How we do steak at our 1 Michelin starred restaurant

Jan 30, 2017 5:58 AM

DrewSf29

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How we do steak at our 1 Michelin starred restaurant

Ok so this is without a doubt my favorite way to cook steak; and it's also how we do it at my restaurant. Every steak gets seared on cast iron to get that nice flavorful crust you see there. Right before it's don't we add herbs (here I use rosemary) and the we add butter and arroser, or baste. (Pronounced arrow-sey. It's French for baste but that's the term always used)
I definitely recommend doing this at home and getting the butter to foam up like that is key! That tells you the pan is the perfect temperature for basting. All that foamy butter soaks up the rosemary flavor and it won't sog out the crust. It's just the most glorious food porn that there is if you ask me. I do it a hundred times a day and I still can't do it without moaning. I got lots of weird looks when I worked in an open kitchen.
This is NOT too much butter so stop whining about it. It doesn't all go in your food and it add tons of flavor so it's not being wasted at all. If you're gonna shell out a good hunk of cash for a nice steak then treat it well and don't skimp on the butter. It's worth it trust me.

Full disclosure; at my restaurant we sous vide our steaks at 56 degrees Celsius for one hour then sear and arroser them. You get perfect medium rare every time.

EDIT* To do this at home just cook it like you normally would then do this at the end. That is, give the (room temperature) raw steak a good sear on both sides on high heat, then turn the heat down to med-low and cook for a minute on each side. Then kick the heat back up to med-high and add your herbs and butter and do what i do in the video, tilt the skillet and baste with a big spoon until the butter gets all foamy and keep basting and turn the steak a few times.
We do this for everything we pan sear by the way. Chicken, duck, lamb, pork chops, fish, you name it. Skin on fish is a little trickier because you spend all this time and effort to get crispy skin and you don't want it to get soggy. So don't baste until the butter gets really foamy and then only baste with the foam, not the liquid that'll be in the bottom of the pan.

EDIT 2* While I do appreciate the few unsolicited nudes i got ladies, and as much as I wish I could keep getting them, if my wife sees em I'll have some explaining to do! lol. Oh and that reminds me, I'm happy to answer your cooking questions but if they can be answered by simply copying and pasting them into google then I'll most likely leave them unanswered, sorry. Other than that ask and send away!

Can you boil that over hard?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

hey @op you can send those...ummm... my way if you aren't gonna use them...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A great steak needs a wood fire. Meat + fire = tasty, tasty meat

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thats the First "Don't send nudes" Ive ever seen.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I did Sous Vide one time - in a pot of water in our oven. I had to keep checking if the temp was ok every 5 minutes. Turned out delicious <3

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is that butter salted or no? I'd like to give that a shot.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

No. Unsalted butter

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Man, between cuts and burns I wouldn't have any hands left after a day of trying to work in a kitchen.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Check out my other posts to see a real nasty burn I got once

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OP

9 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 0

i never ate salad till i was 16 or so. only weighed 160ish at the time

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Can I get mine well instead?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

NO!

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

I love how a Michelin restaurant is saying "do this" and people are like "umm, too much butter." Like telling a mathematician what pi is.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This is the internet.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This comment is also over 2 years old...

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

@op That is not cast iron, that is a high carbon steel pan,

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Very impressive! I didn't want to get too technical with little details like that but your absolutely correct! Good eye my man!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

how i cook it:

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Sitting at work and you made me laugh out loud, still smiling. Thank you :-)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Arroser is the verb. It means to sprinkle or spray. If you want to be completely pompous and correct then you would say "then we arrose it"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2/ pronounced exactly how you'd think. Like " a rose" :)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We most commonly refer to this technique as (I think it's spelled) poele. Pronounced pwa-lay. Can you perhaps shed some light on that for me

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A poêle is a pan (frying pan, etc) so poêlé means cooked in a pan :)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I prefer the dry rub method... nothing like giving your meat a good ol' rub

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

Yeah boi

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I'd like a milk steak, boiled over hard, and your finest jelly beans, raw.

