Reply to Good place to buy steaks

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "Good place to buy steaks"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Careful with the grass-fed.  It requires a whole different grilling technique.

Conventional steaks (feed-lot, corn-finished beef) are highly marbled, i.e., streaked with fat.  That creates a very juicy steak.  The conventional grilling method is high direct heat for a few minutes on each side, to create a sear on each side, followed by a bit of time on the cooler side of the grill (or in the oven) to finish the inside to the desired degree of doneness.

A grass-fed steak is much lower fat, more lean/muscular.  Great beef flavor.  But you can't do the high-heat searing technique.  You'll turn it into shoe leather.  Instead, you want to do it lower and slower, for a gently cooked-through result.  (The Argentinians, whose beef is all grass-fed, do it this way.)  It won't be as juicy and melt-in-your-mouth as corn-finished steak, but if you do it right, it will still get tender and will have a through-and-through beef flavor.  You may do better with a sauce of some kind for this (chimichurri, bearnaise, your favorite BBQ sauce, whatever).

I'm all for grass-fed beef--more humane, sustainable, etc.  But if you haven't done it before, and you're grilling for guests, go with the regular steaks and do it your regular way.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics