PigLick on 21/1/2010 at 09:58
dude, you put the butter in after the steak is out. fasct
heywood on 21/1/2010 at 17:07
Quote Posted by Namdrol
If you don't cook steak in butter(with a little bit of olive oil so you can get the heat up without the butter burning) how can you make a rocking cream sauce with a touch of mustard and peppercorns?
And just recently I've been putting a cube of the pheasant stock I've got frozen down into the sauce.
Man this rocks.
I don't. I make a wine & mushroom gravy when serving a standing rib roast and sometimes a sweet demi glace with a lean tenderloin. But I never sauce a steak. To each his own, but I think if you start with a good piece of marbled meat and cook it right, the au jus is the best sauce.
Rug Burn Junky on 21/1/2010 at 19:18
Quote Posted by PigLick
best way to cook a steak is the way you like to eat it. Fact.
Agreed, but that doesn't mean that even with subjective opinions there aren't objectively (or at the least, more universally accepted subjectively) superior techniques. One of the high points of a good steak is the crust that occurs on the outside when it is grilled/pan-fried at high temps and the outside caramelizes. It's a chemical reaction that you just can't get right without the salt. Yeah sure, you can make it without it if you like but when you're making capital S
Steak in the classic sense, you're dropping an important ingredient. It's like saying "I love martinis, but I don't really like vermouth or olives, so I just shake gin over ice."
But more importantly, the basis for his reasoning ("Oh noes, it draws all the moisture out!") is just plain wrong.
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I pretty much agree with everything heywood wrote except I'm a little more forgiving on butter.
I can be convinced either way depending on how it's done, a small amount on a grilled steak can add to the flavor (Ruth's Chris overdoes it, but it's integral to the unbeatable masterpiece that is a Peter Luger steak). But you can't pan fry with it correctly - the smoke point on butter (or olive oil) is too low to get the outside of a steak correct.
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rbj fails chook biology
I quite understand chicken biology, but evidently you wouldn't understand a joke if someone jammed it up your cloaca.
PigLick on 22/1/2010 at 00:55
I totally agree with you, that youtube link was spot on, exactly how I do my steaks, I was just being a bit of a douche.
also finding nice marbled beef is hard here(Australia) most of it seems to be very lean cuts.
CCCToad on 22/1/2010 at 01:10
This might seem obvious, but its worth repeating: Better meat makes a better steak. If you can afford it and have any shops nearby that sell it, I'd recommend organic steaks over any name-brand steak. There's no comparison between them when it comes to taste (cooking technique being the same, of course).
PeeperStorm on 22/1/2010 at 02:40
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
I quite understand chicken biology, but evidently you wouldn't understand a joke if someone jammed it up your cloaca.
Pot, kettle, black. And stop offering to put your penis up my cloaca.
Rug Burn Junky on 22/1/2010 at 03:00
If you actually made anything resembling a joke, maybe it would be "pot, kettle..." but, uhh, yeah... not so much.
Starrfall on 22/1/2010 at 03:18
I actually don't have a favorite way to cook steak any more because I'm really good at all of the ways.
jay pettitt on 26/1/2010 at 16:20
Oh for god's sake steak is the most tedious imaginable dish of a great big lump of monotonous bland stuff on your plate one can imagine. The only possibly good thing about steak is that it might have a sauce/flavourings on it - but why you don't put the source on something nice to begin with I don't know. It might do in the UK where we have the world's worst cuisine and least literate Fragonyesque populous but other countries should know better than to put a chewy slab of a dead animal on a plate with peas and processed potatoes/chips and think it makes you hip.
Rug Burn Junky on 26/1/2010 at 17:30
Quote Posted by jay pettitt
The only possibly good thing about steak is that it might have a sauce/flavourings on it
You've obviously never had a really great steak. That's like saying "The only good thing about coffee is if you dump tons of sugar and milk in it, so why not just drink milk and sugar with something else instead."
