How do you add flavor to your steaks?

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Do you marinate them or put steak sauce on them?

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

Unfortunately only marinating in monosodium glutamate over 12h and adding garlic/spice butter at the end of roasting can increase steaks taste.
All those sauces add some kind of glutamate, phosphates and some umami taste amplifier.
Proper made Demi-glace sauce or reduced Au jus as addition will make meat better, unfortunately it's just cheating like glutamate flavoring.
For making steak more tender pineapple, papaya or pear juice make steaks more tender due enzymes which soften collagen bonds without causing proteins fold together.

DishLady · Accepted Answer

Always marinate meats and fish the night before in wine, olive oil and spices.

Staximus · Accepted Answer

Usually some kind of marinade or rub, or Montreal steak seasoning. I'm not one of those retards that think every steak should only be seasoned with salt and pepper. Not every steak is that good and it's not the Great depression anymore. There's more seasonings than salt and pepper.

Static_In_The_Attic · Accepted Answer

As for steak make sure it’s at room temperature & if it’s a good cut salt it up, pepper it up & sear it in butter. Afterwards give it some grill marks, cook it & before you remove it from the grill or a hot pan sauce it up & let the steak rest for about five to ten minutes.

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

Don't tend to marinate. Good ol salt pepper and butter, garlic herbs in the pan. Sauce is good too l like a nice jus

Communicationisking · Answer

Just a little salt then olive oil before cooking or cook in butter. but a good sauce goes well too

Iron_Man · Answer

I don’t need to a good steak 🥩has its own flavor. A1 steak sauce is too strong. It will ruin it. Its cheap sauce

Gwendoline · Answer

Depends. If its a prime cut of beef then the flavour is already in it so other than frying in butter nothing.

french_omelette · Answer

Always poke holes into the steak with a fork, then add salt, pepper, olive oil. A good steak doesn't need a ton of extra flavour

NathanDavis · Answer

it depends on the cut... and how do you plan to enjoy it

Vevv123 · Answer

Baste it with butter, garlic, and rosemary. Nothing else is needed ✨

Massageman · Answer

If it's a higher quality steak, butter, salt , pepper. If it's a lower quality, I will add the butter plus Sirloin Seasoning from Texas Roadhouse.

Nikki1989 · Answer

I don't understand the love people have for steak. For me, steak is like trying to chew through an old shoe and equally as tasteless.

rachel776 · Answer

splashing tons of butter is how the big steakhouses do it, Peter Luger, Keens

Dongie · Answer

I worked at a restaurant called the Beanstalk when I was a kid. They had this marinade made with chili sauce and pineapple juice with some garlic and red wine. It was Devine. 24 hour job.

SweetDripp · Answer

I brush them with olive oil and season them just before grilling them.

exitseven · Answer

Salt and pepper only. Burying the taste of a good sirloin in some sauce does not make any sense

Redstang88 · Answer

Anything more than salt, pepper, garlic and maybe some herbs is a waste of a good steak

fish5505_87 · Answer

Salt and Pepper, then maybe some steak or Worcester sauce If I feel like it.

Miah06 · Answer

My mom marinates them and my pops cooks them

seeyounexttuesday · Answer

I buy good steaks and know how to cook so they neither need marinating or sauce.

Anonymous · Answer

A1? Hell no!!! That’s ruining the steak!!! 🤦‍♂️ I use a marinade that has thousand island dressing and Coca Cola, then I season them with Brock Lesnar blend seasoning. It’s like an F5 but on your tastebuds.

zombiewoof · Answer

Just as they are, a little salt and peppr before cooking

Anonymous · Answer

I combine both, but my steaks are vegetarian.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I don't eat steak.

jamesgoldman · Answer

I just grill it, woodsmoke does the business

jahaims · Answer

Salt, pepper and I use beef tallow or butter

Physics-Man · Answer

I just add some AI Sauce to it.

Assassinn · Answer

Well cooked

Flower7 · Answer

I don’t like steak.

WonderingManII · Answer

We do both.

Asgard356 · Answer

Salt.

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