I cook a ton of steaks, but wife and I both agreed that this was one of our best ever.
Costco had a nice sale on Picanha for like $9 a pound in a two-pack. The first one I smoked whole and served with my homemade chimichurri, and it came out good but not that memorable. For the second one I decided to go with the traditional homestyle Brazilian way of cutting it into steaks, and then went a step further seasoning with sazon instead of just s+p.
The results were magical. Alton Brown's idea of searing directly on coals is brilliant. Get your charcoal chimney going good, pour it into the grill, hit it quick with a blower to get rid of any ash and feed it oxygen to get it roaring, and plop the steaks straight on for 45s a side, also searing the fat side nice and well. I took a video of this, but this sub doesn't allow videos, so I can't post it.
Anyway, hope you all have a lovely Sunday and many steaks in your future that were as good as these ones we enjoyed last night.
by hockey_and_techno
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Yum!!!
Do the slices in the fat help it render or something? Never seen that done before.
This looks great
Hope the Doggo got some
What Sazon? For all the bbq and meat people I’m friends with, so many folks don’t know about the magic is picanha
Nice. I remember that AB episode. What is sazon? I gotta try slicing the fat like that
You can’t “reverse sear” something to 125. That’s just baking it. Reverse sear refers to the order in which you do the entire process.
First picanha post I’d probably eat
What does scoring the fat cap do? I have a picanha in my freezer and im wondering if I should do that
Man I can smell those from the last picture. Well done OP.
Oh yeah I will have a bite 😁😉
You had me going until the sazón.
TIL sazon is a thing outside of Brazil too, Idk why I assumed it wasn’t
damn that like 5k sodium, bet it tasted bonkers
Mother of God. That looks divine.
Now that’s a crust!
Excellent looking, nice job
My favorite cut!!! Looks delicious 🤌👌👍
I like to trim a little fat off and render that in a cast iron so I can sear the Picanha in its own rendered fat. Delicious!
Whats with Picanha all of a sudden? Never heard of it before a few weeks ago. Maybe im just uncultured