CHEF iQ

love it

This is REALLY good, but could use more varied spices, which I ended up adding to it.

pretty good app but it has glaring issues. There is a lot of problems trying to update firmware. I mean tons of issues with firmware updates. To get it to work is a roll of the dice and a miracle and time. On the other set I have, it never worked. Yall need to fix that asap.

probe charge does not last long

battery drains quickly while in storage.

made an eye roast. it turned out really good.

super sketchy software/ firmware... sometimes all probes work....sometimes not. totally don't trust the temps they show

I haven't used them a few times but I love using Chef IQ wireless probes. Using the App. is great especially if I get sidetracked it reminds me.

I just made the beef roast with vegetables. The probe led me through all the steps right up to taking out. It was delicious. Thank you.

it's a great tool and app for perfectly cooked food. I love it, it's so easy, set it up and follow the commands.

it sucks

Resulted in very undercooked chicken. I used two probes, one in the breast and one in a leg. Followed instructions, the temperature plots were kinda neat, but ultimately this thing failed at its one job.

it doesnt stay charge its not what I thought everyone spoke about dont buy you will be disappointed

Week 1 with Chef IQ and it's upped my game. Ambient temps at the grate level helped me adjust the cooker to get a much better result. So far it's a win!

Great results and very easy to use. You can use your own temperatures and times or use the preset temps. I've done both and have nothing but great results. Definitely recommend.

Blue tooth disconnects all the time, especially when you need it most. Better off with a standard meat thermometer ****update: reinstalled everything and it is working much better!!***

Great idea, ceappy follow through. These things have terribly short range and they dont keep a charge. Forget trying to use them on a brisket smoke, they won't last. I will say when they stay on and connected, they're fantastic. But they won't.

great product work great👌

Love it, I got the single probe, seems very accurate!

have problems connecting to Bluetooth device hub

not worth buying. Will not last

EDIT: they say to send them a email but they DON'T answer. a Joke! Buggy as hell. can't log in so can't use it.

buy!

works as its designed to

probe always have a hard time to connect.

Could be better, but definitely worth it for smoking meats

chef iq is the real freaking deal...don't believe the negative reviews, as one who always had a hit or miss when grillin ths dam rib eyes, well let's jus say this past father's day I grilled with confidence and boy lemme tell you, when you hear them say, "oh wow taste great" not knowing you are low key waiting for some feed back and the dinner table gets quiet, oh yea you know you got it lol theres just something about grillin that grillers get a high from when people eat their food, BUY IT!!!

The cooking probes are AWESOME!

love this thing ... it's made a very average griller into an almost good one

perfect 👍 could not believe it the best investment I ever made

it was great until an update. now the probe doesn't connect to the hub. when I try to reconnect, it says it is already connected. customer service hasn't responded.

it's a great app

The Chef iQ has given me great insight into cooking my steaks and helps me not get distracted while barbecueing.

Great cooking equipment, pretty solid app. I would buy any product they made. They also have great customer service.

I love my Chef IQ iO Sense triple probe device. Unfortunately my fist device died after about 18 months but Chef iQ stood behind the device and replaced it. The tech support was second to none and timely via email. I HIGHLY recommend this product!

Great device for the greatest chef on the planet earth.

I really just want to be able to see temp the thermometer is without having to press a million buttons

2 probes stopped working within 2 months.

Great app and easy to use loving it so far

nice

A recent android app change has made it worthless for using the recipes. It stopped showing the ingredient list. How can you cook without ingredients? Hey Chef IQ, fux your app!

great for over night smoking

I cook steaks perfectly every time.

only one of the IQ probes worked the first time we tried to use the units. the company wanted me to jump through hoops... to prove that it didn't work. I returned it Costco for a refund. my problem wasn't the terrible shooting. I had already done all of that and verified the iron was not working. my problem was IQ wants me to take a video of it not working and send it to them. that was what was troublesome.

this is the worst, absol heutely the worst support ever! Go another route, find another company.

These probes work great and it is good to know the temperature instead of guessing.

