Is it meat quality? I get good sear, cooked to temp. Salt pepper still tastes bland. Tried basting it's meh. Msg meh garlic powder meh
Is this just from buying supermarket steak? It's honestly flavorless. Go to a restaurant and it's totally different
you're missing the love
Try a reverse sear. You slow roast your steak, rest it, sear it, then serve it.
I was never a big fan of steak until I tried reverse sear. I didn't even use a fancy cut either. Just a good old piece of rump.
has the added benefit of making the outside dry, resulting in a better sear
why is it that colour? super unnatural
One thing that elevates a steak that cooklets fear is cooking it with EVOO. The bitter flavour profile the olive oil gives does something to the steak that just hits the right note.
>muh smokepoint
Irrelevant
you arent using enough salt and pepper. baste with butter garlic and thyme to finish it off. learn how to cook it properly to med rare.
Try dry brining it, salt it and let it sit on a rack in the fridge for a couple days and sear it in a cast iron pan on extremely high heat, you’ll get a great crust. Restaurants use a ton of salt and fat and steak places usually melt herb butter on it, get some to butter to room temperature and mix it with some garlic and thyme, melt some on your steak and let it sit for a bit before eating so the juices stay in.
Not a single good newer itt. Grill over charcoal slightly offset indirect grilling
>how come
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Restaraunts cook everything in a lot more fat than you are using.
>Is this just from buying supermarket steak?
It very well could be.
What cut are you buying? Sometimes supermarkets sell a shit cut and give it a nonsensical name to make it seem like a real steak cut.
How thick is it? A lot of supermarket steak tends to be too thin. It should be at least 1 inch thick at minimum, ideal is 1.5 inches. Otherwise it overcooks as you're trying to sear it.
How much does it cost? In 2023 a decent ribeye is gonna be expensive at the supermarket. If it's only slightly more expensive than pork chops then it's not gonna be a steak cut at all regardless of the store's labeling.
If you want to confirm this then buy the ribeyes from Costco. It's cheaper per pound than your average grocery store and high quality. If it still tastes bad then either you just don't like beef or you're doing something wrong.
Many restaurants will either have steak in the sous vide ready for finishing, and often use dirty tricks like beef bouillon to infuse more beefy flavor into the meat
not enough salt, actually cooked a bit less than you like
if the sear is good it's one of those two
ton of fat, specially butter and some salt, rosemary and optionally garlic. Keep covering the steak with the butter using spoon and that's it. Use hot pan and dont be moving and poking the steak like a nagger.
dry brine
it just werks
(a) try going to a butcher, (b) most steak houses dry age their beef which is not easy to do at home regardless of what youtube shills will tell you, (c) try marinating your steaks
idk if it's placebo effect but i salt brine for at least an hour in the fridge. i used to throw it right in the oven with a probe in it and let it heat up with the oven but some ovens smell like gas for the first few mins
take it out according to your preference. if you have the patience go ahead and make a herb butter to baste it with but turn the fucking heat down or you'll burn the shit out of it
>idk if it's placebo effect
this part i meant to add: "but i think grass fed beef has more punctual flavor". we get these little ones that are vacuum sealed on sale for 5-8 bucks a piece.. but i can only eat beef a couple times a week so even if i could afford it i wouldn't be eating steak every other day
part of why i believe the grass fed grass finished meme is because the eggs we get are local and you can 100% tell just in the color of the yolk that they are better. love me some of dem eggs and still only $2/dozen
either you're not buying a good enough quality or cooking just ain't your thing. i haven't ordered a steak in years at a restaurant because the ones i cook in my cast iron at home taste way better
Don't you need to let the Hispanices sit in over night?