@PorkBarrelBBQ Interview

Posted by Tim on Jun 9, 2011 in BBQ Competition, Blog, Video | Comments Off

@PorkBarrelBBQ Interview

Here’s a great little “Memphis in May” World BBQ Championship interview with Heath Hall, President of Pork Barrel BBQ out of Washington DC. @PorkBarrelBBQ is the biggest bbq twitter account with more than 30,000 followers. Pork Barrel BBQ uses exclusively the ThermoWorks Super-Fast Thermapen to check their meat temps. ThermoWorks was a proud sponsor of the 2011 Memphis in May...

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A Brief History of Thermometry

Posted by Tim on Jun 6, 2011 in Blog, Food Science, History | Comments Off

A Brief History of Thermometry

All thermometers work on the principle of detecting changes in the physical properties of things as temperature changes. As early as 220 BC, Philo of Byzantium noted the expansion and contraction of air with hot and cold. By the 16th and 17th centuries AD, European scientists had used this principle to create the earliest thermal instruments by trapping air in glass tubes that were closed at one...

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