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The top of the line BBQGuru UltraQ controls the temperature of your pit, as well as being able to measure the temperature of 3 further probes inserted into food. Help is needed for your smoker or grill to have the steady, consistent temperature required for consistent cooking, because temperatures can fluctuate by 10s or even hundreds of degrees, depending on the grill and the environment. The controller can be used standalone, with all settings able to be made on the unit, and info displayed on an LED display. It supports one pit probe, and up to 3 food probes natively though this can be expanded. Keep probes clean. Dirt can have an insulating effect and cause lower-than-true readings. This leads to the grill being too hot and your food is more likely to become overcooked.
If your vents are all but closed, and the controller cannot control temp, it’s usually that your smoker isn’t sealed correctly though and is not a fault of the temperature controller. It plugs into an outlet and monitors the pit temperature, as well as a single probe for monitoring meat temperature, too.The Flame Boss 400 is their mid-range offering, consisting solely of a fan that you connect to your smoker, and ot which you MUST connect to over Wi-Fi. There is no controller for making setting changes or seeing data on your cook, you simply MUST use the smartphone app with the 400. The green LED screen is just the right size for displaying 4 lines of information, and limited to just the vital information you need to know. Push buttons are easy to move through the menu and adjust settings. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the stable temperature control of an indoor oven outdoors in your smoker? Well, you can. Some users have complained that the temperature runs away and way over the setting, despite following instructions.
Besides being connected to the probes, the ATC is also connected to or has an inbuilt variable speed fan that is firmly fixed to a bottom vent, to control the amount of air that can flow into the BBQ or smoker. More on the solidly stable stand; it also allows it to be mounted by 4 screw holes, added for attaching it to a surface for permanency if desired. And so many things can change the temperature: Diminishing charcoal, external air temperature, quality of smoker (e.g., does it leak?), or trouble figuring out the air vent settings. The joy of smoking can go horribly wrong if the temperature isn’t consistent throughout the smoking process. BBQ Guru has many useful products which aren’t related to temperature management, FlameBoss’ tunnel vision is only on making superior ATCsThe Flame Boss 500 fits a wide variety of drum, barrel, cabinet and offset style charcoal smokers and grills, and is ideal for low-and-slow cooking. Small variations of 2-3 degrees above or below the set temperature can be expected but are not a problem. The Flame Boss 500 is their flagship model. it is a Wi-Fi capable temperature controller, allowing management from a distance over any network.
Each temperature probe is made of industrial-grade platinum and are rated to work in temperatures up to 475 The BBQGuru DigiQ DX3 looks entirely different to the previously mentioned 2 models, it being from a previous generation of BBQGuru products.About its business’ is our first impression of this controller, though it does sleeker and more ‘designed’ than its predecessor the flame boss 300. The BBQGuru DynaQ is a stripped down version of the UltraQ, and looks similar at first appearances. Flame Boss and BBQ Guru were created by engineers, so right off the bat, there’s some assurance of products built to do what they do, incredibly well. We’ll cover the origin, workings, and benefits of an ATC. Then we’ll follow with a product review of these 4 top models from the top 2 manufacturers: Both BBQ Guru and Flame Boss have a number of slightly different products in their ranges, with varying feature sets and of course at different price points.
It supports one pit probe, and one food probe, has the same online dashboard for graphs and history of your cooks, and alarms and alerts like its larger cousin, the 500. The fan speed will vary in response to the temperatures, fanning the flames higher or starving them lower, so the temperature remains consistent and food is not over— or undercooked.Some ATCs are very basic, others are capable of being their own network. These super-tech ATCs enable really remote monitoring. It is also Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled, and can be monitored and controlled via a well designed and feature rich smartphone app, available for both Android and iOS. BBQ Guru the company also carries a line of smokers and grills with related accessories, BBQ sauce, rubs, and injections, and tools, knives, apparel, smoke wood, and thermometers. But specific to the automatic temperature controllers they can supply:
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