S7ewie
Assistant Cook
Hey,
One of my favourite things to cook is steak. Until now I've always used a cast iron "grill" pan with the ridges in. It definitely does a nice job but I'm thinking about trying something else for several reasons.
One of the main ones is that I love to make a peppercorn sauce with my steaks, and I prefer to make it in the juices from the cooked meat. The grill pan makes is very difficult to scrape up all those extra bits of goodness and stir it at the same time. It also makes it very hard to clean. On top of this I don't always get a very even "searing" of the steaks. So I'm thinking maybe I should try a flat pan instead.
I'm assuming that a normal steel frying pan is a bad choice straight away. So do I stick with cast iron? Or are there better choices? I read somewhere that a lot of people use carbon steel?
Let me know what you think.
Thanks
One of my favourite things to cook is steak. Until now I've always used a cast iron "grill" pan with the ridges in. It definitely does a nice job but I'm thinking about trying something else for several reasons.
One of the main ones is that I love to make a peppercorn sauce with my steaks, and I prefer to make it in the juices from the cooked meat. The grill pan makes is very difficult to scrape up all those extra bits of goodness and stir it at the same time. It also makes it very hard to clean. On top of this I don't always get a very even "searing" of the steaks. So I'm thinking maybe I should try a flat pan instead.
I'm assuming that a normal steel frying pan is a bad choice straight away. So do I stick with cast iron? Or are there better choices? I read somewhere that a lot of people use carbon steel?
Let me know what you think.
Thanks