I love to cook. My ideal vacation isn’t a trip to the beach or trek to a national park. I spend my off time with my butcher or fishmonger asking for strange cuts of meat or exotic sea creatures before roasting, smoking and curing them in my kitchen or backyard.

Consequently, I’ve collected a sizable number of kitchen implements over the years, and among the tools in my drawers is every kind of cooking thermometer you can imagine: instant-read stick thermometers to meat probes that connect to my phone via Bluetooth. So when Supermechanical released its new Range iOS cooking thermometers that claimed to be able to replace the various gauges and probes in my drawers, I welcomed the opportunity to test them out.

The Range Aqua in blue and Ember in red. Source: Supermechanical

After a battery of tests on its Ember and Aqua thermometers, I’m not tossing out…