Find some quick tips on how you can improve your home cooking, grilling, and more through these simple recommendations.
It is estimated that somewhere between 30 and 40% of the food supply in the U.S. goes to waste. This is, of course, a shame. It means that up to 40% of the hard work that farmers, ranchers, food packers, manufacturers, chefs, grocery store workers, and home cooks do is also wasted. This blog post…
How to cook a turkey? Don’t waste your time with other posts. Here’s the plain truth: The secret to perfect turkey is proper control of turkey temperature. And that’s our jam. Use whatever recipe you like—deep-fry it, smoke it, roast it, whatever. But neglect these fundamental principles at your own peril! Turkey Doneness Temperature Turkey…
Thanksgiving is one of the most food-centered days of the year, and just about the only time for a Turkey to shine. In this post, we’ll help you with one of the key principles of turkey cooking that you need to get a perfect bird this year! While you can find any number of turkey…
Here is a truth not often acknowledged: if you don’t thaw your turkey correctly, you won’t have a successful turkey cook. And while thawing methods abound, there’s only one way to be sure your turkey is thawed correctly for Thanksgiving—or any other day! Read on for the thermal tips needed to plan the thawing of your turkey…
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…
