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The scope of this video is to give you a fundamental food science understanding of cooking steaks at home and the three most important variables are really just choosing your steak, salting your steak, and applying heat to your steak.

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0:00 What we are covering in this video
1:02 How to choose a 'good' steak
2:41 What cut should I choose?
4:06 RECAP Choosing a steak
5:18 What does salt do to a steak?
6:22 When should steak be salted?
8:54 My ranking for salt methods
11:02 RECAP Salting steak
11:30 How to cook a steak
11:57 Why do people like rare and mediumrare steak?
13:13 What's the best 'doneness'?
14:17 How to cook a steak to a certain doneness
15:28 What is carryover cooking?
16:13 Why do we want a seared steak?
16:56 How do we get a 'good' sear?
19:45 RECAP Applying heat to steak
20:03 What do I do after cooking the steak?
23:05 Closing thoughts



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Filmed on: Sony a6600 & Sony A6400 w/ Sigma 16mm F1.4
Voice recorded on Zoom H4n with Behringer Mic
Edited in: Premiere Pro

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