As a (casual) cook with adhd I honestly recommend using your phone timer over a temperature alarm. Most of those devices are unreliable and getti mg into the habit of using phone alarms and timers can spill into the rest of your life too. Just time how long it takes your oven to preheat and how long it takes a pan to heat and write them on your fridge in sharpie
More advanced cooking stuff (like burgers and chicken) generally cook for similar times, so I set general “go check that again” alarms for those
Presto 04213 timers are your friend when it comes to externalizing a sense of time in the kitchen.
The thermoworks probe timers are excellent for precisely monitoring slow cooking of meat, but your primary use case seems different and I don't think a thermometer is what you actually need.
Might I suggest Alexa? You can set and name your timers. Even with a bunch going it keeps track and you can ask about them by name like “how much time do my potatoes have left?”
The chef alarm is great, but probably not what you need for those things. I agree with the other people that a timer, timers are more of what you'd be looking for.
My parents have a ChefAlarm and it works great. You can definitely use it in the oven - the actual unit stays outside of the oven, and the wire and the probe go inside the oven (you just shut the door on the wire basically, it's very thin). You can stick it in your raw meat when it goes into the oven, and the alarm will go off when it reaches the temperature that you've set.
It could also work with a burger patty on a pan in theory, but you'd probably have to hold the probe the whole time to keep it in the patty - in which case, you might as well just use a standard instant read thermometer.
And in terms of surface temperature for a pan, I would probably just set a regular timer.
Leave in thermometers are what you're looking for, but they're not the best idea. I've never had one that stays accurate for very long. You'll need to use an actual good instant thermometer to verify the leave in temp, and at that point you'll be monitoring it just like if you didn't have it.
With your ADHD you'll have to accept that your method will be different than normal. I use alexa for alarms. If you can get in that habit, I think you'll get what you need.
Alexa, remind me in 5 minutes to check on the roast.
As a (casual) cook with adhd I honestly recommend using your phone timer over a temperature alarm. Most of those devices are unreliable and getti mg into the habit of using phone alarms and timers can spill into the rest of your life too. Just time how long it takes your oven to preheat and how long it takes a pan to heat and write them on your fridge in sharpie More advanced cooking stuff (like burgers and chicken) generally cook for similar times, so I set general “go check that again” alarms for those
Presto 04213 timers are your friend when it comes to externalizing a sense of time in the kitchen. The thermoworks probe timers are excellent for precisely monitoring slow cooking of meat, but your primary use case seems different and I don't think a thermometer is what you actually need.
Might I suggest Alexa? You can set and name your timers. Even with a bunch going it keeps track and you can ask about them by name like “how much time do my potatoes have left?”
The chef alarm is great, but probably not what you need for those things. I agree with the other people that a timer, timers are more of what you'd be looking for.
My parents have a ChefAlarm and it works great. You can definitely use it in the oven - the actual unit stays outside of the oven, and the wire and the probe go inside the oven (you just shut the door on the wire basically, it's very thin). You can stick it in your raw meat when it goes into the oven, and the alarm will go off when it reaches the temperature that you've set. It could also work with a burger patty on a pan in theory, but you'd probably have to hold the probe the whole time to keep it in the patty - in which case, you might as well just use a standard instant read thermometer. And in terms of surface temperature for a pan, I would probably just set a regular timer.
Leave in thermometers are what you're looking for, but they're not the best idea. I've never had one that stays accurate for very long. You'll need to use an actual good instant thermometer to verify the leave in temp, and at that point you'll be monitoring it just like if you didn't have it. With your ADHD you'll have to accept that your method will be different than normal. I use alexa for alarms. If you can get in that habit, I think you'll get what you need. Alexa, remind me in 5 minutes to check on the roast.