How are you cooking your steak these days?
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RoadDawg55 said:
This is what I often do and my steaks look and taste great. Some might say they are the best steaks.Pitchfork51 said:I am usually too hungry to wait on a reverse sear so I just sear then plop it in the oven to finish off
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@RoadDawg55 .... with all due respeck, this is the wrong way entirely. This gets you too much gray on the edges, even if the center is medium rare.RoadDawg55 said:
Get the oven ready first. 500 degrees. While heating, season the steaks and start the stove. Sear on high. Plop I’m oven for 5 min. Perfect medium rare almost every time. I did it today but am not gay enough to post a pic. I am gay, just not that gay.1to392831weretaken said:
I must be even more impatient, as I just sear and then eat.Pitchfork51 said:I am usually too hungry to wait on a reverse sear so I just sear then plop it in the oven to finish off
The steaks are too tough with just a sear.
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Is that a pork chop?rodmansrage said:
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Nothing beats the Weber for flavor, IMO. Also super versatile, probably more so than people think.
Reverse sear and regular sear then indirect taste the same to me. Internal temperature depends on the cut as a ribeye at 120 is still too fatty and chewy versus 125 - 130. Frankly, rib and tritip roasts are by far better value versus individual steaks.
Turn the steaks often when searing! I will also baste with butter melted indirectly in the smoky grill.
Add a couple chunks of hickory to your grill when grilling beef and the flavor cannot be beat. This is doubly true for burgers. -
Finally @BleachedAnusDawg and I are aligned 100 percent. It’s a god damned fucking miracle.BleachedAnusDawg said:Nothing beats the Weber for flavor, IMO. Also super versatile, probably more so than people think.
Reverse sear and regular sear then indirect taste the same to me. Internal temperature depends on the cut as a ribeye at 120 is still too fatty and chewy versus 125 - 130. Frankly, rib and tritip roasts are by far better value versus individual steaks.
Turn the steaks often when searing! I will also baste with butter melted indirectly in the smoky grill.
Add a couple chunks of hickory to your grill when grilling beef and the flavor cannot be beat. This is doubly true for burgers. -
I’ll take a pic next time. They are great Yella. Not grey at all. Someone shared a grey steak is this thread. Mine are nothing like that.YellowSnow said:
@RoadDawg55 .... with all due respeck, this is the wrong way entirely. This gets you too much gray on the edges, even if the center is medium rare.RoadDawg55 said:
Get the oven ready first. 500 degrees. While heating, season the steaks and start the stove. Sear on high. Plop I’m oven for 5 min. Perfect medium rare almost every time. I did it today but am not gay enough to post a pic. I am gay, just not that gay.1to392831weretaken said:
I must be even more impatient, as I just sear and then eat.Pitchfork51 said:I am usually too hungry to wait on a reverse sear so I just sear then plop it in the oven to finish off
The steaks are too tough with just a sear. -
Nice humble brag.Swaye said:
I understood none of this. I can only afford hamburger helper.spuden said:I’m pro reverse sear, similar to your bring it up to 100 and then get grill roaring hot and sear each side until temp is 118-120. Wife and I like rare to medium rare steak. However, I now do it sous vide for 2-2.5 hours at 123 in a vacuum sealed bag, then sear on grill or cast iron.
I prefer charcoal grill (Weber kettle is what I use) as it gives a preferable flavor and doesn’t turn on my smoke alarm when it’s too hot to open windows. It also is important to make sure you have a nice marbled steak. Also, a relatively inexpensive cut is skirt or flap steak. Don’t usually need to sous vide those, can just throw on hot grill and cook until about 115-120 in center. Highly recommend a Thermapen to get accurate reading. -
RoadDawg55 said:
Get the oven ready first. 500 degrees. While heating, season the steaks and start the stove. Sear on high. Plop I’m oven for 5 min. Perfect medium rare almost every time. I did it today but am not gay enough to post a pic. I am gay, just not that gay.1to392831weretaken said:
I must be even more impatient, as I just sear and then eat.Pitchfork51 said:I am usually too hungry to wait on a reverse sear so I just sear then plop it in the oven to finish off
The steaks are too tough with just a sear.
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Reverse sear is good when you’re cooking for a lot of people
Y’all sound like loosers without friends -
Medium rare is overcooked. You want to almost be able to hear the steak moo.
