Whether you’re baking, oven-roasting, smoking, or frying, we’ve got the correct temperature tips to help you find success in cooking chicken.
Authenticity is not actually the greatest good in cooking. In fact, it is inauthenticity that breeds innovation and variation in the culinary landscape, and it has done great things. For instance: almost none of the “Chinese” food that what we eat in America is authentically Chinese. The chimichanga is not authentically Mexican, nor is the…
Well, it happened. The calendar flipped. The holidays are now history, and with them the season of indulgent eating, entertaining, and sinks full of dishes. It’s January again, time to pare down and get organized. Time to start eating healthier—still delicious but healthier. It’s baked chicken breast time. If that sounds about right to you,…
Do you love fried chicken? Of course you do—it’s an almost objectively tasty dish: crispy, spicy breading surrounding juicy, tender chicken. Yum. And how do you feel about waffles? Toasty, crispy-fluffy with a hint of sweetness in the batter—also delicious, right? Why not put them together! Chicken and waffles is a classic American food in…
Have you heard of the turducken? The turkey-stuffed-with-duck-stuffed-with-chicken? This chimera of meat waded out of the Louisiana bayous sometime in the 1980s and has been seen terrorizing Thanksgiving tables ever since. Why do I say ‘terrorizing’? Because the turducken is a thermo-logistical nightmare. Think about it: you create a giant sphere of meat that must…
People go crazy for grilled chicken—and why shouldn’t they? It’s delicious—that crispy skin, that juicy, savory meat. Of course, people often grill individual parts of the chicken separately, but why not grill the whole thing? In this article, we’ll discuss the whys and hows of grilling a whole chicken so you can get delicious, crispy-skinned…
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…