I set the alert for 140 degrees and went on about my business expecting to have delicious and perfectly cooked ham for my friends. No problem, fire the smoker up and once it hit temp I put the ham on and inserted the two meat probes.
The annoying part is how you find out the first (or in this case, second) time it ever happens.Įaster weekend I put a ham on that I wanted to double smoke and then honey glaze. I would have to constantly check this manually either at the grill itself or via opening the app on a regular basis. The problem is that no notifications happen. Instead, I paid more to have a smoker that has two meat probes that I place in the meat I'm smoking, set the desired temp and then go about my business. This is one of the biggest reasons to even having a WiFI enabled grill in the first place so if this aspect isn't functional I would just have bought a less expensive smoker w/o this feature and planned accordingly. I just care that this seems to happen EVERY holiday weekend or other times when more people will be using their smokers (Super Bowl is another example I can think of) and need the notifications to work. I don't care what the details are that cause it to be honest.
This leads me to believe that it's a bandwidth capacity issue on Recteq's end. Pure speculation: it seems to be during holiday weekends and times when more people want to use their smokers to prepare meals for friends and family. No alerts when your smoker hits the set temperature, no alerts if your temp strays to a temperature far from your set temp and (maybe most importantly) any temperature alerts you set for the meat probes also will not work. The notifications just quit working w/o warning. If I ruin meat on a random Tuesday when it's just the wife and I that sucks but at least I'm not letting a dozen family members, friends or both down. These also tend to be the time when you MOST need your grills notifications to work. Unfortunately all Recteq WiFi smokers have a fatal flaw: The notifications will fail to work during high-demand times like holidays. I really really liked this thing when I first got it and I saw what all of the rave reviews were about. As much as I wanted to love this Recteq RT-590 (slightly smaller version fo the RT-700) I can no longer recommend Recteq in good conscious.
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