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Sharper Image Digital Cooking Thermometer with Indicator
$14.99 + $5 shipping
condition: New
product: 1 Maverick Digital Cooking Thermometer with Indicator
From the looks of it the thing appears to be able to receive rss feeds, take your blood pressure, stream your ipod playlist, and be a bluetooth speaker but then again everything that sharper image makes looks the part.
Can’t say I could find a use for this. I stick by my traditional method of when it starts to smell like burnt carpet its finished.
Is this the kind of thermometer you leave in the meat while it is in the oven or do you have to pull the meat out of the oven in order to take the temperature?
If it is the latter (and it looks like it is), then what good is an overcook alarm? (“Warning: You have now ruined dinner. Proceed to the phone to order take-out”)
Also, it is difficult to write about hot meat without sounding like you are making innuendos.
I would think it’s the leave in type, and the display sits on the outside of the oven while the probe sticks in whatever your cooking connected by the wire that snakes through the door.
Otherwise it’s pretty much the dumbest product ever.