I cannot recommend meater plus. I have two.
Pros:
They haven't failed.
Cons:
1) I have to use a tablet running within 10 feet of the meater plus blocks. If I try to connect them to my phone they constantly disconnect and reconnect or I have to leave my phone within 10 to 15 feet of the blocks. With a tablet plugged into wall power and set to not sleep it will maintain a connection with the blocks so that's a viable workaround, but still a pain.
2) temp accuracy is "slow"
Internal temps lag 5 to 15 degrees from a TW smoke probe. I see this when doing a pork shoulder and the cook goes into a stall. Eventually the meater temp will catch up to the meat temp on the TW smoke, but it is at least 15, maybe as much as 45 minutes late reaching same the stall temp on the TW smoke. I work around this by setting target alarm temps on the meater plus to be 10 degrees below what it should be.
3) ambient temp is always way off on the low side. It could be proximity to the protein, but it is always wrong when compared to a TW smoke ambient probe or compared to the Tel-Tru thermometer on the lid of my BGE. I do not use nor trust the ambient temp at all.
I rarely use the meater probes any more. I liked that I could graph cooks and save them for later reference. I like that they will work for rotisserie, but given the temp accuracy I really do not trust them so they sit in a drawer most of the time.
( edited for typo's and clarity )
