When Chris Young first announced his new product a year ago, he made it clear he wasn’t making just another Bluetooth-connected thermometer.
“I started building the first thermometer in the world to actually measure the real cooking temperature which can profile your food so that it can estimate things like how big is the food and how fast is it cooking,” Young said.
Young made a convincing case at the time, explaining how the product, the Combustion Predictive Thermometer, would utilize eight sensors to monitor the core, surface, and ambient temperatures and give a cook an idea of the food is done. Getting that gradient temperature is important because, according to Young, only with that can you (or your thermometer) correctly calculate the true cooking temperature and how fast an item will cook.
Now, a year later, Young’s first product from his new company is finished and is available for presale on the company’s website.
Outside of making the industry’s first predictive thermometer, Young also wanted his new product to be extremely simple to use. That drive for simplicity was motivated by his experience at Chefsteps, where the team working on the Joule spent lots of time and resources troubleshooting the sous vide circulator’s networking technology (the Joule sous vide circulator requires a paired smartphone to operate).
In short, Young learned that sometimes simpler is better when it comes to cooking, and with the Predictive Thermometer, simplicity comes in the form of a paired timer that has a big display and doesn’t require an app or set up out of the box (though an app is available for those who want one). According to Young, the thermometer utilizes the built-in beacon technology to broadcast the cooking data to the timer and any other Bluetooth-connected appliance that wants to communicate with it.
Young didn’t reveal pricing last year when he announced the product, but now we have it: The thermometer and timer are regularly $199 but are available now for presale for $139. You can preorder one on the company’s website.
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