Ok so I recently got the green light from my gf: I am now allowed to cook beef steaks in our kitchen (she hates beef). It took some convincing but I am now here.
I found a good store that sells quality beef so I can order it from time to time.
I want to buy a Lodge skillet just for steaks.
What else do I need? Steak knives? What brand?
What would a basic steak kit require?
just chuck it in the ute
What is that?
Nice. What about Opinel?
A patrician's choice for sure, although they are multitaskers suitable for steaks, chopping kindling, and cleaning out your fingernails
If you're innawoods Opinel is No.1
I got a friend living near Chambery, he gifted me an Opinel, didn't know they were this good
I have an Opinel filet knife that I use for trimming. The thing is absolutely godly.
The ute?
A ute is a car or SUV for the front half with a truck bed on the back half
Loads of space in there
Laguiole, make sure they're the French ones, not the Chinese ones
>Lodge skillet
Cast iron requires too much effort to clean and maintain. Get a heavy steel pan that can easily be scrubbed/put in the dishwasher and save yourself the trouble.
>steak knives
Cut it before serving with your standard kitchen knife. No need for extra shit.
>basic steak kit
is a good place to start, you can go by feel/sight after a bit
Just found the Darto carbon steel at about the same price as a Lodge, looks of for steaks?
Same thermal capacity better thermal transfer rate
In english doc
Ounce for ounce, pound for pound, it holds as much heat as cast iron (good for steaks)
However cast iron has a rough surface and radiates heat in all directions (bad for steaks)
Carbon steel has a smooth surface that only transfers heat mostly into what it comes in contact with (good for steaks)
However carbon steel is typically thinner and lighter than cast iron (bad for steaks)
I will buy a cast iron and a carbon steel then
If you can get or make a polished cast iron pan it's best for steaks (I have one)
Any other recs? Some books?
Salt your steak 1.2-1.3 percent by weight
On a rack on a baking sheet, put your steak in a cold oven
Bring the oven up to 128-130F and turn it off
After 1.5 hours flip the steaks over, bring the oven back up to 128-130F and turn it off for another 2.5 hours
Pat it as dry as possible, it will be a little grey on the outside but raw on the inside
But this will have given time for the salt to fully penetrate the steak and dry out the exterior
This will help you get a good crust on it no matter how you decide to finish it
Thanks but I am interested in gear and stuff like that, any specific tools and brands you use
I use my oven, a cast iron pan that's older than I am, my stove, and a set of tongs
Cast iron usually has hot and cold spots so stick it in your oven as high as it will go, 500 or 550 is pretty common
Then I move the pan to a burner on full blast
Then fry the steak in fat, not butter, butter will cool off your pan too much, if you want butter flavor make a compound butter and serve it with the steak
I usually fry in avocado oil and turn the hood up as high as possible
If you don't have a hood fry it in a lot of oil, like enough to cover the pan completely from side to side, that will keep the smoke down
Is she oversaturated from all the BVLL your gf gets every night while you play nintendo switch?
Please don't trigger me
definitely get the salt bae glasses and scimitar
OP here, my gf is the best, she only wanted me to pay for a two week holiday to Jamaica each year, I can cook steaks all day long during that time
>I am now allowed to...
Sounds more like you need a g'damn pair of balls instead of tips on how to cook a steak. Quit letting women make you a bitch.
No advice for you until you earn it.
Kys, eunuch bitch
>I want to buy a Lodge skillet just for steaks.
a quality stainless steel pan would be just as good for steaks and more versatile. Cast iron is ok, as long as you don't mind the constant maintenance. Carbon steel is similar, but with a few advantages.
>What else do I need? Steak knives? What brand?
if you like to own fancy stuff, nice, but any decent set of serrated knives will do the job. Tramontina is generally cheap and traditionally makes good steak knives sets.
>What would a basic steak kit require?
a steak, a pan, a pair of kitchen tongs, a probe thermometer.
>those massive gray bands
absolutely fucking ruined.
What a fucking cuck
Why would she hate beef. "Now allowed to cook beef". What kind of fucked up relationship is this???
What's her sperm count?
She hates beef, are you dense?
>She hates beef, are you dense?
So what does that have to do with YOU eating beef?
Are you so beta that you might as well be an omega?
Well, I live with her and have to find some middle ground you basement dwelling incel
>Well, I live with her and have to find some middle ground you basement dwelling incel
You could just beat her up when she does something you don't like. Lots of people with children do that.
No, I don't want to do that that's not cool man
Any type of grill. That is all you need. Pan searing is meme.