Creekstone Farms Prime Ribeyes - Griddle vs Grate

R2Egg2Q

I defrosted a couple of Creekstone Farms Prime grade ribeyes.  


At 1" or less thick, they were thinner than I'd normally like to buy and thin enough that I decided to just cook them direct.  Seasoned with the Rub Co's Santa Maria Style rub and a little Fleur De Sel. I couldn't decide between cooking them on the CI grid or the CI griddle so I decided to do one with each method on the Mini and see which method my wife and I liked better.








A little overcooked on both but still delicious.  The taste test ended in a split decision with me preferring the griddle cooked steak and my wife the one cooked on the grid.  The griddle cooked one had considerably more crust which I liked.  I think my wife like the cross-hatched grid marks. I'd eat them cooked either way and be happy regardless.  I may have to get some thicker steaks and redo the test but using a reverse sear instead. 

Thanks for looking!

bgebrent

Looks good.  Hard not to overshoot on the thinner cut steaks.  Still as you state, they still taste good.

lousubcap

Great eggsperiment and documentation.  Home-run finish for me.  I am partial to a crust finish but you nailed 'em both.  
Like you I think you need at least a 1 1/4" thick steak for the reverse sear.  Btw- I am a big proponent of cave-man for the reverse sear finish.  Get the low&slow wrapped up, pull the hardware, open the dome, full open the bottom vent and then wait for the lump to look like lava ( not long).  Dome open for the cook duration.  Once there-toss the meat on to the fire sacrifice altar and get the phenomenal crust.  Long tongs and flip based on the quick read thermo.  Nothing like closing with a challenge.  FWIW-
BTW- how do you source the Creekstone Farms beef?

R2Egg2Q

@lousubcap - I bought it from their website: https://www.creekstonefarms.com/

They had a limited availability sale on the ribeyes that I don’t see now.  I’ve been trying their prime Tri Tips (still on sale) and they’ve been good.  I wouldn’t pay full price for them but would consider getting more of them on sale if I wasn’t already stocked up on Tri Tip.

MaskedMarvel

Having the griddle/grate debate in our own home right now. The girls don’t like the carbon from the grate. I like em both ways. 

Cook looks fantastic!

YukonRon

I have a grddle that I use, and it works out very well for the thicker cuts. It seems I never can dial in a perfect MR thinner cut to save my life.
I did do some ribeyes, straight from the fridge that were pretty darn good that were about an inch thick.
My Beautiful Wife, loved them, though.

johnnyp

Very nice documentation. Both look slammin'

RRog17

R2Egg2Q said:

@lousubcap - I bought it from their website: https://www.creekstonefarms.com/

They had a limited availability sale on the ribeyes that I don’t see now.  I’ve been trying their prime Tri Tips (still on sale) and they’ve been good.  I wouldn’t pay full price for them but would consider getting more of them on sale if I wasn’t already stocked up on Tri Tip.

What size is that round griddle? Looking for one I can use with my spider and large BGE. 

Foghorn

Excellent contribution. Demonstrates the difference very well. 

Thank you. 

northGAcock

RRog17 said:

R2Egg2Q said:

@lousubcap - I bought it from their website: https://www.creekstonefarms.com/

They had a limited availability sale on the ribeyes that I don’t see now.  I’ve been trying their prime Tri Tips (still on sale) and they’ve been good.  I wouldn’t pay full price for them but would consider getting more of them on sale if I wasn’t already stocked up on Tri Tip.

What size is that round griddle? Looking for one I can use with my spider and large BGE. 

I might have one you can have.....lets take it to PM's.

northGAcock

R2Egg2Q said:

Thanks for looking!

If you were smart (I seldom am)....you would side with the wife.

R2Egg2Q

@RRog17 - the griddle I used is only 9.5” edge to edge which is too small to fit on a large spider by itself.

jdkeithbge

I like your scientific approach to this exercise.  This post makes me want steak and eggs for breakfast now.  I also need to look at finding a good CI griddle.  Nice work!

Photo Egg

Love the Win-Win approach.
I just ordered some Tri-Tip from CSF...Thanks.

lousubcap

Checked the Creekstone Farms web site.  Given Franklin gets his briskets from them I was not surprised to find only flats in the brisket offerings.  

R2Egg2Q

I found this on their site @lousubcap : https://www.creekstonefarms.com/collections/usda-prime-beef/products/usda-prime-whole-brisket

Years ago I'd heard that Franklin bought all of their brisket but apparently not so now.

lousubcap

@R2Egg2Q - Obviously I only looked under the brisket option.  Thanks for that.  I will have to give one a go.  Interesting that they ship their's fresh "Our briskets are shipped fresh from the production line and are never frozen. "  
SRF ships their's frozen solid.  What does the friggin cow care??