I am very pleased with the app! It is fully functional, easy to use, and convenient. I can control all of my Chef IQ appliances and probes from it simultaneously. There is a slight lag when I turn on my mini oven , but only by a few seconds (not a big deal). I love my Chef IQ products!

loses charge and connection all the time, and have to restart the cook

pretty good. very pleased with the probes. app is easy to use

great easy to use and probes dont loose signal easily.

the range my Chef iQ if is insufficient. It's range using my closed pellet smoker is only about 20'. My Chef iQ disconnects when I'm sitting inside about 20-25' from the smoker. However, when I step through the outside door which is a few feet further than where I was sitting, the Chef iQ immediately connects.

battery in hub is horrible

spot on!

best probe I ever had!

after using twice, probe 2 alerted that the probe was overheating. tried to reset the unit with no luck. only 1 of the 2 probes work. cooking temp at the time of the failure was 275-300°, realitivly low cooking temp.

The app doesn't send timely notifications. Multiple times my steaks were overcooked because the notification didn't alert me it was ready to take off the grill. The notification only worked when I manually accessed the app to find out what the temperature was.

th is thermometer system is terrific. pairs easily. provides real time temp as your food cooks. love it.

Love the keep warm setting.

battery on probe dies 1.5 hours after coming of charger.

The probes battery's lasts about 2 hours after 1 year and are always disconnecting. If you can return it, return it!

🗑️

Expect the thermometers to only last from 1 to 2 years with weekly use.

poor quality, multiple failures, does not handle ambient temps as advertised. overheated under °475 very disappointed

terrible, probes lose battery right away. loses connection constantly. worst purchase

Theses meat probes have helped me so much. Made me better at grilling, smoking . Pork Chicken or beef.

The probes work properly, connection is always good, they are accurate and the app is user friendly and loaded with recipes and information, plus the manual mode is programmable, which is nice, following the recipes is easy enough anyone can use it, from beginner cooks to professional chefs.

the app wont open

works until you do the foil wrap, then cant connect

very accurate, the timing feature works great

works like a charm. I love it.

worked somewhat the first few times I used it, but completely NOT worth the money now. It's way to likely to not charge the probes, loose connection with the probes 2 feet from unit, numbers completely gone from all 3 probes. Wonderful idea, just poor quality and reliability for the price. I won't buy another one.

frigin AMAZING

Does not connect 80% of the time. Have to be crazy close. VERY slow. Honestly a wired or instant read is much more convenient. Loses connection constantly, no way to force it to look for probes, can't even see temps on phone from 25' on phone (both set up on home wifi mesh network which is pushing 150+ mbps over 150 yds away from house so it's not my internet). Insanely overpriced for a very poor performing thermometer. Do not waste your money!

This is a fantastic cooking tool.

I have the wireless thermometers for grilling out. this app constantly has issues. seems ridiculous that it will not open up or let me sign in just to use some thermometers! I have rebooted my phone I have uninstalled the app and reinstalled it nothing seems to be working at all...

the temp probes don't work like they say they do

The best thermometers. Use them in the smoker, grill, stove top and oven. She doesn't like rare like i do an always get the rarest. Solution? Use both probes.

I love this thing. so easy to use.

App tells me my food is ready after I finish eating it. Great oven, too bad app is required to use the probe. I'm glad I didn't pay extra for it.

I like the application, but one of the two probes failed almost right out of the box.

I cook like a pro now,no more over cooked food..

it takes the work out of cooking! love it

Simple and easy for perfect grilling

This app is useless since the recent update and does not work. I would like my 100 dollars back for the probes.

Great temp probe!

useless product. you need a NASA degree to cook a piece of chicken

the connecttivity of this thing is so bad that it makes it useless, and the fact that you cant resume a cook after you lose connectivty means i just wasted 10 hours. Also the estimate is never right it told me 5 more mintes for an hour and a half. im gonna replace this. it happens every time.

The battery on the base does not last that long. Don't buy them

does more than I expected.

The best so far. 👍

These probes make cooking easy and safe.

absolutely the worst thermometer on the market. it cannot hold a charge, it constantly loses connection, finally threw it away.

very disappointed

I use one of your guys' meat thermometers with this app and I have two things to complain about: 1. Chef IQ doesn't exactly put the temperature correctly. If it's at 80°, medium well, I don't know what 80° is. I'll just say something like way less, maybe 56°, even though you cooked it for like nine minutes. 2. When you put in the meat thermometer, it doesn't pop up on your phone. Maybe you can add that as a request for permission but it doesn't pop up on your phone like a notification or it do

this stupid app need too much attention. I just want to know the temp. and babysit the meat not my phone.

