How to cook the perfect Steak

Hi everyone and welcome to Nicko's Kitchen once again. Today we're doing something that everybody should know how to do. And that is to cook the perfect steak. Okay, cooking the perfect steak. It is absolutely essential if you want to become a good cook. It's one of the very, very basic things. But I tell you what, when you get it right, it is absolutely delicious. It's so easy. This is what you're going to need. Just salt and pepper, butter, garlic, olive oil and of course some steaks. Now I've got some porterhouse steaks here. Okay, now I think in the US you guys call these a New York strip. We call them a porterhouse fillet and that's all you're going to need guys. Now it's very, very simple but there's a little bit of technique involved. So let's get started. So the first thing you want to do before you take your steaks over to the pan is season them very well on both sides with salt and pepper. Okay, so the first thing I want to do is get a really hot pan. Hot pan is absolutely essential. And just put over some olive oil. And when the olive oil is smoking guys, lay in your steaks but lay them away from you. And that's the noise you want to hear. Now guys, very important, you want colour on your steak. If there's no colour, there's no flavour. So we want that nice crust on the outside of the meat and we want it nice and pink inside. The other rule about cooking steak guys is only turn it once. Do not, do not turn it more than once because you'll end up with something like a rubber boot. It'll be so tough. Now guys, I've shown you this before but I am going to show you again because it is very important. Just grab your hand, okay, and if you go like that, that's rare. Just touching the fat part of your hand, okay. So that's rare. That there is medium rare. That there is medium and that there is well done, okay. So well done, medium, medium rare and rare, okay. Just by touching. Now if you touch there and you touch here, you get the same feeling. So I know obviously that that's rare because I'm getting the same feeling as I get there. Just a tip. Okay, so I'm going to turn these over now and just have a look at that colour. When you turn it over guys, then I want you to add in your butter and what I've just done is I've chopped up our garlic. I've just taken the cloves out and I've taken the skins off and I'm going to add that in with the butter. Just let that butter melt down guys and it's going to give this beautiful nutty flavour and we're going to baste our steak in a minute. Just move the butter and the garlic around because we want that garlic flavour infused with the butter. Then what I want you to do guys is just tilt your pan, okay, and then using a spoon, just with the butter there, just baste it over the top of those steaks. Right guys, that's done. That's all you have to do and that is the best steak you'll ever have. Now very, very important, leave the steak to rest. Just leave it for 4-5 minutes, okay, just leave it for 4-5 minutes, let it rest, let all those juices contract back and then we're going to serve it up. And guys, that's how I cook the perfect steak and this is absolutely fantastic with some homemade chips or french fries. I've done that recipe before so just go to my channel and check out my chips and homemade fries recipe. Right, let's give this a try. Look at that, beautiful and pink inside, absolutely fantastic. So juicy, so tender. Oh man, I love steak, I absolutely love steak. As always, the ingredients are below the page, just click the arrow button and all the ingredients will pop up for you. You guys take care and I'll see you next time.