08-04-2015, 11:25 PM
(08-04-2015, 10:29 PM)Hoofhearted Wrote: Yeah I never realized the finer points to cooking steak until i started watching grill masters. Cooking a good steak is an art I am trying to master. Freezing them is a non-no. Actually, you want your steak to be as close to room temperature as possible to avoid the heat from sucking as much moisture out of the middle of the steak, thus making it dry. So even refrigerating a steak and cooking it could make it more dry than you would like.
My parents have a beef butchered every year and give me a huge pile of frozen meat. The roasts and hamburger are fine, but the steaks are not that great. They are not as good as fresh steaks, but I still prefer free frozen to expensive fresh.
It is actually possible to cook a frozen steak without thawing it. You just throw it on a hot pan and flip it once. That way it sears in the juices. But I have never had much luck trying it. It is not easy at all. The biggest problem is that almost all of the frozen steaks I get have bones in them, and that makes it almost impossible to cook them straight from the freezer.