HARD TO FIND WHAT I'M COOKING

honestly the best decision you can make as a family is to pick up the chef iq!!!!! Highly recommended!!!!!

small annoyances like unable to do different temps on different probes. mostly a 1 star for the app keep asking me to review. so now you got your review, hope u r happy

perfect steaks every time.

very accurate, great for smokers and oven use

doesn't connect to wifi. always says wrong password. tried unplug router turn off for 5 minutes to fully cycle router. still chef it doesnt connect with all the correct info inputted. went to friends/relative house to try to connect same reason can't connect to wifi. updated firmware and all. problem still exists.

One year review... the temp probe will NOT hold a charge long enough for even ONE burger... 15-20 minutes max... will be looking for a different brand/make when this gets thrown in the trash.

They work! If I really searched the only complaint I could say about them is that the estimated time can be a bit off sometimes. They are reliable and the app is super easy to navigate.

simple to used and good value for the money. keeps my smoker closed and reading my temps with ease. I can see stalls so easily.

It's good, needs to allow for more customization. or Utlize AI for a more immersion customization experience. for example I'm smoking a brisket. but I'm not pulling it to wrap it them put back on. the app assumes that's what's happening. also the charge needs to last longer.

battery is pretty weak. doesn't hold charge for very long. starting it up you are interrupted by ads. your home screen is products and some recipes you have to tap to the screen for the whole reason you paid the absurd amount of money. Only to realize the range they advertise is if you grill or BBQ without a lid

Excellent app! Does everything you want it to. I only have two suggestions. One being making a live read on the notification menu. This removes having to open your app to see the cook temps. Secondly, some of the suggested cooks for smoking meats are a bit... shall we say incorrect. I would probably hire someone who actually smokes meat design those presets.

App used to be ok HW works well and gives accurate temperatures. The app used to consider an air fryer in is presets. Updated and now no longer has an air fryer presets.

CHEF iQ products are well thought out and integrate well with each other. We have the oven and 2 probe set. The probe set comes with a wifi rechargeable box that keeps the probes charged. The probes are capable of 1000 degrees and when used with the oven, the oven picks them up separate of the app. The app is handy to see cook times on what you are cooking either on the grill or in the oven or the CHEF iQ oven itself. Set it and forget it. I highly recommend their products.

Chef iQ probes are great for meat temperatures! I use mine for temperatures when I smoke meats. You just put in the meat you are cooking on the ap and it sets up the probe and time for each meat you are cooking. I had the 2 probe set and now bought the 4 probe set. We love it.

does not receive push notifications unless app is opened. Useless. doesn't even get notifications on my tablet. Useless. all permissions enabled and background usage enabled. defeats the purpose.

I had a Meater+ previously, and it quit working. I might have overheated it. Anyway, I decided to try CHEF IQ. It has a higher heat range and has worked perfectly for steaks, a prime rib, and now a leg of lamb. The graphics and the interface with my phone are awesome!! I bought the 2 probe unit. It's a bit pricier than Meater+, but it's well worth it. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

Its a great temp probe. Although the home base needs to be close to the smoker or bbq to get signal. 15-20 feet. mine wont transmit through the wall of my house. That means its outside when me and my phone are inside the base is what informs you your meat is done, not your phone. Otherwise its great.

Constantly disconnects from WIFI and Bluetooth during cook, causing you to have to restart the entire unit and reconnect. since a restart happens, the metrics are lost. please improve your connectivity.

Happy with product and customer service! I've had the two probe version for about year and I'm satisfied with the results. I bbq and smoke food quite often. A bit of a learning curve on the app though but fun to use once figured out. A replacement was sent quickly by them after I inadvertantly cracked the ceramic on one probe. I like the voice alerts on the base hub but would like them on the app as well. Overall it's a good and useful product.

