New KING of Wireless Meat Thermometers (Sorry, Meater Block 😬) 

What is the barbeque he is using with the adjustable charcoal tray?

I call this video horse pucky. It's an advertisement disguised as a review. I know as I bought and have lived with the Meater 2 and the RFX. I cannot recommend either.
My Meater does nothing but drop connection with the base less than a foot away. Customer support? What's that? I'll leave it their. Never buy a Meater product.
The RFX is still to Beta, does drop connection despite the claims and it's a hardware design issue they don't want to acknowledge, and then there's the app. That app needs to be scrapped entirely.

If you've read this far, simply buy a wired unit and instant read thermometer.

I wonder if it is possible to place all the probes at the same point? Perhaps internal temperature differences are due to being placed in a pocket of fat instead of meat.

Oh lucky man, first generation Meater drove so many early adopters to distraction with it's connectivity problems, the new version now adds recharging problems to the list, and yet all yours work faultlessly.

I see you did an add for the pro temp s1 what do you think of it? Probes do me no good both of my Kamado Joes are out in my shop too far for WiFi

I have the original Meater Block, 2 Meater 2 Plus individual probes and now I have an RFX Gateway with 8 probes. I will not use another Meater product and cannot recommend any of their products. The RFX Wireless is fantastic and can't recommend it enough.

I heavily used my Meater Block probes and after about a year and a half they started falling apart, conveniently beyond my warranty.

My 2 Meater 2 Plus probes constantly had connection issues. For context I have a LSG Pellet grill with thick walls as well as a Workhorse 1975 3/8" thick steel offset, LSG Insulated Vertical cabinet smoker, double walled Hestan 42" gas grill etc. So not the easiest things for signals to get through… but I was very disappointed with all my Meaters connections and inconsistencies through this.

In particular DO NOT GET the NON BLOCK Meater products. Their connections from my experience are significantly worse. Even the second gen ones with the better bluetooth was very poor, during almost every cook for a year one or both of my probes would disconnect multiple times. One particularly annoying issue (that the older Gen 1 Block didn't have) was they would lose connection with the App and wouldn't reconnect until I restarted the app. This completely defeats the purpose of alarms since I could never tell when it lost connection unless I'm checking it manually all the time and hard restarting the app.

So with the meaters one fell apart and had spotty connection, one stayed together but had even worse connection.

I contacted support about the meater 2 probes (I had tested for about 10 months to see if I could figure a way around it, so was still in warranty) took like an hour to convince them that I had spent 10 months and many cooks testing and all their simple steps I had already tried. They sent me two new probes. I wasn't convinced they were damaged or anything since they both behaved with the same inconsistent connection issues. No difference with two new probes. I tried to get them to give me a refund, told them repeatedly I just want a refund, no go.

So yeah about $550 of mostly wasted money on Meater probes. I have high heat food safe sealant to try on the old Meater probes since they are coming apart, maybe I'll do that and give them away to family for free… the original block works moderately connection wise as long as it's close, just they fall apart. Other than that a waste of money.

So then I got the RFX Gateway with 4 probes and expanded by adding 4 more for a total of 8 probes.

It's like night and day. 99% of the time I have no connection issues with one tip. Just ensure you don't put the probes too deep, the thick band representing the outer limit of dept I always ensure is fully exposed. I had some issues at first since I was inserting them too deep (which is easier to do since it doesn't get wide for an ambient sensor on the end). Once I figured that I almost never have any connection issues. Even on my Workhorse 1975 with 3/8" thick steel. This is with the gateway inside my house! Though if I need to put it close it's small, very easy to clean, magnetic so can stick to the side of anything metal etc.

To me the RFX system is perfect. I never used the ambient portion of the probes anyways. If I'm using a pellet smoker it already has an ambient probe so I don't really care, more thorough tests out there have shown they aren't the most accurate anyways depending on what you're cooking at what heat and when in the cook. Also the only time I need to add my own ambient probe is when I run something other than my pellet grill that doesn't have one built in like my offset or IVS, but in that case the ambient probe on the meat probe is pointless anyways since I want a static one to monitor the temps before I put the meat on. So I have to add a static one anyways so with this I can put the gateway out there and get a built in static one rather than need a separate system for that (which is even more cost effective since the ones with ambient probes built in don't give you a static one like the RFX).

Even better since they don't put those ambient probes in the per probe price is much cheaper than the competitors. For most other ones they are $120-$150 each vs the RFX probes are $95, not on sale. Plus the system is expandable unlike the Meater Blocks… I got a 4 pack + Gateway and then just bought 4 extra probes to tack on to the same singular system and can keep going with more if I want. 8 probes has been very useful when cooking different meats, a lot of meats, or even multiple probes in the same meat which has been educational in understanding what parts of the meat get what temps etc, also better coverage. Also I can cycle some for cleaning and still have some to cook.

Further Meater has a really bad web app (at least when I was using it a year or so ago) where you could only look at one probe data at a time. I was spoiled with using Fireboard and their excellent web app where I can keep it up on a second monitor while doing things and just look over and see all my probes. The RFX web apps is FAR better than the Meater (if not quite as good as Fireboard).

So yeah, can't recommend RFX enough. I almost went with Pulse but the price per probe and the lack of sustained high temp support was a no go (though I love my Fireboard 2 and their software is the best). The RFX is essentially the perfectly designed system IMHO, no useless ambient probes, don't have to pay for that if you expand the system either, high temp support and it just works and stays connected.

Maybe the Meater 2 Block solves all the problems I had but I refuse to spend more than the $550 for mostly paper weights I have now, including that poor support experience.

Great info James!!!

James, another great video and evaluation. Two questions for you: when you tested internal temperatures with a quick read external probe, did you just test the brisket overall, or did you probe next to each wireless probe to validate individual accuracy as a large piece of meat will vary through during the cook? Second, when using multiple probes from a Meater duo or XL in full brisket, or multiple briskets how do you keep them organized for proper brisket A vs B temp differentiation. Like the color probe idea from the other vendor.

I bought a cheap set from Amazon for $41 and they work great. No need to waste money on Meater junk that will die soon after buying.

Love the channel, but this review is a miss. ChefIQ probe is WiFi enabled (in addition to Bluetooth) and is a complete game changer in terms of range. It also matches the top specs of other probes at a very aggressive price point. The app is soso but it outclasses all of the other probes.

Meater is absolute garbage. I’ve owned two separate meaters, my father in law has had two as well. They all failed after one cook. They’re nearly impossible to get to connect in the first place, the Bluetooth range is about 3 feet, then they are one time use and fail. Garbage.

I’ve used a MEATER block for years now w/no problems. I place the block close to my Kamado Joe and almost never lose signal. I love getting the ambient AND IT from one probe and being able to use it for rotisserie cooks

Way . . . too . . . babbly. People are busy – get to the f*cking point.

Meater has huge connectivity issues,, another game stopper is it needs internet/wifi to operate,, Can't use camping when you have no internet.

Interesting vid, I use Typhur Sync Dual, really like it! Wish I grabbed the Typhur Sync Quad haha