Here's how to cook a steak, it was phenomenal tonight.
Get the best steak you can. Grass fed bone-in ribeye. How often do you have steak? Splurge, it's worth it.
Let it come to room temp. Critical if you like your steak on the rare side, and you like fat. Best part.
Salt & pepper just before placing in the pan.
In the pan. For a completely plain steak, I'd go with a large cast iron pan. NO BUTTER, NO OIL. It's just going to burn. Always use the largest pan you have so it doesn't cool down when you put the steak in. I made a pan sauce with shallots, shiitake mushrooms, butter and deglazed with Madeira. Can't do that with cast iron.
Get the pan as hot as you can.
Done. 2 minutes on one side, flip, one minute, oven for 4.5 minutes at 400F. This steak was only 1.25 inches thick. I'd consider 450F for 3.5 minutes to help render the fat a little more. One reason why room temp meat is important.
Edge, rare to medium rare.
Center, rare to medium rare. Perfect.
