Weber iGrill Mini Review - Review 2022

Editors' Notation: This production's name has changed from the iDevices iGrill Mini. Our original review from 2022 is below, only has been updated to reflect the new name. The score has non been inverse. The iDevices iGrill Mini, which is physically identical to the Weber iGrill Mini, is depicted in the images and slideshow.

If you recently cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving, then y'all know it tin be a long, tedious process. But rather than circling the oven, waiting for the pop-up thermometer to ascension, this year I but got an alert on my smartphone while watching Television thanks to a connected home thermometer. Like its big siblings the Kitchen Thermometer and the iGrill ii, the $49.99 iGrill Mini from Weber is a Bluetooth thermometer that allows you to check on the progress of your meal right from your smartphone. Information technology tin simply measure the temperature of one dish at a fourth dimension, and it doesn't have a brandish, but it's smaller, less expensive, and only every bit useful as its larger counterparts.

Design

True to its name, the iGrill Mini looks a lot like a miniaturized version of the iGrill ii or the Kitchen Thermometer. The base measures 2 by one.75 by 1.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 1.iv ounces, making information technology small enough to conduct around in your pocket. It has a born magnet (and an optional magnetic disc) for mounting in your kitchen, or on the outside of your grill as you're cooking. It'southward powered by an included CR2032 coin jail cell bombardment, which is proficient for upward to 150 hours of bombardment life; that means you lot can cook a decent amount of turkeys, or a heck of a lot of steaks before needing to change it.

The biggest difference betwixt the iGrill Mini and its bigger brethren is that it doesn't have a brandish. Instead, what looks like it could be a tiny display on top of the device is really merely a Power push. A ring around the push shines dark-green when you turn information technology on. As you're cooking, it will progressively change from yellow to orangish to red as you go closer to your target temperature. Merely I miss existence able to see the exact temperature at a glance, and didn't detect the colour presets to exist all that informative. So in order to get any real information, you're going to need to attain for your phone.

The other notable difference is that the iGrill Mini just supports one cooking probe. The Kitchen Thermometer supports two probes, while the iGrill 2 goes up to four. For the most part, though, just i temperature probe suits my needs just fine, at least for the meals I cook regularly. The included probe attaches to the side of the base via a 2.5mm connector. It's continued to a iv-foot oven-safety cord, and comes with a plastic wrap case for piece of cake storage.

Pairing and App

The iGrill Mini is compatible with Bluetooth 4.0 mobile devices running iOS 7 or after, as well as Android 4.iii or later. I had no trouble pairing it with an iPhone 5s running iOS eight.1.i.

The educational activity transmission included with the thermometer lists but iv simple steps: Download the (free) Weber iGrill app to your mobile device, pull the battery tab on the base, press the Power push, and launch the app. Because it uses Bluetooth 4.0, the thermometer volition automatically be recognized when you open the app. It's a quick, simple process.

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Once continued, the app itself works exactly the same as information technology does with the Kitchen Thermometer (albeit with a slightly more attractive red colour scheme). The home screen shows you the current temperature of your connected probe. When you tap on the reading, it brings you lot to a more detailed view with a graph that shows the temperature measured by the probe over time.

To set up a temperature alert, you can just tap Set Up Cook, which brings you to a list with dozens of preset temperature options. This is probably my favorite role about the app, cheers to a peachy layout and just about every temperature setting you tin hope to find. You tin besides create a custom preset if you're cooking to a temperature that isn't available, merely bated from cooking your steak to black and blueish, pretty much every protein setting is here, along with options for hot smoke, cold smoke, and barbecue.

After setting your desired temperature, you lot tin can but stick the probe in your dish, identify your dish in the oven or on the grill, and walk away until information technology's done (as long equally it doesn't require any maintenance forth the mode, in which example you lot can always set a timer). The thermometer has a range of up to 150 feet to your mobile device, so you can monitor the progress on your phone, and the app will send you a notification once your dish is ready. As mentioned earlier, while cooking the turkey, I received a notification that the thermometer required my attending while sitting on the burrow. I opened the app, saw that information technology had reached the desired 165 degrees, and pulled it out of the oven. The pop-upwardly timer however hadn't gone off, but some other kitchen thermometer verified the temperature read by the iGrill Mini.

The app has some recipes congenital-in, equally well as a social component that lets y'all share photos of what you're cooking with other users. The only other affair I missed here is an audible alert from the iGrill Mini itself, like you get on the Kitchen Thermometer. This warning is useful in case you lot miss the notification on your phone, or someone else is around to hear it.

Accuracy and Conclusions

The iGrill Mini can measure temperatures from -22 to 572.°F. As mentioned above, I got the same temperature reading using the iGrill Mini as I did with a traditional cooking thermometer. It also accurately measured a bathroom of water ice water at 32.0°F, which is the temperature at which ice melts.

Whereas the $79.99 Kitchen Thermometer or the $99.99 iGrill ii experience like a somewhat significant investment, the iGrill Mini almost feels like something you'd throw into your cart on your fashion to the checkout counter. And I'm pretty certain you'd be glad that you did. While I miss the display and audible alerts on the Kitchen Thermometer, the iGrill Mini does just about everything else for half the price. The Oregon Scientific Grill-Right Bluetooth BBQ Thermometer adds a display, but it costs more than than the iGrill Mini and doesn't ship notifcations to your phone. So if you can live without the display (and without a second probe), the iGrill Mini a peachy addition to your kitchen.