I can't just put the probe into something and get a temperature read. Or leave the probe in for as long as I want. Everything has to be programmed manually or by a preset for a cook. This is the stupidest thermometer app I've ever tried, seen, or heard of. Absurdly ridiculous and will be returning. Just dumb.

The app is pretty terrible. It will estimate the next step for, say, three minutes, and keep that estimation for ten minutes. It also tells you when to remove your food so that it hits target temperature while it rests, but never once has my meet hit that target temp while resting. It's always at least five degrees under.

Not a fan of the Feb app update. very hard to figure out. old app had meat type and sub menus to get you where you need to go and what to do to prepare your food. I had to plan my meal from history, which is silly as this deletes in time. bring back meat selections, sub menu, where to place probe picture and so on!

APP: 1 Star Rating The app leaves a lot to be desired. In reading the reviews, it is difficult to determine if people are referring problems with the thermometer, the cooker, or both. I only have the cooker with the app. Some mentioned voice notification. How is that feature accessed? My notifications are turned on, but I don't ever get any. CHEF iQ: 5 Star Rating I have had pretty good success just using the cooker. The app really doesn't help me except to know when the food is done.

The app is horrible, and is the only way to read the probe temps. More space is taken with ads for their other products than to making this one usable. It doesn't hold a charge and takes forever to recharge every time I use it. There is also no easy way to monitor the battery level on the base unit. Almost every time I've tried to use one of the in-app recipes, it just stops working, often in the middle of the cook, so I have to program each probe manually.

Temperature probes matching my ThermaPen. Like that I can save a cook so it is simple to remake. Still learning about notifications and how to get Voice Notifications on app and not through the base station (charger). In my smoker if the base station is more than 15 feet away the probe is disconnecting. That is why I would like the voice prompt on the app as the base station needs to be outside. So far the 5 cooks since Christmas have been great. Would purchase again.

Excellent product. It makes smoking my bacon easy. Right away upon my 1st use of the Chef IQ thermometer I was blown away on its ease of use, and the bacon came out perfect every bit (I smoke 50+lbs at a time). User interface makes set it and forget it easy. it's wifi, pairing Bluetooth, it speaks and keeps you up to date every step of the way. MOST DEFINATELY DO RECOMMEND THIS PRODUCT.

Total nightmare to install. Tech support didn't really help. once I got it installed ( you need to set up an account) couldn't find any way to do something simple, like set a desired temperature to be notified. Instead the procedure is to select the food, then it tells you how to prepare it, even how to put coal in the grill, seriously? How about providing an app that lets you choose the temperature and alerts you when it's done or when you're within a certain temperature. Seriously Bad.

Ad spam everywhere. Every time you launch the app, ads. When you go to new pages, ads. I already paid for your product, I won't be spammed with more ads. Also, everything takes way more clicks and menuing to accomplish than it should. Other probe apps aren't so bloated and spammy. It also has an option to save your custom temps, but it never does and you need to spend far more time than necessary setting up the most basic cook. This is a bad, bad app.

Im very disappointed in the probe and the app. Rather than giving the temperature immediately you have to go through a series of menus. They're always promoting other products which is annoying. I expect that the app can do one job provide the temperature. I will never purchase this or any of their other products again.

Functionally, the IQ probes work quite well. I have just 2 complaints: 1. the charging unit must be "near" the grill. The problem is that the plastic it is made of warps like crazy - and I'm talking about 18" from my smoker. 2. the probes go into an over heat mode & cease to work at about 210°F. Some cooks require that temp, so the usefulness of th IQ product is limited. otherwise I like the software, and being wireless it makes grilling & smoking much easier... with the aforementioned issues.

great device. future upgrades I'd like to see are: audio guidance playing through my phone rather than the base station. that needs to be nearer to the grill (not near me), and when I am grilling multiple identical steaks, one should be able to configure for the meat type, method of cooking, thickness and then apply all settings to each probe. similarly, cooking starts on the device separate times pressing start cooking for each probe, which isn't as efficient.

works well. There are a few foods that it's lacking in the cook setup, but the manual mode does compensate for that. but foods like chicken wings and catfish or anything that you are trying to deep fry, it does not even categorize it. Deep frying should be included on the cook setup menu.

product needs to refined. app is okay but missing subtle things that I noticed and would like to have. app is more based on selling (their) products as opposed to setting up cooks or saving your recipes. I want to see more options for the COOK and the COOKING methods. the timer option just does not exist, so I have to use my phone for with another app. biggest fault! YOUR RINGER/ TIMER DOESN'T RING ON PHONE LIKE IT WILL ON ITS STUPID BASE STATION SPEAKER WHICH IS POINTLESS IF YOU'RE NOT NEAR IT.

