VOTING Thread for Steak Challenge

1. No8Easy2
2. Jax-Tiger
3. HoustonChick86
4. DarlaHood

1. LSUBoo - Salt Block Elk Steak With Bourbon Butter & Hash

2. GreenRockTiger - Steak, Lobster, and Potatoes

3. HoustonChick86 - Chicken Fried Steak Tacos

4. Jax-Tiger - Surf and Turf - NY Strip Steak with shrimp and mushrooms in a chipotle cream sauce

Jax-Tiger - Surf and Turf - NY Strip Steak with shrimp and mushrooms in a chipotle cream sauce
The cream sauce did it for me, looked delish

HoustonChick86 - Chicken Fried Steak Tacos
I love chicken fried steak, never had it in a taco but want one now.

LSUBoo - Salt Block Elk Steak With Bourbon Butter & Hash
Really curious about the salt block, and it has bourbon in it...mmmmm bourbon.

tokenasian37 - Costco’s A5 Waygu
Gotta include the fellow Wagyu and I was really curious about Costcos A5

No8
NolaGT
HoustonChick
Jax Tiger

1-Jax
2-No8
3-HC86
4-Hobo

1. HoustonChick86 - Chicken Fried Steak Tacos
2. No8Easy2 - No8Easy2
3. Got Blaze - skirt steak with traditional chimichurri and mango ginger toppings, bacon wrapped asparagus
4. LSUBoo - Salt Block Elk Steak With Bourbon Butter & Hash

Boo
Green rock
Blaze
Dropper

1.) Lambdatiger1989 - Filet Mignon with a Red wine portabella reduction and creamed spinach - I love red wine reduction sauces and mushrooms. The steak is perfectly cooked.

2.) LSUBoo - Salt Block Elk Steak With Bourbon Butter & Hash - I mean, it's freaking elk. This may have been the winner for me, but I would have liked to have seen some bourbon butter sauce on the plate.

3.) No8Easy2 - Surf n turf “snack-cups” with Asparagus and potato hollandaise Sauce - I love all of the flavor elements and this one could have won, except the steak is kind of hidden under the other ingredients. It is number 3 because No8 showed us some pictures of the steak before he cut it up, but I would have liked to see that big juicy steak in the finished product.

4.) Darla Hood - Marinated Steak Bites Taco - I could have gone with Houstonchick's taco, but I went with this one because it was much better than Darla let on. It looks great, and it's more in line with the keto diet I'm trying to follow, although I would love to try HC's taco.

ETA - I voted for LT, but I think his dish may not be getting more votes because the red wine reduction is difficult to see on top of the seared steak. It kind of blends in, but I see it.

I also want to give credit for Boo and No8 because I think doing a steak on the grill takes some skill to get that medium rare with a perfect char on it. Sous vide is like using a cheat code...

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There's a little sheen left on some of the elk slices, but most had ended up underneath by the time I took the picture. It blended perfectly with the meat juices to sop up on every bite. ETA: It needs to be thicker next time.

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Yeah, but you get my point, right? Maybe a little drizzle on top or on the plate underneath the steak of something like that. I don't even know if that butter was appropriate for that, but I wanted it.