Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Probes are the weak link

As many others have stated, the probes are the weak link for this thermometer. When it works, it works well, but too often the probes fail, for no apparent reason, and that can be a pain. I've owned this unit going on 3 years and I have gone through 5 probes. I'm tired of replacing them and will be buying another thermometer from a different manufacturer. It's most aggravating because, knowing how glitch prone the probes can be, I take great care to baby them, not submerse them, and never kink the cable when they are stored. Still, they fail over and over again.