No lifting the barbecue lid or opening up that caserole dish. Once you know where the temp gauge needs to be placed in your food, you just have to trust the control. I usually pull the food out when the 5 minute alert tells you it is 5 degrees from being done. Leave the prong in the food and you will see that it will reach the tempreture you need. Amazing..... truly amazing.
Diane

Works great for the oven too.

I'll grant you the wireless feature is very nice, however, being able to take the alarm/readout unit into another room is the only good feature about this product. Sure it reads the temperature and seems accurate enough but any digital thermometer will do that. Two major problems: First, it's all presets with no ability to set your own desired temp so if you happen to disagree with what the designer felt was the right temperature for

Wireless transmitter is really fun and high-tech. It's nice to know the temperature without raising the grill lid. Extremely easy and intuitive controls.

I had absolutely no problem with using this right out of the box. It worked fabuously from the beginning to the end. I use it constantly. I would highly recommend this to anyone that bbq a lot.