There is nothing better on a cold midwinter evening than a good glass of dry red wine, a catching conversation and a white plate with nothing more than a juicy, medium rare argentinian steak resting on it, waiting for you to slowly cut its roasted crust and deliberate the bloody juice....
It has been a daylong investigation full of foodblogs, youtube experts videos until we performed our little project to perfection. There were some quite big issues to deal with: when do you season the meat? before putting it into the pan, in the pan, or on the plate? When and where to put the oil?
After hours of investigation on the sofa we thought to slowly make out some principles. The first one was less is more. Salt and Pepper, thats all. Anything else would be indignity. Another cornerstone of a damn good steak seemed to be damn hot oil in a damn hot pan to close the pores of the meat and let the inner part stay juicy...
...BUT then there was Jamie O. He just marinates the meat in oil and never puts oil in the pan. And he seasons the meat in rosemary and garlic...Jamie.
With a bunch of ultimate ways to prepare "the perfect steak" we started cooking to find our perfect way. We seasoned one steak before, one after roasting. One with, one without garlic. One thick, one thin...thank god we had the tiny amount of 700 g of best filet steak for the two of us!
Finally we found the ultimate way to prepare
"The Perfect Steak":
Take slices of around 2 cm thickness, so the pan will do and you do not have to use complicated things like tinfoil or the oven.
Season the meat shortly before putting into the pan, so the taste will be more intense. Just use salt and pepper.
Put the meat in a damn hot pan with damn hot oil.
Rub the meat in the pan with slices of garlic.
Roast the meat for about 3 min., till its texture feels like the base of the thumb, when the tip of the thumb meets the ring finger (thumb law!).
Never...
add sauce.
hurt the steaks "skin" with a fork or a knife before eating it. The juice will escape.
Only the cone with dulce de leche ice cream for dessert was missing.
