The Easiest Way to Cook a Steak
Learning how to cook a steak – Steak is one of those foods that is universally loved, yet many people don’t seem to know how to cook steak properly. It’s not that it’s particularly difficult, it’s actually easier than most people make it. Oftentimes people want to over-complicate the process with marinades and aging, but cooking a great steak requires none of that. There is one surefire way to cook a great steak every time, and it’s the easiest way to go about doing it.
First, you have to start out with the right cut of beef. Rib-eye is the best steak for most purposes, as it has big beef flavor and is tender enough to stand up to most cooking styles. Many people mistakenly believe that filet mignon is the best because it is the most expensive. But, it lacks the fatty marbling that makes the rib-eye delicious and able to be used for both indoor cooking and grilling, without the use of marinade. This why you won’t find filet mignon being used exclusively in hamburger recipes, because the lack of fatty marbling means it won’t bind and hold together during the cooking process.
Rib eye steak
Rib eye is fatty and tender enough that marinade is unnecessary, but that doesn’t mean it won’t benefit from a basic rub. An easy and delicious rub involves mincing several cloves of garlic, cracked pepper, sea salt, and olive oil. It takes about 3 minutes to make from scratch, and is better than anything store-bought. Make sure both sides, and the edges of the steak are fully covered in this rub.
Cooking a steak is a simple process, but before you cook it, be sure that the steak itself is about room temperature before placing it on the heat source. This will ensure an even and thorough cooking. The exact temperature for cooking is not important – it should be somewhere between 300 and 350 degrees. The tricky part is learning how long to cook your steak for your desired done-ness. This will take between 5 and 10 minutes a side, and will require you to get a “feel” for what steaks of varying done-ness physically feel like when you press them. The more done they are the more tough they’re going feel when you press them. Try to learn this rather than cutting into your steak to check while it’s cooking. It will help preserve juices and flavor.
Rib eye marbled
When you remove your steak from the grill or oven, you might want to dig in right away, but you should resist that urge at all costs. The meat will actually continue to cook for another few minutes; this process is called “resting.” Give it 5 or 10 minutes, but don’t wait too long, as the steak will get cold, obviously. After your steak has rested, it should be ready to eat. This is probably the easiest way to go about cooking a steak. Once you’ve learned how to cook a great steak, you can learn how to cook salmon for a surf and turf style dinner that is easy and delicious (and a lot cheaper than lobster).
And once you’ve mastered the art of cooking steaks and seafood, then you can move onto the oft forgotten side dishes, like rice, pastas and even a little know gem known as quinoa. Learning how to cook quinoa will impress everybody around you, and provide a healthy alternative for those with gluten intolerance issues.
Surf and turf style recipes make for great outdoor barbecues and grilling occasions. For other great grilling recipes, visit our Rival crock pot home page and see how others just like you are learning to live the slow-cookin’ lifestyle…
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