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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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VERTiG0 posted:

Steak. Do steak. Extremely high heat, some oil, slap the steaks in for a minute each side and finish in the oven if you like.

Make sure you use Extra virgin olive oil... :suicide:

But honestly you don't need oil for high-heat steak searing. At least use an oil with a very high smoke point. If you're getting your pan to 450+ then oils commonly found in pantries will burn and it's bad.

Dry the steak with paper towel as much as possible, the drier the surface the better the crust will be. Season with kosher salt no pepper (pepper will also burn at high temps). When it's done and resting is when you grind some fresh pepper on it.

Bald Stalin fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Nov 16, 2013

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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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ejstheman posted:

I think Alton Brown recommends safflower oil, which I've always had good results with, although if you get clarified butter I think the smoke point is slightly higher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_point

Safflower is good. How does it taste?

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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squeakyneb posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with you?.

Nothing at all. If done correctly this will result in a wonderful crust.

Do you have any other good Italian recipes that use ketchup?

Bald Stalin fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Nov 25, 2013

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Bob Morales posted:

Does Whole Foods even sell a $25 4lb chicken? Where they hell do you buy one at? Even the mega-organic/grain fed/free range/petted daily birds at Kroger are only like 8 bucks.

I cooked this in my cast iron the other month. Tasted soooooo good.



And the stock I made with it the next day was good too. It was from the new Fremont Whole Foods. They had 2 different kinds of pastured chickens.

Bald Stalin
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I read on reddit /r/askculinary that the notion "Never use soap on cast iron!" was from the time when soap contained lye. Modern soap, no worries.

Bald Stalin
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Mix some powerade or gatorade in there too.

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Jul 11, 2004

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theres no sugar in my powerade or gatorade. it's actually quite helpful to drink it, but to each their own.

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americong posted:

"not destroying your seasoning with soap and wire brushes"

Soap is fine.

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http://seriouseats.com/2014/11/the-truth-about-cast-iron.html

the tl;dr of this is you're all babies and you need to wash your cast iron pans you dirty fucks

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