It wants to decide what temperature to go off at, instead of letting me decide it.

This is the least useful thermometer of this sort I have yet owned. It is designed to set the temperature itself, rather than letting you set the temperature you want it to respond to--doing the latter is not impossible, but it is not easy or intuitive. You tell it what meat you are cooking — I mostly use such thermometers for baking bread, a possibility that does not seem to have occurred to the designers — and it sets the temperature. You are supposed to be able to set rare, medium, or well done but I have not yet figured out how to do that. I have now ordered a replacement of a simpler and more conventional design. The one thing I do like about it is that it comes with a spare cable, that being the part that, in my experience, most often goes bad. I much prefer the simpler version where I decide I want it to signal, instead of it deciding for me.

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