How to Cook The Perfect Steak
Juicy, tender and mouthwatering...... juices dribbling down your chin as you drool with each tasty and sumptuous mouthful or, as tough as an old shoe ?
However you take your steak I'll bet that you don't want it as tough as leather.
Some of the best steaks
I have had have been in the most unlikely looking grill rooms. One memorable steak meal was in a small west coast rural town with dingy lighting, grimy looking walls and plastic oil cloths on the tables that delivered a scrumptious finger licking meal that had us begging for more and determined to cook our own tender, tasty steak at home.
How to cook a steak
- Buy the best cut
you can find - what ever your preference - we like fillet steak for tenderness, sirloin for flavor, T bone is also delicious and porterhouse is fine but sometimes slightly drier.
- You may like to try them all to see which is your personal favorite.
- It should look succulent, pink and moist and definitely not pale and dried out
- Brush your steak with oil
and season with salt
and pepper
- Heat a heavy pan
until very hot - it should be so that a few drops of oil in it sizzle and set of blue smoke.
- Place the steak in the pan or on a griddle
like a Barbeque and listen for that sizzle - if it doesn't sizzle it is probably not hot enough and will broil and be tougher
- The steak is ready to turn when you see drops of blood on the surface - test by pressing on the surface and see how much give there is.
- Turn and cook a further 3 - 4 minutes
- Look for Aged Steak,
- Start with the best steak
for best results
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