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Important Weights, Measures, Calculators, Conversions, And Rules Of Thumb

Scale at Smitty's BBQ.

Here are some very useful weights, measures, and equivalents that come in handy in the kitchen. You’ll find an online conversion calculator for metric, imperial, volume, weight, length, and temperature, plus various handy food equivalents for salt, fat, sugar, and many other ingredients.

Use A Cooking Log Or Diary

BBQ cooking log spreadsheet.

Want to cook better barbecue? Keep a log of your previous cooks and learn from them. In your log, include the meat, its weight, how you prepped it, what seasonings you used, the cooker and ambient air temperatures, the wood used, and how much. Here’s the log that Meathead uses. Download it as a pdf or Excel copy.