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On November 07 2010 01:44 mlee wrote:
someone probably already covered this.. but yeah.. this is NOT how you cook a steak.. unless you're buying the worst quality possible and trying to mask the flavor of the meat.
First, you let the steak defrost.. season with salt/pepper to your liking.. make sure your non-stick pan is on super high heat... put some olive oil on the pan.. and sear your steak for 2-3 minutes on both sides.. finish in the oven for another couple minutes to you're liking.. medium-rare tends to be the best tasting and the crowd favorite..
if you do medium well done(quoted post)... you're destroying all the flavors/juices in the steak and you might as well douse your steak with nasty A1 sauce as well..
High quality steaks should always be eaten at medium-rare and only seasoned with salt/pepper.. someone people like to butter the pan as well.. but I feel that takes away from the flavor of the steak.
When you go to restaurants and order any kind of steak/prime rib.. anything over medium, you're throwing away your money..
Sorry, but you are completely wrong on that.
Pan frying and finishing it in the oven is actually the best way to cook a steak..
This is because when you pan fry a steak.. you seal in the juices.. whereas BBQing doesnt do that.. all the juices leak out due to the lack of intense heat..
You are cooking steak completely wrong if the juices are "steaming or boiling and making it chewy and gross"
someone probably already covered this.. but yeah.. this is NOT how you cook a steak.. unless you're buying the worst quality possible and trying to mask the flavor of the meat.
First, you let the steak defrost.. season with salt/pepper to your liking.. make sure your non-stick pan is on super high heat... put some olive oil on the pan.. and sear your steak for 2-3 minutes on both sides.. finish in the oven for another couple minutes to you're liking.. medium-rare tends to be the best tasting and the crowd favorite..
if you do medium well done(quoted post)... you're destroying all the flavors/juices in the steak and you might as well douse your steak with nasty A1 sauce as well..
High quality steaks should always be eaten at medium-rare and only seasoned with salt/pepper.. someone people like to butter the pan as well.. but I feel that takes away from the flavor of the steak.
When you go to restaurants and order any kind of steak/prime rib.. anything over medium, you're throwing away your money..
Sorry, but you are completely wrong on that.
Pan frying and finishing it in the oven is actually the best way to cook a steak..
This is because when you pan fry a steak.. you seal in the juices.. whereas BBQing doesnt do that.. all the juices leak out due to the lack of intense heat..
You are cooking steak completely wrong if the juices are "steaming or boiling and making it chewy and gross"
1: Why would you use non-stick to quickly sear a large piece of any meat? Cast-iron pans are like $5 at a garage sale, $10 at a hardware store, or free from grandparents who likely have 2 or 3 of them, and there's no better retainer or distributor of heat available in the kitchen.
2: Pan-frying/pan-searing/sauteing (not the same thing) doesn't seal in juices and juices don't leak out of food "due to the lack of intense heat" in BBQing. That first part's a culinary myth and the second is... I don't know what that is.
