Open Lid Steak Cooking = Flame Kissed ?

Kyle

I was wondering if a lot of steak cooks leave the lid open when they cook steaks on the BGE.[p]I have always closed the lid, but it seems to dampen the flames. Would it be a good idea to cook steaks with the lid up? I picture the steaks searing in fully open flame.[p]Any thoughts will be appreciated.[p]

mad max beyond eggdome

Kyle,
go read the 'trex' method on the naked whiz web site. ..best way EVER to do a steak. . .sear w/ lid open, dwell with lid closed. ...

Mark Backer

mad max beyond eggdome,[p]If someone would have posted those eight words to me 6 months ago, I wouldn't have had to do all that low-level learnin' this fall.[p]Better late than never though.[p]Thanks max.

Bobby-Q

Mark Backer,
Yea, but if you had skipped all the low level learning crap no one would be listening to you now.[p]See, you gotta pay your dues to be in the club, and you gotta be in the club for people to like you and listen to you.[p]Did you skip High School entirely?[p]lmao btw.

mad max beyond eggdome

Bobby-Q,
i'm sorry, did you two guys say something??? i still have mac's wife's pictures seared into the backs of my eyeballs. . .heeeee. .[p]btw. . .better than anything joel ferman ever posted on this site. . .

Mark Backer

Bobby-Q,[p]I am still laughing out loud at your post, and people are starting to look at me funny. [p]So, are you telling me that learning to sear with an open lid when I got my new egg was the cooking equivalent of [p]senior (wessb): "see...if you're a genius, your hand is bigger than your face."[p]freshman (me) "It is." (holding palm really close to my face). [p]senior: whacks me in the back of the hand so I slap my own self in the nose. [p]fade to black hearing Nelson from the simpsons go "Ha Ha!"[p]

Bobby-Q

Mark Backer,
Eggsactly.[p]My persnal favorite is waiting for someone to be holding their cup of beer in their left hand and asking them what time it is.

Bobby-Q

mad max beyond eggdome,
I still can't believe that no one commented on my walnuts comment about his wife.

Kyle

mad max beyond eggdome,[p]Thank you Max - That will be my next try.

mad max beyond eggdome

Bobby-Q,
actually that was funny . ..but not as funny as merv's comment. ...

Mark Backer

mad max beyond eggdome,[p]Here's an item to add to that list of "you know you're addicted to egging when:[p]even naughty euphamisms involve meat, like skinning the tenderloin."[p]Sorry. Had to be said.

Car Wash Mike

Mark Backer,[p]It has been awhile back, maybe a couple years, but someone started a thread titled "nasty sayings that aren't really nasty" or something like that. It was funny and a lot of fun. Didn't get out of hand either.[p]Just like the one you posted. [p]CWM

Sigmore

Car Wash Mike, From what I've read in these threads for the last couple or two months, I really don't think I could handle it. When Stike and Mark get rolling, get off the train or hang on and go for a ride. ;>)

Car Wash Mike

sigmore,[p]It was so funny, don't have anything in your mouth when reading, or keep paper towels around.[p]CWM

TRex

Kyle,[p]I always sear with the dome open - I could go into all kinds of scientific reasons why I think it's better, or I could just tell you I enjoy watching flames wrap around a slab of prime beef. (I'll leave it up to Mark Backer to twist that image into something lascivious ;-) )[p]TRex
[ul][li]Dome Open Searing[/ul]