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hey I'm Megan Willerton Percy not here with iDevices kitchen thermometer mini basically this is a $40.00 kitchen thermometer with a twist similar to I devices regular kitchen thermometer the mini version is Bluetooth enabled and will pair to your phone and send you alerts when your food is done it's really just a more minimalist version of their regular kitchen thermometer it only has one thermometer probe it doesn't have a digital display that shows the temperature but it does have an LED ring that'll show you the status of your food if you happen to be walking by the kitchen performance-wise the temperature readings were just as accurate as the regular kitchen thermometer I tested it simultaneously with the kitchen thermometer during the whole chicken roasting test and the pork tenderloin test and found really no difference in performance whatsoever you're also using the same iDevices app to monitor the progress of your food and to receive those alerts when it's finished so just like the other review I really like the functionality of the app I think the graphs could use a little bit of design work but other than that it works extremely well so I know that this is designed to be cute and compact but one thing I don't like about it is that it's powered by a coin battery coin batteries are those little coin shaped batteries they can go and watches or any smaller product so it makes sense for this product but a lot of us don't have coin batteries just sitting around the house you have to make that effort to think to buy one and that's just a bit of an annoyance it's not a huge huge deal breaker but it's just something you'll have to think about the regular kitchen thermometer is powered by two double-a batteries and you probably have a bunch of those already hanging around your house it almost makes me wish that this had a USB port for charging so that you didn't have to rely on the battery quite so much because it can drain quickly for example if you don't make a concerted effort to turn it off after you use it it will stay on for hours until it automatically shuts off that will completely zap the battery life and then you'll have to go out searching for another coin battery another thing is that you actually have to turn on the device to use the app at all so if you wanted to scroll through the list of presets to find the food you want to cook you have to turn this on before you're even ready to cook another thing that could zap the battery in general though its performance is on par with the regular kitchen thermometer and it's a decent lower price option if you don't need to thermometer probes if you just need the one this is $40 compared to the kitchen thermometers $80 so while it's a bit more entry-level you're really getting the same performance thanks for watching I'm Megan Willerton for seen at appliances