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Duwop wrote:
> On Oct 9, 8:25 pm, RegForte > wrote:
>> Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:38:47 -0700, "Nonny" > wrote:
>>>> http://woot.com/
>>>> If you're not familiar with Woot, it's a commercial retail website
>>>> that features a single item per day, and sells at a price plus $5
>>>> shipping. When they're sold out of an item, it's over and done
>>>> for the day.
>>>> Today, their item is a wireless cooking thermometer, selling for
>>>> $13 plus $5 shipping. I thought that if you're looking to stock
>>>> up on them, that this isn't a bad price.
>>> Thank you for this. I zipped over to woot.com immediately upon
>>> reading your posting and scored three of them. I'd heard of woot, but
>>> had never visited the site. Now I've got them bookmarked.
>>> Mary "My e-friends on usenet lead me into temptation."

>> Hey Mary, can you give us a performance report after you
>> use it? I'm curious about overall reliability and range.
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>> Thanks!
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> What do you use it for now? I found one awful handy when I first
> started, but once I got a sense of things, havent' fealt much of as
> need, they come in handy on the odd thing like a turkey or roast of
> course.
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Crap - I check woot daily and didn't yesterday... (*#&@* oh well...

Use? I use it pretty much anytime I'm roasting/smoking something large.
Makes it a no brainer to determine degree of doneness and gain
consistency in the final outcome.