Working good so far. Invaluable kitchen item. Worth every dollar. but I hope it can come down in price someday. they seem to be the only ones that make a reliable pan temp reader.

Great for Stainless Steel cookware.

I am switching over to stainless steel cook ware from old non-stick stuff, and find that I need to know temperatures of the pan surface for certain foods. The Pro-surface thermapen is the only game in town that I found can do this. The infrared thermometers are great for many things, but they cannot properly read stainless steel due to the reflectivity of the pan surface. Fortunately the pro-surface thermapen works great on stainless steel.

Worth the extra $$

I have an IR thermometer gun. Metals like stainless throw it off due to mirror like reflectivity. This works on contact every time on every material. It works fast & has Thermoworks famous accuracy. My only complaint is my kitchen's lighting makes it hard to read without a 🔦.