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Don’t we have some better high temp electronics now? I have a Bluetooth meat thermometer that works up to like 600F.

In the one that I'm familiar with, they put the battery and all electronics in the part of the probe that sticks inside the meat so that the temperature of that part never exceeds ~212F. The part that sticks out and gets really hot is probably just an antenna.

A clever design to be sure, but still a long way from electronics that can survive anything near your typical oven temperature, much less the surface of Venus.

Indeed. As a corollary of this design, trying to use the tip of such a thermometer to gauge frying oil temperature will kill it pretty much instantly.

I use a Thermopen almost daily to check fry temperatures. I don't go above 400º F however.

ThermApens go way higher (500+) but they don't have batteries or wireless electronics in the probe. The discussion is regarding wireless temperature probes.

what I’m getting from this is that we need to send our space probe to venus encapsulated inside a steak :)

We do! https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/venus-computer-chip/

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