CSB tim: The best steaks I've ever had were at nice restaurants. People who cook them every day for a living tend to do a decent job, and using aged cuts, truffle butter, etc. all helps beat anything I've done. But the best steak I've ever cooked came out of nowhere, and I've never been able to top it no matter how many times I tried.
We have two freezers downstairs, and we put a half of a grass-fed cow in one and a whole pig in the other every year. This is great, as there's always an endless supply of better tasting* and better for you meat, but it's inconvenient, as you have to plan a day ahead so you can pull and thaw, and myself and the beard are both terrible at doing that. One morning, I got up for work an hour early for reasons, so I figured I'd kill time by cooking myself a nice lunch for later. I didn't have any meat thawed, so I figured I'd pass up the ribeyes and tenderloins and whatnot and cook up a top sirloin. And since this steak would be defrosted in the microwave prior to cooking, I figured it was going to suck, so I'd cut it into fajita meat and mix with some sauteed peppers and onions.
Ten minutes on defrost in the microwave, straight to the cast iron pan with some butter and salt and pepper and high heat. Windows and doors open and fans blowing to not wake everyone in the house up with the smoke alarm. Sear like a mofo, flip, sear like a mofo, cut into slices for further cooking with the veggies.
But as I started slicing the steak up for stir-frying, I had to have a change of plans, as it was perfect. A couple millimeters of nice sear and then pink to red throughout. No purple or blue, so no worries of fatal diarrhea. "Alright, color's nice, but how does it taste?" Ate one slice to test, then ended up standing at the stove and eating half the steak right there and then instead. Putting that in fajitas would have been a crime. Shittiest cut in the freezer, thawed in the microwave, cooked at 3:45 in the morning, best steak I've eaten in my own house. Something about that particular piece o' beef was magic.
*Buying beef by the side is a mixed bag when it comes to flavor. Feedlot beef is super fatty from all of the grain it's fed. Pasture raised beef is typically better for you, as they're not jammed full of antibiotics, and grass-fed beef is higher in antioxidants and lower in saturated fat. It's also nice to pay about $4.00 per pound in the freezer for tenderloin, New York, tri-tip, etc. On the downside, the flavor is hit or miss. You can have the farmer grain-finish the cow by feeding it grain for the last month, which kind of splits the difference. If you don't do this, the meat can sometimes be gamey, which can be mitigated by soaking in buttermilk. We've had mixed results with leaving off the grain finishing; sometimes it's gamey as hell, other times (like with that steak described above), it's magical. The good thing about leaving out the grain (and therefore the "marbling" that people love) is that--particularly with an already lean cut like a top sirloin or tenderloin--you can cook it really rare without worrying about a lot of rubbery fat being left behind.
Pork, though? I'm thinking I could actually save money by buying bacon and sausage and chops and whatnot at the grocery store vs. buying a whole pig at the fair. Don't care. The pork I eat is better than ANYTHING you're gonna get from the store. It's just so much more flavorful. My general rule of thumb when it comes to carnivorous activities is that I don't eat something unless some 10 year old girl in Lynden gave it a name and cried when it died. This rule has served me well. -
I attribute my easy blowout win over Covid to a diet rich in antibiotic laden beef.1to392831weretaken said:Medium rare is overcooked. You want to almost be able to hear the steak moo.
CSB tim: The best steaks I've ever had were at nice restaurants. People who cook them every day for a living tend to do a decent job, and using aged cuts, truffle butter, etc. all helps beat anything I've done. But the best steak I've ever cooked came out of nowhere, and I've never been able to top it no matter how many times I tried.
We have two freezers downstairs, and we put a half of a grass-fed cow in one and a whole pig in the other every year. This is great, as there's always an endless supply of better tasting* and better for you meat, but it's inconvenient, as you have to plan a day ahead so you can pull and thaw, and myself and the beard are both terrible at doing that. One morning, I got up for work an hour early for reasons, so I figured I'd kill time by cooking myself a nice lunch for later. I didn't have any meat thawed, so I figured I'd pass up the ribeyes and tenderloins and whatnot and cook up a top sirloin. And since this steak would be defrosted in the microwave prior to cooking, I figured it was going to suck, so I'd cut it into fajita meat and mix with some sauteed peppers and onions.
