This is a great cooking tool to have if you want to avoid over-cooking your food, and most importantly, to avoid under-cooking your meat/poultry dishes. As you may be aware, under-cooked meat can pose a serious health hazard. With the MeasuPro Cooking Thermometer with Timer, which you can purchase from Amazon.com, you will have the assurance that your food is cooked at the desired temperature.

The package comes with a battery, which is a bonus! Many items these days don’t have batteries included. This unit only requires 1 triple AAA battery.

It comes with a simple manual that lists items with chef-recommended temperatures. It’s easy to follow the manual, and the unit itself is simple to use. In fact, I was able to figure out what to do without actually going through the manual first. I don’t know if that’s because I have some technical know-how, or perhaps, maybe the unit is really simplistic and easy to use.

I tried all the functions. The timer works well and sends out an audible alert. The LCD window is easy to read. The left bottom part tells you the current temperature reading, and the right bottom section is the desired temperature that you have set.

Another added bonus to me, is the fact that the unit comes with 2 small magnets in the back. This works well for my purposes, because the unit can stick to our Kenmore oven and our outdoor grill, which is convenient. The unit also folds, which is another bonus because then you can set the LCD viewer to your desired level of viewing.

The unit comes with a metal strobe (the thermometer part) that you can leave inside the oven/grill, which is attached to a 3-foot braided steel string so that you can set the timer unit outside of the oven/grill where it cannot be damaged by fire/heat. This is common sense, but I feel like I just have to say it: “Don’t leave the entire probe and unit inside the oven or grill!”

There is a New York, USA support available via email, which is listed on the manual. I was not able to find a warranty notice on the packaging or manual, but I do hope this unit will last, considering the amount of time it will be used in the kitchen.

Overall, this MeasuPro DCT250 Cooking Thermometer with Timer is not too bad.

Happy cooking!