Privacy & terms

Food safety disclaimer

MeatLogic provides general cooking information. It is not a food safety certification, an inspection service, or professional advice. Cooking times are estimates and the calculators cannot know your pit or your particular cut of meat. They can be told where you are, and if you tell them they will apply the USDA high-altitude adjustment and describe the weather, but the weather never changes a number.

Always verify doneness with a calibrated probe thermometer and observe the USDA safe minimum internal temperatures published on the meat temperature chart. Curing salts are toxic in excess and must be measured by weight on an accurate scale. You are responsible for the food you serve.

What we collect

Nothing you type into a calculator leaves your browser. There is no account, no upload, and no server-side record of your inputs. Weights, temperatures, thicknesses and guest counts are never sent anywhere. Unit preferences are stored locally in your own browser.

One feature is an exception, and it is off until you switch it on. The smoking calculator can look up your elevation and current weather. If you turn it on, either the coordinates your browser reports, rounded to about a kilometre, or the town you type goes to Open-Meteo. It goes there directly rather than through MeatLogic, because this site has no server that could receive it, and the request suppresses its referrer so Open-Meteo is not told which page asked. A request is only made when you click. Nothing from the calculator itself is included.

Switching it on stores three things in your own browser: that it is on, the location you chose, and the last weather reading. The reading is discarded after three hours and the location after thirty days, and the Forget button in the panel clears all three immediately.

The site uses Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights, which are cookieless and collect aggregate page performance data, and Google Analytics 4 for traffic measurement, which does set cookies. None of them has access to what you enter into the tools, because those values never leave your browser.

Open-Meteo is a fourth third party, and the only one you choose. It supplies the elevation and weather described above under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, and it is contacted only when the local-conditions feature is switched on.

The site also runs Impact, an affiliate tracking service. It records a page impression and sets cookies so that a purchase made after following a link from here can be credited back to this site. It reads the links on the page, not the values in the calculators.

Affiliate disclosure

MeatLogic participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program. As an Amazon Associate, MeatLogic earns from qualifying purchases. MeatLogic also takes part in other affiliate programs, tracked through Impact. Articles contain links to products at Amazon and other retailers, and a purchase made through one of those links may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. This does not change which products get recommended.

Liability

The site and its calculators are provided as is, without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, MeatLogic is not liable for any loss, illness, or damage arising from use of the information on this site.