Ten minutes on defrost in the microwave, straight to the cast iron pan with some butter and salt and pepper and high heat. Windows and doors open and fans blowing to not wake everyone in the house up with the smoke alarm. Sear like a mofo, flip, sear like a mofo, cut into slices for further cooking with the veggies.
But as I started slicing the steak up for stir-frying, I had to have a change of plans, as it was perfect. A couple millimeters of nice sear and then pink to red throughout. No purple or blue, so no worries of fatal diarrhea. "Alright, color's nice, but how does it taste?" Ate one slice to test, then ended up standing at the stove and eating half the steak right there and then instead. Putting that in fajitas would have been a crime. Shittiest cut in the freezer, thawed in the microwave, cooked at 3:45 in the morning, best steak I've eaten in my own house. Something about that particular piece o' beef was magic.
*Buying beef by the side is a mixed bag when it comes to flavor. Feedlot beef is super fatty from all of the grain it's fed. Pasture raised beef is typically better for you, as they're not jammed full of antibiotics, and grass-fed beef is higher in antioxidants and lower in saturated fat. It's also nice to pay about $4.00 per pound in the freezer for tenderloin, New York, tri-tip, etc. On the downside, the flavor is hit or miss. You can have the farmer grain-finish the cow by feeding it grain for the last month, which kind of splits the difference. If you don't do this, the meat can sometimes be gamey, which can be mitigated by soaking in buttermilk. We've had mixed results with leaving off the grain finishing; sometimes it's gamey as hell, other times (like with that steak described above), it's magical. The good thing about leaving out the grain (and therefore the "marbling" that people love) is that--particularly with an already lean cut like a top sirloin or tenderloin--you can cook it really rare without worrying about a lot of rubbery fat being left behind.
Pork, though? I'm thinking I could actually save money by buying bacon and sausage and chops and whatnot at the grocery store vs. buying a whole pig at the fair. Don't care. The pork I eat is better than ANYTHING you're gonna get from the store. It's just so much more flavorful. My general rule of thumb when it comes to carnivorous activities is that I don't eat something unless some 10 year old girl in Lynden gave it a name and cried when it died. This rule has served me well. -
LoneStarDawg said:
Reverse sear is
good when you’re cooking for a lot of peoplethe only way to cook steak.
Y’all sound like loosers without friends -
It's a t-bone disguised as a pork chop.BleachedAnusDawg said:
Is that a pork chop?rodmansrage said:
soak it up, boys. -
Steaks are Paleo. HTHYellowSnow said:
You’re probably in a dry, boneless, skinless CrossFit chicken breast phase.MikeDamone said:If ember my reverse sear phase.
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JFC. TL;DR. Stopped at the cliche "hear the steak moo"1to392831weretaken said:Medium rare is overcooked. You want to almost be able to hear the steak moo.
CSB tim: The best steaks I've ever had were at nice restaurants. People who cook them every day for a living tend to do a decent job, and using aged cuts, truffle butter, etc. all helps beat anything I've done. But the best steak I've ever cooked came out of nowhere, and I've never been able to top it no matter how many times I tried.
We have two freezers downstairs, and we put a half of a grass-fed cow in one and a whole pig in the other every year. This is great, as there's always an endless supply of better tasting* and better for you meat, but it's inconvenient, as you have to plan a day ahead so you can pull and thaw, and myself and the beard are both terrible at doing that. One morning, I got up for work an hour early for reasons, so I figured I'd kill time by cooking myself a nice lunch for later. I didn't have any meat thawed, so I figured I'd pass up the ribeyes and tenderloins and whatnot and cook up a top sirloin. And since this steak would be defrosted in the microwave prior to cooking, I figured it was going to suck, so I'd cut it into fajita meat and mix with some sauteed peppers and onions.
Ten minutes on defrost in the microwave, straight to the cast iron pan with some butter and salt and pepper and high heat. Windows and doors open and fans blowing to not wake everyone in the house up with the smoke alarm. Sear like a mofo, flip, sear like a mofo, cut into slices for further cooking with the veggies.
But as I started slicing the steak up for stir-frying, I had to have a change of plans, as it was perfect. A couple millimeters of nice sear and then pink to red throughout. No purple or blue, so no worries of fatal diarrhea. "Alright, color's nice, but how does it taste?" Ate one slice to test, then ended up standing at the stove and eating half the steak right there and then instead. Putting that in fajitas would have been a crime. Shittiest cut in the freezer, thawed in the microwave, cooked at 3:45 in the morning, best steak I've eaten in my own house. Something about that particular piece o' beef was magic.
