Log every cook.
Nail every temp.

Yes. The Backyard plan lets you log unlimited cooks — grate temps, probe temps, wraps, spritzes, fuel adds — with two cookers, three saved cook plans, and the AI Pitmaster for everyday questions. No credit card required. Pitmaster lifts the caps and adds web search.

Yes. BBQuill is cooker-agnostic: offsets, pellet smokers, kamados, kettles, drums, WSMs, gas grills, griddles, ovens, air fryers — you name what you cook on and it keeps that cooker's history. A single cook can span several of them at once.

No. BBQuill is a log, not a probe — you type in what your thermometer reads, and it does the rest: tracks the trend, evaluates your plan's steps, and tells you when something is due. Any thermometer works, including an instant-read.

Yes. Give a cook a target serve time and BBQuill works backward from it — an item that cooks four hours and rests one has to go on five hours before you eat — so everything lands together instead of the sides being cold while the brisket rests.

The Pitmaster explains its reasoning and always surfaces food safety: USDA safe internal temperatures, the 40–140°F danger zone, and the 4-hour rule. It proposes a cook plan and you approve it before anything is saved — nothing is ever applied automatically. Safe minimums are advisory, so you can cook to your own target and be warned rather than blocked.

Nothing is deleted. If you go back to Backyard with more cookers than it allows, you choose which ones to pause — a paused cooker keeps every cook ever logged on it, and comes back the moment you upgrade again.