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Brand: Maverick Industries
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$59.99~~
Buy New: $47.94
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

66 reviews

Color: White
Media: Lawn & Patio
Fragile: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 4
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 1.1 x 2.5

MPN: ET-73
Model: ET-73
UPC: 011502013733
EAN: 0011502013733
ASIN: B0000DIU49

Release Date: March 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Customer Reviews:

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Great product June 14, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I commonly cook overnight for long smokes. This thermometer is great. I second the opinions of the other reviewers.

There are only 2 reasons I don't give this 5 stars:
1) The receiver must be turned on first, then the transmitter. So, if you do lose signal, you can't just power cycle the receiver, you have to go out and power cycle the transmitter too.

2) When the unit loses signal (it happens..it's a radio), you cannot set it it alarm!! So, if I'm cooking overnight, and the unit loses signal, I sleep all night without knowing that the pit temperature is still in the right range. I really wish it would alarm when it loses signal.

However, those 2 things aside (these are minor), I still give it 4 stars and would not want to live without it.

Great device for Smokers; Grillers and other Cooks October 24, 2004
31 out of 31 found this review helpful

This is a must for serious and amatuer BBQers and cooks. This device not only measures the meat temperature, but most importantly the cooking temperature; it also has a timer. I've been using this with my Bradley Smoker for two months now, and have been receiving excellent results. I am satified with the transmission distance. Like with most radio devices, reception depend on what the signal has to travel through to get to the receiver. Also, as for myself, if I place the receiver too near my computer, it will not receive a signal.

Comments: As mentions in another post, setting the meat, and smoker maximum and minimum temperatures can get annoying, but you don't have to select one diget at a time. Holding the button down, you quickly scroll to the temperature you want. The alarm needs to be louder; but it is adequate if you are near the receiver. For smokers, whose cooking time may take twelve hours or more, battery life may be a problem. If there is a battery failure you need to reset the system, after installing fresh ones. Maverick customer support is excellent. My meat probe failed and they sent me one out immediately.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars, because I feel the documentation that accompany the ET-73 could better, there should be up down buttons to adjust temperature settings, and a belt clip should be included.

3 out of 5 stars

Decent Product September 16, 2004
27 out of 27 found this review helpful

I am an avid griller, BBQ'er and Smoker (year rounder, competitions, 15 pound meats etc...). I purchased this product after enjoying using the Williams/Sonoma remote probe temperature gage for quite some time. I now believe that a remote temperature gage is a must.

This particular product works as advertised and I am happy with it. I would describe it as average, nothing special. It seems to work well, has a decent transmitting distance (although I hear there was a bad batch out there that were very weak). The digits are large and easily readable in a glance. The alarm couldn't be louder. The back light is bright. And the probes seem high quality that will last a while.

However, it has a few annoying traits: 1) The on/off switch on the Transmitter is located behind the battery door which means you have to take off the battery door to access it, not a huge problem as the door access screw only takes a quick half turn with a penny or fingernail. 2) Setting the Food and Smoker alert levels is also an annoying as the device only has one "adjust" button that scrolls up one degree at a time. This means that if you currently have a 180 degree setting (beef well done) and wish to change it to 140 degrees (beef rare) you must scroll the digits past the max setting 370 degrees (who cooks anything to this temperature?) around to the minimum setting, and if you miss it or forget to push enter you have to go all the way around again. It reminds me of the early digital alarm clock radios where if you passed 7 AM wake up time you had to go all the way past 7 PM to get back to 7 AM. The feature can be VERY annoying, especially since most other remote probes have both and UP and DOWN buttons, but they don't have the smoker temperature probe that this one does.

Overall I'd buy another one but I wouldn't pay too much for it.

2 out of 5 stars

Would be a nice product if it had any range... August 24, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This would be a great product if you could use it as a "Remote Smoker Thermometer" as the name implies. Range on mine was about 15ft, rendering it almost useless. Since I can't use it for it's intended purpose, what good is it all? Unless you are going to use it like the picture on the box (your smoker right outside your window) I wouldn't recommend it. Also there is a certain order in which you have to turn the units on in order for them to recognize each other. Even turning them on in the suggested order I have problems. It gets frustrating...
It is very disappointing that it has these issues, otherwise it would be a real handy gadget & time saver!

5 out of 5 stars

Great luck with mine - I love 'em July 15, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

I bought two ET-73's when they first came out about a year ago. I have had excellent luck with mine. I use them almost every weekend as I do a lot of overnight cooking sessions in my smokers. I dangle the smoker probe down a lid vent in my Weber Smoky Mountain smoker, insert the meat probe in the meat de jour, let the temp get settled in, and go to bed. I put the receiver in the bedroom window about 80 feet from the patio, and very easily check meat and smoker temps throughout the night.

There was recently a bad batch of ET-73's made their way out of the factory. Maverick is supplying outstanding customer support in replacing these units that are proving to be faulty in reception.

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