This grill fork has a thermometer built right into it. Isn’t that ingenious? It’s as easy to use as a prison shiv—you just jab the copper-tipped tine into whatever kind of flesh-slab you’re cooking. In three seconds, you’ll see a temperature reading on an easy-to-read, backlit LCD in the handle of the fork. Neato mesquite-o!

The idea here is that you’ll know exactly when and to what degree your chicken, beef, pork or fish is done cooking—helping you avoid a repeat of last summer’s mad cow fiasco, an episode your family now calls “the BSE BBQ.”

But hear us now and understand us later: Just because we’re selling this handy, useful meat-pronger doesn’t mean we’re assuming any responsibility for the safety of your cookouts. After all, we don’t know what kind of fast-and-loose food handling standards you use at home. And for all we know, you could use this thing wrong, sticking it into the bone, or into a fat pocket, and get a false reading, and come down with botulism, or salmonella, or e. coli, or staph, or “the squirts.” You have to be careful, see?

The Sharper Image heat-reading meat-sticker is rainproof, so you won’t wreck it when you inevitably forget it outside in a shower. (The neighborhood raccoons might wreck it, though, so you’re better off bringing it in.) It is not, however, dishwasher safe.

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