What spices do you put on your steak?

Chaotic42

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Maybe a garlic rub. If it's a poor quality steak, I'll put a bunch of stuff on there to make it edible.
 

GagHalfrunt

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If it's a good steak salt and pepper and nothing else. If you don't like the taste of beef don't buy beef.
 

MongGrel

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Been done, too many times.

But salt and pepper, for prep.

I'm guilty of having some Pickapeppa on the side after it is cooked.

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I keep some around just for steak personally.
 
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nerp

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Just salt and pepper. Save the seasoning for your sides.
 

John Connor

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Why does the thread title look like, "What kind of species do you put on your steak?" :D

...and I believe we had this thread already. Or was it for burgers? :hmm:
 
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Pre-salt the steak while it's coming up to temp (with Kosher salt) then right before cooking dust each side with a mix of garlic powder and onion powder. I used to be a salt/pepper purist but pepper tends to burn and get bitter at high temps The garlic powder/onion powder mix add a nice complexity and, unlike a raw garlic rub, garlic powder doesn't get bitter when it's subjected to higher temps.
 
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I feel bad for anyone dumb enough to eat a steak with something with the likes of A1 sauce. Why not just chug the A1 bottle? The entire point of the sauce is to mask the beef flavor, so why not just chug the sauce if thats what you want to taste?
 

Dr. Detroit

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salt + olive oil -

I dislike pepper, I think it burns under super high heat, 400+, and emits a bitter flavor.
 

MongGrel

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I feel bad for anyone dumb enough to eat a steak with something with the likes of A1 sauce. Why not just chug the A1 bottle? The entire point of the sauce is to mask the beef flavor, so why not just chug the sauce if thats what you want to taste?

If you do not like a steak sauce after it is cooked more power to you.

I've eaten many myself in the past without.

The only reason I have ever had the A1 around in the past were for chops or sometimes on ribs, we have not even bought any in a long time here and those were Tabasco variants etc.
 
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Muse

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I stopped eating steak years ago. But I eat some beef almost daily.
 

Linux23

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salt, pepper, and some good tangy ketchup. nothing sets a steak off better than some ketchup.
 

BoomerD

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usually just salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Sometimes I'll use heinz 57 sauce, but not often. I don't really care for A-1 or many of the other "steak sauces."