[NFB-InTheKitchen] Thanks-Thermowrks RFX

[Cristóbal Muñoz]

Are you using the Thermoworks app with the RFX equipment? I’ve got the Bluedot with a leave in probe and find the temp read out from VoiceOver is around 5 to 6º behind from what is shown on the Bluedot’s display. When I was using it, I thought VO was slow to speak the temp changes as opposed to the Weber iGrill probe/app I used previously and asked my sighted wife to check the display on the Bluedot while I had VO focused on the element with the temp info and she confirmed the delay. Honestly, I find the Thermoworks app a bit clunky to use with VoiceOver and while it’s a bit better with screen recognition enabled, it’s still kind of a drag to get the temp reading VO/app delay aside. 
In my case, I use the probe for roasting coffee and rate of rise (how fast/slow temperature increases while roasting the beans) is important to gage the roast’s progress and to determine when to make any changes to end up at the desired roast. 
I just ended up using the Thermoworks probe with the iGrill bluetooth base as I find the Weber app to be cleaner and more responsive with VO speaking the temperature changes.
Don’t know if the VO/app delay could be explained due to me using bluetooth and the RFX being wifi, but that’s been my experience.
If there’s some other way to make the Thermoworks app to work better with VO, I’m all ears.
 
Cristóbal
 
From: NFB-InTheKitchen <nfb-inthekitchen-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Mike Hanson
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2025 5:02 AM
To: nfb-inthekitchen at nfbnet.org
Subject: [NFB-InTheKitchen] Thanks-Thermowrks RFX
 
I would like to thank the person who posted information about the Recteq Bullseye Deluxe.  I bought one and could not be happier with it and the app.  There are five unlabeled buttons.  I can live with that.  Memorizing them is easy.  Recteq’s tec support is also very good.  
 
I can’t find the post about cleaning that grill in the archives.  I don’t know if that software glitch was resolved.
 
Finally, I suggest anybody considering a Wi-Fi-enabled meat thermometer check out the Thermoworks RFX.  It is expensive, costing around $230 for two Wi-Fi-enabled probes and one hardwired probe used to read ambient temperature.  You might need help naming probes.  I could not get that to work with Voiceover.  On the other hand, connections seem reliable.  It also seems to track temperature changes as accurately as anything else I know about.  
 
I would not recommend anything Meater makes because I found it impossible to use it with Wi-Fi and Meater’s Bluetooth capabilities are not good.  Lost connections in the middle of cooking caused me enough problems that I can’t recommend anything Meater USA makes.
 
Recteq makes a Wi-FI enabled thermometer but I don’t know anything abouthow it works with Voiceover or how accurate it is.  I don’t have the money to buy one and find out.  
 
Mike Hanson
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