The Custom Cook Setup feature allows users to personalize grilling by selecting meat type, cut, and desired doneness, using USDA guidelines to set safe internal temperatures. It supports manual or preset probe goals, multiple probes, and includes easy setup, adjustment, and cancellation options through the Traeger App.
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What is a Custom Cook Setup
Our app now features a Custom Cook Setup, which works with our wired or wireless meat probes. This setup helps you select the perfect cooking temperature for your meat, using USDA standards to ensure safe cooking. Just choose the type of meat and the specific cut, and the app will set the internal temperature goal for you.
The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has established specific guidelines to ensure meat is cooked safely and thoroughly to prevent foodborne illnesses. These standards help ensure that meat is safe to eat by killing harmful bacteria.
Custom Cook Setup Features
Manual or preset probe goal options
Choice of protein, cut, and level of doneness
Use of multiple probes with individual custom cook setup
How to Setup a Custom Probe Goal
Easy probe goal setup instructions to make a preset or manually setup custom cook.
Manually Setting a Probe Goal
Cook it YOUR way. Manually adjust the temperature to your preferred level of doneness. This option will work well for expert grillers that have a known set temp in their personal recipes, and they want to keep it consistent.
- Open the Traeger App.
- If you haven't installed it yet, see How to Download the Traeger App.
- Go to the section for wired & wireless probes.
- Plug wired probe or connect wireless probe.
- Select the manual option.
- Name your cook/protein and select desired temp.
- Select COOK.
- Before the cook starts, there will be a pop-up with a guide for proper probe placement.
- You can choose to remove this pop-up for future cooks.
- You can choose to remove this pop-up for future cooks.
- Custom cook begins.
Setting up Preset Probe Goal
- Open the Traeger App.
- If you haven't installed it yet, see How to Download the Traeger App.
- Go to the section for wired & wireless probes.
- Plug wired probe or connect wireless probe.
- Select the protein being cooked.
- *There are also popular cooks already set up that you can choose from (narrowed down to the cut of meat).
- Choose the cut of meat and your preferred level of doneness.
- Select COOK.
- Before the cook starts, there will be a pop-up with a guide for proper probe placement.
- You can choose to remove this pop-up for future cooks.
- You can choose to remove this pop-up for future cooks.
- Custom cook begins.
Cooking with Multiple Probe Goals
There is no limit to the amount of probe goal slots.
- Follow the same setup steps for each probe.
- To view different probe goals, scroll through the section for wired & wireless probes.
- To view all probe goals at once, press the probe module on the app.
Cancelling a Cook Setup
If the incorrect type of protein was selected or you simply change your mind, the cook setup can be canceled.
- Go to the section for wired & wireless probes.
- Select END COOK
- This cancels the probe goal but keeps the grill ignited, which is useful when cooking multiple items.
- This cancels the probe goal but keeps the grill ignited, which is useful when cooking multiple items.