Flame Boss

Bought this a few years ago. It’s ok. It works. However the main reason I bought it was for cloud functionality. So what good is it if you can’t connect to the cloud during holidays and other critical times. I made do and used it manually but I could have just used a simple thermometer for that too. Cloud functionality isn’t a new technology. They need to do better. I suspect this is more of a financial problem on their end.

Don’t waste your time.

I have owned a Flame Boss more than 5 years and the device itself works very well and does what you would expect. The servers that power the app on your device are not good. If you use your flame boss on most any normal day of the week it works just fine. When are there issues you may ask? Most any holiday like 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas to name a few. It is SUPER irritating to have this issue consistently every holiday and it has been that way ever since I bought the device, this has been an issue for MANY years. Even though I recently had to replace the fan and bought additional probes I think I’m done.

Flame Boss must have needed more sales because they took away the ability to monitor cooks via the app for the 200. This is so disappointing. I appreciate the token discount on an upgrade, but how can I trust that in a few years I don’t get squeezed again for another upgrade.

Still love it even thought mine is about 10 years old. Still works. Sometimes there’s hiccups with the app but it’s rare and my Humphreys smoker still works great without it. Maybe one day I’ll purchase a new and approved one but can’t seem to justify spending the money when my old one still works great. I’m just glad that they continue to allow the app to work with older models.

I have a background making things and i had an idea for making a smoker controller. No need! This works perfectly. Works better than anything i would have made. I don’t feel a need to share my cooks, but being able to access the cook while away from the house is awesome. Having a warming temp after meat temp achieved is great! Lid open/closed detection without a specific extra sensor??? Wow! Seriously. Great job Wants: one or two extra meat probes and then control around the coldest one Or Bluetooth connection to another meat probe unit Adaptors for different grills. I 3d printed one for mine. Also “no data collected”?!? Swooooooooooon

System is slow to respond. Don’t dare open the grill because the fan will shut off thinking the grill is open 10 minutes after you’ve closed it. Temp drops 100° fan still doesn’t respond. Wish I could override the app and control it manually.

This app works very well. Just wish there was a way to pause the cook in the app.

I used the flame boss to smoke two 8 lb pork shoulders this weekend. This was the second time using it. The first time did not go so well. I needed customer service because it was not working. They were the best. Very helpful and explained what was going on. Turned out, the unit was doing an update through the wi-fi. They stayed in the phone to make sure the unit performed correctly. I was quite impressed at how well it worked. Target temp was 225 and the temp of the smoker was never more then 2 degrees higher or lower then target temp. After about 8 hours of that, I decided to change the temp to 250. I was at the community pool, about a mile away, when I did it. The flame boss had the Weber Smokey Mountain At 250 in less than 3 minutes. Between the flame boss’s performance, and the customer service last month, I have to say, getting the Flame Boss 400 was a great addition to my smoker and this app worked smoothly.

Thank you to Flameboss for hearing our feedback and removing the advertisements! I was genuinely getting concerned that things were going in the wrong direction. I am thrilled to see that you have made an amazing decision! As a longtime user of just about every iteration of the flameboss products, I have witnessed the growth and development of flameboss personally. Flameboss on my BGE has by far been the absolute best solution. Flawless everytime! *I have also gifted many of these units as well and I still get Thanx and kudos from all of the recipients. The Flameboss App is always rock solid. The only problem that I have ever had with the app, were this blasted advertisements. (Aside from the thanksgiving overload many years ago lol. That’s a thing of the past, so no need to even sweat that!) Again Thank You FB for stepping up on this add mess. Bravo!