The very first episode of Good Eats features the all american steak. This episode was a little rough around the edges which is similar to my cooking. Mistakes were made...
"The other part of the t-bone is very tender. Most women like it just because its tender" Mel
"We can't say that kind of stuff now-all that women stuff " AB
on both the episode and my cooking.
The first part of the episode takes us through the parts of the cow and different cuts of meat. I didn't retain much of this. Alton Brown used rib eye steaks. I used round. Mostly because I forgot which kind when I went to the grocery store. And round was cheap! And I'm ignorant.
Pay attention to the first part! Use rib eye!
Alton only cooked one steak but I have two meat eaters to feed and this cooking technique took two people.
We heated up the cast iron in the oven at 500 degrees and it was smokin'.
Then we seared both sides of the steak and put the whole thing (cast iron included) in the oven at 500 degrees. This oven is hot.
Then keep your partner close by. You will need one person to wave a towel in front of the smoke detector and the other to remove the steaks and just look frazzled in general when the smoke alarm goes off and wakes your baby!
Our steaks didn't take long at all in the oven because they were so thin...and round.
All in all, it was really good and would have been even better with a more suitable cut of beef.
Total Time Taken: about 30 minutes - my oven took forever to preheat and you need to let the steak rest for a while too
Time according to AB: 15 minutes
Pan Seared Rib-Eye by Alton Brown
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