At first, they worked great. you need to charge the probe right before you use it. had to replace one probe because it would no longer connect to the base. There can be as much as a 10 degree difference between probes. Now, the base keeps losing the connection even though it's within 2 feet of the probe.

what a great idea I absolutely love the device the problem is as many people have stated there is many connection problems. the unit keeps disconnecting it can't read through my smoker. first try with salmon everything worked great after I got it to connect second try with chicken overcooked and dry because the probes kept disconnecting.

Pixel 7a. App has potential, but one major issue is that it often freezes when in the background and has to be restarted because I'll open it back up and none of the buttons work. Another minor annoyance - when you click on a probe to expand the details, it scrolls you to the top of the screen. Why? Just leave me in the same spot so I can look at the probe details.

This isn't a bad device, but it isn't great either. The software is klunky. For example, cooking a ribeye. There are too many steps to get to cooking. The options for fixing my input errors are few and I often had to start over. I've had the device for around 8 or 10 months. It doesn't charge any more, now it is a paperweight. I brought it at Costco so I'm not worried about a refund. I'm not sure I'll replace it with the same thing or look for a better one.

I like the idea of wireless thermometer. I like how easy it was to calibrate. The charging hub only being able to charge one probe at a time makes things difficult. Plus, you have to keep the hub charged. Also, neither the probes nor hubs really hold a charge very long, especially during a long brisket style cook. Constantly having to rotate a new probe in and charge next probe just adds a step. Corded probes last the entire time. Overall great idea, needs help with charging functions.

Total game changer no matter your experience level! Gives the new cook the confidence to make more adventurous recipes, and for the experienced chef ot takes the stress/guess work out of grilling, roasting, and smoking. I find it allows me to keep the grill closed more, and eliminated mid cook temperature probing!. I was able to keep track of my prime rib roast from 30 miles away! Definitely enjoying low stress cooking and grilling.

Love that it has both the current temp and graph to see the trends. Provides generally accurate predicted time. Has step by step recipes. I wish that there were more extensive recipe options. For example, Prime Rib in the oven. Heat at 425. I wish I could have slow roasting or smoking options at a lower temp. But very easy to use, and great step by step.

Cannot move off of screen 1 when already paired. I don't know what I'm supposed to do after this. After reading several reviews, it looks like I have made an extremely poor decision in buying this temp product. Y'all have had since 2021 to get this right. I will probably go back to my tried and true Thermo probe. I don't have time to go back and forth with product support, it's Christmas Eve Day and I need to get started getting dinner together.

I downloaded the app, made an account, it was supposed to send a verification code. Three times resend and does not send. I tap the not know and decide to verify later. Opens the app and try to connect the probes and keeps sending me to verify your email. This device or app is not user friendly and will not connect. Going to return it and go get MEATER probes.

I just want a simple thermometer to cook food. This app pushes too many recipes and makes popups difficult to close, and takes 3 taps to get to the thermometer page that I like. Also the preset temperatures are extremely conservative. It tried to set up chicken to 185 f without the option to lower that setpoint... I want good food not charcoal. Would not recommend.

The app tries to do advanced tasks like guessing how long it takes for the food to cook, but doesn't show something as simple as "how long since the cook started." Also, the probes are useless without a phone. I wish there was a simple monitor on the hub or a button to announce the temperature. I don't wanna touch my phone when using the probe while working with raw or cooking food.

So far I've been pretty happy with my Chef IQ thermometers. The app overall seems great, but it does bother me that, when I get an alert, the phone vibrates but there is no audible alert. I contacted customer service and was told "At this time we do not have an active feature for verbal notification from the app". I don't need verbal, just some sort of sound to let me know I need to look at my phone. I also run my Traeger app when using this, and I hear the sound for it just fine.

