Testing 10 Extreme Steak Cooking Methods: From Dry Ice to Lava

Extreme Steak Cooking Experiments

• 🧪 The video tests ten "extreme" steak cooking methods, ranging from unconventional temperatures to unique environments.
• 💡 The goal is to discover if these extreme techniques yield the perfect steak or are complete failures.

Deep Frying Steak in Salt

• 🧂 A steak is deep-fried in salt heated to nearly 500°F.
• ⚠️ While some color was achieved, the steak was overwhelmingly salty and deemed a fail.

Dry Ice Searing Technique

• 🥶 Dry ice is used to flash-freeze the exterior of a steak, aiming to build a superior crust.
• 📈 This method resulted in a steak with a ridiculously deep crust compared to the control, though the interior tenderness was similar.
• 💡 The consensus is that dry ice works for searing better steaks, but may not be practical for everyday cooking.

Solar Oven Steak

• ☀️ A steak is cooked and seared using only the sun's rays in a solar oven.
• 🥵 Despite achieving a small patch of crusty perfection, the steak was mostly overcooked and tasted terrible.
• ⚠️ This method is deemed a failure for practical steak cooking.

Boiling Butter Tenderloin

• 🧈 Thinly sliced raw tenderloin is submerged in boiling butter with garlic.
• ✨ This method was highly successful, creating an incredibly rich and tender steak that melted in the mouth.
• ✅ The technique, inspired by Salt Bae, is confirmed to work effectively.

Hay Smoked Steak

• 🌿 A steak is seasoned and then covered in dry hay, which is then ignited, creating a hay smoke.
• 🔥 The steak achieved an intense char flavor that was described as charred but not burned, and the hay did not impart any weird taste.
• 👏 This method was considered fun and successful.

Fat Seared Tenderloin (Salt Bae Style)

• 🥩 A tenderloin is seared in extremely hot rendered beef fat, with gold flakes added for presentation.
• 🥓 The resulting steak had an incredible richness and crunch, with a flavor described as similar to bacon.
• ✅ This method is confirmed to work and is highly praised.

Steak Cooked Inside Bread

• 🍞 A Denver steak is seasoned, seared, and then baked inside a raw sourdough loaf.
• ❌ The steak inside turned out gray, dry, and overcooked, resembling a well-done steak in a bread bowl.
• 💡 While the bread was excellent, the steak itself was a failure.

Carpet Bagger Steak (Oysters and Bacon)

• 🦪 A pocket is cut into a tenderloin, stuffed with raw oysters, and then wrapped in bacon.
• 🤢 The combination was described as slimy, fishy, and weird, with the oysters and steak being better separated.
• ❌ This surf and turf experiment is a definite miss.

Miso Salt-Baked Tomahawk

• ♨️ A tomahawk steak is coated in a miso-ginger paste and then encased in salt and baked.
• 🌟 The steak had a great caramelization from the miso and a juicy interior, though some pieces lacked sufficient miso flavor.
• ✅ Overall, this method is considered a success.

Forge-Cooked Steak (Hottest Method)

• 🔥 A steak is cooked in a forge, a device normally used to melt metal, reaching extreme temperatures.
• ⚠️ Initial attempts with frozen or tomahawk steaks failed, but a regular steak achieved a decent medium-rare interior with a good crust.
• ⚠️ The experiment was halted due to cooking on fiberglass, but the method showed potential.