CHEF iQ

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Troubles with charge. Spending to much time try to keep it connected. Spend 12 hours charging and it still say low charge

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   This app sucks. This app has to be removed and reinstalled over and over again. Half the time it will not even log in, and I spend an hour trying to get it setup. Then one or two uses later I have to go through the whole process all over again.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   “It was perfect. But no! You just had to blow it up.”. This app was perfect around November of 2025, but then they changed the interface and now it’s garbage. Make you wonder if they got sued by someone and had to change it

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Login. Why do I need to login to cook a steak? Functionality is great, and my meats come out perfect. ALL OF THE CLOUD STUFF IS GARBAGE. JUST LET ME COOK MY MEAT.

5. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Live activities stopped working. Live activities stopped working

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Terrible and addy. But a different brand. I got this at Costco and it’s full of ads for their other products. I just want a thermometer, not your pressure cooker or anything else. The interface is junk too. I would opt for a meater or another brand.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Waste of money. Have used the probes a handful of times. Fully charged, connected to WiFi, fully up to date on software. Probes won’t connect and stay connected.

8. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

   Without concent. I just bought a set of chef iq thermometer and downloaded the app today. Instead of being to use the app with the product I already bough, of course you now have to make an account. The Amount of data this app collects is egregious and unnecessary. Like you ain’t happy with the 100 dollars I spent on your useless without the app product? Now you have to farm me? No option to opt out. I sent those devices back. Look at the official site privacy policy notes. There is 0 need to collect all that data for a divorce like this to work

9. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

   Used to love using Chef IQ but not with anymore. Under the prior software the application and hardware worked flawlessly. After the update the base frequently loses connectivity with my wireless network and the battery drain by each probe is now quite rapid. I’ve had to change probes during a cook now - something I never had to do before. What had been a helpful tool is no longer.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Connecting. Issues constantly with connectivity with the hub.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Horrible. Never works. Can’t use it for small stakes. In the garbage now because it won’t connect. I have the latest product and the latest phone and the latest software.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Unreliable. Unit does not hold a charge long enough to get through a cook. The app is not user friendly. Customer service takes several days to reply. They say it may take several days to reply but why is that? In all I am disappointed with this unit and do not recommend

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great until connectivity issues. These were the BEST for the first year. Now all of the sudden, one of the probes keeps losing connection throughout the whole cook. I often have to HOPE that I’m only using one or two probes and one to spare. But there’s been plenty of times that I’ve had to use all three to cook with no backup. Nothing is more frustrating that being in the middle of cooking, just to have to add an extra probe.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Unimpressed. I bought this from Costco and I wish I would’ve gone with a different brand or product. Continuously disconnects, even when fully charged and will disconnect from my phone and Wi-Fi periodically so that I don’t get alerts when something hits the temperature I said. Go get a different brand.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Notifications not updating. The current version is not updating it’s notifications which is causing issues with the probe

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Probe disconnected. Ever since the app was updated, the probes consistently say that they are disconnected.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Pésimo termómetro. Impreciso. Pésima batería Z

18. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    WCAG Non-Compliance. I was excited to purchase these probes and successfully grill for the first time being blind. This was something daunting to me, but the app probes made it very easy. The last update to the app and user interface has broken the accessibility with the interaction of video features that launch automatically blocking screen controls and un labeled buttons and pop-ups in the app interface for controlling a Cook. Please restore screen reader accessibility in compliance with the web content accessibility guidelines.

19. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Stopped working. Just keeps beeping and won’t stop

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Unreliable. Seems always having issues with the app.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Piece of garbage. The connectivity is incredibly inconsistent. Total waste of money.

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not worth the money. Every time I try to use the IQ thermometer, it wants me to reboot I’ll start cooking and the probes die.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Connection. The device does not stay connected to the local network or Bluetooth rendering it useless

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Difficult to use. App is very unintuitive for doing something as simple as reading the temperature from the probes

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Unreliable. This unit is unreliable. There is always something wrong with it. Right now, it cannot connect even though I charged it all night.

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Prove battery sucks. If you plan on having a long cook/smoke, the probe won’t make it. Was smoking an Easter ham and I had to pull the probe because the battery on it dies. Happened on almost every cook/smoke I do. Disappointed.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Connecting. When it connects it’s great but always having issues

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    ChefIQ failing to start. Useless at this point, failing to start a cook.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not happy. I have high hopes for this product, but I find that the batteries don’t last anywhere near long enough for an entire cook, and the readings are off substantially from other wireless thermometers that I use.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Please format for ipad (rotate to horizontal) NOT THAT DIFFICULT!. I don’t put these apps on my phone due to security concerns. Please format for IPAD, the app won’t rotate to horizontal. Thanks.