Got a nice sear on the sirloin fajita meat yesterday

@pratik Amazing looking!

@pratik Nice! I’ve been doing a lot of smoking and grilling during the shutdown. Pork butts, ribs, steaks caveman style. Lots of experimenting.

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@pratik You’re the hero we need right now.

@pratik oh that looks good :p

@pratik Oh that looks really good.

@pratik that looks so tasty 😊

@pratik Looks fantastic!

@pratik Caveman style is cooking directly on the coals. It’s a bit of a gimmick and I won’t bother with it again. Not that it doesn’t work, just that there’s not much of a benefit.

For steaks, I reverse sear. So I cook slowly until the steak is about 10° or so shy of the target temperature. Then I raise the temperature of the grill and sear both sides. On this particular occasion, for the sear, I placed the steaks directly on the very hot coals.

@gpittman Ah! Interesting. I'm tempted to try it. Typically, I do it sous vide and then couple of minutes of sear on a hot skillet which now I think is the virtual opposite of caveman.

@pratik No! That’s perfect! The sous vide followed by the sear at the end is the reverse sear method. The only difference here is that the sear would happen on the coals. But if you sous vide first, there’s very little reason to spend the time and energy to get a fire going for a 2-minute sear.

@gpittman As it gets hotter in Texas, the inclination to get the grill going for basically cook for 5-7 minutes gets less and less so I get it :)