Customer Reviews

Chaney Instrument Wireless BBQ Thermometer With Remote Pager

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I recieved this wireless thermometer for christmas, and discovered it has one fatal flaw. In the image shown on this site, the temperature is displayed on the wireless remote section of this - however, that picture is wrong! It is not possible to display the temperature remotely, which makes this pretty useless to me.

The remote sensor will beep when the target temperature is reached (or timer hit), but that's all - you can't keep track of the temperature on the remote part.

The manufacturer has a number to call which we did, and they said that the pictures (which show the remote sensor displaying the temperature) are wrong.

Therefore, I would strongly advise against this product, as there are simmilar priced wireless thermometers which you can view the current actual temperature from the remote device - a very useful feature.

Unit lasted less than a week. I use it in a smoker and it appears the wire from the probe couldn't take the heat.

I bought this remote mainly because of the price. I'm tired of buying the expensive ones and they only work a couple of months, then die. I have been using this one for a couple weeks and it works well. I have a Traeger bbq and it sits in the carport which is quite a ways from the kitchen. I have had no problem with signal strength between the main unit and the remote as I have had with other brands. I may just order two or three more of these, so when this one breaks I'll have a backup. For this price I could buy eight of them for what I paid for the last brand I bought, it lasted three days past warrenty then stopped recieving a signal. If I get 90 days or so (I use them a lot) out of this thermometer I will count it a win.
Nice unit, easy to use and read and you cannot beat the price.
Recommend this one.

This thermometer does everything the enclosed INSTRUCTIONS say it will do, but when you look at the picture of the product on the packaging, one can clearly see a temperature displayed on the pager unit.

The pager unit WILL NOT DISPLAY A TEMPERATURE, only current time, or a timer. If you want a unit with a remote pager that does display temperature remotely, move on. Otherwise, this thermometer does everything it's instructions say it will do - to include the pager beeping when the target temperature is reached. Not a bad choice for the money. Not hard to set-up or operate. The instructions are clear and probably written by someone who grew up speaking English. I would have given it 5 stars were it not for the deliberately deceptive packaging.

Great product for the hard core griller (or the lazy griller), however you want to look at it. We have really enjoyed ours!

I have tried this item and it didnot work. I have used others with more success