Cooking a Great Steak without a Grill

Jonathon

Cooking a Great Steak without a Grill

Learn how to cook a great steak even if you don't have a grill or a traditional oven. We reverse seared a Rib-Eye with just a toaster oven and a hot plate.

Process

We have done a few posts and videos on some of the best ways to cook steaks. All of those assumed that you had easy access to a grill or at least a conventional oven but that’s not the case for everyone so Ali and I decided to see if we could cook a good steak with just a toaster oven and a hot plate.

First we took the steak out of the fridge 30 minutes before we were ready to cook and rubbed it with Ultimate Steak and Roast Rub. We put some tin foil down to keep the steak slowly cooking in its juices and to make cleanup easier!

This wasn’t a terribly thick steak so we set the toaster oven to 200° and cooked our steak for 35 minutes until the steak got to 125° internal temperature. I used the Grilleye Bluetooth Thermometer to monitor the temperature. The toaster oven worked beautifully during this stage, it gave a nice even heat just like a normal oven would have.

Next we took a cast iron pan and put it on our hot plate. We used a thermometer to check the hot plate and it got up to 650° but we could not get the cast iron plate about 450°. We put a little bit of vegetable oil in the pan and some butter on top of the steak to let it cook down over it. They cooked for about 1 1/2 minutes a side. The fact that we couldn’t get the pan above 450° was probably the reason for the steak not having as nice of a crust as we would have liked.

We set the steak under tin foil for 5 minutes to “nap” it keep the steak as juicy as we could

Reverse Sear

The reverse sear worked nicely with this limited equipment. We got a nice even pink throughout, the only thing that was an issue at all was the crust on the steak. Since we could not get the pan hot enough the crust never developed as well as it should have. If we were to do it again I would have given the pan longer to get up to heat.

Taste

The taste was great, even without the crust I normally like. The steak we used was a little fattier than normal but the combination of a Ultimate Steak and Roast Rub, the Reverse Sear and the Pan Sear made for a delicious finished product! So, there ya go, even if you don’t have access to a grill or even an oven and a stovetop you can still make a great tasting steak at home!

Other Notes

The pan not getting hot enough also seems to have made the butter standout more in the taste. It was a nice taste but not something I would usually aim for.

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Pan Seared Ribeye