re: you dont need a gimmick to cook a steak

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dude didn't use italian dressing or A1 or ketchup .... how good could those steaks really taste?

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Yep. Missing out on that A1.

But all kidding aside, my dad is an excellent cook. I learned most of what I know by cooking with him and experimenting on my own. But the man can't cook a steak. Probably his life long aversion to charcoal. He has had gas grills as long as I've been alive. Which have their place. For chicken, burgers, hot dogs, sausage, it is fine. But he cooks steak and it is let it marinate in something, sprinkle, no coat, the outside with something after it is out of the marinade. Put it on a too hot gas grill, and pour the juices from the marinade over it when he flips it. And it never turns out medium rare. Always medium or even worse, medium-well. I just don't understand. We go out to eat and he'll order a steak medium rare, but can't cook it that way himself.

He wouldn't need all those flavorings if he just broke down and got a weber kettle. That's what I like to use, and they always turn out great. He has even admitted that mine are far superior to his.