The Cooking Process
First of all, we'll point out that the Inkbird App does not predict the finish time of your cook, nor does it concern itself with resting time. As a result, all we can do is show you some screens of a cook in progress. We cooked a bottom round roast to 135°F. Here's what it looked like along the way:

1. Just before we placed the roast in the cooker. The width of the orange bar gives you an idea of how far the cook has progressed.

2. 40 minutes into the cook and the meat temperature is rising. The orange bar has gotten narrower.

3. Here's the graph 40 minutes into the cook.

4. 77 minutes into the cook. Again the orange bar continues to shrink.

5. Notice that at 77 minutes into the cook, the beginning of the graph has disappeared as has the target line.

6. At 107 minutes into the cook, the orange bar is almost gone. The meat is close to done.

7. Bingo! The cook is done. Tap on "End cooking" to place the cook into the Cook History.

8. Now there is no cook active. There is no orange bar, no target temperature and no picture of a cow.

And here's how the roast turned out. We'd say that's about 135°F:

Connectivity Information
We briefly touched on this before, but we will emphasize it here. The probe communicates with the Case via Bluetooth and the Case can communicate with your smart device also only through Bluetooth. Obviously, the reach of the Case is only as far as Bluetooth will take you. Without the Wi-Fi bridge function that many other truly wireless meat thermometers have, you cannot monitor your cooks from just anywhere.

Usage Notes And Warnings

• You must insert the probe at least to the safety line etched on the shaft, what we have referred to as the "minimum insertion line." The temperature-sensitive electronics and the meat temperature sensor are located between the tip of the probe and this line. The temperature-sensitive electronics must be contained in the meat you are cooking to protect them from high temperatures. Failure to do this will damage the electronics. And obviously, the meat temperature sensors must be inside the meat in order to accurately sense the temperature of the meat.

• Don't insert the ceramic part of the probe or the handle into the meat. The ambient or pit temperature sensor is located inside the handle of the probe and will be unable to sense the ambient temperature if it is stuck into the meat. Also, if the probe is inserted into the meat too deeply, the Bluetooth signal will be significantly weakened as the handle is the pathway for the Bluetooth signal to escape the probe.

• Do not attach the Case to any hot surface as it may damage the case or cause personal injury.

• Do not get the Case wet or submerge in water or the battery could be damaged.
• For long term storage, charge the Case to 50%. Do not fully charge or damage can occur to the battery.
• Don't use in a microwave or pressure cooker.

• Don't drop on a hard surface.

• The maximum temperature for the food temperature sensor (and also the electronics housed with it) is 212°F (100°C).

• The maximum temperature for the ambient/pit temperature sensor is 572°F (300°C).

• Don't allow any part of the probe to touch a hot cooking surface.

• For improved Bluetooth range, keep the probe at least 2 inches from the inside surface of your cooker.

• The Bluetooth signal radiates out of the ceramic handle on the probe and most strongly out to the sides, less so out of the tip. In other words, you will get the best signal if the probe is vertical and your smart device is off to the side. Placing the probe in a horizontal position means a slightly weaker signal.

Conclusions
The Inkbird INT-11P-B certainly looks like an attractive option at first. It does come in a reasonably nice package with charging case/Bluetooth repeater, probe, and rechargeable battery all built in to the Case. However, once you get your hands on one and start using it, the discounted low cost choice may not in fact be the best choice. And at the regular price, it certainly is an even more questionable choice. You have to use it to find out all the pluses and minuses and we found a few. Here's a summary of what we did and did not like about the Inkbird INT-11P-B when we tested it:

Things We Like: Good Bluetooth range with the implementation of Bluetooth 5.1. Relatively fast charging. Case shows that the probe is charging. Booster has internal rechargeable battery. Booster uses USB-C, not micro-USB. Booster battery lasts a long time between charges. After all our testing, the lowest the battery charge got was 89%. Probe is waterproof. You can calibrate the probe's sensors if you wish.

Things We Didn't Like: Case has no display, so you MUST use the App. In order to use the App, you MUST create an account. Case lid feels flimsy as if it would easily break off. Probe shaft diameter is large at 6.0mm compared to Combustion 4.8mm and MEATER 2 Plus 5mm. Only two temperature sensors when other brands are setting the standard with 4, 5 and even 8 sensors. Probe must be inserted all the way up to the handle, which makes it useless for smaller pieces of meat. The meat temperature sensor was outside the stated accuracy for both ice water bath and boiling water. No Wi-Fi bridge, so limited to Bluetooth range. No support for Alexa/Siri. Bizarre selection for meats. Many types of meat are supported, but no cuts. Many default temperature targets are too high. You will find yourself manually changing the target on almost every cook. Graphing has some display issues with cutting off the vertical scale and not displaying all the cook data. If you change the target temperature mid-cook while collecting data, the graph shows the new temperature for the whole cook, rather than showing the change. The probe/cook screen doesn't show the elapsed time on the cook. You must set a timer yourself. No support for predicting cook finish time or rest time.

So despite as slick a package as the Inkbird INT-11P-B case and probe may be, you might find it isn't the best truly wireless meat probe for you. You should definitely shop around and read some reviews before making a decision. However, if you can find it on Amazon on a lightning deal for $60 like we did, $60 isn't bad for a single probe wireless thermometer with Bluetooth repeater if you are willing to put up with its shortcomings.

Availability
The Inkbird INT-11P-B is available on the Inkbird website. You can also order the unit from Amazon. If you use the following link we get a small commission: Inkbird INT-11P-B Wireless Thermometer on Amazon

Contact Information
INKBIRD Tech. C.L.
18 / F, Zhimei Guowei electronic building
No. 68 Guowei Road
Luohu District, Shenzhen
China

Web: https://www.inkbird.com
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Email: support@inkbird.com

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