Fine Steak and A-1

[Guest071613-2]

Originally Posted by durango95

I still like Ruth's Chris Steak House the best, good quality, great side dishes, and they have a broiler set at 1,600 degrees that can sear and cook a great steak. If you are at home, only one way to cook like Ruth's Chris. Take a cast iron skillet, yes an old cast iron. Get it smoking hot and I mean smoking. Take your steak, salt and pepper, just a bit of garlic, and coat with a thin layer of olive oil and sear the steak on each side about three minutes. After browning both sides(always remember brown food taste good) place the pan with the steak in a very hot oven, about 425-450 for about another eight minutes. Take the steak out of the oven and remove from the pan and let it "rest" for about 10 minutes. This depends a lot on the thickness of the steak.

Another tip:

Steaks from nicer restaurants are good because they are dry aged. It isn't special meat from a special cow (unless it's Wagyu), it is just dry aged. You can do this at home and turn a five dollar sirloin from Albertson's, into something that is as tender and flavorful as a filet. Do it with a ribeye, and no one will believe you didn't go to a steakhouse and pick up dinner to-go.

Just take a casserole dish, and place some skewers across the top of it or use a wire rack. You want air to be able to circulate beneath the steak. Then, place some paper towels on top of the skewers or rack. Season with salt and place them on the paper towels. Put another layer of paper towels on top of the steak, then sit the casserole dish in the fridge for 24 hours. Take em out, change the towels, flip the steaks and put them back between the paper towels, and on top of the rack/skewers. Put em back in the fridge for 24 hours, then cook them like durango suggests.

If you can wait three days, even better. They won't look great when you go to cook them, but you aren't used to seeing dry aged meat, either. When they cook, they will be gorgeous. No worries. The goal is to get excess water out of the steaks. No, it doesn't make them less juicy. It does, however, concentrate flavor. The salt pulls the water out and also helps carmelize the steaks and gives them a beautiful crust. Trust me. You can thank me later. I do this all the time and it's the only way to go, if you are going to spend money on steaks from the store.

[bojulay]

Damn Dannie. That fine and you know how to cook also.

[caliente]

Dannie: WOW...

It is difficult that some people don't pay attention to detail in food. ate the same toime some of us feel bad when you see put Orange Juice in good Champagne, or coke in a 18 y/o Macalan ect... TOUGH....

[TonyStark]

Originally Posted by Dannie

Another tip:

Steaks from nicer restaurants are good because they are dry aged. It isn't special meat from a special cow (unless it's Wagyu), it is just dry aged. You can do this at home and turn a five dollar sirloin from Albertson's, into something that is as tender and flavorful as a filet. Do it with a ribeye, and no one will believe you didn't go to a steakhouse and pick up dinner to-go.

Just take a casserole dish, and place some skewers across the top of it or use a wire rack. You want air to be able to circulate beneath the steak. Then, place some paper towels on top of the skewers or rack. Season the steaks generously with salt, then place them on the paper towels. Put another layer of paper towels on top of the steak, then sit the casserole dish in the fridge for 24 hours. Take em out, change the towels, flip the steaks and put them back between the paper towels, and on top of the rack/skewers. Put em back in the fridge for 24 hours, then cook them like durango suggests.

If you can wait three days, even better. They won't look great when you go to cook them, but you aren't used to seeing dry aged meat, either. When they cook, they will be gorgeous. No worries. The goal is to get excess water out of the steaks. No, it doesn't make them less juicy. It does, however, concentrate flavor. The salt pulls the water out and also helps carmelize the steaks and gives them a beautiful crust. Trust me. You can thank me later. I do this all the time and it's the only way to go, if you are going to spend money on steaks from the store.

I'm gonna try this in the coming week and will report back!

After the game it's a pork chop with mustard!

[guest032413]

A1 tastes so funny to me, if the steak is already juicy no need in making it jucier with funny tasting goop.

[LazurusLong]

Thanks durango and Dannie. I plan on picking up some steaks and trying this out myself. Having a spare fridge in the garage allows for me to do this without crowding the kitchen.

Either of you two have any good suggestions for corned beef spices? I am slicing my first attempt right now and learned the hard way to not let it "corn" longer than 2 weeks (I got distracted) and it got a bit salty to my taste.

I prefer my corned beef with some heat, peppered if anyone knows how to do that.

Thanks in advance.

[Guest081013-1]

Originally Posted by Rambro Creed

If I wanna put some damn A-1 on my steak, I'ma put some damn A-1 on my steak! I don't give a damn how well you cooked it. I LIKE THE FLAVOR OF A-1 STEAK SAUCE. The chef is not eating the steak. I am. The fact that I'm in the restaurant YOU'RE working in should be compliment enough.

