How to cook a steak in a pan

[Anonymous]

Steaks are much better cooked in a pan. I hate smoking up the kitchen but nothing beats a cast iron skillet for a perfect sear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My steaks in the pan aren't as good as they are on the grill, but I see people on Food Network, and Top Chef (etc) making steaks in a pan on the stove, all the time!

Steaks cooked on a charcoal grill have a unique taste that is difficult to replicate by other means. But otherwise, cooking in a pan is an excellent way to go. A flato-bottomed cast iron skillet can make a better steak than most propane grills. Most restaurants that cook a lot of steaks cook them on flat top grills, but that's not because grills are better than pans, it is because a flattop grill works kind of like an enormous pan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ha ha, I can't see the video for some reason. I know some think it's a waste of a perfectly good steak to cook it in a pan but I have no other options. I guess I could make a fire in the fireplace and cook it that way.... but anyone know how to cook it in a pan? Anyone?

Fortunately those people are idiots. It is an extremely good way to cook a steak.

They are total idiots. I used to work in nice restaurants and good steaks are cooked in a screaming hot cast iron pan, under a broiler-NEVER on the grill. Steaks on the grill are horrible and cook unevenly. The only way to get the grill hot enough, you end up burning the steak.

[Anonymous]

Check out March's Bon Apetit. There is a how-to from Bobby Flay. DH did it Sunday night with a sirloin. It was really good.