This meal nearly didn’t happen. I’ve been using my barbecue grill most days and the 9 kg ULPG tank I got about a year ago is nearly empty. I only realised just in the nick of time.

To compound the problem, the 468 g canister of propane I use for my gas torch was empty.

It’s a good thing Bunnings was open today.

Recipe

Ingredients

• Steak
• Salt

Equipment

• Precision cooker
• Water bath
• Gas torch

Instructions

1. Cut the meat into large steaks (5 cm thick).
2. Dry-brine the steak for 2 nights.
3. Vacuum bag the steak and cook it for 3 hours at 57 °C in a water bath.
4. At the end of the 3 hours, heat the cast-iron griddle pan on the barbecue grill.
5. Remove the meat from the bag and use absorbent kitchen paper to dry the steak’s surfaces.
6. Place the steak on the hot cast-iron griddle pan and sear the upper surface with a gas torch.
7. Turn the steak and sear the other side.
8. Place the steak on a cutting board.
9. Dissect the meat.
10. Slice the meat.
11. Salt the meat.
12. Eat the meat.

Thoughts on the meal

I thought the meal was good. It was a large piece of steak (568 grams [20 ounces]), so I kept some for lunch tomorrow.

Normally I eat grass-fed steak. This grain-fed steak was tender and juicy, but it didn’t taste as beefy. In the absence of a rib bone, the flavour was a little lacking.

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