cwshiles
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I ordered a Maverick et-733 the other day on Amazon. I purchased it because I like the idea of walking away from the smoker and taking the receiver up stairs or to my office which does not work with my iGrill. It has inconsistent Bluetooth connectivity at 50 feet and through walls.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FOCR4UI/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I proceeded to unpack it, put in the batteries, pair it with the receiver. Everything was moving along smoothly, until the temps were presenting themselves with a 2-9 degree difference from other temps and each other at room temp. I decided to put it though a little testing just to make sure I was getting accurate readings. First I did the ice bath (pics attached) and as you can see, the temps on the Thermopen and the iGrill are spot on 32 degrees. One probe on the ET-733 reads 34, and the other reads 39. I then did the same thing with boiling water and the results were consistently wrong the same number of degrees. (no pics of this one). It does not appear to be the probes, but the probe jacks in the unit. I switched the probes and still got the same results from jack 1 and jack 2.
For $80, I would have expected this thing to be correct or at least calibrate it make it read correctly. I know I can adjust up or down for each temp probe, but I really do not want to do that. I want to trust it.
Anyone have similar experiences with your Maverick 733 or even 732??
I have had my iGrill for a year or so and it works great as long as I do not go to far away, but it eats up the batter on the iPhone or iPad which is not really a big deal. I use it for grilling all the time when I doing multiple meats and don't want to stand next to the grill. The temps were spot on using both probes on the iGrill.
The Thermopen, I have had for many many years. Its is the old version and is not as fast as the new version, but works great, just not for our smokers because you have to open the door to get temp. But overall, it works really well and is my go to. It takes about 8-12 seconds to read instead of 3-7 seconds like the newer ones.
There is also a little Taylor cheapy ($10) oven thermometer was 2 degrees off. It was reading 34.3 when it should have been 32.
I plan to get a PID and possibly hook it up via wifi so I can check the meat temps from wherever I am, but that project is a few months out. I want to get to know the #3 the way it was intended for use, but I really, really like the idea of programming the steps based on chamber and meat temps.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FOCR4UI/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I proceeded to unpack it, put in the batteries, pair it with the receiver. Everything was moving along smoothly, until the temps were presenting themselves with a 2-9 degree difference from other temps and each other at room temp. I decided to put it though a little testing just to make sure I was getting accurate readings. First I did the ice bath (pics attached) and as you can see, the temps on the Thermopen and the iGrill are spot on 32 degrees. One probe on the ET-733 reads 34, and the other reads 39. I then did the same thing with boiling water and the results were consistently wrong the same number of degrees. (no pics of this one). It does not appear to be the probes, but the probe jacks in the unit. I switched the probes and still got the same results from jack 1 and jack 2.
For $80, I would have expected this thing to be correct or at least calibrate it make it read correctly. I know I can adjust up or down for each temp probe, but I really do not want to do that. I want to trust it.
Anyone have similar experiences with your Maverick 733 or even 732??
I have had my iGrill for a year or so and it works great as long as I do not go to far away, but it eats up the batter on the iPhone or iPad which is not really a big deal. I use it for grilling all the time when I doing multiple meats and don't want to stand next to the grill. The temps were spot on using both probes on the iGrill.
The Thermopen, I have had for many many years. Its is the old version and is not as fast as the new version, but works great, just not for our smokers because you have to open the door to get temp. But overall, it works really well and is my go to. It takes about 8-12 seconds to read instead of 3-7 seconds like the newer ones.
There is also a little Taylor cheapy ($10) oven thermometer was 2 degrees off. It was reading 34.3 when it should have been 32.
I plan to get a PID and possibly hook it up via wifi so I can check the meat temps from wherever I am, but that project is a few months out. I want to get to know the #3 the way it was intended for use, but I really, really like the idea of programming the steps based on chamber and meat temps.
