Medium steak please.

[brewpup]

Why is cooking your own decent quality steak to medium so flipping hard.allways about 12 mm thick. Try to leave to stand a few mins , after 5 mins a side cooking. Comes out with no red inside. If I was in restaurant I would send it back. So any tips anyone.

[Rich2484]

I have been told. And it always works. By a butcher to put the steak in boiling water for a min or two. Then cook it. The hot water will start to cook the inside enough that when going in the pan you are cooking the outside to perfection but because the inside is already warm it won't require a lot.

 

Works every time.

 

Anyway why medium. Killing a poor steak that is..... If it doesn't moo when I stab it with the fork I don't want it.

[skyhuck]

I will ask my lass, she is a real pro.

 

Tonight I had a beautiful lump of rump, done to perfection, soft and pinky red in the centre, it was Devine.

[hedgesparrow]

for a good steak season with salt and pepper, then give it a good hard hit all over with a steak tenderiser hammer, put it on a griddle best and cook both sides just look at it when it looks just right brown outside bit pink inside one good steak

[skyhuck]

Just asked, she says VERY hot cast iron pan, butter and olive oil, 2 to 3 minuets max each side, then rest on warm plate for a 5 minuets.

 

She says you need to get the pan and fat really really hot!!!

 

PS, when you say "medium" I presume you mean"medium/rare"??

[mendiplogs]

Why is cooking your own decent quality steak to medium so flipping hard.allways about 12 mm thick. Try to leave to stand a few mins , after 5 mins a side cooking. Comes out with no red inside. If I was in restaurant I would send it back. So any tips anyone.

 

HI BREW im sorry mate thats a boys 12mm think 30mm more like it mate jon

[Peter]

There is no such thing as medium steak, there are only two ways of cooking a steak, rare or well done. You can tell the waiter whatever you want, when it gets to the kitchen there are only 2 options.

 

If its pink in the middle it's rare, if its cooked all the way through its well done. If you want it well done seal both sides and the edges in a really hot pan, then either move it to a cooler pan or finish it in the oven. Rare is the the hot pan bit but no finishing.

[treequip]

HI BREW im sorry mate thats a boys 12mm think 30mm more like it mate jon

 

I am with jon on this 12mm is a sandwich filler and your chances of getting something that thin rare are pitifully low

[Tree Man Tom]

Just asked, she says VERY hot cast iron pan, butter and olive oil, 2 to 3 minuets max each side, then rest on warm plate for a 5 minuets.

 

She says you need to get the pan and fat really really hot!!!

 

PS, when you say "medium" I presume you mean"medium/rare"??

 

sizzling hot pan, then drop your seasoned steak in.

 

Press your finger against your forehead, thats what a well done steak should feel like to touch.

 

Finger on your chin, thats medium

 

Finger on your cheek, that's rare etc....

 

But to have a steak any other way than rare is just criminal.

Edited April 6, 2013 by Tree Man Tom

[Rich2484]

For well done I normally pick up my arb boot and start chewing......