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GRANT CRILLY: Woohoo!
Mm.
That is good.
That was very good meat.
There are a lot of ways to cook a steak.
And today, we're going to talk about one way.
To us, the best way.
What does that mean?
To us, the best way has to meet a few different criteria.
The first being it's got to be packed full of flavor.
The second, the steak has got to be cooked to perfection.
And the third is I don't want to have to babysit it.
I'm not interested in techniques that I
have to hover over it and watch it like a hawk all night.
So for us, sous vide ticks all those boxes
with the added benefit of once you
get it cooking it's just there ready
and waiting for you, not the other way around.
OK.
Enough yapping.
Let me show you exactly how to cook this steak sous vide.
The first part of our criteria is flavor.
What we're going to do is hit the steak
with lots of salt and pepper.
I'm going to hit both sides.
Pepper, pepper, pepper.
Love lots of pepper.
I love when it gets nice and toasty when we sear it later.
Make sure this side has got salt.
And then we're going to pop them in the bag.
I'm going to hit it with a little bit of olive oil.
This is just for flavor, really.
And fresh bay leaf.
I don't use dried ones.
Dried ones are kind of crap.
If you don't have a fresh bay leaf,
use some other fresh herb.
And that's it.
The second item on our list of criteria is perfect doneness.
And when you're cooking a steak with traditional methods
there's a lot of ways to get great flavor,
but you have little or no control
over the outcome of doneness.
And with sous vide, you have total control of it.
Let me show you what I'm talking about.
So with sous vide, I select my temperature.
I don't have to think about it anymore.
I know it will be cooked to perfection edge to edge.
And I just sear it on the outside for flavor
until it looks delicious.
And that's it.
So it's really helpful separating those two steps,
the cooking and the searing.
Under traditional methods, you kind of mix them.
They're all happening at the same time.
So you have less control.
We're ready to pop this guy into our pot of water and walk away.
So today, we're going with Joule.
It's ChefStep's brand new sous vide tool.
I'm going to select my doneness with a really amazing feature
that we have.
We're calling it visual doneness.
OK.
So I'm just going to open up the steak guide.
Use the visual doneness feature.
Look at the doneness I want.
Basically, it's awesome videos.
I'll go with that one, 129 Fahrenheit.
It's basically rare.
Pick my thickness.
Hit Go.
And we're ready to roll.
So in goes the steak.
And I can walk away.
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All right.
The steak is ready.
It's not that it's finished and it's not
that it's done just now.
It's that it's ready.
It was actually done a while ago and it's
been ready the whole time.
I'm going to take it out.
I know it's cooked to perfection on the inside.
We'll confirm in a little bit.
From here, you want to finish it.
So we've got a little bit of flavor from the first step.
We've got perfect doneness, which was our second criteria.
And obviously, our third criteria
was we didn't have to babysit it.
So I just went and did some other stuff.
But I'm back now.
I'm ready to eat so I'm going to finish it.
You can broil it.
You can grill it.
You can smoke it.
You can deep fry it.
I'm going to sear it.
Nice and straightforward.
I'll show you how I do it.
All right.
So we're going to sear it.
So I'm going to add a little bit of butter.
Cook it all the way down until you don't
have any more moisture in it.
So this is the most straightforward way
to finish your steak at home I'd say.
It can be a little bit smoky sometimes, a little bit greasy,
a little messy.
But it's worth the flavor.
So to keep some of the splattering down
and to help it sear evenly, I'm just
going to give it a little rotate here.
Stir it around.
That keeps the bottom getting that fresh oil.
I don't really want to overcook it.
We're just searing it just for flavor.
All right.
I'm going to give it a flip.
Take my bay leaf.
Flip that guy over.
The deeper the crust, the deeper the complexity of that flavor,
the more beefy that flavor is going to be.
I'm going to call it good.
I'm going to say we're done.
Woohee.
A little bit of that good stuff.
All right.
Our steak is finished.
Let's slice it open and see if it's cooked to perfection
on the inside.
I'll just take one slice there.
Ah!
Seriously!
Supple.
Mm.
Woo.
I'm going to try a bite real quick.
So sad that you can't taste this.
Let's check it next to our visual doneness.
Love it.
It's the best way to cook a steak.
You're just going to have to take my word for it.
Packed full of flavor.
I think you can see that it's cooked to perfection.
And I'm not kidding about the it's going
to be waiting for you thing.
Seriously.
I love cooking steaks this way.
I'm going to have another bite.
Man, that's good.