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Grilling Hamburgers: A Temperature Guide
Ah, summer. The buzz of the bees, the laughter of the children running through the sprinklers, the sizzle of burgers overcooking on the grill… Wait. No. Not that! Not on your grill! As outdoor cooks, I think we all need to get serious about that staple of the grill, the hamburger. There are literally millions of…
Foil Boat Brisket
Here we are at the end of May—the month that we at ThermoWorks deem BBQ month—and I hadn’t yet cooked a brisket. How had this happened? The situation called for a remedy! Of course we always want to try new things, so we decided it was finally time to take a shot at the foil-boat…
Perfect Temp Smoked Baby Back Ribs: A Thermal Exploration
Brisket, pork butt, ribs. These are the holy trinity of BBQ, and with good reason. These collagen-rich cuts thrive in the low, smoky heat of the BBQ cooker, slowly melting into gelatin-infused, bark-encrusted savory treats. And in no other BBQ cut do you get the bark-to-meat ratio that you do with ribs: slabs of ribs, dry rubbed…
Recent Posts
5 Reasons to Love RFX for Cooking Steak
We’re super excited for the launch of our new RFX™ system, including RFX MEAT™ and RFX GATEWAY™ (available together as the RFX Starter Kit) and have already had a ton of fun working with it here at ThermoWorks HQ. Among the many things we’ve cooked with it, of course, is steak. And it works great…
Rotisserie Pork Belly: Texture Through Temperature
Ah, pork belly. We meet again. With the introduction of ThermoWorks’ RFX GATEWAY and RFX MEAT, there is finally a viable wireless probe that can be used for rotisserie cooking. OF course one of the first things we wanted to cook as soon as it became available was rotisserie pork belly. Needless to say, we…
Thermometers for Your New College Student: Setting Them Up for Success
If you’re sending a child off to college for the first time, you want to make sure they’re set up to succeed. One area that is often overlooked that will make their life just plain better is thermometry. Few college students think they need thermometers as they go off to school, but if you equip…
BBQ Basics
How to Cook BBQ Pork Butt: A Guide
Barbecue is an American tradition that people take seriously. And one of the most important and iconic barbecue dishes is tender, juicy, shredded pork butt. In this post, we want to do a thorough rundown on BBQ pork butt—a pork-butt primer, if you will. We’ll talk tools and temps, sauces and seasonings, and everything you…
Smoked Brisket: A How-To Primer
In my earlier life, I was a musician and a physicist. Music, science, and food are still my great loves in life, but that initial training has made some things in cooking more difficult. You see, in physics there is a right answer. You can do the math a few different ways, but even within those…
All About Pork Ribs, and the Thermal Path to Juicy Tenderness
If you offer me properly cooked, brisket, pulled pork, or pork ribs and said I could only have one of them, chances are good that I’d pick the ribs. There’s something so satisfying about the gentle tug it takes to pull the meat from the bone, the tactile feel of eating with your fingers, the…
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