A butcher reveals her top tips to help you cook a perfect steak at home
Buying steak to cook at home always seems like a good idea in theory, it's delicious and much cheaper than eating it out at a restaurant, but it never quite tastes as good.
Often we take to cooking it on the barbeque or grill because if you want a tasty steak that's the best way to do it... right?
Apparently, wrong. Sarah Wadland, one of Australia's most talented up and coming butchers, says that by cooking it on the barbeque you're actually loosing most of the flavour.
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Cooking a steak in a pan actually helps it keep more flavour. Getty
"I've actually now turned to using the pan for most of my [steak] cooking," she tells 9honey Kitchen. "I find it keeps all the flavor in and you can control it a bit better."
She added that the key to getting the perfect steak isn't cooking it based off of time or looks, but rather temperature. So, it's time to go invest in a cooking thermometer.
Wadland explains that the reason our steaks never taste the way they do when we order them at a restaurant is because when you eat out, your steak is getting taken off the grill based off of its internal temperature.
"Once you get the temperatures right and everything in good shape, that steak is going to be very good," she says.
And when it comes to what cut you should be buying, she says that more expensive doesn't necessarily mean better.
Explaining that a cut like eye fillet is expensive because it's leaner, meaning there's more trimming and off cuts involved, Wadland says that all the fat that is getting cut off is actually where most of the flavour is.
"I personally love a lot of fat, which brings flavour," she says. " I would much rather buy a nice sturdy Scotch fillet for a little bit less."
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Rump steak is the best option for feeding a family. Getty
She also says that rump steak is "very misunderstood."
"Some people turn it down because it's cheaper, but if done right rough it's amazing."
Wadland explains that she often goes back to rump steak as the most affordable cut of meat to feed a family.
"It's the cheapest barbecue steak that you can get. One big rump can come in at like 800 grams to a kilo almost," she says, adding that its a great cut to slice up and feed a group of four to five people.
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