Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
My Thermapen Mk4 is one of the best kitchen purchases I&#x27;ve made, and that&#x27;s quite a statement considering my spend on kitchen gadgets, tools, etc.  People buying knockoffs or trying to go with lesser options are the perfect example of being &quot;penny wise and pound foolish&quot;.  For $65 shipped on sale, it was well worth the cost, and absolutely is world&#x27;s better than any of the lesser options I tried before.  Getting a rib roast just right, making candy, and doing BBQ are all areas where it&#x27;s excelled and I&#x27;ve struggled with prior options.<p>One thing I&#x27;ve learned across all my many hobbies and in my professional life is that it&#x27;s always worth the money to buy quality tools.  They last longer, work better, and reduce the likelihood of error and failure in your work.  There&#x27;s a reason I don&#x27;t buy junk, and I thought I could get away with it at first with cooking and learned the hard way not to.  Now I have a Thermapen Mk4 along with other proper cooking tools, and it&#x27;s massively upped my game and simplified the task of pulling off complex recipes.