Cooking Steaks on the Grill - The Guide to a Perfect Steak

Cooking the perfect steak on the grill is part science, part art form. Putting everything together to create the perfect steak takes time and practice. However, once you have mastered cooking steaks on the grill, you will never go out for another steak again. The following tips will provide you with the guidance needed to develop your skills towards grilling the perfect steak.

Step 1 - Before grilling your steak you want to let it stand at room temperature for about 20 minutes. This will allow your it to cook faster and more evenly.

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Step 2 - Drizzle or lightly brush olive oil on your steak. Some people will tell you to oil your grill grate, but there is no need to if your steaks have oil on them. Also putting oil on your grill can create flare ups.

Step 3 - Salt your meat around 20 minutes before cooking. The salt will bring out the juices so when the steak hits the grill, that fantastic caramelization between sugar and protein will provide the perfect crust.

Step 4 - Sear your steak by using direct heat. Searing creates the caramelization and combines those great flavors on the crust of the meat. Sear it until the color is a dark brown. If the steak is really thick, you may need to move it over to indirect heat to finish the cooking so as not to over cook the outside of the it.

Step 5 - To create the grill marks, let your grill get up to a hot temperature before putting your steaks on the grill. Place the steak at 10 o'clock on the cooking grate. Half way through cooking on that side turn it to 2 o'clock. Repeat on the other side.

Step 6 - Try not to touch your steak too often. Ideally you only want to turn your steak over once. Constantly checking your steak and flipping it back and forth is something we want to stay away from.

Step 7 - After you have finished grilling your steak, let it stand again at room temperature for 5 minutes. This will allow the juices to redistribute back into the steak. As you cook the steak the juices are moving from the center outwards. This is why cooking a steak too long or any piece of meat for that matter, will dry it out.

Not many foods are better than a perfectly grilled steak. By continually cooking steaks on the grill you can hone your skills so that you will eventually create the perfect steak.

Cooking Steaks on the Grill - The Guide to a Perfect Steak

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How to Cook a New York Strip Steak

As you may already know, New York Strip Steak is one of the most popular steaks in America today mainly because of the steaks marbling, tenderness, juiciness and its succulent full flavor. The strip steak is best when grilled however it will taste just as divine pan fried. Cooking it in the oven is a misdemeanour as far as I'm concerned!

For Grilling:
Make sure your strip steak is at room temperature before you start. Trim the fat that's greater than half an inch or so, and cut through fat strip every 1 inch along. Lightly brush the strip steak with a good quality olive oil. Not to much mind as you do not want flare ups on the grill. Coat each side of the steaks with 1 teaspoon of black pepper and 1 teaspoon of salt. Pre heat the grill and take it to its highest temperature & then oil the grate. Place the strip steak on the grill for three minutes, then flip for another three minutes. Then do it again for a total cooking time of 12 minutes. Try not slide the steaks across the grill, pick them up with tongs. And do not flip them around. Be gentle with them Use the blunt end of the grilling fork to check for desired tenderness and remove when done to your satisfaction. For rare allow for 12 minutes and then just add a 2 minutes for each level of "doneness" if there is such a word!Let the steak rest for 5 minutes, trim remaining fat and serve to your hungry crowd.

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For Pan Frying:

- Rinse your new york steak with water and pat dry.
- Puncture steak with fork all over and on both sides.
- Sprinkle a generous portion of salt and pepper on both sides and then massage or rub in.
- Make sure pan is pre heated to medium heat and then add the cooking oil.
- Put the steak in the pan and place a lid over the pan.
- Let it cook for 2 minutes and then remove from heat.
- Open lid and gently turn the steak. Put the lid back on and return to heat, cook for another 2 minutes. Repeat this process twice more so total time 12 minutes.
- Remove from heat and when sizzling stops, remove lid and flip steak again put lid back on and return to heat
- Check for tenderness and if done serve.

Well there you have it. The nations favorite cooked to perfection. I hope you enjoy your new yourk strip steak!

How to Cook a New York Strip Steak

Further information can be found at:

[http://www.howtocookanewyorkstripsteak.net]

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Barbecue Pork Steaks - Secret Ways to Cook Them Revealed For the Very First Time

Have you ever eaten a barbecue pork steak? If not, you are really missing out on a delicious barbecue experience. Almost everyone who is from the region of the United States that surrounds the City of St. Louis has, and takes for granted that everyone else in the country has too. That is not the case. It is very hard to find them outside of the St. Louis influenced regional area.

For his reason, directions for properly preparing a pork steak will be presented:

Locate the right cut of meat. This may sound obviously easy. It is not. In areas outside of the St. Louis zone, it is very difficult to find the cut that we know as the pork steak. You just can't pop down to the Schnucks and get 3 pounds on sale. Grocery stores don't even have them. Butchers look at you like you have three heads if you ask for one. This is how you get an authentic pork steak to cook. Go to your friendly butcher and ask him if he would be so kind as to custom cut some meat for you. He should be happy and willing to do this. If not, find another butcher. Tell him you need a pork shoulder, (the Boston butt portion) sliced into steaks, approximately 3/4 inch thick. Get about six of them. This is a pork steak. A pork chop is not a very good substitute, because it is a pork chop. Thank your butcher for helping you, and pay him. He should be more than willing to accept your money, and will be glad to see you again if you pay him.
Get out your Weber style kettle grill, set it up for direct cooking. This means build a charcoal fire on the bottom grate, and spread out the coals across the bottom when properly lit. You want your fire to be medium hot when you grill your pork steaks.
Season the steaks with salt and pepper. You may want to rub them with a barbecue rub. Some do, some don't. Put the steaks on the grill, cover with the lid, vents open. You'll hear all sorts of sizzling sounds and smoke will pour out of the open top vents. This is good. Turn the steaks over after about 5 minutes, and do the same with the lid, smoke pouring out. Cook this side for about 5 minutes.
Remove the steaks to one of those cheap aluminum disposable baking pans that you can purchase at your grocery store, and cover them with the barbecue sauce that you like best. In St. Louis, the sauce of choice for old school backyard grill-masters would be Maulls, a local sauce with a catchy TV advertising jingle. Any sauce will do though, as long as it is your favorite. Some people will add beer to the mix at this point, both by drinking some and adding some to the sauce pan.
Place your steaks back on the grill, in the pan and let them baste for awhile, until you are ready to eat.
Serve them with potato salad (the kind made with mayo and egg is the best for authenticity) on the side.
Accept the praise offered by your family and friends humbly as they devour your pork steaks.

There you have it, the secret method used by native St. Louis barbecue chef's to prepare the dish, barbecue Saint Louis Style Pork Steaks.

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