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I've been playing around with the best way to cook a decent steak. My budget stretches to rump steak (or round steak in the US wiki tells me). I can't fire up a barbecue all the time. What's the best way to maximise flavour and minimise toughness?

Grill, griddle, pan fry? Marinade? Rub? Tenderise?

Personally I go for pan fry in some butter. Leave the steak out from the fridge to loosen up with some cracked black pepper. Pre heat the pan till it's nearly smoking, then a few minutes either side and leave it to rest. I like it rare/ medium rare myself, but I've had a couple of nice steaks well done.

On the same topic- best cuts and types of beef? Aberdeen Angus is one of the best in the UK, but I also used to live in Kobe, Japan. That stuff takes some beating.

Use charcoal, and if you like to, use the hickory kind. That really gives it more flavor.

i like omaha steak seasoning, rub. wostershire sauce. a little and a little butter broil in oven 1 side for 6 min other side for 4 min. comes out med/rare. oh and make sure you keep to the time and make sure it is the second rack from the top. to broil in the over the door needs to be kept open a little.

good to go

Symmetry wrote:I've been playing around with the best way to cook a decent steak. My budget stretches to rump steak (or round steak in the US wiki tells me). I can't fire up a barbecue all the time. What's the best way to maximise flavour and minimise toughness?

Grill, griddle, pan fry? Marinade? Rub? Tenderise?

Personally I go for pan fry in some butter. Leave the steak out from the fridge to loosen up with some cracked black pepper. Pre heat the pan till it's nearly smoking, then a few minutes either side and leave it to rest. I like it rare/ medium rare myself, but I've had a couple of nice steaks well done.

On the same topic- best cuts and types of beef? Aberdeen Angus is one of the best in the UK, but I also used to live in Kobe, Japan. That stuff takes some beating.

Well if you really want to cook a good steak I'd recommend you grill using charcoal. there are other ways to cook it yes but that's how it's supposed to be done.

I've got no arguments with the grill using charcoal approach. The best steak I've ever had, though, has been using a hibachi. That was Kobe beef and really expensive though.

Like I said though- can't argue with charcoal grilling. English weather can though.

*sigh*

Roger Dodger- What's in Omaha steak seasoning?

I've heard good things about Omaha cuts of beef from one of my mates in the US. He says the corn is pretty good too.

Symmetry wrote:I've got no arguments with the grill using charcoal approach. The best steak I've ever had, though, has been using a hibachi. That was Kobe beef and really expensive though.

Like I said though- can't argue with charcoal grilling. English weather can though.

*sigh*

You need a water and flame proof enclosure.

As far as seasonings go, I find that just a little bit of pretty much any kind of seasoning (just a little so it doesn't interfere with the natural flavor) goes well with steak. For non-charcoal grilled steak there was a japanese diced steak style that was called something like yakinibu or maybe yosiniku (I can't remember other than it started with a y) that was really good.

Yakiniku is all kinds of awesome

It's not strictly a steak style, but pretty much any kind of meat, and any kind of cut. All you can eat grilled meat for about $15 for two-three hours where I used to live. I really miss those places.

Symmetry wrote:Yakiniku is all kinds of awesome

It's not strictly a steak style, but pretty much any kind of meat, and any kind of cut. All you can eat grilled meat for about $15 for two-three hours where I used to live. I really miss those places.

Yeah that's it. There's a japanese restaurant near my apartment that sells Yakiniku steak for $8.99. I tried it out of curiousity and loved it.

It's beautiful stuff. If you get a chance, and if they offer it, try it in some garlic butter

When the barbecue grill isn't an option, I like to use the little broiler thing under the stove. Poke the steak thoroughly with a fork to fill it with holes (play the music from the shower scene of Psycho while you do it), and then spread it with a seasoning mixture. I usually get kind of creative with what I put in the mixture. Will discuss later on request.

Anyway, watch out: the broiler cooks it quick and burns it quick if you're not careful.

Just to confuse things, we brits call that "broiler thing" the grill. I'd been in the uS some weeks before i realized what "broil" meant on the cooker.

Yeah- broil confused the hell out of me for a long time. Sometimes I'll give American English its kudos. Broil is not one of those times. Too close to boil.

Daddygringo- consider this a request

Symmetry wrote:Yeah- broil confused the hell out of me for a long time. Sometimes I'll give American English its kudos. Broil is not one of those times. Too close to boil.

Daddygringo- consider this a request

As an American I actually do prefer the sound and slang of British English (I.E. regular English).

Like across the pond.

GRILLED.... WELL DONE.... ADD A1 and WHA-LA!

the best way is over a Greece fire.

Grim

jay_a2j wrote:GRILLED.... WELL DONE.... ADD A1 and WHA-LA!

What the hell is "WHA-LA"? Do you mean "voila"?

hecter wrote:

jay_a2j wrote:GRILLED.... WELL DONE.... ADD A1 and WHA-LA!

What the hell is "WHA-LA"? Do you mean "voila"?

Artistic license?
Just checked up on A1. Never seen it in the UK, but it turns out that it's a British sauce originally. Do any of you know how it compares to HP sauce in the UK?

jay_a2j wrote:GRILLED.... WELL DONE.... ADD A1 and WHA-LA!

For a proper steak you don't need any A1. also I prefer my steak rare.

I tell the wife that she better get the f*ck in the kitchen and do me a steak

I'm not a big fan of adding sauces to steaks. But one sauce I did like:

Fry up some sliced mushrooms in a bit of oil
Take the mushrooms out and leave to keep warm in the bottom of the oven
Put some butter in the frying pan with the mushroom juice
Add the steak to that
Add some brandy and light the pan up, burn off the alcohol
Fry for a few minutes either side and take the steak out
Add the mushrooms and some creme freche back into the pan to make a brandy/creme freche/ mushroom sauce
Pour over the steak

Again- fair amount of cracked black pepper wanted, and you don't want the sauce to cover the steak

Men! How do you cook a steak?

With the blistering heat that radiates from my record-breakingly large testicles.

MrWainthrope wrote:

Men! How do you cook a steak?

With the blistering heat that radiates from my record-breakingly large testicles.

Buster?

Highly disturbing given your picture, but anyway, burning sensations in your testicles are a matter for you and your previous partners, so good luck eh?