smoked tri tip roast
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Tri-Tip Roast on the BBQ

There’s a good chance that many of you have never heard of Tri-Tip. (The cut of beef from the bottom sirloin, so-named because of it’s triangular shape.) This savory, meaty morsel tips the scales at 1.5 to 2.5 pounds and is a specialty in the wide open spaces of the West.

Beef tenderloin sliced on a board
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How To Cook Beef Tenderloin on a Smoker

For a meal that is celebratory, you just can’t beat tenderloin. Its tenderness and luxuriousness practically scream important dinner, and its cost backs that claim up. Most people don’t just toss a tenderloin in the oven because—I don’t know?—it’s Wednesday. This is meat for special occasions. And the great thing about tenderloin is that it…

Sous vide steak
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Sous Vide Steak with a Chill and a Sear

Once confined to the kitchens of modernist restaurants, sous vide circulators have lately become increasingly popular among regular home cooks. Small, powerful circulators like the ChefSteps Joule make water-bath cooking accessible and easy. In particular, cooking a steak sous vide is an easy, sure-fire way to get your steak cooked to just the right temperature. But…

Thermapen Mk4 instant-read thermometer

Do I Really Need a Thermometer?

As you peruse your cookbook collection or the web looking for recipes or advice on cooking, you may often come across instructions like “cook your chicken until the internal temperature is 165°F,” or “fry the fish in oil preheated to 375°F.” And you might say to yourself “I’ve been doing pretty good work in the…