Today on the ThermoWorks blog we’re honored to host Cameron Treu, owner of Bam Bam’s BBQ in Orem, Utah and competitive pitmaster. We love eating anything from his restaurant and he loves using our thermometers, so we thought we’d have a chat with him and let you in on some of his secrets. For this…
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…
You’ve worked and sweated all day at the stove making a perfect chicken soup for the coming weekend. But after all that work, will your soup be safe to eat tomorrow? It doesn’t occur to most home cooks that once their food is cooked, the battle against foodborne illness is only half fought. Most of…
Don’t you mean pulled pork? No, I don’t. Brisket is glorious. Hotlinks a treasure. And pulled pork is welcome on my plate any day, if you don’t have some dry-rubbed spare ribs on hand. But If there is a problem with the juicy, smoky, delicious world of barbecued meats it is that the choices can…
Tri tip is a steak-like cut with very little connective tissue, and that means it should be cooked to the same doneness as a steak would be: 130°–135°F (54–57°C) for medium-rare or 135°–145°F (57–63°C) for medium. The temperature to cook the tri tip at is kind of up to you. We prefer cooking it slowly at 220°F (104°C) and then reverse…
Tri tip is a juicy, tender cut of meat…as long as you don’t overcook it and you cut it the right way! Cutting it the right way means slicing it against the grain. The grain of a tri tip runs radially from the corner opposite the crook in the meat. This means that cutting the piece in…