*Buying beef by the side is a mixed bag when it comes to flavor. Feedlot beef is super fatty from all of the grain it's fed. Pasture raised beef is typically better for you, as they're not jammed full of antibiotics, and grass-fed beef is higher in antioxidants and lower in saturated fat. It's also nice to pay about $4.00 per pound in the freezer for tenderloin, New York, tri-tip, etc. On the downside, the flavor is hit or miss. You can have the farmer grain-finish the cow by feeding it grain for the last month, which kind of splits the difference. If you don't do this, the meat can sometimes be gamey, which can be mitigated by soaking in buttermilk. We've had mixed results with leaving off the grain finishing; sometimes it's gamey as hell, other times (like with that steak described above), it's magical. The good thing about leaving out the grain (and therefore the "marbling" that people love) is that--particularly with an already lean cut like a top sirloin or tenderloin--you can cook it really rare without worrying about a lot of rubbery fat being left behind.
Pork, though? I'm thinking I could actually save money by buying bacon and sausage and chops and whatnot at the grocery store vs. buying a whole pig at the fair. Don't care. The pork I eat is better than ANYTHING you're gonna get from the store. It's just so much more flavorful. My general rule of thumb when it comes to carnivorous activities is that I don't eat something unless some 10 year old girl in Lynden gave it a name and cried when it died. This rule has served me well. -
Did you serve @Tequilla with it?1to392831weretaken said:Medium rare is overcooked. You want to almost be able to hear the steak moo.
CSB tim: The best steaks I've ever had were at nice restaurants. People who cook them every day for a living tend to do a decent job, and using aged cuts, truffle butter, etc. all helps beat anything I've done. But the best steak I've ever cooked came out of nowhere, and I've never been able to top it no matter how many times I tried.
We have two freezers downstairs, and we put a half of a grass-fed cow in one and a whole pig in the other every year. This is great, as there's always an endless supply of better tasting* and better for you meat, but it's inconvenient, as you have to plan a day ahead so you can pull and thaw, and myself and the beard are both terrible at doing that. One morning, I got up for work an hour early for reasons, so I figured I'd kill time by cooking myself a nice lunch for later. I didn't have any meat thawed, so I figured I'd pass up the ribeyes and tenderloins and whatnot and cook up a top sirloin. And since this steak would be defrosted in the microwave prior to cooking, I figured it was going to suck, so I'd cut it into fajita meat and mix with some sauteed peppers and onions.
Ten minutes on defrost in the microwave, straight to the cast iron pan with some butter and salt and pepper and high heat. Windows and doors open and fans blowing to not wake everyone in the house up with the smoke alarm. Sear like a mofo, flip, sear like a mofo, cut into slices for further cooking with the veggies.
But as I started slicing the steak up for stir-frying, I had to have a change of plans, as it was perfect. A couple millimeters of nice sear and then pink to red throughout. No purple or blue, so no worries of fatal diarrhea. "Alright, color's nice, but how does it taste?" Ate one slice to test, then ended up standing at the stove and eating half the steak right there and then instead. Putting that in fajitas would have been a crime. Shittiest cut in the freezer, thawed in the microwave, cooked at 3:45 in the morning, best steak I've eaten in my own house. Something about that particular piece o' beef was magic.
*Buying beef by the side is a mixed bag when it comes to flavor. Feedlot beef is super fatty from all of the grain it's fed. Pasture raised beef is typically better for you, as they're not jammed full of antibiotics, and grass-fed beef is higher in antioxidants and lower in saturated fat. It's also nice to pay about $4.00 per pound in the freezer for tenderloin, New York, tri-tip, etc. On the downside, the flavor is hit or miss. You can have the farmer grain-finish the cow by feeding it grain for the last month, which kind of splits the difference. If you don't do this, the meat can sometimes be gamey, which can be mitigated by soaking in buttermilk. We've had mixed results with leaving off the grain finishing; sometimes it's gamey as hell, other times (like with that steak described above), it's magical. The good thing about leaving out the grain (and therefore the "marbling" that people love) is that--particularly with an already lean cut like a top sirloin or tenderloin--you can cook it really rare without worrying about a lot of rubbery fat being left behind.
