I have a TP-08 and have been very happy with it.
Does Pit (grill, box), and one meat probe. Sufficient for me.
But we grow, and we need more options.
So today (in record time) I received my Inkbird IBT 4XP. ($51.99, bottom line with discount, free shipping) I had already downloaded the app for my phone (Android), (free).
It took me a little bit to get the blue tooth figured out, but I got there. I'm really happy with it as well. Several interesting and easy ways to program each probe. And Delighted to find it has cold smoking, warm smoking, and hot smoking temperature programs in it. As well as damn near anything else you might want to cook.
But I feel Inkbird did their homework to entice us Smoker/Bar-B-Quer's.
It has 4 probes, but note that one is a grill probe, and 3 are meat probes. And comes with 2 clips, which I thought nice.
I have 4 slabs curing and will be smokin bacon real soon and thought I'd run the Inkbird and TP-08 head to head.
Although I will be cold smoking this bacon batch, then a finish blast, I still want to monitor as many aspects as I can.
I haven't but scratched the surface yet, but the smart phone app also appears to have a graph feature to show the temperature progression. I have no idea if it is savable, or can be posted like the
Fireboard can.
The alarms are, well, alarming. They make your phone sound an alarm, but also vibrate your phone. Tends to get your attention.
One day soon I hope to get to use it in the real world and smoke up the SS wiring and Probes.
