Cooking fish or a thin steak comes with an unwritten rule: whoever starts it stays with it. The kitchen timer helped a little, though it never once knew what was going on inside the fillet.
The MeatStick Chef X takes over the supervising. Its narrow stick is sized for smaller cuts such as filet mignon, salmon steaks, and chicken breasts, with three sensors reading the meat and a fourth keeping track of the surrounding heat. The Chef X Charger carries the signal up to 650 feet outdoors and about 164 feet indoors, so you can water the tomatoes, fetch the mail, or finish the crossword in the den while the app on your phone keeps you current.
Between meals the stick rests in its charger, good for more than 18 hours of cooking per charge, and it’s safe for the dishwasher, the deep fryer, and sous vide. Dinner still deserves your attention; it just no longer insists on all of it.
