You don’t need to donate last week’s paycheck to a steakhouse when you can learn How to Grill a Great Steak at home like the pros. A steak gives you the maximum amount of surface area to brown and soak up deep, smoky, savory flavors, and it just feels good to get your own self-contained plank of meaty goodness on the plate. When you eat steak, you eat like a king.
It all starts with great meat. Restaurant chefs have a saying: “Garbage in, garbage out.” So buy the best beef you can afford and get to know your local butcher. Our guide to buying beef breaks down grades, labels, and cuts, and if you want to take flavor even further, learn how to dry age beef at home.
From there, cooking a great steak is one of the simplest things in the world. Trim it, salt it early, reverse sear it, flavor it right, and serve it hot. Then put it all to work with our better-than-steakhouse grilled steak recipe.
