Perfect Steak Tips

Steak is one of the easiest home cooking

Because all you need is a good steak and you're done!

Unlike other Chinese cooking methods, steak requires delicate control of heat, oil, saltiness, and various ingredients, and under the complexity of the process, it is not always possible to make a delicious meal.

And to cook a steak, the one you need is a good steak, no fancy seasonings or side dishes, no fussy steps

All you need is sea salt and black pepper to cook a perfect steak. Steak cooking requires very little in the way of cookware, seasoning, technique, etc.!

Here are a few questions to answer about steak cooking

1. When buying steak, should I buy non-soused or well-soused?

I think this question, it depends on the individual, if you want the steak to have a better flavor, you can choose the well-soused. Because these soused steaks are usually ready to cook right out of the bag, saving time and effort, and their souses are adjusted hundreds or thousands of times, the taste will be superior to your own soused steak.

If you like the original flavor steak, you can buy non-soused steak and bring it to be soused by yourself, usually with just sea salt and pepper. However, this requires a higher quality of steak.。

2.cooking steak, use butter or olive oil?

First of all, some people think that you don't need to put any oil to cook steak, this issue depends on the grade of steak.

If it is a high-level steak with high fat rate, then you don’t need to put oil, but for the low-level steak, no oil is impossible. Butter and olive oil, these can increase the flavor of the steak, and put oil can also prevent sticky pan.

Should we use butter or olive oil?

If it is the American way of cooking, the surface is crispy and the inside is red and juicy, you should use olive oil instead of butter, because the butter will scorch under high temperature, so it is impossible to fry the steak under high heat.

If it is a low and slow frying Japanese style, then it is more suitable for butter. Because butter can continuously conduct heat, during the process of frying steak, it can do not stick to the pan. In addition, the use of butter can play a role in increasing the flavor.

3.How would we choose our steak cooked, will we be despised if eat well-done steak?

This is the question that people ask the most. I have also been invited to answer the question: will I be despised if I order a well-done steak?  Such questions like this.

What I want to express is, delicious flavor is the only purpose of cooking. Whether it is delicious or not, everyone has different criteria. That's why it's important for you to feel good. If you like it well-done steak, then cook it until it is well-done, if you like medium rare steak, then cook it to medium rare.

All right! Let's get back to the topic of how to cook the perfect steak!

There are seven steps in total!

1. Thaw; 2. Wipe dry; 3. Heat the pan; 4. Oil; 5. Fry; 6. Rest; 7. Seasoning ......

Specific practices.

(1) Thaw: Put it into the refrigerator at 4°C a day in advance for slow thawing, and then take it to room temperature a few hours in advance for slow thawing.

(2) Wipe dry: Use kitchen paper to dry the surface of the thawed steak

(3) Heat the pan: Heat the cast iron pan to above 200°C, usually 3-4 minutes on empty, until slightly smoky

(4) Oil: Drizzle the pan with enough first-rate corn oil to cover the surface of the pan.

(5) Fry: Place the steak in the pan and cook over high heat for 1 minute on each side (less time if thinner), until both sides are sufficiently browned

(6) Rest: Let rest at room temperature for 3-5 minutes.

(7) Seasoning: sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper and salt, ready to slice

Conclusion

The above introduction is the most basic way to cook steak, the actual hands-on operation is no more than a matter of seconds to minutes.

If you really understand the meaning of these steps, according to your stove, room temperature and other environment to do a little adjustment, the steak will not be bad, and can be very fast dishes.

If you don’t know what to eat when your friends come to visit your home, or don't have time to make fancy dishes, steak is an alternative option which is really a simple, fast and decent hard dish.