Maverick the only choice in remote thermometers now?

I guess if you are in snow that is butt deep to a tall indian,that the pure remote is critical.

I could never get any of them to go around corners,read thru walls,cope with my quirks,remember if I reset it when I checked it last,etc.

I've had the best one for years,and my wife/cocook is smart enough to fly it,and Ribdog/teammate is real cautious about sleepin' in the cook trailer and losin' fire during the night,so he sets one up .

Other than that,you can have mine,and I'll stick to a $15 Taylor,that I have confidence in.

Just my $0.02

I agree with Tom. I've only owned one remote therm - a Maverick - and it wasn't worth a flyin' fig! Call me old fashioned but 95% of the time I'll stick with the hard-wired units.

Just my $0.02

You know, them Mavericks do come in handy for some of us forgettful types.

Earlier this week, I was cooking two cases of butts in my IQ4 for a catering job and ran it overnight. About 5:30 in the morning, the Maverick goes off and is yelling at me that the smoker temp has hit the low end of my smoker alert range. So I roll out of bed to figure out what went wrong. It seems I forgot to change the cook time on the IQ4, that I had started at 5 PM the night before, so the unit had gone into Hold mode and was dropping the temp down to 140*. I am thankful I had the Maverick in there that night!!!!

Say what you will but it has saved me more than once.

Yep,for the folks with 100 variables,and lots of expensive projects on the line,if it just saves your butt once,or twice,it is worth the effort.

Yes,it has saved us a few times,under usually strange conditions.

I'm glad Ribdog and Barbara are around to utilize them.

For cooking with them in a HOME SITUATION,the last 10 years,all kinds of wind,rain,power outages,operator error,etc.,they have never been a factor.

Now for folks that like the newest gadgets,for the occasional cook on the patio,they seem to be a big to-do about nothing,but I like gadgets ,too.

Just my thoughts,are that spending more time learning the cooker,picking up a cheap wired unit that will do the job 99.5% of the time,might be a good use of our time.

In the early days,helping drbbq,he would send us back to to check the therm from whichever cooksite we were socializing in,and we would run back saying it was 30 * off where we thought it should be.

He'd say,was the cooker running ok,we'd say yes,he'd fix another cold drink and say "relax".

Somehow,stuff worked out.

Anyone familiar with the Outset wireless remote. I have used some of their nonstick products in the smoker and have had good results, and they are really good quality.

Looks like the Maverick ET-7 is the best selling on Amazon and it on sale 50% off.

DB