AmazingRibs.com is supported by our Pitmaster Club. Also, when you buy with links on our site we may earn a finder’s fee.
Click to see how we test and review products.
ThermoPro TP-12 Dual Probe Remote Thermometer Review
The ThermoPro TP-12 is a dual-channel remote food/cooker thermometer with good performance at a low price. It also incorporates an up/down timer that works simultaneously with the temperature monitoring function. There is a grill clip that supports the cooker probe inside the oven.
The transmitter operates on two AAA batteries and supports two independent temperature probes, one for the cooker and one for food, and they are displayed alternately. There is no backlight on the transmitter. The scale, Fahrenheit or Celsius, can be changed independently of the receiver display scale, and the battery compartment is sealed with an O-ring, making it rain-resistant but not submersible.
The receiver has two modes: temperature and timer. In the temperature mode, the receiver displays both the cooker and the food temperatures simultaneously, one above the other. The food probe has an upper alarm only which is set by the user. The cooker probe has both an upper and lower alarm, again set by the user. The cooker’s lower alarm is not enabled until the lower limit is exceeded. This prevents the alarm from triggering while the cooker is coming up to temperature. Once enabled, the alarm will sound if the temperature falls below the lower limit or goes above the upper limit. Setting the alarm limits is a bit awkward, allowing only increasing values until the upper range of the alarm is reached, at which point it will wrap around, beginning at the bottom of the range and counting up again. If you overshoot your target, you have to do another full lap around the range. Fortunately, whatever limit you set will be remembered even if you turn the unit off.
In the timer mode, it will either count up from zero to 24 hours without an alarm, or count down from an hour/minute value set by the user. When counting down, the display will flash and the beeper will sound when zero is reached. The counter will run, if started, in both the temperature and the timer mode, although the timer value will not be displayed while in the temperature mode. While in the timer mode, only the food temperature and the timer value will be displayed; the cooker temperature won’t be visible although its alarm will still be active.
If communication between the transmitter and the receiver is lost for more than four minutes, the beeper will alert the user by sounding off every four seconds. This is an important feature that will prevent inadvertent overcooking of the food.
Like all cabled probes, these must not be submerged while cleaning, so beware. Build quality of the package is about average, and the price is lower than most. The user’s instructions are clear and thorough. The manufacturer’s contact info, including an e-mail address, website, and telephone number can be found in the instructions. Warranty is for one year.
Overall, this is a nice unit with the features one would expect. For the price, you get good performance and value. We’ll give it a Silver Medal.
Product Information:
- Thermometer Function:Leave in Food, Leave in Cooker, Wireless Remote
- Item Price:$ 39.99
*Price Subject To Change - Where to buy (buying from this supplier supports this website):
- Probe:Food: length: 4"/6" (10cm/15cm), diameter: 0.158" (4mm), tip: 0.102" (2.5mm), cable: 40" (1m); Cooker: length: 3.5" (90mm), diameter: 0.158" (4mm)
- Battery Type:(4) AAA (included)
- Battery Life:Not specified
- Safe Operating Range:
- Min & Max Temp:32 to 572ºF (0 to 300ºC)
- Display Precision:1º
- Actual Temp at 32 Degrees:34/---
- Actual Temp at 130 Degrees:131/130
- Actual Temp at 225 Degrees:227/226
- Actual Temp at 325 Degrees:331/329
- Speed from 32 to 212 Degrees:n/a
- Numbers Display Size:0.56" (14mm)
- Water Resistance Rating:
- Weight:8.25 oz. (235g)
- C/F Switch:Built in CF switch
- Backlight:Built in Backlight
- Color Options:White
- Thermometer Connection:RF
- Included:Transmitter, receiver, 4 batteries, 2 probes, grill clip, user's manual, contact card
- Alarms:Audible/Visible
Published On: 4/15/2018 Last Modified: 1/28/2021
High quality websites are expensive to run. If you help us, we’ll pay you back bigtime with an ad-free experience and a lot of freebies!
Millions come to AmazingRibs.com every month for high quality tested recipes, tips on technique, science, mythbusting, product reviews, and inspiration. But it is expensive to run a website with more than 2,000 pages and we don’t have a big corporate partner to subsidize us.
Our most important source of sustenance is people who join our Pitmaster Club. But please don’t think of it as a donation. Members get MANY great benefits. We block all third-party ads, we give members free ebooks, magazines, interviews, webinars, more recipes, a monthly sweepstakes with prizes worth up to $2,000, discounts on products, and best of all a community of like-minded cooks free of flame wars. Click below to see all the benefits, take a free 30 day trial, and help keep this site alive.
Post comments and questions below
1) Please try the search box at the top of every page before you ask for help.
2) Try to post your question to the appropriate page.
3) Tell us everything we need to know to help such as the type of cooker and thermometer. Dial thermometers are often off by as much as 50°F so if you are not using a good digital thermometer we probably can’t help you with time and temp questions. Please read this article about thermometers.
4) If you are a member of the Pitmaster Club, your comments login is probably different.
5) Posts with links in them may not appear immediately.
Moderators