Pork, though? I'm thinking I could actually save money by buying bacon and sausage and chops and whatnot at the grocery store vs. buying a whole pig at the fair. Don't care. The pork I eat is better than ANYTHING you're gonna get from the store. It's just so much more flavorful. My general rule of thumb when it comes to carnivorous activities is that I don't eat something unless some 10 year old girl in Lynden gave it a name and cried when it died. This rule has served me well. -
Just trying to improve our great nation's reading comprehension through practice one message board retard at a tim. It's a public service @Tequilla and I provide.RaceBannon said:
Did you serve @Tequilla with it?1to392831weretaken said:Medium rare is overcooked. You want to almost be able to hear the steak moo.
CSB tim: The best steaks I've ever had were at nice restaurants. People who cook them every day for a living tend to do a decent job, and using aged cuts, truffle butter, etc. all helps beat anything I've done. But the best steak I've ever cooked came out of nowhere, and I've never been able to top it no matter how many times I tried.
We have two freezers downstairs, and we put a half of a grass-fed cow in one and a whole pig in the other every year. This is great, as there's always an endless supply of better tasting* and better for you meat, but it's inconvenient, as you have to plan a day ahead so you can pull and thaw, and myself and the beard are both terrible at doing that. One morning, I got up for work an hour early for reasons, so I figured I'd kill time by cooking myself a nice lunch for later. I didn't have any meat thawed, so I figured I'd pass up the ribeyes and tenderloins and whatnot and cook up a top sirloin. And since this steak would be defrosted in the microwave prior to cooking, I figured it was going to suck, so I'd cut it into fajita meat and mix with some sauteed peppers and onions.
Ten minutes on defrost in the microwave, straight to the cast iron pan with some butter and salt and pepper and high heat. Windows and doors open and fans blowing to not wake everyone in the house up with the smoke alarm. Sear like a mofo, flip, sear like a mofo, cut into slices for further cooking with the veggies.
But as I started slicing the steak up for stir-frying, I had to have a change of plans, as it was perfect. A couple millimeters of nice sear and then pink to red throughout. No purple or blue, so no worries of fatal diarrhea. "Alright, color's nice, but how does it taste?" Ate one slice to test, then ended up standing at the stove and eating half the steak right there and then instead. Putting that in fajitas would have been a crime. Shittiest cut in the freezer, thawed in the microwave, cooked at 3:45 in the morning, best steak I've eaten in my own house. Something about that particular piece o' beef was magic.
*Buying beef by the side is a mixed bag when it comes to flavor. Feedlot beef is super fatty from all of the grain it's fed. Pasture raised beef is typically better for you, as they're not jammed full of antibiotics, and grass-fed beef is higher in antioxidants and lower in saturated fat. It's also nice to pay about $4.00 per pound in the freezer for tenderloin, New York, tri-tip, etc. On the downside, the flavor is hit or miss. You can have the farmer grain-finish the cow by feeding it grain for the last month, which kind of splits the difference. If you don't do this, the meat can sometimes be gamey, which can be mitigated by soaking in buttermilk. We've had mixed results with leaving off the grain finishing; sometimes it's gamey as hell, other times (like with that steak described above), it's magical. The good thing about leaving out the grain (and therefore the "marbling" that people love) is that--particularly with an already lean cut like a top sirloin or tenderloin--you can cook it really rare without worrying about a lot of rubbery fat being left behind.
Pork, though? I'm thinking I could actually save money by buying bacon and sausage and chops and whatnot at the grocery store vs. buying a whole pig at the fair. Don't care. The pork I eat is better than ANYTHING you're gonna get from the store. It's just so much more flavorful. My general rule of thumb when it comes to carnivorous activities is that I don't eat something unless some 10 year old girl in Lynden gave it a name and cried when it died. This rule has served me well. -
True. But still paleo is for fags.MikeDamone said:
Steaks are Paleo. HTHYellowSnow said:
You’re probably in a dry, boneless, skinless CrossFit chicken breast phase.MikeDamone said:If ember my reverse sear phase.
Without grain fed humans there's no civilization. And no civilization = dying in your 20's like a fucking caveman. Fuck that.
Give me my gluten bitches! -
@1to392831weretaken is the pour man's @TequillaRaceBannon said:
Did you serve @Tequilla with it?1to392831weretaken said:Medium rare is overcooked. You want to almost be able to hear the steak moo.
