Sci-Fi Steak
By: ping
Published: Friday, October 15, 2010 - 7:59am

Ingredients




2 steaks of your choice
salt, pepper to taste
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
Clarified butter/ Ghee

Preparation

1 Bring a pot of water to a steady 60˚C. Use cooking thermometer to accurately maintain temperature. 2 Season steaks. 3 Heat pan with a little clarified butter / ghee and quickly sear both sides of the steaks on high heat. Remove. Add the chopped garlic and onion into the hot pan and stir until aromas are released. Take care not to burn the garlic. Remove pan from heat. Return the steaks to the pan and stir to mix through. 4 Put pan contents into a heat proof plastic bag. Expel as much air as possible and seal with elastic bands. Be careful not to scald yourself. 5 A sealed vacuum in the bag is ideal. But if a little care is taken and there are no obviously large pockets of air in the bag, the dish will work out fine. 6 (This is where my husband went MacGyver on me and used a contraption made up of, a short length of stainless steel tube, elastic bands, a wine bottle stopper and its related vacuum pump to achieve a sealed vacuum without a commercial vacuum sealing device.) 7 Suspend the sealed bag in the pot of 60˚C water for a minimum of 2 hours. 8 Remove steaks from bag. Serve immediately, no resting needed. 9 Reserve liquid. Thicken and season to taste. Serve with steaks. 10 Side dishes - roasted potatoes, vegetables etc.

About


Adapted from the program Kitchen Chemistry.
If you like your steaks flavorful, juicy, tender and perfectly medium rare, this is the method to achieve it. This method creates the most evenly cooked steaks I've ever experienced....beautifully pink throughout. Not a graduation from fully cooked to the cold, raw centers we usually get when we ask for medium rare / rare "doneness". Is it only me or does anyone else have a problem with the term "doneness"?