Food Tube!
It is DJ BBQ and I have dressed up for this very special occasion to teach you guys how
to cook my favourite steak.
You think maybe it would be a sirloin, or a rib eye, or a fillet.
No it is this.
We're going to cook a marinated skirt steak.
This has been passed down through the generations of my family, my father taught me this, and
this is the man that showed it to him.
DJ BBQ's grandpa.
Look at him, he's got four chickens rocking, he's got racks of ribs.
The King of the BBQ.
And now I'm teaching you guys how to cook DJ BBQ's favourite steak.
The beautiful thing about this recipe is, that it's so simple.
Ziplock bag.
We're going to grab two skirt steaks.
Boom.
Follow with Italian dressing, crack it open pour it in.
Get the air out, seal it.
Massage it.
Give that steak some love and you put that in the fridge overnight.
So why Italian dressing?
Simple, olive oil, vinegar, peppers, loads of wonderful herbs have been infused in that
bottle for a very long time, and now we're going to give it to our meat.
What do cows do all day?
Back up, cows have a really big head.
Eats all day, eats the grass.
The flanks, the skirts they're holding up all that weight.
These are tough muscles man, this is why we're going to marinade it.
The tenderisation process from the moment that cut of meat hits the marinade.
Let's do this.
I've got my BBQ gloves on, we've got our coals rocking in the flume.
I'm going to create a shelf of coal, okay?
So I've got my hottest heat here and it tapers down to indirect heat.
Hot, medium, pretty warm.
Ha ha ha.
Before I put these on, I'm going to create a bit of a wood smoke.
SO I've got some apple wood chips and I've also got some chunks of cherry in there, I'm
going to put a couple more.
I'm going to open this up.
There's the cherry wood chunks, and then I'm going to grab some apple and set the down
into the middle here.
You don't have to spend all that crazy money on expensive steak in a really good steak
house, do it at home.
Boom.
Now, see when the flame comes up when all the fat comes out, you cover it up.
It's oxygen flow coming through your BBQ you kind of mellow out the oxygen flow, you mellow
out the flames.
And there is some of the smoke coming out of the woodchips, it's all coming through.
It's flavouring the meat, Let's have a look.
There we go, we're going to do these for about 6 and half minutes a side.
I've got a top tip for you guys when you're barbequeing meat, smiling makes it tastes
better.
Some of the oils are dripping down and those oils are causing flare up.
I still want the hot heat, so I'm just going to move them over here.
We're going to flip these bad boys, look at that.
perfect colouring on top and again, the olive oils.
It's all coming out in our flames so you get a bit of flare up.
This is how you can tell if your steak's well done ,medium or rare.
Ready?
If you've prodded the meat and it's tough like that, it's well done.
Touch it right here, it's medium.
Come over to your cheek, you have a lot more forgiveness in your meat and that means it's
rare.
Now these guys are ready!
We're going to pull them off the BBQ let them rest for about five minutes.
Let all them juices get back into the meat.
Let them steaks get nice and moist,. then we're going to slice and serve.
Get our knife ready, I'm going to cut against the grain.
Listen, it's still a tough muscle man, so we're going to cut it this way to make it
a lot easier to chew and still get all those wonderful flavours in this cut.
Here we go.
Oh gosh, I'm so excited, I can't explain to you guys.
So it's rare, medium and way over here a bit over done.
This one over here is going to be a bit more rare side.
SO come over here.
This bit over here, is the best tasting part of the steak.
Why?
Because it's had all of the flavours.
It's had more surface area getting the vinegars, the peppers, all those wonderful herbs and
spices in that Italian dressing.
That's the chunk I've been waiting for.
Dad would save all these end bits for me.
Okay, a tiny bit of salt on top of this bad boy and a little bit of cracked pepper.
How gorgeous is that.
Perfectly cooked bit of marinated skirt steak.
It's just how I like it man.
MMMM.
It's the taste of home and it's probably the best thing in the world.
Next to sex.
Hahaha.
And beer!
I'm DJ BBQ, we are Food Tube I'll see you guys.