Cooking Thermometer, AAA Battery Included, CokGirl Instant Read Digital Meat Thermometer for Food, Candy, Oven, Grill and BBQ (Orange)

When I received the thermometer in January, I turned it on; it matched room temperature within a degree or two so I assumed it was fine and put it away for grilling season. Now that it's warmer outside, I tried to use it for the first time. It's not the "1-second instant" that was advertised, but it seemed to be ramping up pretty quickly -- until the numbers went blank and just the bottom segments of a couple of the digits flickered. Fiddling with it later, I found that it does fine as long as the temperature is less than 100 degrees. As soon as it needs to display the 100s digit, though, it dies until it cools back down to 99 degrees or below. A new battery didn't help.

After experiencing some frustration with this thermometer, I finally decided to do a "scientific" test with a stopwatch, ice water, and boiling water. This unit is advertised as being "instant read" in either 1s or 4s depending on what part of the description you look at. Test results: room temp to ice water took 17s to read the correct temp; room temp to boiling water took 13s. This is very frustrating when grilling and trying to get a read on the meat.

This item is garbage. I received it a few months ago. I took it out of the package to test it and it worked just fine. I put it away. I finally had the need for a thermometer and the display was flickering, and was not legible and I could not change it from C to F. Did not even make it its first use. It went from package, to storage drawer to trash in less than a few months.

I've had this for four months, used it a handful of times, and it's already died. Tried using it the other night, it wouldn't turn on. Replaced the battery, tried again, and it still wouldn't turn on. Was great the few times it worked, but now it's useless, and I can't return it. Wouldn't buy it again.

Works just as good the more expensive ones I had.

I got this promptly and it works great! From slow cooking pork butt on the BBQ to boiling sugar for an Italian Meringue it covers it all! The temperature range is quite large, though you may sacrifice a little bit of accuracy for this... A good all-around thermometer!

Mine melted because plastic wasnt strong enough to resist heat. the plastic literally shrunk and it got defected. I recommend looking for another brand.

First time user. So far this thing seems intuitive. Not sure if I would use it every time I cook meat. But did buy it to make natural bars for which it was recommended I use one for melting the goo.