Some things are what they are. I eat steak sauce on steak, I eat ketchup and mustard on hamburgers, maybe a pickle, too. Hell, I like onions, as well, except when I have an ensuing appointment. The steak you cook is for the customers, and however THEY want it, not how YOU want it. You're OFFENDED as a chef because I wanna put sauce on your so called masterfully cooked, seasoned to perfection, unaugmentable steak, you egotistical, self-grandizing mother fucker??? I'm the one eating the damn steak. These are my taste buds, and my taste buds like steak sauce. Hell, I eat it on hamburgers, chicken, bacon, and any other forms of meat as well. That's just who I am. Am I a country, backwoods, BAMA MF'er because of such tastes? Maybe so. Oh, well. Am I now unworthy of eating your glorious steak because of all this? Fine. I'll walk out of this MF'er and take my country ass down to Outback and spend $40 on steaks for them, and leave YOUR steak sitting on the table. Hey, how about you pay for it? Then, MAYBE THEN I'll eat it without sauce on it.

Better yet, YOU eat it since you're so fucking in love with it.


MF'er!

ahhhhh,.... I think I just want to meet Rambro now even more. Will you talk to me like that BCD? That was hot baby. LOL... No seriously, I was literally laughing outloud while reading that. Good answer!!!

Amber Rain

[TheDuck]

This is why steaks (and burgers for that matter) cooked on a "grill" like The Big Green Egg taste so much better than those cooked on a regular grill...I can sear the meat for 2 minutes each side at 800 degrees, then "slow cook" at 500 for a few minutes till done to taste. Juicy, flavorful etc...no comparison!

Originally Posted by durango95

I still like Ruth's Chris Steak House the best, good quality, great side dishes, and they have a broiler set at 1,600 degrees that can sear and cook a great steak. If you are at home, only one way to cook like Ruth's Chris. Take a cast iron skillet, yes an old cast iron. Get it smoking hot and I mean smoking. Take your steak, salt and pepper, just a bit of garlic, and coat with a thin layer of olive oil and sear the steak on each side about three minutes. After browning both sides(always remember brown food taste good) place the pan with the steak in a very hot oven, about 425-450 for about another eight minutes. Take the steak out of the oven and remove from the pan and let it "rest" for about 10 minutes. This depends a lot on the thickness of the steak.

[Copierguy0]

Providers sure put up with alot of Hobbyist's Demands.

Suck it, Deeper (Watch those teeth), swallow, open up, wider, ass up, face down, don't talk, shut up, turn over, don't talk, etc..

now they can't put what they want on their steak
damn those hobbyist's.

CG

[Shep3.0]

Well, I heard lots of great input...Some worthless but it's ok. I guess I 'll simply ask how do you like your steak and how do you like it...It ll be my "screening" process to see where to take the date...


Side note:

---Well Morton's Steakhouse doesn't have any steak sauce of any kind...So for the A-1 lovers bring your own.
---Truluck's does have A-1 but no Heinz57
---Bob's Chophouse doesn't have Heinz 57

Just for the guys and gals that want A-1 or Heinz57...FYI

[Guest082216-1]

There is actualy some great sience on this subject. Several long term studies on the effect of fast food on the american palate. The bottom line is that the growth of eating at fast food resterrants and chain restarants by the general public has decreased the ability to appriciate many foods prepaired in more traditional ways. Why? the palate can be trained over time. Once we become accustomed to the way something tastes, that become the expectation of what that food should taste like. Many chain and fast food restarants "cheat" to get the desired taste. High salt content, injected with artificial flaverings, etc cover the lack of quality of components.

in this case, if you always eat a sauce on your stake, your tastsbuds expect to taste that sauce, reguardless of the actual flavor, texture and quality of the meat.

Higher end restarants use better quality foods, prepaired in such a way as to enhance the natural qualitys of the food. This often requires more work to prepair as well. High end chefts pride themselves on going the extra mile to ensure the food is prepaired to perfection. To add someting to the food that is designed to actualy mask the natural flavors is a slap in the face to the chef.

Your tastes can be changed but it takes time, money. and experience to do so. For me, stake is one of thsoe foods I have researched a bit. If I eat at Chis Ruths, I would not dream of using a sauce on stake. At a buffett, etc. I do becasuse the quality/taste is not there.

Now, wine? I know nothing about breathing, vintages, decantering, etc. Bacicly, it its not Boones Farm and it s cold, I will drink it. :-)

[Guest062124]

Originally Posted by TonyStark

I'm gonna try this in the coming week and will report back!

After the game it's a pork chop with mustard!

Let me know what you think.

[guest061212-1]

Shouldn't this be in alerts?

Dannie, I'm bringing the A-1 sauce so you can lick it of my johnson if you like.

You do have to have A-1 for a bad steak or a breakfast steak.

[guest061212-1]

Originally Posted by TonyStark

I'm gonna try this in the coming week and will report back!

After the game it's a pork chop with mustard!

Originally Posted by Reese Foster

Let me know what you think.

I sometimes put mustard, a pinapple ring on top it with a cherry in the center while it bakes. Adds a touch of a Hawaiian flavor.

[Guest062124]

Originally Posted by J.G. Wentworth

I sometimes put mustard, a pinapple ring on top it with a cherry in the center while it bakes. Adds a touch of a Hawaiian flavor.

YUM!