Cooking a Perfect Steak

November 7, 2010 · 64 comments

Cooking the Perfect Steak

As a food blogger, I love conveying my message through words. As a photographer, I love capturing my message in images. But with some things, like cooking, you need to hear the sounds, smell the aromas, taste the flavors and feel the ingredients with your hands to really get the full picture. Unfortunately my experiments with inventing a device to broadcast the later three things haven’t been very successful. Luckily, there’s video, which helps me convey some of those things with the addition of motion and sound. That’s why I try to do video to accompany my posts as much as my schedule allows.

Since it’s always been my philosophy that anyone can cook well without a recipe by understanding a few basic techniques, I figured what better way to get started than to show you how to make the perfect steak. After all, what could be more basic than cooking meat? It’s been around since man started chasing his fellow mammals around with spears, and eating a juicy medium-rare steak satisfies on such a primal level.

But as simple as a steak may seem, it’s important to understand a few basic things about the laws of thermodynamics. They are after all, what separates a raw slab of flesh from a superlative steak. Check out the latest episode of No Recipes to see how I make the perfect steak.

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    • http://colloquialcooking.com Colloquial Cool

      Just watched this with my dad, he was like “of course, a cast iron” “of course neutral oil” “of course really hot” – he never cooks anything but the steaks, but steaks are his expertise – we just never finish it in the oven so the inside remains raw. French people are a little prehistoric that way.

    • Felix

      Is there no need for having the meet rest when it comes out of the oven for a few minutes or has the temperature of the meet already dropped enough?

      • Anonymous

        It couldn’t hurt to let it rest, but I find that the relatively low
        temperatures in the oven relax the proteins enough so it doesn’t gush juice
        all over the plat when you cut into the steak.

    • Marykattietaylor

      I made the most perfect steak thanks to you! Thank you so much!

    • Alyks42

      When you put salt on the meat, it draws out moisture. The moisture steams the meat, makes it gray.

      • http://norecipes.com Marc Matsumoto

        That’s why it’s important to salt it just before you put the meat in
        the pan. Also if your pan is hot enough you should not have a problem
        with getting a nice brown sear even if there is a little moisture on
        the surface of the meat.

    • Alyks42

      When you put salt on the meat, it draws out moisture. The moisture steams the meat, makes it gray.

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