October 31, 2015
What does your steak nirvana look like? My perfect steak is a medium rare, 2 inch thick ribeye, with the beautiful tapestry of criss-crossed grill marks on the outside and cooked pink from edge to edge on the inside.
But how often do you succeed in cooking the perfect medium rare steak? Well the answer to that, as some people have told us, is rarely!
Ingredients
A knob of salted butter
Coarse sea salt
Freshly cracked black pepper
And of course a good cut of steak
Equipment
Sous vide immersion cooker
Water bath
Freezer grade Ziploc bag
Grill pan
1Set the temperature on your sous vide device to 129℉ / 54℃.
2Bag up your steak together with the knob of butter into the Ziploc bag.
3Using the displacement method, vacuum seal the Ziploc bag.
4Once the sous vide device reaches the set temperature, drop the Ziploc bag into the water bath and cook your steak for an hour.
5When time is up, remove the steak and pat dry on both sides.
6Get your grill pan smoking hot.
7Once the pan is ready, place your steak onto the pan to sear. To get the beautiful criss cross marks, place your steaks down at a 45º angle.
8After 30 seconds, flip your steak to sear the other side and season the seared side with salt and pepper.
9After 30 seconds, flip the steak back again and season the other seared side. Make sure to place your steak down in the reverse angle so that you get the diamond shaped pattern on your steak. Repeat this on the other side.
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And now your steak nirvana experience awaits. You don’t need to be a MasterChef to cook the perfect medium rare steak! And because the temperature we cook the steak at is precise, we are guaranteed the perfect steak every single time!
So sous vide soon and bon appétit!
January 15, 2021
Perfect rib eye!
October 22, 2020
Delicious!
Larissa
March 4, 2021
I normally don’t like medium rare steak, but this recipe turned out amazing! Love it!