An intelligent meat thermometer with the possibility of performing temperature measurements at three or more points in the meat, where at least one is measured on the far side of the center of the meat opposite the point of insertion, so that the center is between two points of measurement after insertion, so that the center temperature can be estimated, the meat thermometer, furthermore, being designed to be cheap to manufacture, and it can include an external unit for doing calculations, possibly via wireless connection, on received measurement data, and displaying of these calculations, and setting of parameters for use with the calculations.