Easy Steaks

Jersey Doug

My first attempt at steaks on the egg. The local Acme had some nice boneless strip steaks for $6.99 a pound. I bought two - about 10 oz. each.

I put the tall GrateMates in the small, rebuilt the bed of lump for a nice hot fire, lit the starters and put the cast iron grate down on the fire ring. When the starters burned out I closed the top and let it run with the draft door and the daisy wheel wide open.

When the temp got up to 550º I put the steaks on the cast iron grate and closed the top for 2-1/2 minutes. Then I flipped the steaks and let them go for another 2-1/2 minutes with the top down. The draft door and daisy wheel were wide open the whole time.

After the 5 minutes of combined cooking I removed the steaks, put the cold porcelain grate on the GrateMates, put the steaks back on the high grate, closed the top and almost shut both vents. I let it go for another 5 minutes at which point the Thermapen showed 135º so I took the steaks off the fire and and let them rest another 5 minutes. They were a perfect medium rare with nice grill marks and the whole cook was very very easy.

--Doug

Fidel

Sounds like you hit a bullseye. Congrats.

Not much beats a well prepared steak.