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9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I miss cooking on a French top :(

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What do you do with the butter left in the pan?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

pour it over some taters, or add a little to some risoto

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My guess, in the restaurant they discard it. At home, a butter sauce or roux would be nice. Wonderful base for home-made mac and cheese.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Take shots with it.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Paula Deen is that you?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who would have thought that drenching your steak in butter would make it taste amazing?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Not drench, baste with hot foamy butter. The foam is VITAL!!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I miss steak more and more, I can't have is medium-rare or sushi because of pregnancy, only 4 LONG months to go

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

OMG ME TOOOOOO> what is the point of well done steak?? none. 8 weeks in, a fuck ton to go :'(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't think there is any real risk for steak. The reason you can eat meat raw is that it starts out sterile. Steak is dense enough that(1)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

any time before it is obviously rotten the inside is still sterile so cooking just the outside is well enough to make it safe to eat. (2)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That got me slightly arroser-ed. Do me like one of your French steaks.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

"Why do restaurants always taste better?" Training and practice. You cook a dish a few hundred times and you learn to do it well.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fat and Salt, that is how they make it taste better

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's easy to say that but even if you cook a home meal with a lot of fat and salt, without the repetition and improvement it won't be as gud

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My question is always " how did they fuck this up so badly". Maybe I should find better restaurants

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Absolutely, lol. We have a lot of shit chain restaurants around here that I always end up saying that to.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So steak is already 'cooked' (sous vide) for one hour and then you do the gif. I'm not sure what your point is. How can I do this at home?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Buy one of the sous vide machines or there's hillbilly tutorials that use a beer cooler and hot water

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Or ya know; just cook it how you normally do and then baste it at the end. Thought that was pretty obvious but I guess I overestimated imgur

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I liked your gif. I have a cast iron and I think I'll try this. What other things would you suggest seasoning with instead of rosemary?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Crushed garlic, thyme, literally anything you like.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My tongue just dry-humped the roof of my mouth.

9 years ago | Likes 114 Dislikes 2

Now that's funny....

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why is your tongue dry?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Everyone here is clearly stoned. Cotton mouth, my friend.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Beautiful.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's awesome! But what is sous vide?

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 4

vacuum sealed cooking in constant temperature water

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

you cook in a vacuum sealed bag at preferred temperature until it is said temperature throughout. you then sear the steak on high heat

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a temperature controlled water bath so it cooks the steak at the same temp throughout. So you don't over cook and it's perfect!

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Vacuum seal then boil

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 9

No boiling, water is only heated to the temp you want internally of what you are cooking. Water is 130F for a 130F med rare steak.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just learnt that it's pronounced sue-veed

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Basically poached in a vacuum sealed bag.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Legit. I need to cook this at home, just without the vacuum bag

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You can also finish it in an oven after the search and baste. I usually go 350 for 20-25 min.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Stupid auto correct... Sear not search

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ziploc bags will do the job.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just remember to push all the air out first!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What if I want medium.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

He will ask you politely yet firmly to leave

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I said medium.. not like I said well done. Damn.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

After arroser we pit it in the oven for 3 minutes, flipping halfway

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What temperature should the oven be? Thanks!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

5 for MW and for well we put it in the oven and forget about it until it's fired.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Did someone say they wanted their steak burnt to a crisp and bone dead dry aka "medium"???!?

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

I said medium. Didn't say well done. Damn.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

:p

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is your username from watchmen too?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actually it's just from the two poems, always loves them! But love Watchmen too!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

very close to Gordon Ramseys perfect steak recipe.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

Almost, but I think he uses thyme and garlic instead of only rosemary

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Any pro-tips on getting the skin of your fish crispy? I'm amazing at making it soggy and tasteless :(

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Leave the scales on =) im not kidding, certain fish are better then others to do this. Scales off salt it, wait till oil smokes, put it in

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh hell yeah! That could be my next post, thanks for the idea

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

You know it :)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Other possible ideas. 1) favorite sauces... Demi glacé, red wine reductions, romesco, some kind of herb sauce. 2) Potatoes: dauphinoise, etc

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Same way. Super hot pan with a little oil. Sear the fish skin side down and once you see browning on the edges throw in the butter and baste

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Love this. Will try. Maybe my pan wasn't hot enough? Or maybe too much oil to start? I'm not sure.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The other side. If it's a thick cut throw it in a 400 degree oven once you're done basting and wallah beautiful fish. Worked under

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Alex Stratta @ the Omni resort and hotel in paradise valley. This is my source for the knowledge

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Key to earning Michelin stars: butter.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

...and drugs.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dude don't reveal our secrets like that! Lol

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Fuck that's how I do steak, smother it in garlic butter then chuck it in the pan until brown on outside.TIL I cook like a Michelin star chef

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh and unhealthy amounts of salt and pepper prior to cooking, then tip the leftover oil out of the pan over the steak and serve.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You need that foam though. It's essential

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I tend to just put a big dollop on top and let it melt into the steak with a few cloves of garlic through it, im not chef though :D

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Commenting to prepare steak like this later

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Commenting to prepare steak like this later

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It worked for Joel Robouchon (he got three Michelin stars for making mashed potatoes that were 33% butter by weight).

