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#techniques

Recipes, research and articles tagged “techniques”.

Turn cheap beef fat into jars of golden cooking fat. A step-by-step rendering guide, plus how to store it and the best ways to use it.

Everything a first-time smoker needs. Picking a smoker, managing the fire, choosing wood, the two-thermometer rule, and the best first cooks.

Where every cut comes from, why some are tender and some are tough, and how to cook each one. The map every meat-eater should carry in their head.

Cut, salt, heat, thermometer, rest. Five things separate a great steak from a sad one. Here's every one of them, no nonsense.

Low oven, screaming-hot pan, two-inch ribeye. Edge-to-edge pink, a crust you can hear, and nearly impossible to screw up.