2-for-Tuesday: Weber iDevices Mini Kitchen Bluetooth Thermometer
Our Take
- Wireless cooking thermometers that connect with your phone or tablet- It’s how the elite heat meat to eat- Instead of babysitting the grill, go play with your kids (or argue with strangers on Facebook) while your food cooks- Some critical reviews complain about the old crummy app, but there’s a better one now: the Weber iGrill app- Model: IKT0001P5 (t000 many zeros, in our opinion. B minus.)
Some Like It 165° Fahrenheit
The first key to culinary proficiency is temperature control. And I should know. Because I dont do it.I mean, I set the oven to whatever temp the recipe prescribes. And I leave the food in there however long Im supposed to. And that usually gets it pretty close to right. But only usually. And only pretty close. And thats as good as it gets, because the oven is pretty new, and inside its probably pretty close to whatever temperature the controls say. In a less directly manageable cooking situation Im thinking here of the backyard grill the variety of results is wider. Its like a fun game of chance! Except you might get salmonella if you lose.Oh, man, one time I went over to a neighbors house, and he had a big leg of lamb rotating on a spit in front of his fireplace. I thought he must have been a genius. Who ever thought to use the hearth for cooking? (Recently, I mean. Because obviously a lot of people thought of that in pioneer times.) It filled the whole house with roasting meat smells. It was awesome. But theres no way I would try it. How would I know if it was done?Ill tell you how I would know: By whether my dinner guests got food poisoning in the eight hours after eating it. Itd be a crapshoot. In case of staphylococcus, maybe literally. For a variety of reasons, including liability, it wouldnt be an ideal system.But heres the problem: The second key to culinary proficiency is patience. And I should know. Because I dont have it.How much active monitoring of roasting meats can a fellow be expected to do in this fast-paced digital age? I cant just stand by the grill checkin the chicken for minutes on end; Twitter beckons.I’ll tell you what would solve this 1W problem: If there was some way for my phone to tell me when the food was cooked to a safe internal temperature! I know: Keep dreaming, right? Maybe in Wakanda they cook like that. Oh, well. Old-fashioned guesswork and blind chance have gotten me this far. I’ll muddle on and manage, same as ever. Whats it to me to suffer the occasional overdone pot roast or bout with listeria, anyway?
