Thread: Steak - how many times do you turn yours

Cook until you see little bit of the blood coming to the top.
Turn.
Eat.
Mmmmmmm....

(sorry to all the vegetarians out there)

Three times, the last two times only quickly just to put the meat back into the juices that it has been cooked in.

I always cook several snags first on the plate before putting the steak on though as this adds flavour and keeps the plate moist. I need to keep the plate moist as the average steak I cook is between 1.5 and 2 inches thick and if the plate is not moist the steak will burn and dry out. I don't always eat the snags though as I said they are used more often then not for flavour.

I only let my steaks rest for a maximum of five minutes though while I clean the plate by the time I have cooked them I would rather eat them then stand and look at them.

I like mine medium rear and given I'm the cook that is how everyone else gets theirs as well.

There is nothing quite like a medium rear 1.5 kilo T-bone and a good bottle of Shiraz to put a smile on my face.

cheers,
Terry

Ok peasants...........you turn a steak once.........that's it. When I cook my medium rare steak....there is no hoping its medium rare.....experience yields a perfectly cooked steak. Also olive oil should be on the steak not in the frypan/ spray oil on BBQ and BBQ/pan should be as hot as possible. The let it sit for half the time you cooked it....ie if overall cooking time was 10mins....let rest for 5....here endth the lesson ,

Regards

Stevo

Hot ass pan, on till bloody on top. Turn and into oven. Rest as above

27.

It's important to be precise.

26 or 28 will screw it right up.

Originally Posted by clubagreenie

Hot ass pan, on till bloody on top. Turn and into oven. Rest as above

how hot would your oven be?

Originally Posted by stevo68

Ok peasants...........you turn a steak once.........that's it. When I cook my medium rare steak....there is no hoping its medium rare.....experience yields a perfectly cooked steak. Also olive oil should be on the steak not in the frypan/ spray oil on BBQ and BBQ/pan should be as hot as possible. The let it sit for half the time you cooked it....ie if overall cooking time was 10mins....let rest for 5....here endth the lesson ,

Regards

Stevo

X2

Or an even better version is to let SWMBO cook it for you - after she has been educated in the fine art of correctly cooking a steak of course.

Never. Cooking is women's work!