 Hey all, welcome back to the fire and water cooking channel. I'm Darren and today I'm going to do a review on the ink bird IBT for XS Bluetooth smart wireless barbecue thermometer So let me do a mini review on that and I'll be right back guys I want to go over this ink bird with you guys Ink bird actually sent me one of these to review and they sent me one to give away in the drawing that I just had On my Facebook group and page. So if you're not a part of my Facebook group and page Highly recommend you do that. There's a link down below. You can check that out. It's a really interactive site But this ink bird they sent it to me to review. I've heard of ink bird ink bird's been around for you know a Few years would use their temperature controllers For crock pots and stuff and some of them actually still do Before you know the sous vide units got really cheap No ink bird's been around for a while and doing this kind of thing, but this particular unit is a Bluetooth wireless Barbecue thermometer with four probes and one of the things I liked about it is the probes that come with it They're actually I think are better quality than some of the ones that I had in my old Maverick Barbecue thermometers that cost me 50 or 60 dollars I've used this five or six times already and I haven't had any issues with the temps being off I've double-checked it with my instant read thermometer and actually with the thermometer that goes into the camp chef Directly so I haven't had any issues with the calibration of this unit one of the things I do like It's very compact. This does come with four probes Four probes just like this and like I said, these are high-quality probes very simple to use Use this with a app on your iPhone Android iPad any kind of mobile device and the app is free download it and it automatically will pair up with your app, so it's very easy to pair up with the all you do is plug your probes in and will automatically read them and automatically start reading out on your app So very easy to use. It also has the different meats and kinds of foods in there in the in the app that you can touch for chicken What have you the preset temperatures, but you can also do a custom of the temp that you're looking for And one of the things I really like about that compare it to my old Mavericks that I used to use is the old Mavericks everything was on their You know their unit and it was really hard to try to change it to the different meats and the different probes On the unit itself. This here is bluetooth. So it's this has a lot farther range than the radio frequency ones Like the Maverick have this is supposed to have up to 150 feet That would be a direct Direct line of sight though. It it is bluetooth. So it won't go through a lot of walls and windows it's not Wi-Fi where it's connected through a router. This is actually bluetooth. So it does have a lot farther range than the radio frequency, but You still have to have a pretty decent line of sight So I would say it's probably quadruple the range of my old Mavericks were I have no problem with walking, you know 150 feet away from it and it's still working if I got a good line of sight My Maverick I would have to be 10 feet away from it to four in order to work real well. So I do like the app like I said the app is really simple to use and that was really easy to use free to download That comes with the four probes It comes with two of these little holders for putting it on your grill grate Because what you can do is it's got four probes. You can monitor Two different grills and two different meats if you want to so and it'll it'll show up on your app and you can Tell it in the app what it is if it's meat or if it's just a grill or you can manually set either one It also comes with this charger. This doesn't have batteries Changeable batteries in it. This has a rechargeable battery lithium ion So it comes with this usb charger. It does not come with the Little adapter that you plug into your You know power outlet to plug your usb in so you have to have one of those in order to use it or you can plug it into a Laptop anything with a usb port on it already so far. I like it the I haven't had any issues with temps. I've used it five or six times Like I said and everything seems to work fine both Monitoring the grill and the food One of the things I do like also is it does have a power switch on the back a manual one But it also if you take all the probes out It will automatically shut off after a while if it's not reading any temperatures. So it saves your battery But also there's a little button on the front here that you can push that will shut this off Instead of having to go and shut it off on the back So you can just push this button right here on the front To turn it on or off and that'll also that's also A way for it to sync up to the app Another thing it has on it. It's got a big magnet on the back here real powerful one that you can attach this to another grill side shelf Anything made of metal it will stick to it, but it will also it's pretty compact. So it sits anywhere and stays out of your way It's not taking up a whole lot of room But other than that guys the one of the things I read on line on Amazon somebody complained that the screen wasn't very bright, but If you can see that, I mean, that's pretty bright and I don't know why they would say the screen's not bright The only thing I can figure is it didn't take the there's a protective Coding that's on there when you first get it. That's kind of um Darker and that's the only thing I could figure is it didn't pull peel that off to be able to see the See the numbers well, so other than that it works great so far Make sure you check it out. I'll have a link to it below in the description. It's also in my amazon store There's a link to my amazon store down below But check them out guys. Um, like I said Uh, I I've had no problems with this so far and I really like it and compared to the old mavericks The old, uh, you know a radio frequency thermometers. This is hands and Hands down a lot better. So I mean, I could say it's 200 better than any of the old mavericks. I've ever had so Check them out. Thanks for watching. Make sure you like this video subscribe Follow us on our facebook group facebook page and i'll see you again on the next video. Thanks You