Why you should flip grilled meats more than once

Many people are familiar with the conventional grilling wisdom that, when cooking meats, it’s best to “only flip once.” This has led backyard grillers to resist the urge to flip their foods in the name of flavor. But that conventional wisdom may not actually be that wise.

According to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, a Serious Eats blogger who has taken it upon himself to test the theory on both burgers and steaks, flipping the meat multiple times produced food that was more evenly cooked (40 percent less overcooked meat in a burger flipped every 15 seconds versus one flipped once). The meat browned just as well, and the food cooked in about two-thirds of the time.

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