CSB tim: The best steaks I've ever had were at nice restaurants. People who cook them every day for a living tend to do a decent job, and using aged cuts, truffle butter, etc. all helps beat anything I've done. But the best steak I've ever cooked came out of nowhere, and I've never been able to top it no matter how many times I tried.
We have two freezers downstairs, and we put a half of a grass-fed cow in one and a whole pig in the other every year. This is great, as there's always an endless supply of better tasting* and better for you meat, but it's inconvenient, as you have to plan a day ahead so you can pull and thaw, and myself and the beard are both terrible at doing that. One morning, I got up for work an hour early for reasons, so I figured I'd kill time by cooking myself a nice lunch for later. I didn't have any meat thawed, so I figured I'd pass up the ribeyes and tenderloins and whatnot and cook up a top sirloin. And since this steak would be defrosted in the microwave prior to cooking, I figured it was going to suck, so I'd cut it into fajita meat and mix with some sauteed peppers and onions.
Ten minutes on defrost in the microwave, straight to the cast iron pan with some butter and salt and pepper and high heat. Windows and doors open and fans blowing to not wake everyone in the house up with the smoke alarm. Sear like a mofo, flip, sear like a mofo, cut into slices for further cooking with the veggies.
But as I started slicing the steak up for stir-frying, I had to have a change of plans, as it was perfect. A couple millimeters of nice sear and then pink to red throughout. No purple or blue, so no worries of fatal diarrhea. "Alright, color's nice, but how does it taste?" Ate one slice to test, then ended up standing at the stove and eating half the steak right there and then instead. Putting that in fajitas would have been a crime. Shittiest cut in the freezer, thawed in the microwave, cooked at 3:45 in the morning, best steak I've eaten in my own house. Something about that particular piece o' beef was magic.
*Buying beef by the side is a mixed bag when it comes to flavor. Feedlot beef is super fatty from all of the grain it's fed. Pasture raised beef is typically better for you, as they're not jammed full of antibiotics, and grass-fed beef is higher in antioxidants and lower in saturated fat. It's also nice to pay about $4.00 per pound in the freezer for tenderloin, New York, tri-tip, etc. On the downside, the flavor is hit or miss. You can have the farmer grain-finish the cow by feeding it grain for the last month, which kind of splits the difference. If you don't do this, the meat can sometimes be gamey, which can be mitigated by soaking in buttermilk. We've had mixed results with leaving off the grain finishing; sometimes it's gamey as hell, other times (like with that steak described above), it's magical. The good thing about leaving out the grain (and therefore the "marbling" that people love) is that--particularly with an already lean cut like a top sirloin or tenderloin--you can cook it really rare without worrying about a lot of rubbery fat being left behind.
Pork, though? I'm thinking I could actually save money by buying bacon and sausage and chops and whatnot at the grocery store vs. buying a whole pig at the fair. Don't care. The pork I eat is better than ANYTHING you're gonna get from the store. It's just so much more flavorful. My general rule of thumb when it comes to carnivorous activities is that I don't eat something unless some 10 year old girl in Lynden gave it a name and cried when it died. This rule has served me well. -
Rare is for faggots.
I might even opine that medium is better on some fatty cuts due to the fat rendering -
The bitchfork brand is undefeatedPitchfork51 said:Rare is for faggots.
I might even opine that medium is better on some fatty cuts due to the fat rendering -
It was a good effort.MikeDamone said:
JFC. TL;DR. Stopped at the cliche "hear the steak moo"1to392831weretaken said:Medium rare is overcooked. You want to almost be able to hear the steak moo.
CSB tim: The best steaks I've ever had were at nice restaurants. People who cook them every day for a living tend to do a decent job, and using aged cuts, truffle butter, etc. all helps beat anything I've done. But the best steak I've ever cooked came out of nowhere, and I've never been able to top it no matter how many times I tried.
We have two freezers downstairs, and we put a half of a grass-fed cow in one and a whole pig in the other every year. This is great, as there's always an endless supply of better tasting* and better for you meat, but it's inconvenient, as you have to plan a day ahead so you can pull and thaw, and myself and the beard are both terrible at doing that. One morning, I got up for work an hour early for reasons, so I figured I'd kill time by cooking myself a nice lunch for later. I didn't have any meat thawed, so I figured I'd pass up the ribeyes and tenderloins and whatnot and cook up a top sirloin. And since this steak would be defrosted in the microwave prior to cooking, I figured it was going to suck, so I'd cut it into fajita meat and mix with some sauteed peppers and onions.
