Maverick ET-733 Wireless Thermometer - Is it worth it?


 
Yes The 733 Warns

THoey said:
I have had the 733 for 3 months now. Use it on every cook even if I don't use it as a meat probe. Works great. It seems mine gives me a warning alarm when I am 10* from the temp I set. Not sure if it is supposed to do that or if mine is a little weird. But I don't mind...
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Yes, ten (10) degrees from meat set temperature the remote beeps. (If the alarm is not shut off). Nice feature; however, just adds to the anticipation of good eating for me.
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I can't imagine smoking without a probe. I like having the Maverick dual probe, because sometimes a probe has a bad day and it's rare when both have a bad day
 
I have the ET-733 and love it. Before I got it, my neighbor let me borrow his ET-732. He stated that for the ET-732, the range wasn't far, he had to keep it in his kitchen in direct line of sight of his smoker or it would loose signal. To get it back, you had to take off the back, turn it off and back on. For the ET-733, all of the button are on the front and easy to get to. I even had the monitor station with me while I ventured across the street to his house while I was doing my Mother's Day pulled pork smoke and didn't have an issue with the range. My smoker was my back yard about 150+ feet away. Given I have a Stoker ATC as well, I find my 8 year old taking the ET-733 monitor and carrying it around with him. He likes to tell me every 10 - 15 minutes what the current pit/meat temp is :wsm:.

Dave
 
I have the 732. Recently began getting really erratic temperature variations, usually high. Contacted them for advice as I wasn't sure if it was probe related or in the unit itself. It took three business days for them to get back to me, and the rep said it was definitely a shorted out probe. I ordered a new pit probe and tried it again on Mother's Day and it did the same thing, only worse. Extremely high readings on both pit and meat probes. verified correct pit and meat temps with my didiq and therma pen. Contacted them again five days ago and still waiting. Having said all that, prior to having this problem, I loved the 732. Anything can break or have a problem, I understand that. The service I'm receiving from dealer is what's troubling me.
 
I had too many beers and stuck the meat probe from my old ET-73 into the ET-732. My pork butt was cooked to 300 degrees and in record time! As far as the difference between the ET-732 vs ET-733, it looks likes it's basically the same thing with some extra bells and whistles on the receiver. The jump from the 73 to the 732 is huge and worth every penny. From 732 to 733 probably not so much. The biggest problem these units usually have is with the probes. If you look closely you can see some insulation between the probe itself and the wire. The wire shielding is basically your ground so you'll get some weird temps if you lose that insulation. Wrapping over that with foil can help protect it. Usually the readout will be LLL or HHH if you have a probe problem but I've also seen weird temps.
 
I have a 732 that I bought back in 2011 for my smoker. I use it mostly for pork butts or briskets. My favorite feature is the being able to remotely monitor my grill and meat temps. On long cooks I can run in the house or grab a beer and sit away from the heat and smoke for a bit. I'll have to check out the 733 series for sure!

 
Just got an ET-733 today. This will be my third Maverick. First was a long departed single probe model. Then I upgraded to the ET-732 several years ago when the buttons on the single probe stopped working. The 732 has been great except for one fatal flaw: setting the temp alarms is a royal PITA, having to hold the button while it scrolls all the way to 600 degrees, starts over at 50 degrees and goes up again. I always miss my target and have to do it a second time. Make it a complete hassle to change the alarms, like if I want to tighten up the grill temp range after stabilizing the smoker. Or change to a different food temp.

The 733 solves this problem with up and down buttons for temp alarm settings.

So anyway, I now have a 732 and a 733 with six probes that will work with either of them -- two short BBQ probes, one curved food probe, and three straight hybrid probes. A couple of things that I suspected, but have confirmed.

1) The transmitter units are identical. The 732 transmitter can be synched to the 733 receiver, and vice versa.

2) You can sync BOTH receivers to the same transmitter. Just turn on both receivers, then turn on the transmitter, and the same temps are displayed on both receivers.

This is very cool as Murphy's law for me means that I have always left the receiver in a different room when I want to check the grill temp. For two probes monitoring grill temps, I can now have a display in two rooms -- one next to the computer or the TV and one in the kitchen or out by the grill. When it's time to put probes in the food. Just turn off one receiver and link it up to a second transmitter for monitoring two grill temps AND two food temps. Or just leave everything synced, move the probes to the food, and monitor food temps in two places.

What I'll probably end up doing is leaving the 732 set for alarms on smoker temps for two probes and use that when I'm doing a smoke, adding the 733 for food. Then, since it's easy to switch around, use the 733 for everyday Weber kettle roasting where a single grate temp and a single food temp is all you need (like an indirect pork roast or chicken breasts).

Anyway, just thought I would pass along that these two models can be mixed and matched in every imaginable way: probes, transmitters, and receivers...
 
Got my 733 a few months ago after my 732 died through Amazon. No issues at all. Increased distance solved my problem with dropped signals from the 732. No real need for some of the meat temp options but I'd buy it again without a second thought.
 
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