How to Cook a Ribeye: Julia's Guide to Achieve the Perfect Mid-Rare Steak
Feb 12, 2025
Follow Julia's Easy Steps to Cook the Perfect Steak this Valentine's Day
Cooking a steak as good a restaurant is easy when you know how
Why not treat your loved one (or yourself!) to a home cooked steak this Valentine's Day — our delicious sharing steaks are now on offer. Cooking a steak as good a restaurant is easy when you know how. See our 'How To' video at the bottom of this page.
Here are Julia's top tips on cooking our popular sharing steaks (NB: buy yourself a meat thermometer!) :
- Bring your steak out of the fridge, at least two hours before cooking, so it is at room temperature
- Heat your pan until it's smoking hot (usually takes at least 3 minutes)
- Season your steak liberally with salt and pepper just before you are about to cook it.
- Once your steak is in the pan, leave it for at least 2 minutes on one side, you want a good dark crust. If you keep moving it, you won't achieve that.
- Baste, baste, baste! Adding loads of butter, garlic and thyme to the pan and basting makes such a difference to the flavour.
- Buy yourself a meat thermometer! Honestly, the best £20 you will ever spend and makes cooking a steak so much easier. You want to cook you steak until the internal temperature is 52 degrees Celsius (for THE perfect mid-rare steak).
- Rest your steak on a plate, under two layers of tinfoil for at least 5 minutes before carving.
ENJOY.
