That's the part nobody wants to hear, that a gadget can actually make you cook worse. You had good instincts and the app talked you out of them, which is the real problem. A probe clipped to the grate tells you the truth about the pit, and a dial in the meat tells you the truth about the meat, and neither one has an opinion or a firmware update. The wireless stuff is handy for a long overnight cook where you want to sleep, I won't argue that. But handy and accurate are two different things, and you just learned that the hard way on a $60 piece of beef. Trust your gut next time, because it was right the whole time.

50 psi was my magic number for like two years, I just kept topping off to whatever felt hard enough with my thumb. Then my buddy Dave squeezed my rear tire in a parking lot and goes "dude this is soft as hell" and handed me his gauge. I was at 45 on a tire that wanted 65. I used to figure pressure was just one of those things that did not really matter much, you know, close enough. Riding it pumped up right changed my whole ride and made me feel like a dummy at the same time. Now the gauge lives in my bag and I check it every Sunday whether the tire looks fine or not.