Decent app with some drawbacks. Would prefer a widget that I can add for each probe to my home screen so I can see the upcoming steps and temp instead of have to have the app open and bounce back and forth between them Also The primary focus of this app needs to be the thermometer temperature probes, not a cookbook. If I want to cookbook, I'll go on the Internet and find recipes. I don't need this app to primarily show that when I first open it. I'd rather it open directly to the probes.

Until recently, I've been nothing but happy with this app/probe. However, last night I tried to use it while y internet connection was down. I still had wi-fi, Bluethooth, NFC, and every other connection option available for my phone to connect to the probe/controller. The app just sat on a green screen for long minutes doing nothing. It eventually loaded but said the probe was disconnected. When my internet service returned, it connected right away. Is this a known problem/requirement?

Every time I check the temperature the app locks up and I have to force stop it and reopen it. This is so disruptive that it makes the app almost impossible to use. Also the notifications for stages of cooking keep repeating if the temperature isn't changing much, no option that I could find to turn it off because it was meaningless to me anyways. Tons of features that I don't need and don't want. Even worse is that the thermometers are useless without this piece of garbage.

Everything worked OK on my first device. But it will NOT connect to my tablet or wife's phone. Called customer support and as we spoke and I tried again to connect I got the "too many attempts" message. I cannot even attempt to resolve until "later", whatever the app determines that is. Very frustrating.

Issue 1: This app doesn't let me set a range so I can monitor the temperature in my smoker. For example, I like to set the thermometer to tell me if the smoker temp is below 210°F or above 240°F. Issue 2: The app notification is really short and easy to miss. That makes the unlimited range thermometer useless. Most of the time I'm not near the base, and I rely on the app to tell me when the food is done cooking. Issue 3: Nobody cares about the recipes. The first page of app should show temps

I strongly recommend against this app. It requires the user to create an account, download an app, and submit to enormous amounts of tracking and sharing personal information in well-hidden language inside a 34-page privacy policy. As if they really need to know where you are, your age, and your credit card purchase history in order to tell you the temperature of the chicken on your grill. Oh, the battery is so weak it died before the app acknowledged my login.

This is awesome. Small learning curve but easy to master if you place the probe as recommended and here's the hard part, trust the probe. Trust the probe. Only 4 stars because the probes don't hold a charge and you have to remember the first step in cooking is to make sure your probe charge isn't depleted. On the other hand, 2 probes are twice as cool. Every meal perfect temp. Really, perfect temp.

Wonderful temperature probe for meats, seafood, etc. Very easy to use. Extremely accurate. Three separate probes gives great versatility for folks who like rare vs. well done. Gives accurate projection for cook time after a few minutes. Wireless. You use the app on your phone. Use for any cooking - flame grill, oven, or stove top. Perfect device for chefs and amatures everwhete

Won't connect to wifi most of the time Hey Devs, spend less time adding video and bells and whistles to your app, and make it so that we can actually use the basic functionality! Most of this time this device refuses to connect to my very strong Wi-Fi, so I have to sit near the grill within Bluetooth range. If I wanted just a Bluetooth thermometer I would have bought a much cheaper one. Now they keep adding recipes and videos and things that we don't need instead of fixing basic stuff.

I keep getting push notifications at the wrong times. For example, in the middle of a cook with over an hour left, I get a notification saying it may be time to remove the food. Clearly it is not because the meat isn't even at 100 degrees yet. Or the push notification at 3am telling me my food is ready to eat, when I was done cooking at 5pm, and turned the probe off. The other annoyance is this app literally walks you step by step, and doesn't like you doing your own thing.

Celsius doesn't have decimals. For now it forces me to use Fahrenheit for better precision(one degree Celsius equal two degree Fahrenheits). I connected hub to my home WiFi to update firmware, now I want to use it Bluetooth only, but there no option to disconnect from WiFi. Specs claims that there three internal sensors in a probe, but app doesn't show temperature for all of them, only one internal temperature.

Initially was pretty excited for this product because it looked high quality. Unfortunately the Wi-Fi constantly disconnects in the app and trying reconnect those absolutely nothing. I thought it was the products so returned it for another one, but nope same exact issue. Firmware update constantly failed on my Pixel 7 Pro. Tried it with an iPhone. Still failed multiple times to update. Disappointed.

