MEATER Pro Duo - MEATER

I've always considered the "traditional" meat thermometer-the one you have to stick in and squint at while getting a face full of steam-to be a bit of a faff. The MEATER Pro Duo is our Wildcard today because it's essentially a piece of NASA-grade surveillance for your Sunday roast. It is for the person who wants to sit in the garden with a cold drink while their phone tells them exactly when the beef has reached medium-rare perfection.

It's the Wildcard because it feels deeply unnecessary to have a WiFi-connected probe inside a chicken, and yet, once you've used it, you feel like a caveman for ever having guessed. I've spent the afternoon monitoring the internal temperature of a shoulder of pork from the pub down the road, which is a level of domestic detachment I find profoundly satisfying.

The "Pro Duo" version gives you two probes, meaning you can satisfy both the "I like it pink" and the "burn it to a crisp" factions of your family simultaneously. It is the ultimate tool for the tech-savvy host who refuses to be chained to the oven like some sort of culinary martyr. It's expensive, over-engineered, and I absolutely love it for making me feel like a master chef without doing any of the actual thinking.