Help! How do I cook the PERFECT steak??

[auschr]

Having run pubs and having spent years cooking in the trade the main ingredient to success is the quality of the meat. Most good pubs/restaurants use good well hung meat not the crap you get in supermarkets.

Good point, most restaurants can age meat up for weeks which massively enhances the flavour. It really isn't something somebody at home can do, though I have seen things you can buy to do it with a customised vacuum seal bag. Lots of good points I missed out on, letting it come to room temperature before cooking and letting it rest in its juices.

 

[Everest]

Quality of meat is very important.

eg best to avoid THIS cow!

 

[WATFORD zero]

Step 1. Get a good quality supplier

Repeat step 1

Step 2. Wave the steak approx 1 ft above the pan for 10 seconds (cooking for longer than that is for pussies)

Repeat step 1

This is known as the wipe it's arse and put it on the plate school of cooking



oh, and repeat step 1

 

[Billy the Fish]

As long as it's a good bit of meat you can do pretty much what you want to it and it will still taste nice. Rump steak is amazing if you get a cut that's closer to the middle than to the cows arse, if you get one from the arse it will be quite tough, this is what you get in the supermarket.

 

[The Large One]

I want a steak and I want one NOW.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Love the steaks you can get in the supermarkets in New York - really juicy with good marbling. Great when you marinate for 2 hours in Worcester sauce, McCormick’s seasoning, garlic, basil and red wine vinegar.

 

[Snoop Dogg]

The steaks in Argentina are the f***ing shit!! Unbelievable stuff...... never had anything like it before or since. The beef out there is just unbelievable quality.

 

[looney]

Once you take the steak out of the oven rest it on its side for five minutes.

5 minutes? I prefer my steak hot.

 

[Mendoza]

Steak for me din dins tonight, but what can i have with it

INSPIRE me

 

[Northstander]

I always flash fry it for about 2.5 minutes per side depending on the thickness. Then while still in the frying pan bung it in the oven for 5 minutes. Take it out drop a knob of butter onto it and leave it to rest for 5 minutes.

Absolutely fcuking lovely!!

Is correct, its all about searing the outer part and gently cooking inside!



*i want a steak now

 

[South Coast Eagle]

Steak for me din dins tonight, but what can i have with it

INSPIRE me

Home made chips or potato wedges & salad or peas, home made onion rings & a flat mushroom.

 

[The Large One]

Home made chips or potato wedges & salad or peas, home made onion rings & a flat mushroom.

Words of wisdom.

 

[Mendoza]

home made onion rings were on the menu, just soaked in milk and dusted in flour before hitting the oil!

got lots of rocket, so must eat that, I just need a SAUCE that is a deviation from ketchup or creme infused with flambe'd Jack Daniels

 

[The Large One]

home made onion rings were on the menu, just soaked in milk and dusted in flour before hitting the oil!

got lots of rocket, so must eat that, I just need a SAUCE that is a deviation from ketchup or creme infused with flambe'd Jack Daniels

Blue cheese sauce. A mild-ish Stilton, for instance.
Pepper sauce. Easy enough to make.

Last night I made a Steak and Stilton pie. Bleedin' gorgeous.

 

[Laughing Gravy]

George Foreman grill. Perfect everytime

 

[Acker79]

If you want to know what its all suposed to feel like..

If you touch your cheak....thats rare.
If you touch your nose.....thats medium
If you touch your forehead....thats well done.

Or touch that fleshy bit at the bottom of your thumb with (from the same hand)

forefinger - rare
middle finger - med rare
ringfinger - medium
little finger - well done


The best steak I had was in Texas at a proper steakhouse. It was only a couple of hours after going to IHOP, so I wasn't overly hungry, just had a small steak, it was delicious. Just perfect.

Various members of staff came over to check on me during the meal, I think they were interested in an Englishman in their establishment (I was visiting an american friend out in the sticks of Texas where they don't get a lot of tourists).

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Pay a FORTUNE and get the best quality meat that is imaginable.

Walk it through a warm kitchen.



Perfect!

 

[WATFORD zero]

Pay a FORTUNE and get the best quality meat that is imaginable.

Walk it through a warm kitchen.



Perfect!

I think you missed the word briskly. Wandering through would ruin it.

 

[crodonilson]

Boil it.

I don't think you can beat a boiled steak, same with burgers, boiled burgers are the don.

 

[Gersgull]

Cut its horns off & wipe its arse.............