Cooking the perfect steak
by Alex Brad
Thank you, Alex Brad
Find below what you must know when you buy a steak
1. What cuts of meat to choose?
Sirloin is a fine choice due to its tasty, melt-in-the-mouth succulence. Good sirloin has just the right amount of fat and nice marbling.
Rump steak is slightly cheaper than sirloin, but it’s still a great steak for barbeque or frying, with more flavor than sirloin.
2. A good beef should be a deep red color.
3. Check the beef has good marbling – little streaks of fat running through the meat.
This melts when heated and helps the steak to baste itself from within as it cooks.4. A good layer of creamy-white fat around the top of sirloin steaks is essential.
How to cook the perfect steak:
1. Heat your griddle or frying pan, over a high heat, until smoking hot.
2. Lightly brush the steak with a little olive oil and season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
3. Don’t griddle more than two steaks at a time, and keep them spaced well apart. Why? If you add more than two steaks to the pan at once, the temperature will drop and the steak will stew, rather than fry.
4. Don’t turn the steaks until good seared markings are achieved, then turn them over and cook on the other side.
5. You must let the steak rest for about 3 minutes before serving, to allow the juices that have been drawn to the surface to relax back into the meat.
How long is necessary to cook a steak?
These timings are based on cooking a sirloin steak that’s about 2 cm thick. Cooking times will vary depending on the type and thickness of the steak and how hot your pan is.
Blue: 1 minute on each side
Rare: 1½ minutes on each side
Medium rare: 2 minutes on each side
Medium: 2¼ minutes on each side
Medium-well done: 2½ – 3 minutes on each side.
Thank you, and Bon Appetite. Alex Brad
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