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

The valves in my heart ache just thinking about that.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sinfully good...

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Oh they are. Robouchon Mashed Potatoes are orgasmic. I've been lucky enough to eat them and holy shit I would sell a kidney for them.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've eaten them as well. They're incredible! I actually heard that they were closer to 50% butter! Like 5lbs of potatoes 5lbs butter. Was1/2

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That just a rumor? I did think they would break if they had that much butter

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Talk to me when your fancy ass restaurant serves up a tupperware bowl of fruity pebbles and a half burned english muffin.

9 years ago | Likes 383 Dislikes 9

I came

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Boom.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Beats my old ice cream plastic tub full of microwave grits and half a slice of 7-11 pizza..

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You... are you in my house right now?

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Don't turn around

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The cereal is coming from inside the house!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He left just now. Now it's just me, the monster family in your bathroom and some random lurkers left.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Oct 21, 2024 11:32 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Who are you, the Queen of England with that plate/bowl?

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You don't have those at home?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I don't. Plus I prefer a bowl large enough to fit half of the box.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This would cost $18 at my restuarant

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

An no props for the half burnt English muffin? Lol

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

All the props!! I love this post

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Talk to me when you're a five star restaurant. Seriously, who brags about being a one star restaurant? Idiot.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 14

Having even a single Michelin star is a huge deal; few restaurants ever get one. The most they can get is 3. This isn't like Yelp reviews.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

We really some sort of button you can add to posts/comments so people can tell if you're being serious or not.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 6

I that I know you were joking that's actually funny as hell! We need a sarcastic font. It just doesn't translate through text.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

That people took me seriously is funnier though. I've read quite a few interviews with chefs who make it clear how hard it is to get a star.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Pretending to be a troll is the same as being a troll my man.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

So was asking for a half burned English muffin trolling?

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Will do

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9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

This is the funniest joke ever. Period.

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The secret to why restaurant food tastes good. 1) Lots of butter. 2) Lots of salt. 3) Even more butter. 4) All the chefs are high.

9 years ago | Likes 646 Dislikes 2

My brother is a chef. Swear to God he's always high. Foods amazing though so....

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When people ask me for cooking tips, my first tip is to stop worrying about recipes and just start tasting.

9 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

I failed at tasting

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My aunt was stabbed in the face and lost her sense of smell and half her sense of taste. To experience flavor (1)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

She had to make food that was extremely flavorful. Best cook ever.(2)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No better way to cook an animal than to soak it in its own fat

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I heard the French Laundry will rest their steaks in rendered molten beef fat. Ugh that must be delicious! But expensive as hell

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lmao true story

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mashed potatoes restaurant style: 1 part potato, 1 part butter, mash.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can confirm #4, our sous chef kept a rock in a coke can on the spice rack, everyone knew, no one cared, 'cause his prime rib was oralgasmic.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Don't forget the butter

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Finnish cooking secret: "Nyrkillinen voita kattilaan ja Kossu pakkaseen!" Translated: Fistful of butter to the pot and vodka to the freezer.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Also, "If the recipe says 'milk', use cream."

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Yeah pretty much

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What if you want to cut down on butter? a good alternative?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It's very basic right? We crave fat. We crave sugar. We crave salt. Mix them in different proportions and experiment. :)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My Cousin is a chef... if he's an average representative of all chefs, y'all high as fuck

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

T_T i want to make this but ...my diet says "no" :(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Honest question: I only know chain "restaurants," but are the higher end restaurants as drug riddled as the low end?

9 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Riddled is a harsh term, sure drugs can be prevalent but the one thing that separates the high end luxury spots is that it can't affect 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Your work EVER. If you're not on too of your game 100% each and every day you'll never make it at this level so coming in super hungover 2/?

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Every day will get your ass fired quick. Guess that can lead to a bit of coke use among the younger cooks but we don't encourage it but 3/?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Read Anthony Bourdain's book. The answer is yes and the book is very entertaining.

9 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

I think Anthony Bourdain is a larger cynical, lovable prick than Gordon Ramsey.

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