Okay lovely FoodTubers, now it's time to learn how to do the perfect steak ever
in the whole wide world. It will change the way that you cook steak forever. No more tough steaks!
Rights these are the conventional prime cuts
of steak. The Sirloin, £32 a kilo today. Rib Eye, that's £32 a kilo as well.
Fillet, that's the prize jewels. £54 a kilo. And here rump is
£25 a kilo.
I have a little secret steak that I'd like to tell you about, he's my favorite steak out of all of
those four prime cuts. This, my friend,
is the feather blade steak. Or the blade steak or in america you call it
the flat iron steak. Look at the fat marbelling here .
It's absolutely delicious.
If you give me the fillet I will throw it back to you, if you give me this,
"Yes mother!" that is what we're talking about. Come and have a look at this as well.
£17.90 a kilo, for really good quality beef
Right,
this is the blade,
so it sits about here. Like that. Moo!
It's these hard sinews
that kind of make this cut a little bit unfashionable once you've taken it out you're left with
the best steak ever. Any good butcher will do this for you. Phone them up say
I want a feather blade, they'll do it for you
We're going to put a little bit of oil
over the steak here.
I've got a thick bottomed pan on a very high heat. I'm going to rub the steak all over with the oil.
Heavy on the pepper,
heavy on the salt.
Pat it in.
Salt and pepper on both sides.
So we go to a pan, I'm going to put just a little bit of oil in here as well.
I'm going to go in with the steak
Just going to wipe my hands.
Also very importantly do not take your steak from the fridge and cook it.
Take the steak out of the fridge an hour before you use it, cover it, let it kind of get to room temperature. If it's screaming
cold in the middle and screaming hot on the outside. It's going to toughen up and be horrible and
fairly miserable.
The flat iron steak really benefits from being cooked medium rare
I'm going to turn it once
a minute, every minute.
You want even cooking from both sides.
So being equal with both sides keeps the moisture in the middle
which means when you rest it, it then comes back out again and gives you a
beautiful
juicy steak. That's the way do it, that's the way all my chefs do it and that's
the way my steak house does it
That's the way i think you should do it
The supermarkets around the world love to sell you a portion, kind of eight
ounces. I would advise going to a butchers
and instead of getting a thin little centimeter steak
Get a double steak. That will serve two people.
That way you could get a really dark outside and it can still be medium rare in the middle
If it's half the size of that whatever you do to it is going to be well done.
It's almost impossible to cook
to your liking. If you love food, get a double steak.
Now there's a couple of things you can do for a beautiful natural flavor.
My friend Adam Perry-Lang he used to like rubbing
steak as he turned it
with a little garlic.
It's very subtle,
I actually really like that.
Another thing you can do is
you can get a little butter.
When you turn the steak and it's sizzling on top, you get that butter and
just put it on just like that.
And that sweetness from the butter is really beautiful and again that's going to add
to that beautiful caramelisation and my last little trick is herbs. This is thyme, you
could use rosemary, you could use oregano. What I do is go into this pan and
just take that fat
and give it a ruddy good whipping and that will again put in beautiful flavour.
I've cooked this now for about three minutes on each side
As soon as that comes off
we give it another little whip
of the herbs
the juices are starting to come out that's gorgeous, that's like a little free gravy just for you.
Then let it rest for two minutes.
That method of cooking a steak
applies to cooking over wood, charcoal and any of these classic prime cuts.
Let's come back to the steak over here.
I've cooked this medium
Okay, which is the max you want to go.
This is nice, my wife would love this, i would like a little bit more bloody.
Look at that feather blade steak is just the bomb. Not many people know about it
So it's super, super cool
Good quality extra virgin olive oil here
and if you shake it,
it just marbles.
That my friends will be
the perfect steak. this was £17 a kilo instead of £54 a kilo
for a fillet.
Let's have a little try of this steak
So good!
Mmm, I prefer it to a fillet steak,
anytime, I'd be happy to never,ever have it again
That! is where is that
So there we go guys, that's the perfect steak, that's the feather blade steak, or the flat iron steak.
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Thank you very much guys, lots of love. Mister Oliver.
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