Kitchen Skills: the Simple Steak

Everyone wants to hone there skills in the kitchen, Don't they? Here is a great way to start! The steak, everyone has had a really awesome steak from a restaurant and they wonder why can't mine taste like that!!!!!. They can and its so simple anyone can do it! Impress your family, Build on your skills and boost you cooking confidence.

I enjoy Thick cut rib eye steaks, They Don't Dry out as easy as thinner steaks. But you can you any steak you like.

what to look for in a good steak.
Your going to want a steak with good marbling (Basically fat) Throughout the steak and you want it to be a nice bright read piece of meat. As seen in the picture.

Put on a large amount of kosher salt Dont forget to do both sides. This will draw out  moisture  from the steak and it will start to look wet After About 15 minutes.
This will make your steaks tender and juicy just like restaurant steaks.

Note: this will not make your steaks taste salty trust me!!!!

After About 15 minutes, you want to rinse all the salt off your steak.

After your rinse Pat dry! Simple!

Now you want to repeat the process.

1. salt the steaks
2. wait 15 min and rinse salt off
3.Pat dry

Pretty simple

Get some good olive oil. this is what i use.

I cook my steaks in a cast iron pan, really to be honest i think everything tastes better cooked in cast iron!

You want to sear your steaks for the best possible flavor and juiciness

You can season your steaks with what ever you like. I use just a little salt and pepper and they are amazing.

How to sear: get your pan really hot add enough oil to coat the pan and drop your steak in. Let it cook for 5 min on each side and its done!!!!!!!!!!!! easy huh!.

finished, juicy and tender!

This really adds alot to your basic kitchen skills, the importance of good olive oil, salting meats for tenderness, using cast iron and searing. All of these thinks are very important basic kitchen skills kind of all put together where you get an awesome tasty end product.