How to Cook Absolutely Perfect Steak

I have a lot of steak puns, guys,

it's gonna be really rough.

(giggles)

Stay calm, get it?

Steak calm?

(upbeat music)

Are you ready?

Alright, this is what's happening.

We're gonna make a perfect steak.

So let's just take it from the top.

Steak it from the top, did you get that?

The first thing you have to do is buy a beautiful steak.

Buy your steak a day or two ahead

of when you actually want to eat it.

Season both sides, pepper too.

If you don't like pepper, don't pepper it,

but you gotta salt your steak.

And put it on a rack like this right in the fridge.

The best thing to do if you

have a cast iron, pre-heat your pan.

Steak with me now.

(laughs)

I can't.

Alright, this is hot, and I really

want to make contact the whole time.

Look at the edge.

The edge is gonna tell you a lot about what's happening.

And now that I can see, I've got some brown edges.

I want to turn the steak several times while it's cooking.

I want that crust on the outside edge,

but when I slice into the steak, I want to see it more

evenly pink all the way through.

And you get that effect by turning the steak back

and forth a couple times on each side.

It steaks a lot of patience.

It's getting really beautiful, even browning everywhere.

I can tell a little bit by pressing that this guy is

already approaching medium-rare.

When you're taking the temperature of a steak,

or any cut of meat, never go in straight top bottom.

What you want to do is get the point of the thermometer

as close to dead center as possible.

Actually, we're at 126,

exactly where we want to be for medium rare.

So, what we're gonna do now is called butter basting.

Unsalted butter, garlic, really nice thyme,

a little rosemary, and we're gonna start spooning

that up and over the steak.

That's a good lookin' steak right there.

This steak looks incredible, and it looks

good enough to eat, but you have to let it rest.

Muscle fibers open up again, they relax,

and it allows the juices in the steak

to redistribute evenly.

So wait.

Steak tuned.

More puns with take or steak or more puns with steak.

Or?

Like steak a claim.

Alright, it's not that complicated.

Start with a great steak, season it,

sear it, cook it to perfection.

That's it, she's a beaut.

Steak a bow!

Oh, somebody put a steak in it.

Steak my word for it, guys.

This steak is gonna steak off!

It doesn't steak a rocket scientist to make a good steak,

you know what I mean?

[Woman] Don't burn it at the steak.