Grilling Science

  There’s no shortage of hotly-debated subjects amongst home cooks and grill fanatics alike. Amongst these subjects is the idea of brining your meat. For the unindoctrinated, brining refers to letting a protein sit in a saltwater solution for a predetermined amount of time, before cooking. Some folks will never...

    There’s no shortage of hotly-debated subjects amongst home cooks and grill fanatics alike. Amongst these subjects is the idea of brining your meat. For the unindoctrinated, brining refers to letting a protein sit in a saltwater solution for a predetermined amount of time, before cooking. Some folks will...

  In the wide world of steak-cookery, there’s no short supply of tips, tricks, and “hacks” to give you a better steak. While we do want to avoid the term “fake news”, there’s no denying some of these oft-repeated steak-cooking mantras are exactly that. Today, we are going to look...

  As usual with these sorts of questions, the answer in short is: science!   But, you probably came here for something a little more helpful than that. Today, we’re gonna jump into the scientific reasons behind the visual changes in cooked protein.   If someone listed off the changes...

We’ve gone through the basics of smoking before. But today, we’re going to go a little more in-depth. In the world of barbecue, the ‘smoke ring’ is considered the hallmark of a job well-done. For the unindoctrinated, the ‘smoke ring’ is what Pit Masters call the small layer of pink underneath...