Comments on: Grilling the Perfect Steak

By: Abe

Abe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:47:59 +0000

The best meat I’ve ever tasted:

I was at my parents for the weekend, and my old man had just gotten a deer with his bow a few days earlier. He cut out the tenderloin and sat it aside. When it was time for dinner, I rolled the tenderloins in salt, pepper, and crushed rosemary while he fired up the grill to full heat. When I took the meat out to the grill, he turned the heat down to medium-low on one side, and turned the oher side completely off as he placed the meat on the “off” side and on the second tier of the grill. We let it roast for 15 or 20 minutes, then enjoyed the juiciest, tenderest, most delicious piece of meat that I’ve ever eaten.

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By: DuBach

DuBach — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:44:37 +0000

“You don’t win friends with salad” – Homer J. Simpson
“The West wasn’t won on salad” – The Nevada Cattlemen’s Assoc.

And another friendly tip. Talk to your butcher and/or carefully look at the labeling for a processing date. Many chain markets routinely DYE the meat red. Another good reason why a butcher is best and why using red as an indicator is misleading. Meat that should already be brown may look red from dye and by the time the red disapates it has turned GREEN. I have bought several of those from Walmart when I was in college. NEVER AGAIN!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:32:35 +0000

Hey amy…go back to your softball game and your socialist cronies and leave us alone…I bet you need alot of makeup too…

By: Alain

Alain — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:02:21 +0000

My mistake: it’s Prof. Cordain.

By: Alain

Alain — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:01:42 +0000

For Amy and other vegetarians: the science supporting the claim that red meat is either unnecessary or bad for us is flimsy at best. Dr. Michael Eades and Prof. Loren Cordan, among many others, have provided plenty of evidence that a diet based on plant foods, animal protein, fruits, nuts, and seeds has an extremely beneficial effect on our health. It all boils down to this: for thousands of years, did we not eat most animals that came our way? Is this what we are “designed” to eat, instead of man-made breads and pastas and sugary products?

By: JamesGardner

JamesGardner — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:21:26 +0000

I hate self-righteous vegetarians. My wife went vegan and started into me with that crap. I decided I liked steak more than her and split a year ago. Good riddance.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:09:40 +0000

Just a note, for all the health concerns. Forage-fed (aka grass-fed) beef has been shown to have fat ratios (omega-3 vs omega-6) similar to fish, and close to ideal for current knowledge of human dietary requirements. All the (possibly overblown) concern about the fats of red meat is a result of grain-fed beef.

By: babyback rib mom

babyback rib mom — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:15:30 +0000

Excellent and easy advice on how to cook a steak. I made the mistake of buying a huge 5 burner gas grill only to figure out that I could not get the temperature up without burning through a tank every week. Now, I have a small 3 burner grill and I can achieve temps of around 800 degrees. When the fire melts the grate cleaner brush, you know it is hot enough:)

By: Richard Bull

Richard Bull — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:53:02 +0000

Cholesterol Molesterol! WHat a bunch of hooie. LDL levels are more determined by your parents than eating beef. Enjoy a good steak with only lemon pepper and olive oil applied prior to grilling and you are doing yourself a favor and lessening the stress of your regular day (which can cause other health problems) Eat some veggies with your steak and everything will be fine. THen don’t forget a cup of coffe and a piece of pie for dessert! If only Grandpa JOnes had thought of that!

As stated previously – the slaughter of beef is terribly humane.

I want to know more about hunting beef. I go cow hunting but it is on our ranch and we are looking for cattle to go to market, not like hunting deer(rifle) or pigs(dogs). Do you use dogs or a rifle to hunt cattle?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:10:39 +0000

The only thing I’d add to this grill article is to get, and trust, a meat thermometer. It doesn’t seem very manly, but unless you are a god on the grill (and wouldn’t need the article), it’s advisable to just go out and buy a thermometer with a meat probe on it.

Or do what Gordon Ramsay does.

If the meat gives like when you push your finger with your cheek, it’s rare. Chin, medium. Forehead, well done.

By: jacoba

jacoba — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:36:40 +0000

Do you guys use the rump of the beef for steaks over there?

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By: Will

Will — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:45:41 +0000

To address the bit about animal cruelty…

It all comes down to where you get it from.

Plant-based foods can be the same way. Did they chop down acres and acres of forest for the farm land? Did they spray the fields with thousands of gallons of pesticides that are now in our groundwater?

Meat doesn’t have a corner on the irresponsibility market.

I get my meat from either local family farmers or from hunting (and if you have an issue with that, I’ll be happy to address the issue). The meat is fresh and healthy, and I can age it as I wish.