Sunset Loves: The Meater Wireless Smart Thermometer

The Meater is the best (and best looking) meat thermometer I’ve ever used. Here's why I love it.

Written by Hugh Garvey September 10, 2020

I’m a stickler for temperature control: I know I like my salmon 123 degrees and my steak just about the same. I buy high quality fresh chicken and know how to pre-salt it for succulence and cook it to come just within the recommended USDA temperature without overcooking the breast. I know that the tantalizing “stall” of a slow and low cooked brisket can have you staring at 165 degrees for an hour, only to see it rise again as you come into the end zone of beefy transcendence. Which is why I absolutely love the Meater wireless thermometer.

It’s sleek, small, bluetooth-connected, and comes with a genius app that lets you input your protein and target temperature and through the brilliance of some culinary artificial intelligence can give you an estimated end-of-cook time. What’s more it gives you alerts if the temperature rises or falls unexpectedly and can tell you when you’re five minutes out from being ready to pull your food off the grill. And once you’re done cooking it advises you on the best resting time for the juices to settle and your food to reach maximum deliciousness.

It comes with an attractive bamboo recharging station that not only acts as a bluetooth repeater giving you 165 feet of range but also happens to be the best looking kitchen magnet I’ve ever seen. Here are a few of the features that have me breaking this beauty out whether I’m grilling, roasting, or searing in a pan.

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It’s a Fine-Looking Refrigerator Magnet

The bamboo recharging base is sleek and magnetized and looks at home on my fridge along with my air plants and match holder. If you place it midway between your grill and the furthest point in your house you can wander off and still get alerts and monitor your cook from afar.

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It’s Super Intuitive

Simply tap your preferred protein, the cut, and the internal target temperature and put your food in the oven, on the grill, or in the pan.

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It Tells You Exactly When Your Food Will Be Ready

Never in my life has any thermometer (or person) been able to predict precisely when my chicken, roast, steak, or filet will be ready. This app does, and dynamically shifts the end point as the variables of ambient temperature and internal doneness shift over time.

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Even After Your Food Is Cooked the Meater Is Your Friend

Every good cook knows to let their meat rest after it’s fully cooked to let the juices settle and the meat remain unctuous at the moment of serving. The Meater incorporates resting time and advises on the exact moment you should serve your finished product.

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It Gives You Bragging Rights

Because it’s nearly failsafe and tracks the course of your cook until the inevitably near-perfect results, the Meater makes it easy to share the fruits of your labor on social media.

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It’s Super Tough and It Just Works

See that bronzed bird with crackling skin? That’s a high-heat grill-roasted whole chicken that came together in just over an hour and tops my personal best of low-stress, high payoff poultry efforts. See that sleek little pen-like probe? That’s the Meater, and I give it credit for relieving me of half the stress of putting dinner on the table, while increasing the deliciousness factor of every meaty dinner I’ve served this month.

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