Enjoying a scoop of ice cream with family outside in t-shirt. It’s 55 °F out. Love Minnesota!
Be Smarter, Calibrate your Thermometers
I’ve been firing up the Big Green Egg throughout winter and as the weather has started to get a little nicer I’ve been grilling even more. I’ve been really frustrated lately though with my grill not coming up to temperature as fast as I thought it should. I also have been getting some odd results. I recently put a couple of racks of ribs on and they came out really dry and overcooked. I had the temperature right the whole time, and couldn’t figure out what was wrong.
Then things got confusing. I took out my Thermapen and a couple of other thermometers and started getting really odd temps all over the grill. Today I fired up a pot of water to calibrate the thermometer that sits in the dome of the Big Green Egg. This is the one I use constantly to know the internal temperature of the grill.
Whoa! That’s not just off, it’s horribly off. I was shocked that the thermometer was reading -60 °F lower than it should be. A quick turn of the nut on the back and it was calibrated!
Why am I posting about this? It’s a really simple thing, but I bet a lot of people don’t do a calibration. Your out there grilling away and you need to know your temps. I’m not sure if being outside all winter causes the calibration to get all screwed up. Either way it was off so much that I was grilling at temperatures that were just way too hot.
I had the newly calibrated thermometer in tonight for some grilling and things were so much better. Lesson learned. Get a pot of water boiling and make sure all your thermometers and probes read 212 °F on the nose.
Nice evening of grilling on the Big Green Egg.
In the room at the U of M where I first met the Internet. I feel like I should have brought a gift or something.
I kind of like Safari 4’s tab placement. Don’t hate me for it.
Last night of clay class tonight.
PSA: All you WordPress folks remember to change your timezone offset. Took me until now to remember. Someday this will be automated.
P2: The New Prologue
I was a fan of the original Prologue, and this new iteration of it looks even better.
I’m struck by how easy it would be to setup a private Twitter-like service for just the people you want to hang with. That could be fun, particularly as Twitter becomes less and less interesting and more and more overcrowded.
Mother of All Funk Chords
I rarely send out YouTube video links, but this remix is pretty darn cool. Nice.