you and talks to you with a speaker built into the case, so it’s virtually impossible to screw up.
For example, I BBQ’d some pork chops last night.
You setup a cool on the app- choose what you’re cooking- poultry, meat, seafood, vegetables, plant based.
So I chose meat. Then you’re promoted as to whether your meat is beef, pork, lamb, or veal.
I chose pork. Then I’m asked the type of pork- chops, roast, belly, ribs, burger, sausage or sausage burger.
I selected chops. Then I’m prompted as to whether they’re loin chops, rib chops or shoulder chops. I choose rib chops and I’m asked their thickness from 0.5-2 inches.
I select 1”, then I’m asked the cooking method- grill, stovetop, oven, smoker or air fryer.
I chose grill.
Then it asks how you want them done- medium (145) medium well (150) or we’ll done (160).
After entering that the app tells me to remove from heat at 155 to reach 160 target temp. Tells me the total estimated cook time will be 40 mins, which is 15 mins preheat, 20 mins cook time and 5 min resting time.
I then insert the probe into the meat and put it on the grill. The app shows an arc on the screen with actual internal temp and bbq temp. And it has a marker where you should flip the meat and alerts you when it’s time to remove from heat. It also gives you an alert that it will soon be time to flip the meat and when it’s close to being done. So you get both visual and audio cues.
When you’ve removed it from heat it automatically goes into a stopwatch timer for the resting period.

It makes your cooking bulletproof. WAY BETTER than I expected. I love this thing!!. Bought an additional probe so that I can separately monitor two different items for cooking to different doneness, or for cooking two different meats at the same time.

My only complaint is minor. There is no on/off for the probes. They charge automatically when in the case. But only one can charge at a time. You can store 3
Probes in the case at a time, but only one charges. So if you plan to use more than one probe and haven’t used it in awhile, allow 10-15 minutes to charge up the probe that hasn’t been charging.

But other than that, the Chef IQ thermometer is AWESOME.
You enter those parameters individually for each probe in advance when you setup a cook. And the app remembers what and when you’ve cooked something, so you can just use a ‘repeat’ previous cook if you’ve had great results that you want to replicate in the future.