What is your favorite method of preparing and cooking a steak?
 

How do you achieve that steakhouse tenderness at home?

What steakhouse tenderness? I poke a fork in it and wait to hear it MOO!

Most of the time I do it like this:

Preheat oven to 400*

Preheat Cast Iron skillet on stove, high heat, about 10 minutes

Rub small amount of olive oil on room temperature steak, sprinkle healthy amount of coarse sea salt and fresh pepper on each side

Throw the steak in the pan to sear for 2 minutes, flip, then cook for 2 more minutes

Grab the entire pan and put it in the preheated oven for 5-10 minutes depending on how done you like it cooked

Remove from oven, place on tray to stand for 5 minutes, and place a cube of butter on top

After 5 minutes transfer to your plate and enjoy!

No idea. But my partner who is a cook will tell you that it depends on the cut of the meat. So from now on, I look up on the internet or ask him if he is home how to cook whatever cut I happen to buy.

It depends on the cut, but I usually just sear for 2-3 minutes per side, sprinkle salt and pepper on each side and wait a few minutes before eating it. I like it rare. If it's beef tenderloin, which is a bit flavourless, I season it with paprika, garlic powder, cayenne and salt.

Ditto

Only changes is most times I reach for coconut oil over oilve and sometimes I make my own rub with coconut oil, S&P, Montreal Steak Spice, and mixed BBQ spices.

Doneness can be assessed by touch - softer = rarer ; Hard = cooked to death.

Remember to let it rest so all the juices stay in the meat when you cut it.

I use Montreal Steak Seasoning or salt and pepper. Throw it on a cooling rack on top of a cookie sheet in the oven on your lowest temp for a half hour. Get your iron skillet hot hot hot and throw it on each side for a minute. This is for a perfect medium rare all the way through. I got this technique from Vesna Kovach. Here is the link http://www.how-to-cook-with-vesna.c...cook-steak.html

I preheat a cast iron skillet to med/high heat. Add olive oil and butter. Season my steaks on both sides with

2T lemon pepper
1T Lawry's seasoned salt
1/2 tsp coarsely ground pepper
1 tsp kosher salt

Sear for 4 minutes on side one, flip and cook 5 more minutes.

This is what I do:

Make sure to buy a grilling steak *Not marinating steak, I hate them.*

I heat a Teflon pan to medium-high heat, so pretty damn hot.

The only thing I season my steak with is salt, pepper and good quality soy sauce.

Put it in the pan.

Don't touch it!

2 minutes, each side.

Plate.

Eat.

Happy!

Characoal-grilled over a really hot bed of coals: charred nicely on the outside, medium-rare on the inside. Absolutely nothing put on the meat until it is on the table.

Heat a well seasoned cast iron skillet until it is just barely smoking.

Add steak (no oil) sear 2-2 1/2 minutes and flip.

Sear other side same amount of time. Remove to plate. Add seasonings.

I use sea salt, cracked pepper and garlic powder. Flip steak and season other side. Allow to rest a few minutes and it will retain its own juices.

This makes a steak that is seared on the outside and medium rare on the inside.

Add to the minute time if you want it more well done.

I use the cast iron method in the winter and the BBQ in the summer...I never use oil on it until its cooked then I only add a little butter to the top of it for flavor along with garlic, salt, and fresh cracked pepper...mushrooms when I have them....

You need a good piece of meat... that is critical. Look for evenly marbled steaks

http://www.foodsubs.com/MeatBeefLoin.html has a great article...

Alton Brown from food network has a great show on how to use a cast iron skillet for a steak. Never use a fork to cook your steak because you don't want to pierce it and looks its juice...

I never do the casto iron method because it makes too much smoke for my sensitive detectors :lol:

I always use the grill - even in the middle of winter. Preheat it HOT, toss on the steak. 2 minutes, quarter turn, 2 more minutes. Flip, 2 minutes, quarter turn, 2 minutes. Top with compound butter, rest for 5, and eat!

Now I'm HUNGRY !!

Yummmm beef! Gotta love LOW CARB....

(kinda feeling bad about all though people out there eating fake meat to lose weight...well not that bad lol)