Steak Locker Dry Age Fridge

This product is complete garbage. I've had two of them and they both have stopped working. Luckily the extended warranty I bought reimbursed me for the hard earned money I paid for it. Nadia and Claus are the worst to deal with. Claus made promises of sending someone out to fix mine multiple times and it never happened. He finally stopped responding to inquiries. Nadia said it couldn't be repaired just wanted to give me 20% off a new one. Why would I want a third one that is just going to stop working in a year or two? Do yourself a favor and keep your money. This is a very small company with no real development team. The Android app hasn't been updated in years despite repeated promises. Stay away from anything this company does.

I love dry aged beef and have consumed more than my share. I always liked the idea of doing it myself but did not want to convert a regular refrigerator to that purpose. I researched three brands and settled on the Steak Locker. This unit provides the proper refrigeration and humidity and includes a UV light system to prevent bacterial contamination. It also has a cool blue light that looks good in the dark. All you have to do is plug it in and load it up. The meat stays dry, and there is no odor from the unit. The longer you age it (my first batch just turned 32 days old) the more beefy the meat smells and tastes. The unit will hold at least three 7 bone prime rib roasts and four boneless rib roasts. You can literally cut off a single steak for dinner and put the remaining large piece back for more aging. Highly recommended.

It seems to hold temp and humidity well but I only know that because I bought a $99 Level Sense Freezer Alarm and installed it. The WiFi module it comes with never worked. There’s a power connection in the freezer, but the box has the wrong connector. They say it has a battery but when I unplug it from the charger it immediately stops working even when I tried to connect while it was plugged in, it wouldn’t work. I emailed support and asked them to send me a new one and they said I must pay to ship them the WiFi unit and they will fix it and send it back. Why do I have to pay because they sent me a defective unit?Also it leaks water if the humidity and temp are higher than the room it is in. So make sure you put in a drip tray.I have none of these problems with my Dry Ager, which is probably why it cost twice as much as this leaky one.

It's a nice unit. Minimal assembly (just screw in the handle).Setup instructions are a bit vague -- I had to look at youtube video for basic things; but then I'm a first-timer.Don't confuse the fridge light with the UV light -- and make sure to enable the UV light, which then only turns on after you close the door.The temp, humidity, and UV light controls are very simple and intuitive.The only problem is that (as others have noted e.g. on youtube) the temp is a bit unreliable. The true temp (according to a fridge thermometer) is 2-3 degrees F higher than set/indicated by the unit. And the unit's own temp indication varies by a couple degrees sometimes, even when the door has not been opened.

I have been using it for a few years. The early model has the leak problem and that would result the alarm to went off very often, even in middle of the night.I asked for the support almost every year, all I get was to run a few resets which could not solve the problem at all. Eventually I got the technician on the phone, and he was asking me to run tests again and text him whatever I find out. At the end of the call he told me the hardwares are unlikely to fail. I ran the tests and send him back the results but I will never get the response back.I really tired of dealing with the alarm, the water leaking, and I don’t even want to deal with the support again. Now this piece is ready to go to the trash.

The down side: there is a lot to learn about aging steak and the steak ager can’t teach you everything (obviously) but you’re ready for that if you like aged steaks. If you take the time to learn how to use this it will help you make the best aged steaks you have ever tasted. Personally, I needed to learn how often to pull the water out of the reservoir and then it was easy.Cons: no signal or alarm when the water reservoir is full. The app needs a huge update it’s worthless, like not worth using at all. The sensor that reads humidity and temp needs to be part of the original software and communicate directly to a phone over wifi. Overall great steak ager it just needs some software tweaks.

I pluged in my unit for 24 hours before using it and the temp stayed 35* and 75% humidity. I put in 2 prime ribs and 2 coloutte muscles. The temp went to 75* and 75% humd. I cant seem to get any one to answer their phone. M Lisenby

WiFi monitoring/management was a significant selling point for me on appliance. Turns out the Android app (Galaxy S10) doesn't work at all, and looking at the Google Play reviews, it's been abandoned. Extremely disappointing. If you're an Android user and you care about remote monitoring/management look elsewhere.