My fear of undercooked meat started young, when my dad served raw chicken at not one but two summer barbecues. (To be clear, ...

With a super long 5.3-inch probe ... Like other digital leave-in probe thermometers, the Pilita meat thermometer allows you to set a timer or alarm to alert you when your food needs attention.

For probe thermometers, we looked for: Heat-resistant cables (up to 700 °F) that are long enough so they won’t snag on an oven door or grill lid when closed. A strong magnet for attaching the ...

Most probe thermometers come with preprogrammed temperature ... by placing their probes into a mug of ice water and timing how long it took for them to register 32 °F. Photo: Caroline Enos ...

For long, slow cooking ... Spark already works wonderfully well as a handheld digital thermometer, but it’s the optional leave-in food probe ($15) and simple-to-use app that makes it such ...

As an expert in outdoor cooking, Greg has written more than 30 articles on grilling and barbecuing for Food & Wine across categories including kamado grills, pizza ovens, and meat thermometers.

All the thermometers in our ratings earned high marks for accuracy and consistency, so as long as you’re using each of them with a clean probe, you can feel confident about the results.