I like the app but have several suggestions. Favorite recipes should be a section within recipes tab not in a section under more. Also it's difficult to use 2 probes at the same time if using guided instructions, because unlike if you set it manually you just see cooking in progress and have to go into it instead of getting a reading at first glance. Also an option to add your own recipes with prompts would be nice.

Needs work. There should be more options for how you're cooking things. I'm cooking an unstuffed turkey in a bag. The app assumes covered by foil and stuffed because it's saying 6.5 hours left to cook. Also I was looking to see if there was a notification showing times or temps. Nothing. Looked for a widget, also nothing. Why not? I am getting the notifications that the speaker says on my phone, so that's nice, but it's unclear if I can go more than 20 get away from the probes... speaker...

Nice thermometer but the app should be redesigned: 1. Just show battery percentage for probes and hub instead of icons as those icons are confusing. For example on my Android the dark portion for my phone means how much battery is charged. However, in chef iq it is opposite. 2. Fkr the first minutes the "cook control" view that lists probes should list temperatures read by probes instead of "cooking".

Unfortunately quit working after first use. I have tried power cycling the hub several times. I tried recharging the thermometer for a long time. I tried putting the hub literally right next to the thermometer. It will not connect after any of these troubleshooting steps. It just shows "reconnect" in the app. I will be getting a different brand of thermometer and throwing this one in the trash.

The whole idea is great, but the app is very buggy. On my first cook, the ambient temperature difference according to the probe was very different than my oven. So I put in the second probe to see if there was a difference. Now that I have two probes in the same piece of meat, I can no longer go into the details of either probe to look at the pretty graph or change any of the settings. Another thing is that when I leave the app and come back, whatever history was in the graph is now gone.

this is way better than the meater probe. the range I can pick up signal is great. I can be at the neighbors house and check my Temps. can't do that with the meater. the cook times I feel like are pointless because it's never right when it starts. it will say like 3 hours till done and 5 hours later it's cooked, no account for stall time. however I know how long something should take from experience and plan accordingly. this is the best probe I've had yet and it suits all my needs.

Kind of frustrating. The idea is great, but executed poorly. Setup requires you to connect the app and unit, which seems a little silly, as i feel like it should be an optional featuer not a full requirementfor use. Also connecting them is pretty difficult. I'm relatively savvy in the tech area and device connections are usually a breeze. Not sure if there's a firmware delay in the app or whatever is causing it, but I found myself annoyed.

I recieved the thermometer as a gift. Able to down load app but it will not connect the probe. Have reset twice and I get the hub to connect to wifi and Bluetooth but when I go to my Bluetooth it is not connected. Upon connecting it my Bluetooth settings states "An App is needed to use this device". I just set it up through the app... So frustrating...

So so... Some good things... some bad. The app provides a lot of useful information for beginners but the clutter can be too busy. No option to turnoff the sales pitch for the other products you don't own or not using. History graphs for past cooks are nice but not well thought out. The graphs are small, no hold, expand view, or exporting information. The app measures actual elapse time vs. actual clock time. Much smarter to use actual clock time. User can calculate elapse time

The biggest issue is that if you have multiple probes, there's no way to turn them off, so you end up having to charge the two spare probes in the case because they just stay active endlessly without a way to disable them. The design should've made it so the spare probes could be turned on and off via the app or automatically with the hub. Simply turning the hub off does not stop the spares from broadcasting until they just die.

The estimated cooking time takes up a lot of visual space but is useless when smoking meats as the calculations are WAY off. Graphs of probe temps over time would be much better. Needs a "smoking" mode essentially. As built works fine for oven cooking but not a smoker. Says my ribs are 59 minutes from being done 1.5 hours into a 6 hour (3-2-1) cycle.... nope. Even though it gave correct advice for setting up and even have a moistneing spray.

This app is well designed, intuitive, and works as it should. What recipes there are in the app seem to be pretty good, but there's just not enough of them. There are only a handful per category and most would not go over too well with kids. It would be great if they made a site where users could submit their own recipes. Then, when you search in the app it would display Chef IQ recipes first, then show user recipes. Maybe require a certain rating before the recipe will "feature" in the app?

