That is How We Smoke Meat in My Century: iGrill [Bbq]

Fresh-smoked New Year’s Ham! Yum! I smoke plenty, have about every thermometer available, but for tonight’s dinner, I’m trying something different: iGrill, the iOS-enabled meat thermometer. To date it’s tons better than sitting in my yard looking at the smoker.

So, I will’t really let you know much concerning the experience yet-because my pork’s only been in for an hour or so-but thus far, so good. Mostly. Had some problems Bluetooth-pairing the article with my iPhone, so I switched to my iPad, and that worked fine. It was actually a more sensible choice, because iGrill’s iPad app is way more fun than the iPhone version: more screen real-estate means a delicious BBQ dashboard one could burn hours fidgeting with.

On the principle screen, there’s a kitchen timer (I’m using it to ring a bell in me to add charcoal and wood chips every 45 minutes), a real-time thermometer that tracks both of the iGrill’s probes simultaneously, a temperature histogram that shows the progression of your meat-heat, and customizable alarms for each probe. The iGrill only comes with one probe, but I was in a position to plug within the one who came with my Polder thermometer without problems. I’m using one to track the smoker’s internal temperature, and one to measure the meat’s doneness. I’m aiming for around 155-160-an excellent medium-well ham. Zooomigod I am so freaking hungry.

Then, whenever you flip the little stainless-steel drawer-handle-looking thinger down, the app offers recommendations on cooking and food safety, recipes, even an internet browser so you may cruise the forums at BBQ Bretheren . But don’t try this too much-the Bretheren are loyal, but they’ve differing opinions and may cause you to freak out and over-think your process. Or so I hear. Never happened to me, I swear.

All in all, I’m having fun. I’ll update this post as the day-and my pork-progresses. Here’s to hoping that each one my technological fiddling doesn’t distract me from the task to hand: smoking a 16-lb pork leg. [opens beer]

UPDATE
200-foot range my ass. (That’s what they advertise.) I got about 50 feet into my apartment, and the pairing broke. To be fair, though, I actually have thick plaster walls and about 95 Russian supermodels all sitting around dirtying the air with their incessant tweeting. (Hashtag is #ZOMG_hanging_w_JoeBrown .) On the brilliant side, after I came back into range, the iPad instantly picked the probe back up.

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This post is tagged: internal temperature, meat thermometer, polder thermometer, sensible choice, stainless steel drawer