Filet Mignon!!!

Mark_B_Good

Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow!!!

Ok, so I cut a tenderloin piece into 1.5" thick steaks. Wrapped with bacon held together with two toothpicks. Coated both sides liberally with Kosher salt and crushed black pepper.

Blasted the bbq, getting it up to around 500F to 600F range, with cast iron skillet coated with pile oil. Once the oil was smoking, I put on the steaks 4 minutes on the first side.

Then I took off steaks and added butter, table spoon of chopped garlic and table spoon of rosemary to the skillet. Once the better melted, I put the steaks back on the other side for another 4 minutes. I basted with the juice every 20 seconds.

I then took it to the top wrack of the bbq at 400F and cooked until it reached internal of 135F to 140F. Basically took another 3 minutes to hit that.

Turned out perfect!!

I had more steaks than could fit in the skillet, so I made sure I kept them all at the same point in the process. Cooked side 1, putting cooked pieces on a plate while others also cooked on side 1. Then cooked them all through side 2, then put them on the top wrack. Worked well.

Here's some pictures.



 

Mark_B_Good

Just one comment. The bacon retained A LOT of salt. Was way too salty. Next time, I'll probably leave the bacon out.

I might even lesson the amount of kosher salt seasoning. Easy to add salt after, if it's not enough. I think if I say 50% to 75% coated (instead of 100%), it would have been the perfect amount of salt.

jdMyers

Good job.  Looks great.  

fishlessman

Mark_B_Good said:

Just one comment. The bacon retained A LOT of salt. Was way too salty. Next time, I'll probably leave the bacon out.

I might even lesson the amount of kosher salt seasoning. Easy to add salt after, if it's not enough. I think if I say 50% to 75% coated (instead of 100%), it would have been the perfect amount of salt.

i stopped using the bacon, too much of a pain. try tying with string and cut it off when serving, it helps the steak from flopping over keeping it thicker

Foghorn

Yeah, I also don't use bacon any more.  Great cook.

Mark_B_Good

Well, I was able to keep the bacon on pretty good, using TWO toothpicks, one on each side of the steak. That wasn't an issue.

It was just SALTY like crazy salty. It's like most of the salt I seasoned the steak with ended up being absorbed by the bacon!  Not sure, but it didn't taste great, and we took off the bacon to eat the rest of the steak ... without the bacon it was AMAZING!

So unless I just put on way too much salt seasoning ... I'll skip the bacon next time.

DainW

Looks real good man. You nailed the cook. For what it’s worth, I think the bacon wrapped steak has always been kind of gimmicky to me. It’s not something that any of the higher end steak places around me keep as a regular menu item. I think it’s usually done at Texas Roadhouse or Outback to make a lower quality cut of meat taste better. Definitely would think it would make a properly seasoned steak way too salty if you didn’t adjust. 

paqman

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