Have you ever spent hours smoking a brisket or cooking turkey sous vide, only to have a temperature failure ruin your meal? Unsuspected failures in your BBQ or sous vide equipment are always frustrating. With the Typhur app, you can easily set up ambient temperature failsafes for your cooking environment, enabling you to monitor your surroundings more easily and save yourself from these avoidable errors.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up these temperature alerts to make your cooking stress-free and ensure that unexpected temperature changes do not ruin your food.
Why You Need a Temperature Failsafe for Long Cooks
When cooking for long periods, like smoking brisket for 10+ hours, cooking turkey breasts sous vide for 12 hours, or batch-cooking chicken thighs, temperature failures are the most common issues. Such “set and forget” cooking methods can lead to disasters if the equipment behaves unexpectedly.
Imagine a normally dependable BBQ that is catering to 20 lbs of chicken thighs. An overshoot of 100°F in temperature would render everything a cooking disaster. Or assume a sous vide circulator turns off hours ahead of schedule; that would mean a roast stays undercooked. Not only is solving these problems cumbersome, but it also seems that you will face such issues in every cooking session.
To avoid such risks, it is necessary to have a reliable failsafe system that alerts you in the event of a failure. The Typhur app provides a great solution in this regard, as it allows you to set temperature alerts that warn you in the event of an unexpected temperature deviation, thereby ensuring your cooking proceeds as planned.
What the Typhur App Can Do
The Typhur Wireless Meat Thermometer probes not only function to track the ambient temperature of your cooking environment, but also the internal temperature of the food you are cooking. These temperatures, and especially the internal temperature of your food, are necessary to receive alerts to ensure proper cooking. On the other hand, long and slow cooking, especially with the use of smokers, BBQs, and even sous vide, is dependent and even more in need of machine temperature stability and alerts of fluctuation.
These ambient alerts serve as safety notifications, alerting you when the temperature falls below or exceeds your set threshold. Having set these alerts in the Typhur app means that you have set the limits to the temperatures that you wish to be notified of and can promptly react, thereby ensuring the safety of your food.
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Step-by-Step: Setting Ambient Temperature Alerts in Typhur App
Step 1 – Attach Your Probe and Activate Cooking Mode
Start by attaching your Typhur probe to the base and activating the cooking mode. This is an important step because the app relies on this to track the internal temperature as well as the temperature of the space around it.
- Turn on your probe and verify that it is connected to the Typhur base.
- Launch the Typhur application and select your cooking mode, such as Manual Cook or any other preset.
Step 2 – Access the Alerts Menu
After connecting your probe, it is time to configure the alerts and notifications.
- Select the bell icon on the app’s screen (this will either be at the bottom or the top of your interface).
- This will take you to the alert options where you can add and customize your time, internal temperature, and ambient temperature alerts.
Step 3 – Add an Ambient Temperature Alert
It is time to add an alert for the ambient temperature. Follow the instructions below:
- Create a new alert by tapping on the “+” icon.
- From the list of alert types, select either Ambient Temperature Rises Above or Ambient Temperature Falls Below.
Step 4 – Set Your Thresholds
Next, you need to set a threshold for your temperature alerts:
- Set a suitable limit value for your ambient temperature.
- For example, in the case of brisket, set an alert for when it passes 300°F to prevent overshooting. On the other hand, set an alert when your sous vide falls below 120°F, as this will catch circulator problems at an early stage.
Step 5 – Turn On Mobile Notifications
Follow the steps below to receive alerts on your mobile device:
- Verify that your phone’s sound and vibration modes are active.
- When the ambient temperature crosses your defined limits, the app will send a push notification and, if the phone is not in silent mode, also an audible alarm.
FAQ
Can I set multiple alerts at once?
Certainly, you are able to create multiple alerts for different temperature thresholds, including alerts for both increasing and decreasing ambient temperatures.
Will the alerts work if my phone is locked?
Yes, if either Bluetooth or WiFi is turned on and notifications are turned on for your phone, alerts will be sent to your phone even if your phone is locked.
Do I need WiFi or is Bluetooth enough?
The Typhur app supports both WiFi and Bluetooth. For prolonged cooking, however, the use of WiFi is preferred as it provides better range and hence better connectivity.
Summary
Long-cooking processes, like smoking brisket, cooking turkey sous vide, or batch cooking chicken, often rely on “set and forget” methods. In the absence of vigilant supervision, a small deviation in temperature can mean the loss of an entire cook, along with all the time invested in preparation. The Typhur app makes it possible to set alerts for ambient temperatures, letting you know as soon as a threshold is crossed.
By setting up the alerts with the simple instructions above, you can prevent your food from being damaged by temperature changes. Whether you’re sous vide cooking, smoking, or BBQing, the Typhur app provides a dependable backup, keeping you updated and in control.