The chef Iq is fantastic! The diversity of food has taught me many new things and expanned my pallet, but there are glaring software problems. Getting the phone to connect or software to update initially took a few hours because it would say it failed to connect and later failed to download. When cooking, sometimes the app won't let me go to the next step, which has been happening more frequently.

Took me a while to initially connect to the cooker over Bluetooth -- or, rather, for the app to see that the cooker is connected (after entering PIN both the cooker and the phone shows it is connected, but the app fails to see it). The workaround is to have Bluetooth disabled on the phone before initiating the connection. That way, the app asks a permission to turn on Bluetooth, and I guess granting that permission fixes the issue I was having. Aside from this issue, it works as expected.

Unable to connect application to cooker. The cooker shows up in the app, I was even able to enter the pairing code, but the connection always fails to finish. Only reason I purchase this was the prospect of being able to connect to it with the app. Considering returning it, to get a regular cooker. What is the point of this thing if everyone has issues with THE main draw to it? Note: I'm using a Pixel 5.

Just tried my 1st recipe. Super awesome pot. Some improvements I'd like to see is the release button being able to hold down itself. You almost need 3 people during a recipe just to hold down the button, hold the pot, then one person to open the lid. Another issue I had was I forgot to add the sauce and there was no pause button to add something in the middle of a recipe. You have to cancel the entire recipe then click through to get where you left off. A saving recipe button would be nice.

First off, there's nothing in the sales literature that mentions an online account is required to use the app that connects to the cooker. I think this is deceptive. Secondly, you can't pair a phone with the cooker unless you enable location services first. Seriously? This product seems to be more geared to collecting personal data than actually cooking. Sending it back to Amazon.

Update. Why did liquid amounts go away in the calculator?? Update. Scale shows error from app when using the calculator.... seems to still be working on IOS though...... Horrible. The Android app REFUSES to send WiFi information. I had to use IOS to connect to it with my work phone. Prioritizing one platform over another is NOT the way to be successful and is completely unacceptable. This WILL work as long as you connect FIRST to an iOS device and then update the firmware. Please fix this.

Good premise of an app. We like the device; could use some UI changes. Most importantly, I would add a "back" button on the "My Appliances" screen. It leaves me in a weird loop that's awkward to get out of. Would cause less headaches of less tech-savvy or those short of patience. I will post bugs and requests as I come across things and as they get addressed one by one.

Could use improvement. The recipe search function is useless, cant search by recipe or ingredient name (ie whole chicken yields zero results). Guided cooking instructions dont say quantities of ingredients to add so I had to keep bringing up the ingredients list. No way to add my own recipies. Bugs: My internet crashed while I was on step 8 and the app resumed at step 6. App and cooker timers dont match. App takes too long to reconnect to cooker that it was just connected to.

OMG it happened they made a dark theme. This app went from 1 star to 5 star with one simple change. You need to get a chef IQ pressure cooker. The app is so fun. You can search for meal ideas, lots of filter options. then it tells you what you need, you can check it off and then send a list of things you need to a friend or yourself to get at the store. then when you have everything and its time to cook it breaks down the measurements you need, so you can have everything ready to go. Then you start the recipe it adjust the times and temperatures and tells you when to add what, when to put the lid on. It has a built in scale. Anyways I hope this company makes other products, I would a wifi thermometer that integrates with the pressure cooker so recipes would be even easier. I am actually making yogurt right now as we speak. If you need a pressure cooker spend a bit more and get this. The built in scale, the auto pressure release, the easy menus in the device and the app with recipes is well worth it. Plus it comes with more accessories than most. Oh and chilling on the couch while you watch the time on you phone is nice so you know how much longer for the chili or soup.

I think I will love this pressure cooker. Your customer support is great, call them as soon as you have a problem. First, the cooker has to be on any time you want to cruise the recipes. I found that it doesn't. I did pressure cook some chicken which was fairly simple. Go to YouTube, find Doug taking the IQ out of the box and starting to use it right then. He helped me tremendously. Harmony from support also, helped me a lot. Good job, guys.