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Does price matter when buying an instant read digital thermometer?


 
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Lynn Kramer

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I need to replace my digital thermometer. Are the $9.97 instant read thermos okay? What is better about the more expensive ones? Should I consider the blue tooth cordless thermometers instead?
 
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Lynn we have a few "purists" who will tell you "yes" and some who (like myself) will look for the best performance vs $$$ spent. I am making my recommendation after owning this unit for 6 years, (still do and still rely on it heavily). For the $$$ vs value/performance it is tough to come even remotely close. https://www.amazon.com/ThermoPro-Wa...xtrous-Thermocouple/dp/B07R18W3W1?tag=tvwb-20
Not only is the product top notch the company is as well. When I bought mine close to a year into owning it the probe broke. I called the company. Got US Based support and within 2 or 3 days a brand new one delivered to me, which has been flawless since. Even though I am VERY cruel to it. :D For under $25 you cannot go wrong
 
Buy a couple of the inexpensive ones and see what you think.
Every once in awhile ThermoWorks has sales.
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Lynn we have a few "purists" who will tell you "yes" and some who (like myself) will look for the best performance vs $$$ spent. I am making my recommendation after owning this unit for 6 years, (still do and still rely on it heavily). For the $$$ vs value/performance it is tough to come even remotely close. https://www.amazon.com/ThermoPro-Wa...xtrous-Thermocouple/dp/B07R18W3W1?tag=tvwb-20
Not only is the product top notch the company is as well. When I bought mine close to a year into owning it the probe broke. I called the company. Got US Based support and within 2 or 3 days a brand new one delivered to me, which has been flawless since. Even though I am VERY cruel to it. :D For under $25 you cannot go wrong
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I'd ordered a cheap one for $10 on Amazon, but I will certainly check this out as well. I can always use one in doors in the kitchen. I have a chuck box outside made of an old chest freezer. The top door seal keeps the dust out. I can keep it there handy.
 
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Lynn Kramer said:
I'd ordered a cheap one for $10 on Amazon, but I will certainly check this out as well. I can always use one in doors in the kitchen. I have a chuck box outside made of an old chest freezer. The top door seal keeps the dust out. I can keep it there handy.
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How do different minds think alike? I checked your link and discovered that I had ordered the exact thermometer as you recommended. It was listed for $9.99, I have a Prime account that costs me $13 a month so I get free shipping. Not a bad deal.
 
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How do different minds think alike? I checked your link and discovered that I had ordered the exact thermometer as you recommended. It was listed for $9.99, I have a Prime account that costs me $13 a month so I get free shipping. Not a bad deal.
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That who recommended? Because if the one I recommended is $9.99 I'm ordering 2 of them. Frankly IMO they work like $50 units
 
MEH. Having bought a ThermoWorks product I was not impressed. Yeah decent product but not worth the hype. Again, one spends their own $$$ as they see fit for their own circumstance. I won't poke fun or talk down at anyone for that
 
If they're as good as the Smoke I bought listening to all the praises heaped on it, then sorry. I'll take my ThermoPro all day every day. Sorry. But that Smoke was such a let down, I could not see buying another product from them.
 
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I use my Smoke all the time. Maybe you got a bad one.
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It works just not verry well. I'm sure it works "normally" I just don't think it's "all that" in terms of a product. It works OK, but it's not better than ones half or 1/3 the price. I don't hold it untoward of anyone to buy one but I just think there are far better value products from companies like ThermoPro
 
Thermoworks make really good thermometers! I snag thermo pops when they have them on sale and give them as gifts, their timers? The “Big, Loud” one works for (for me) three or four uses. The timestick seems to be far more robust even of it’s “Small and not so Loud” I can stick it in my pocket so it does not need to be as loud. For thermometers, excellent! Silicone spatulas? Best I’ve ever used!!
 
We use Thermoworks Thermapens here exclusively. They are the culinary industry standard.
In my prior life I used high end process instrumentation. Back in the late 70s, we would make our own thermocouples for some of our rough application. Eventually I had Honeywell make our thermocouples, which then fed into Gould-Modicon process controllers. (not the small, cheap controllers you see today... these had 4,000+ inputs and 4,000 + outputs). So, there IS a cost vs accuracy/repeatability relationship. Question is... Does one need such accuracy/repeatability for cooking BBQ.....
 
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Sadly I think this whole thread has devolved away from the OP's original question which to me seemed to be can they get a good product at a "reasonable" price or do they have to go into a top tier product?
 
JeffG said:
........Thermoworks DOT have never let me down.
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This is my go-to. Outside & in the kitchen. I use the needle probe with the silicone lead, (no crimpage or tangleage).
I also use the 2-channel DOT.
Both units are solid.
Much to my embarrassment I have a Smoke & a ThermoPro TD-20......still NIB!!🤫
 
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"Good" can mean different things to different people and for different reasons. So I am unsure in which context of the word you're asking. IOW the best product without regard to cost or good product based on a "value" and functionality quotient. So, I honestly don't know how to answer the question or even what it is you're after
 
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