Emergency Steak at Home Question

No more than 90 seconds per side on the sear. Transfer to oven at 350 and cook to desired temp (Im assuming you have a meat thermometor). Rough guess would be 10-12 minutes in the oven for medium if they are that thick.

Just do them in the pan on the stove. Takes no longer and you don't heat up your kitchen. I have cooked exactly one steak in the oven.

Butter

Should have bought some steaks with flavor. That said, it just doesn't matter how you get them to temp as long as you salt and pepper.

Sorry. Just can't understand why people drool over filets.

I do hope you enjoyed them.

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thinking butter and vegetable oil combo

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Really not needed. You have some good marbled meat, I'm sure. No extra fat is needed.

let pan heat up on the fire for a good 20 minutes


2", thats pretty thick. Id go about 2min on each side. then i like to sear the outside rim on each side, 30 secs or so on each side.

no need to put in oven

I wish I would have seen this earlier.

The best way to cook the steak is to place them on a cooling rack on a cookie sheet pan. Salt and pepper...put in the over for 25 min @ 275 degress and then sear in a cast iron/stainless steel pan for 3 min. a side in veg oil that is just starting to smoke over med high heat!

Fool proof...perfect every time!

Update:

Used a combination of vegetable oil and butter . . . in a heavy stainless steel pan (my cast iron needs to be cleaned and seasoned).

The beef had been coated with sea salt and fresh ground pepper. Also just a touch of garlic powder.

Set the oven to 400 degrees.

Allowed the pan to get very hot and seared the steaks on each side for a couple of minutes. Placed in oven for about 8-10 minutes. Remember these were pretty thick filets.

Just for the hell of it, I poured sauteed some garlic in the leavings in the pan and poured in a little red wine.

Took out the steaks and put just a little dab of the "sauce" just on top. The steaks turned out medium rare and tasted great.