I have gone through 2 of these probes in very short order. They are not, for some strange reason, heat proof.For example, if you leave them in the oven to monitor a chicken cooking, it will fail after four or five uses. It may work great to just place in some meat, get the temp, and remove it, but it is just too slow at reading the temperature for that method to be practice. And at $15 per probe, it is just too expensive to have to keep replacing every few weeks.I'll stick with my instant read analog thermometer for now.