I’ve Been a Chef for 36 Years, and This Wireless Thermometer Changed the Way I Cook

As a chef, I cooked by numbers. By that, I mean I kept close track of temperatures and was extremely exacting, even when cooking with live fire. I had plenty of expensive gadgets to help me maintain control over my food. However, I’ve always winged it at home, especially when I was slow-cooking on the grill or in the oven. I cooked by instinct, as I knew the built-in thermometers on my grills and smokers were out of calibration, and I trusted my electric oven to be reasonably on-point. 

Most leave-in thermometers I’ve owned have had short lives before dying or reporting ridiculously skewed results from damage to the probes or wires. I’ve always felt a little guilty about buying high-end cooking gear for home use — I didn’t need special toys if I wasn’t cooking to pay the bills. However, I was intrigued when I heard about the ThermoPro Twin TempSpike wireless thermometer set.

ThermoPro Twin TempSpike 

What initially grabbed my attention about the Twin TempSpike is that it is a genuinely wireless thermometer set. I cook more than my share of food over a live fire and loathe opening the lids to check the food or do anything else that might change the flame height or cooking temperature. I also frequently cook on a rotisserie, and a wired thermometer on a piece of spinning food would simply wrap the wires into a tangled mess and probably kill the probes. Also, the lack of wires that inevitably tangle in a drawer or get slammed by the grill lid—two common occurrences that damage the internal conductors—gives this thermometer a fighting chance at longevity.

The next great feature is that each probe has two sensors: one at the tip for monitoring the food and one at the end that reports the ambient temperature. There’s no need to dedicate a probe to monitor your grill, smoker, or oven. Instead, it’s all done from one probe, which frees up the second for other activities.  This couldn’t be more important for me, because when I slow cook on the grill or smoker, it’s no small affair. There are sides to prepare and potentially other meats that need monitoring. 

The TempSpike’s Bluetooth connectivity between the probes and the booster allows me to use and monitor a second grill (yes, I have several) or even my kitchen oven, which is only separated from my grills by an exterior wall. Additionally, there’s a ThermoPro app , which allows me to monitor both probes up to 500 feet away. The app features configurable alarms for the food and high and low thresholds for the grill. These alarms alert me when the food reaches the finished temperature and if the grill temperature goes above or below your desired parameters. There are temperature presets for beef, pork, and poultry, among others, and there’s also the option to configure custom temperature profiles. 

When I brought the Twin TempSpike indoors, I found it as useful in my kitchen as in my backyard. When roasting meats and vegetables indoors, they’re subject to the same degrees of doneness as when grilling. The ambient temperature end of the probe helped me troubleshoot a problem with my time-tested restaurant biscuit recipe, learning that I put too much trust in my oven’s heat settings, and it runs 35°F cooler than the oven reports. Outdoors, it confirmed my suspicions that my grills’ built-in thermometers were as uncalibrated as I thought. I’m back to cooking by numbers with this wireless thermometer set, and it’s made me a better home cook.

This is all to say, whether you cook indoors, outdoors or both, this is the best thermometer I’ve tried. For $110 (or $55 per probe), I couldn’t recommend it enough. 

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At the time of publishing, the price was $140.