Leave a Review MEATER® Smart Meat Thermometer
Best meat probe & software I’ve ever used
Best meat probe & software I’ve ever used. Most meat probe makers are good at making the probes and cheap hardware, but their software stinks. It’s half written, buggy, and lacks features. The MEATER App is surprisingly good. Very easy to use, great interface, tons of features and can monitor multiple probes simultaneously. The probe itself is also very impressive. Very accurate and the fact it can report both the meat temp and the ambient air temp is fantastic. Very well made and and way it uses the charger to extend the signal range is brilliant.Show lessoutofstyle
Best grilling tool ever!
I am pretty good at timing my meats on the grill, but when in doubt I use thermometers. Had one with cable, it melted once and never used it again. Got MEATER as a present from my wife and I can’t believe how accurate it is! Takes away the guessing. Nothing worse than putting great inch and a half rib eyes on the table and cut them and see they are under or over done. This thermometer is perfect! Had a little issues at the begging with the Wi-Fi but has not acted up again! 🤞.
Congrats on a great product!!!!Show lessm d 007
Undercooks by a mile, consistently
I like gadgets, and was seduced by Meater’s level of gadgetry. It would be fun to use, too, if it were even remotely accurate.
Every single time I have used it, probably a dozen times now, it has always fallen short. Today was the perfect example.… I made a beef Wellington, and when the meter said it was at 140° inside temperature, I let it rest, and cut into it. It was raw inside and not even warm to the touch.
And yes, I had placed the thermometer properly.
Thank goodness it was undercooked rather than overcooked which would have ruined a very expensive piece of meat.
I’ve had the same experience with other cuts of meat in the oven, and out on the Weber Grill, (by the way, the Bluetooth signal will scarcely penetrate the lid on a weber kettle, so if you go any further than about 5 feet away, you lose the signal. Not very practical), and I just can’t rely on this anymore. I’ll just consider this a very expensive lesson in “let the buyer beware.”Show lessOld Sternwheeler
Total failure of core functionality
Today marks the 5th meal I pulled my MEATER device out for, input a new battery in the dock every time after using it. Here we are, rib roast goes into the oven, open the MEATER app and the probe can’t connect to the base. Assuming it’s the battery, which I had already cleaned the head off of the probe, I now scrubbed the head with a Brillo pad until it’s like chrome and have it back in the dock. I am trying to use the app to check the charge level of either the base, or the probe, because I want to 1) use it as soon as it’s charged. 2) know for sure that it is actually charging and at what rate. 3) know if I charge it to say 50% that it will last for 3 hours I need for this rib roast.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, fix these things or I’ll keep writing bad reviews, I cannot stand poorly designed artist type gadgetry that doesn’t have basic functionality to prevent things like this from happening. This should have never been released to the market like this. I am very angry. Would not recommend this to anyone.Show less+ventur ckur
Developer Response
Hi, thank you for your review. I'm sorry to hear about the issues with your range. We'd be happy to assist you, so please reach out to us at support.meater.com. Kind Regards, the MEATER TeamTerrible setup hampers a great product
The Meater worked very well. Once configured, the app monitored cooking and the timing suggested by the app was spot on. It worked exact as expected.
Configuration was a little more difficult. Setting up a thermometer, the app interacts strangely with stored passwords. It’s incredibly awkward to create the Meater Cloud account, as the password fields seem unable to hold the password when moving between them. After a great deal of trying and retrying to enter things, I was able to register my account. It’s an incredibly frustrating initial experience.Show lesspdx tech guy
Great when it works
When it works, it’s wonderful. But half the time and with absolutely no reason, the probe will not connect. Resetting, updating the app, ensuring the probe is sparkling clean make no difference. It just won’t connect and is therefore unusable. A very pricey fridge magnet. I’ve been messaging with customer support for months and they have no answers, just tell me to let them know when it happens again. I send photos and video and they just suggest I update my app. Which is updated. So it seems they don’t stand behind their product and/or the app is unreliable. I can’t tell which, and MEATER+ customer support is no help in figuring it out, so this review reflects the whole package.Show lessRylovesme01
Bad connection. Also likes to update during cooks.
Whoever is in charge of the software for this device should find a new job. It’s overly complicated to connect to. There’s no way the range is even half of what is advertise. The probe is too thick. They update the software too much for something so simple. I just need it to tell me what temp my meat is, why’re you updating the software while I’m in the middle of a cook?? Leaves little reason why this is better than my “wired” thermometers. So save your money.
Update*** I love how the app does NOT tell me when my food is ready or over done. However it when it has a cooking estimate (which is always wrong) it notifies me 3 times. Then notifies me SIX times that the estimated time is 5 minutes (which is wrong).Show lessMarc73012
Annoying app update
Love the wireless thermometer. Have been using for about 10 months. Love the app. Hate the fact that it just now forced me to update the app before I could begin cook. Chicken was all prepped and ready to go, guests were waiting. Tried to set up new cook and could not do it until updating the app. Had just used it a couple of weeks ago and no mention of new app at that time. This is sloppy version management and inexcusable. So fellow MEATER users beware. Check the app in advance of your cook. The update takes 10 minutes or so.Show lessRalph Marston
Constant connection issues
Every time I use the probe, I have connection issues. iPhone 14 latest firmware update. No improvement. iPhone XS Max. No improvement. Perfectly clean probe. Well charged battery, constant connection issues. Had I known it was going to be this much of a fight to take internal temperatures of meat I would’ve never bought it. Further, the meater probe does not work on long cooks such as shoulders, butts or briskets. The device is not smart enough to measure the cooking time through the stall.
If it doesn’t work during long cooks then as far as I’m concerned, there’s virtually zero competitive points of difference between the meter and a standard digital probe.Show lessWrK212
PB Laredo 1000
Love this Smoker. Had another very expensive Smoker. I like PitBoss. I’ve had this one for just over a year, done everything. Ribs, Butts, Shoulders, Wings, Breast, whole chickens, whole turkeys, Briskets, Roasts, fresh Brats, Pizza, Apple pies and more. I’ve done it all. I live in SW CO and I have to block the wind off it so it doesn’t blow out. But nothing stops me, not wind, rain, snow or subzero temps. Right now I’m finishing off 12 slabs of St Louis’s. 6 at a time in this baby. Big Birthday party Saturday.
I also have a PB Tailgater to go camping with.
“Hail to the PITBOSS”🥂
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