Cooking a Steak

Prisoner6409 · 22-03-2025 02:33PM #1

So about 3 months ago I bought a couple of those rib eye aged steaks you can get in Whelans butchers in Dunnes in Blanch. I left the 2 steaks out for about an hour before I salted and peppered them immediately before I put them in a good hot pan that was on a range that had the piece of dripping they give you with the steaks melted on the pan. AFAICR I cooked them 1 min then turned for another min, then added butter, garlic butter, Rosemary and Thyme and crushed Garlic knobs on to the pan, I moved the pan to a hob that was not as hot as the original heat source and began basting the steaks. I could not tell you how long I did this but I was holding the pan at a 45 degree angle so the steaks were not really cooking. Anyway I removed the steaks to a raised baking tray, poured the contents of the pan over the steaks, covered the steaks with tin foil and left to rest for about 6-7 mins. The steaks were really good, full of flavor, really delicious, probably a tad overdone for medium rare but delicious none the less. I remember thinking, when I order a steak in a restaurant this is what I should get. Now for the last 12 or more weeks I have been trying to repeat that process with no luck, no matter how I cook the steaks they just do not have the flavor I achieved with the first 2 steaks I cooked. The steaks are just cooked meat, not bad but none of the flavor's I got with the first two. Any one got any idea where I am going wrong.