The Secret To Perfect Steak: Start With Warm Meat

The Secret To Perfect Steak: Start With Warm Meat

In our never-ending quest for steak perfection, we found one more trick to add to your cooking technique. It comes from esteemed food genius Harold McGee, who says you should make sure the steaks are warm before you cook them.

Picture: Jim U/Flickr

As The Guardian reports, this is McGee’s method:

apparently the best way to ensure the first is to wrap the steaks in cling film then immerse them in warm water for 30 — 60 minutes before cooking.

Alternatively, you could just let the steaks come to room temperature on the counter before cooking. McGee’s other tip, the article notes, is to flip often.

The warming method is at odds with the quick-freeze method of getting a perfect crust and cooking a steak straight from the freezer technique, but there’s more than one path to better-tasting steaks.

How to cook the perfect steak [The Guardian]


The Cheapest NBN 50 Plans

Here are the cheapest plans available for Australia’s most popular NBN speed tier.

At Lifehacker, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.

Comments


3 responses to “The Secret To Perfect Steak: Start With Warm Meat”