I don’t season my steak but my cutting board hack means it’s still flavorful – it also takes 15 minutes, start to finish
IF your steak always seems drier and less flavorful than you’d hoped, you may want to skip the seasoning.
As weird as it sounds, one cooking fanatic swears by his unique hack of avoiding seasoning his steak while it’s in the pan.
In his video, the TikTok user, who goes by Aragusea Fan (@aragusea.fan), demonstrated his chopping board trick for his followers.
“Everybody knows that cooking a piece of meat is like ringing a wet sponge because the heat pushes out moisture,” he explained.
The TikToker continued: “What is lesser known is the same process, to the same extent, works in reverse.
“Meat sucks up moisture as it cools, this is one of the many reasons I do season or flavor my steak, I flavor my cutting board,” he told viewers.
The content creator added: “I put nothing but oil on my steak before it goes in the pan.
“What I’m doing here is a classic technique called dressing the board and what I love about it is that I can do all the prep while the steak is already cooking,” he said.
On his chopping board, the TikTok user put rosemary, a clove of garlic, a squeeze of lemon juice, coarsely ground pepper, grains of salt, and two slivers of butter.
The content creator pointed out how efficient is unique cooking method is.
He told his followers: “I cooked the steak for nine minutes total and rested it for five.
“Including the minute in which I preheated my pan, that is literally 15 minutes from start to dinner because again with this method you can prep all of your flavorings for the meat while it’s cooking,” he said.
He then placed the steak on top of the ingredients on the chopping board.
“Its heat will soften the rosemary and melt the butter and take the edge off the raw garlic while it sits there and rests,” the cooking fanatic explained.
For his final step, he chopped the steak into thin slices to absorb the “pool of flavor-augmented beef juice.”
“Look at how little juice is left for me to scrape off of that board, the meat has sucked in the rest,” he told viewers as he plated his food.
TikTok users took to the comments section to share their thoughts on the hack.
“Tried it. I ended up eating the cutting board. It was perfectly seasoned,” wrote one viewer.
Another follower joked: “I simply ask the cow to eat the seasonings so it comes pre-seasoned.”
“I was scared and confused and then I was enlightened,” commented a third person.