Ten minutes on defrost in the microwave, straight to the cast iron pan with some butter and salt and pepper and high heat. Windows and doors open and fans blowing to not wake everyone in the house up with the smoke alarm. Sear like a mofo, flip, sear like a mofo, cut into slices for further cooking with the veggies.
But as I started slicing the steak up for stir-frying, I had to have a change of plans, as it was perfect. A couple millimeters of nice sear and then pink to red throughout. No purple or blue, so no worries of fatal diarrhea. "Alright, color's nice, but how does it taste?" Ate one slice to test, then ended up standing at the stove and eating half the steak right there and then instead. Putting that in fajitas would have been a crime. Shittiest cut in the freezer, thawed in the microwave, cooked at 3:45 in the morning, best steak I've eaten in my own house. Something about that particular piece o' beef was magic.
*Buying beef by the side is a mixed bag when it comes to flavor. Feedlot beef is super fatty from all of the grain it's fed. Pasture raised beef is typically better for you, as they're not jammed full of antibiotics, and grass-fed beef is higher in antioxidants and lower in saturated fat. It's also nice to pay about $4.00 per pound in the freezer for tenderloin, New York, tri-tip, etc. On the downside, the flavor is hit or miss. You can have the farmer grain-finish the cow by feeding it grain for the last month, which kind of splits the difference. If you don't do this, the meat can sometimes be gamey, which can be mitigated by soaking in buttermilk. We've had mixed results with leaving off the grain finishing; sometimes it's gamey as hell, other times (like with that steak described above), it's magical. The good thing about leaving out the grain (and therefore the "marbling" that people love) is that--particularly with an already lean cut like a top sirloin or tenderloin--you can cook it really rare without worrying about a lot of rubbery fat being left behind.
Pork, though? I'm thinking I could actually save money by buying bacon and sausage and chops and whatnot at the grocery store vs. buying a whole pig at the fair. Don't care. The pork I eat is better than ANYTHING you're gonna get from the store. It's just so much more flavorful. My general rule of thumb when it comes to carnivorous activities is that I don't eat something unless some 10 year old girl in Lynden gave it a name and cried when it died. This rule has served me well. -
I'm a med/rare to med guy myself.Pitchfork51 said:Rare is for faggots.
I might even opine that medium is better on some fatty cuts due to the fat rendering
I had a 3pm dinner yesterday and got predictably hungry at about 9. There was a fat, close to 2" NY steak in the fridge and I decided to give the stove top reverse sear a whirl.
I'm not a NY fan really. I'll take ribeye or even tri tip over it. It was about the best NY I've ever made though. Basted with rosemary butter at the end, then I sautéed some sweet onions and reconstituted shitakes with shrimp and had it all with a scoop of macaroni salad I brought home from a BBQ on Thursday.
It was good. I overheated it in the ivem by maybe 5 min or so and it came out meduim when i was aiming for med/rare so it couldve been a but better. I'm suffering this morning though. Shoulda ditched the macaroni salad. I know better. -
I’m a bring it to my table med rare with a nice merlot that drinks like a cab guy.
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Air Fryer. Takes 6-8 minutes.
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You know, have cooked a lot in the air fryer but haven’t attempted a steak. You say 6-8 minutes? What temp?CuntWaffle said:Air Fryer. Takes 6-8 minutes.
The Throbber is a warmer not a cook.
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It actually works okay. I'm a big air fryer guy but I really don't get steak often so when I do I like to cook it nicely.PurpleThrobber said:
You know, have cooked a lot in the air fryer but haven’t attempted a steak. You say 6-8 minutes? What temp?CuntWaffle said:Air Fryer. Takes 6-8 minutes.
The Throbber is a warmer not a cook.
Pretty much anything else though....yeah if it's after work and I'm hungry you know I'm chucking that shit in the af
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7-9 minutes at 500 degrees. Flip at the halfway markPurpleThrobber said:
You know, have cooked a lot in the air fryer but haven’t attempted a steak. You say 6-8 minutes? What temp?CuntWaffle said:Air Fryer. Takes 6-8 minutes.
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