I did it this time ( I think)

Charbon

<p />I have been experimenting with a form of potato bed to go under cooked "Egg" food. I don't want to be frying taters while I'm outside cause I know wife wouldn't say a word till flames were coming out top of roof! I cook on different structural level so I think I have found the solution. Shred taters, rinse, place in refrigerator for several hours, mix in garlic chips, spray both sides with olive oil, bake in non stick oven pan for 40 minutes at 400 degrees. Cook meat; let steak dwell and pop on top of bed and serve rest of items. I don't know if I can fit T-Rex method into this plan since I have all this other stuff going on at the same time. I'd have to start cooking the minute I woke up in the morning.

Judy Mayberry

Charbon,
That "potato croute" is pure genius. What better juice-collector under your luscious steak than that? Congrats.

mad max beyond eggdome

Charbon,
that looks great. . .bet you could use the frozen shredded taters as well (hey, i'm lazy). ...if you have two eggs, bake the taters in one, while trexing in the other. .. [p]as for times, this should work great with trex timing. ..
for typical trex, i figure[p]15 minutes to get up to lava temps
4 minutes total searing time
20 minutes resting time
10 minutes dwell time (give or take for steak thickness)[p]50 minutes total . . .[p]seems to me that if you put the taters in to bake about 5 minutes before putting the steaks on, then you will be there. . .(you said you have the taters prepped ahead of time in the fridge, so it should really be pretty easy. ..and i sounds like once they are in the oven, you don't have to mess with them. . . [p]i'm gonna have to give this a try. . .

Charbon

mad max beyond eggdome,
Forgot to mention 2 things. Need to flip cakes at 20 minutes. When in fridge I place in strainer over bowl with wax paper over top. You would otherwise likely get ugly browning of potato. I would like to try T Rex method but if rib eye inch or less I don't think it would work? These were 2 minutes per side at 650. At 9 bucks per pound I'm watching these babies with pig tail flipper in hand even in the rain!