Be Happier in 2026! 5 Ways ThermoWorks Can Help
The old year is behind us now, and the new one has just begun. It’s time to put the holiday decorations away and hang a new calendar on the wall. Many people take this time of symbolic renewal as an opportunity to take stock of their lives. What are you resolved to do in the New Year? How will you improve your life and the lives of those close to you?
You might not yet think of ThermoWorks as the greatest engine of change in your life, but food and the act of eating are actually central to your quality of life. So, we would like to humbly suggest five ways temperature control in the kitchen can impact your life for good! To wit: save money, eat healthier food, improve your kitchen skills, have more fun cooking, and deepen the relationships in your life through good food at home.
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#1: Save Money
Save money? “How,” you ask with justifiable credulity, “is buying a $115 Thermometer going to save me money?” With the rising price of red meat, it’s easy. Let’s look at the math. Take two people out for a reasonably priced steak dinner (we’re not talking black tie here), you’re probably going to drop at least $70. Make a steak dinner for two at home, you could get that dinner easily below $40, and if you shop around or find a good price on steaks at your friendly neighborhood butcher, you could probably get it under $30. Do that four times, and you’ve basically bought yourself a Thermapen ONE. Cook a couple more steak dinners, and skip a really nice splurge dinner out in favor of home-cooked, and you’ve saved up the money for an RFX Wireless Thermometer Starter Kit.
After you’ve saved that money, keep cooking real food and just watch the money pile up in your bank account. Cooking at home from scratch is cheaper than eating out—and don’t even get us started on the cost of food delivery services and their crazy fees!—and we’re here to help you do it right.
And a good thermometer helps you save money on the meat you buy. Are you going to trust a $200 prime rib to internet-recipe instructions without a thermometer? No way. Protect the investment in your meal with accurate thermometry.
#2: Eat Healthier
Fitness and exercise are important, but nothing has more of an impact on your health than what you eat. So, eat healthier food in 2026 by eating out less.
Some restaurants make good food from scratch that is as healthful as anything you’re likely to make at home, but that is the minority of restaurants. If you want to be healthy and feel great this year, cook food at home from actual ingredients, not from boxes. A fast and accurate food thermometer can give you the confidence you need to cook at home and make food tasty enough to forego the restaurants. Eat real food cooked at home for a month and see how much better you feel!
Give our Cedar Plank Salmon a try, or maybe a healthy-but-super-delicious seared tuna steak, and you’ll find yourself feeling great and not missing restaurant food in the least.
Food safety concerns
Then, of course, there’s the issue of food safety. How many of us have eaten out and gotten sick? All of us, that’s how many.
Cooking with temperature control at home helps assure safe food. If nothing else, using your Thermapen® ONE will make you much less likely to get sick from the things people pick up at restaurants: Norovirus, Rotavirus and the baddies Salmonella and E. coli, which land more than 128,000 people a year in the hospital (and that’s not counting those that don’t go to the hospital). Make this year a year without any food poisoning by cooking your own food and paying attention to food-safe temperatures.
#3: Improve Your Kitchen Skills
We all know someone famous for a dish they make. This year, become that guy.
Get satisfaction from building your kitchen skillset in the new year with predictable, reproducible results. Remember that one time you made the roast chicken and everyone went mad for it? And you were thrilled because even the kids liked it, and you were proud and happy? But the next time it just didn’t work? We’ve all been there. Chances are you hit a temperature nail right on the thermal head, but you didn’t know it or record it.
With ThermoWorks products, successes become repeatable. Take the chicken out of the oven, write down the pull temp. Then watch the max-temp reading on your ChefAlarm or in the ThermoWorks App attached to your Signals to know how much carryover cooking there was. Next time you cook a chicken, adjust your pull temp based on data, not just intuition. Eventually, you’ll be getting everything perfect, all the time.
Professional grill cooks in steakhouses may have a good gut feeling for when a steak is done right, but they’ve cooked thousands of steaks. You need a thermometer for reproducible results, and the better the accuracy, the better the results. You’ll have a sense of accomplishment that no one can take away from you.
#4: Have More Fun in the Kitchen
We have long said that knowledge is the key to success in the kitchen and that our products can give you the knowledge you need to succeed. There is nothing like the feeling of biting into your first-ever smoked ribs, or your first brioche or Cubano sandwich and having it taste delicious because you were careful about temperature. After all, cooking is just the application of heat to food. A good recipe that tells you exactly how much heat to apply, combined with a thermometer fast and accurate enough to tell you when your food is ready, is the key that makes any kitchen project possible. You really can nail it on the first try if you carefully track your internal temperatures.
So, have more fun in the kitchen in 2018 by trying bigger, more challenging things. Have you ever cooked restaurant-quality seared halibut? Prime rib? Baby back ribs? Baked any fresh sourdough bread? Made your own caramels? Whatever the big kitchen project that you have always wanted to try, you can do it! And ThermoWorks can help. Good thermometers = more thermal control; more thermal control = more confidence and fun in the kitchen.
#5: Deepen Your Relationships
The bond of eating together is expressed in many cultures. Thai people greet each other by asking, “Have you eaten rice yet?” And Russians who are old friends say of each other that they’ve “eaten a pound of salt together.” Eating together is the very root and foundation of human society, going back to people sharing meat around a common fire.
So, don’t just go to movies and look at a screen with your friends in 2026. Have them over for dinner and conversation! Few are the pleasures of modern society that outshine having a group of close companions (from Latin com- “together with” + panis “bread”) at your own home to eat delicious food you have prepared for them, and few are the friendships that cannot be strengthened by the same. If you want to get closer to your friends, cook them a meal they’ll remember for the whole year, and get it right with a ThermoWorks thermometer.
So, there you have it. Just a few of the ways we think using quality thermometers could make life better for you and the people close to you. Here at ThermoWorks, we are committed to providing you with the products and expertise you need to be successful in the kitchen and out on the patio. Because good home-cooked food really can make you happier all year long. Happy cooking!
