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How to Cook Steak Like a Michelin-Starred Chef
Whether you want your steak bloody as hell or burnt to a crisp, the only truly wrong way to cook your beef is to not hit your desired temperature. The co-chef of a hit London restaurant has called upon his time in Michelin-starred kitchens to create one of the best guides we've seen for grilling your steak to your ideal doneness, from very rare to well done and temps in between.
Will Murray founded Fallow in London with fellow chef Jack Croft after the duo came up together at Michelin two-starred Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. 'Jack and I bonded over finding ways to use kitchen by-products, which we turned into staff meals and snacks,' Murray told Luxury London. 'The biggest lesson I learned there was to always look for ways to innovate, even with the humblest of ingredients.' From there, the pair started doing pop-ups that featured their style of nose-to-tail cuisine, and after opening Fallow, they turned their kitchen into an open-source hub for culinary technique, filming handy guides to cooking like a pro chef at home.
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In one of the duo's most popular videos, Murray takes a collection of filet mignons and shows the proper technique and timing to cook to the doneness you want while also avoiding the dreaded gray line along the edges of the meat. And even for those who love a medium well steak, he shows that there's still a level of care needed to make sure it's cooked evenly through to the ideal temperature. The methodology that Murray employs was taught to him at Blumenthal's restaurant, after the famed and analytical chef behind the Fat Duck worked with food scientist Harold McGee for two years to develop a method to prepare steak to the proper doneness.
This process begins with cooking on the grill (flipping often isn't actually a bad thing!) and then moving to a preheated oven for two-minute intervals when steaks are flipped and put back in the oven to bring them up to temp. Murray says that he's cooked so many steaks that he can feel the level of doneness by touching the steak, but likes to use a digital probe thermometer to check his work and hit the target temps below.
Blue (Very Rare): 100°F
Rare: 111-118°F
Medium Rare: 118°F
Medium: 122-126°F
Medium Well: 133°F
Well Done: 158°F+
It's a simple, straightforward, yet effective method to make sure you cook the steak just how you like it. And it's a perfect guide to watch as summer grilling season gets into full swing.
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