Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol

• Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My dad’s smoker is also able to set key frames so you can have it ramp up or down in temp at various points while cooking. And it can either be set to change temp at a time or when one of the probes reaches a certain temp.

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• 5too@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Okay, I’m not a huge griller, but wouldn’t it be better just to build in a thermostat? Let it maintain its own temperature?

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  • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Commercial grills do exactly that. There’s just a thermostat built into the gas valve which uses a sensing bulb to modulate the gas flow based on actual temp and set temp. They don’t even need electricity let alone wifi.

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  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sometimes you need cook on different temperatures at different periods. Sometimes you want to set it to cool down or heat up and instead of waiting near it, you could just set the target and let your phone ding when it’s time.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s better to just purchase a temperature probe with wifi. Those are handy as hell.

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  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s better. It’s a different way to achieve that, but there is nothing inherently bad with whatever appliance that can do more than one thing. We shouldn’t expect the makers to be satisfied with the shitty job at programming damn things however.
    I do want all my appliances to have wireless connection, I do want to talk to my kettle and set my oven temp on my phone.

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• howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I agree, but that should be a separate device. One that I can use in any grill or oven. There’s no reason for the grill itself to have that feature, especially if it can potentially brick the whole thing.

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  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sometimes I just need a device that can do what I want it to do. Obviously I don’t want a device that can be bricked, but that’s just a shitty programming, not a condemnation of the whole concept. I have a whole host of devices that never brick themselves, and I intend to get more.

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Iirc, you can also control the temp, presumably by interacting with the pellet hopper or fan. This will be specific enough for a BBQ that an integrated component makes sense.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can see the appeal. I’ve just had bad experiences with devices that use digital controls, and you necessarily need digital controls if you’re going to automate these things. Everything breaks eventually, but simpler devices can usually be easily fixed whereas anything that relies on specialized circuit boards are outside of my wheelhouse. I would be much more comfortable with owning one of these if they released information on how these circuits worked so that replacements can be made even if the company disappears.

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      • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s reasonable. I, too, like to keep things low tech as much as possible. But I also recognize that there is a legitimate place in the world for wifi enabled BBQs.

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