Inexpensive Remote Thermometer

The Lowes link offers the unit for $39.95
Perhaps you got a discontinued model?
Thanks.
dick

At 9.95 it's disposable, so I'd get it, try it and if it works, then buy more.

I guess the $9.99 price is only in certain areas. When I go to the website it says the $9.99 is the "local" price. I'm about 20 miles south of Daytona Beach, FL.

I'm out the door on my way to buy more. Nice Christmas gifts.

The Lowe's locator shows it for $18 here by Melbourne.

They closed out Sunbeams,years ago,for $5.

Bought all they had for gifts.

$31.98 here. Y'all are getting a bargain!

For some reason Lowes website won't let me check the price of this unit at any other Lowes except in my home state of Florida. But in Florida I've found Lowes selling it for prices ranging between $9.99 and $31.98 depending on the store location.

If anybody wants one I'd recommend checking several different Lowes in your state.

Good Luck.

Oregon Scientific is a very good brand.

You can still get Sunbeam and Accu-Rite at wallyworld.

The problem I have with any of these units are the probes. I have bought so many different brands and the probe after a few cooks just wear out.

I wish someone would invent one with a wireless probe that you could put in the meat and not have any wires. (Maybe Someday)

The link shows $39.97 in NE Ohio.

Shows $39.95 out here in CA also ....... :=((
Too Bad ....9.95 would have been a great deal !!

Since the thread is on thermometers, anyone out there use a dual probe type ? One for the meat/one for the oven ? I'd appreciate any opinions you might have.

Smokin' - not quite sure of the etiquette around here - did I just hijack the thread ???

Check the Find feature at page top.

Try Maverick,or dual probe therm.

Maverick is the standard,if you really need one.

Should give you a few years of threads.

Thanks Tom ..... Maverick is the one I was checking out

I live in Sacrameto, CA and had to go to Lowes in E.Stockton, Ca to pick up a couple these wireless thermo for $7.00 ea. Wierd they are $9.00 at the N. Lowes in Stockton and they're $40.00 in Sacramento.

Checked the three local Lowe's.

Rockledge-10 miles-$10 temp out of stock
Indian Harbour-3 miles $18
Melbourne-15 miles-$22

Tom - I picked a couple of them up from the Indian Harbour Lowe's. Just print out the Rockledge price and they'll price match it. Thanks for the heads up on these Ninetyproof!

With any of these thermometers, I have found it very important not to submerge or otherwise get water in or on the junction point of the probe where it attaches to the wire. Water gets in and shorts it out.

I found a "Taylor, Wireless Digital Meat Thermometer, With Separate Radio Frequency Temperature Readout Pager That Goes Where You Go up to 120' Range", MODEL 1474, on eBay for $21.99 + $7.57 (shipping) = $29.56.

Had a 3' probe. Works great!!!

Yea.
I have 2 Taylors, made jerky last night outside temp -20. Jerky great both thermo's read the same inside the 009! $12 at Sears on sale.
Pat
Western Wyo.

That Taylor 1474 model isn't made anymore but it is a good one. I have a few of them and I clocked the range at 400 feet.

I picked up one of the Oregon Scientific remote thermometers for $9.99 at Lowes also. The thing about these are they aren't programmable. I bought a Nexx-Tech last year for about the same price, it's the same as a Weber remote. The Nexx-Tech is @ 5* off, so its just an alarm for me. Ln'T has Polders that have been pretty reliable so far. I picked up a few Pyrex probe/timers for $6.99 and the probes fit the Polder, so if I need replacement probes I'm not scrambling.

Be careful about mixing up probes and controllers, even if they fit. Different brand probes and controllers might be calibrated differently from each other and will not be accurate if so.

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I picked up one of the Oregon Scientific remote thermometers for $9.99 at Lowes also. The thing about these are they aren't programmable. I bought a Nexx-Tech last year for about the same price, it's the same as a Weber remote. The Nexx-Tech is @ 5* off, so its just an alarm for me. Ln'T has Polders that have been pretty reliable so far. I picked up a few Pyrex probe/timers for $6.99 and the probes fit the Polder, so if I need replacement probes I'm not scrambling.

swamprb,
I bought a couple Oregon Scientific remote thermometers at Lowes as well. (Model AW131) Even though they have preset temps for different meats you can manually program the unit for the temp you want.

JD