Cooking anything perfectly, but especially meat, can often seem like it requires some alchemical blend of art, science, and magic. There are ways that — with some experience — you can start to get a ...

Chef using a thermometer to check meat on a grill - Aj_watt/Getty Cooking meat correctly boils down to one simple task: knowing how to use a meat thermometer. Although it's a fairly simple process, it ...

We’ve ranted and raved for years about the benefits of an instant-read thermometer and how using one can help you be a more confident home cook. It’s useful for baked goods, deep frying, custards, ...

When you think of all the money and effort it takes to turn out a perfectly grilled steak, braised pork tenderloin, or a moist, tender turkey, it’s surprising that intuition often trumps a reliable ...

Come Thanksgiving, cooks tend to go rummaging in the drawer to dig out the food thermometer; it may be the day we feel most compelled to deploy the slender little probe to keep the killer microbes at ...

Adulting is hard. It's even harder when you realize that you feel feverish, that you need to take your temperature, and that, whoops, you don't even own a thermometer. If you're feeling feverish, or ...

As mercury thermometers are a thing of the past, you no longer have to wait several minutes to read a small red line. Instead, there are now five different types of thermometers — rectal, oral, ...