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My ever so awesome wife bought me (us) a Tappecue for Christmas and I have used it twice now and I really like it. I had seen it in the past and thought about it but I do have to admit that I thought for the money it was just not worth it. $200.00 for a thermometer seemed steep, and in reality it is. In October I went to a little get together of members of another forum that I moderate and we had a raffle to raise money for Operation BBQ Relief and there were some great prizes raffled off, one of those being a Tappecue! Although I didn't win it (I won something better!) I did take a good look at it and the guy that actually won it made a post saying how much he liked it so my interest was piqued again.
My history of leave in thermometers for monitoring meats and pit temps was Maverick Et-73, Maverick ET-732 (big improvement over the 73) and most recently in the last 2 years I began using 733s. I never did buy a 735 (the Bluetooth model) as the reviews were not that great. I was happy with the 733, it works great and has great range. The downside of the Mavericks? Only 2 probes. This normally is not an issue but I always wanted more. My answer to that was that I have MANY Mavericks around here so I used them, lol. So, if I had the probe issue resolved so to speak, why go with the Tappecue? The answer is simple. I'm a nerd. I am a geek. I like gadgets and the Tappecue is a damn cool gadget!
It has Wi-Fi so that means you connect it to your home network's router and you create an account that you log into on Tappecue's server and then you download their app to your phone or tablet and you get to watch your progress from anywhere in the world! You don't think you'd use that? Guess again, you will because you CAN! You can also create a guest account so someone else, somewhere else in the world, can watch your cook too! Why is this important? Say you set your alarm for one of the probes to let you know if your pit temp drops below your warning level (fire is out in a wood/charcoal environment or power out in your SI) and you don't hear it go off, maybe the phone is not near you, maybe you're drunk. I don't know WHY you didn't hear it, you just didn't! The other person watching the cook heard it though and he's calling you to tell you so you don't ruin that $75.00 brisket!
That is cool.
Also, you can record your cooks progress and Tappecue will send the graph to your e-mail so you can import it into Excel and share the chart with people as if they even really cared, lol! It's downfall, power. Just like the SI smoker itself, if the power goes out, well, you're not really caring at that point about the Tappecue now are you?
Overall I give it a 9/10. The sole reason it's not a 10/10 is my cheapness. I think if they came in at somewhere around the $175.00 mark I'd be happier but in all honesty, with them hosting a server and tracking my cook and allowing me to monitor it from ANYWHERE, I'll give them a pass on that extra $25.00.
Get you one. I highly endorse it!!
My history of leave in thermometers for monitoring meats and pit temps was Maverick Et-73, Maverick ET-732 (big improvement over the 73) and most recently in the last 2 years I began using 733s. I never did buy a 735 (the Bluetooth model) as the reviews were not that great. I was happy with the 733, it works great and has great range. The downside of the Mavericks? Only 2 probes. This normally is not an issue but I always wanted more. My answer to that was that I have MANY Mavericks around here so I used them, lol. So, if I had the probe issue resolved so to speak, why go with the Tappecue? The answer is simple. I'm a nerd. I am a geek. I like gadgets and the Tappecue is a damn cool gadget!
It has Wi-Fi so that means you connect it to your home network's router and you create an account that you log into on Tappecue's server and then you download their app to your phone or tablet and you get to watch your progress from anywhere in the world! You don't think you'd use that? Guess again, you will because you CAN! You can also create a guest account so someone else, somewhere else in the world, can watch your cook too! Why is this important? Say you set your alarm for one of the probes to let you know if your pit temp drops below your warning level (fire is out in a wood/charcoal environment or power out in your SI) and you don't hear it go off, maybe the phone is not near you, maybe you're drunk. I don't know WHY you didn't hear it, you just didn't! The other person watching the cook heard it though and he's calling you to tell you so you don't ruin that $75.00 brisket!
That is cool.
Also, you can record your cooks progress and Tappecue will send the graph to your e-mail so you can import it into Excel and share the chart with people as if they even really cared, lol! It's downfall, power. Just like the SI smoker itself, if the power goes out, well, you're not really caring at that point about the Tappecue now are you?
Overall I give it a 9/10. The sole reason it's not a 10/10 is my cheapness. I think if they came in at somewhere around the $175.00 mark I'd be happier but in all honesty, with them hosting a server and tracking my cook and allowing me to monitor it from ANYWHERE, I'll give them a pass on that extra $25.00.
Get you one. I highly endorse it!!
