My wife bought this for me last Christmas and I still tell her it was one of the best presents she ever bought me. I like the manual feature of it mostly for doing prime rib and monitoring grill temperature. I use it often for low and slow cooking, prime rib, whole chicken, in my smoker, and inside our oven. I am getting one for my Dad, another BBQ fanatic who also homebrews his own beer. This has been a very good tool that has been trouble free and simple to use. Thank you Oregon Scientific!