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Very user friendly & most all meat temperatures are already programed in this unit. The nicest digital meat thermometer I've found.
What a worthless piece of crap. I have been on the Maverick company's waiting list for a new probe for three months, and now they're telling me it'll be at least another month before they get any more probes in. I never had my oven higher than 350 degrees, but you could clearly see the spot on the probe cable where the wires got fried from the heat, and it wasn't anywhere near the oven's heating elements.
Buy this worthless product at your own risk. For those who are thinking "Well, he must have had the probe lead too close to the heating element, or bent it, or did something else stupid," I was very careful not to bend the lead or route it too close to the heating element. Too bad I can't give this zero stars.
As others have noted, the insulating material around the probe wires is entirely inadequate to protect the wires from normal oven temperatures. I've never before heard of a meat thermometer with a probe so poorly constructed that it self-destructs in the environment it's supposed to be used in and is in such short supply that it's nearly non-replaceable. Count me among those who are VERY dissatisfied with both the product and the company.I was given this meat thermometer as a gift last Christmas.
The probe destroyed itself the THIRD time I used it so that the readout on the base unit continuously displayed "HI" whenever the power was turned on (meaning it is sensing a higher oven temperature than it recommends for the type of meat you selected on the base unit).
That wasn't difficult at all--in fact, all the directions are very easy to follow. I've just used my thermometer a few times, but it's working fine so far. I just got done re-programming the "done" temperatures from the USDA safe-but-inedibly-overcooked recommendations to more reasonable levels.
They included shipping and handling in the price. You will get 2 probes sent by mail. You want the ET-8 STD PROBE(2-Pak), for $20 as of 12/2008.
The internal wires are fine and will break if flexed repeatedly, especially at the probe to cable transition point. Two probes for $20, including shipping. You have to treat this probe carefully, as you do with any digital probe.
Go to http://www.maverickhousewares.com/parts_and_service.htm and down to the PDF form. They respond courteously to email. With reasonable care we got 4 years of use from one probe.After probe died it took some searching to find the probes.
They available from Maverick in New Jersey.
I loved the magnet on the back, to help keep me from dropping it. My son bought this thermometer for me. I just bought another one I hope it works longer. It measured so accurately for maybe a dozen uses and then suddenly in the middle of a cook it registered HI on the cooking temperature and never again came down. It was great for a while. I used it on my smoker.
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