You need a good heavy griddle pan to get the outside just right

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:10, archived)

Yep.

( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:10, archived)

One of my best investments
is a Le Creuset ridged griddle pan. Ace for cooking steaks in. So heavy you and barely lift it!
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:12, archived)

I do love le Creuset

( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:13, archived)

I got really lucky with mine
I bought two frying pans, two casserole dishes and the griddle pan in a house clearance sale for £75. The griddle pan alone is about £100 new.

Win!
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:15, archived)

RAR.
That's well done.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:16, archived)

They are pretty old but they work
They are also in an awesome 1970's shade of acid green.

One of the only advantages of working in an estate agency is being able to furnish my house with cheap stuff form house clearances!
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:20, archived)

*loves green*
:-(

Jealous.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:21, archived)

I'll hold my hands up now and say I've used my George Foreman
3 mins, nice charred lines and yummy nommy goodness.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:14, archived)

I don't have one of those, but only because I don't have the counter space.
If I had one, I'd not use it for steak, but lots of monkfish.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:15, archived)

It works quite well.
I leave it on a good while before I put the Steak in.
Probably nowhere near as hot as a griddle pan though.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:17, archived)

I think I'd have to carry on griddling
as I don't do it for about 10/20 seconds on each side, hot as hell.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:18, archived)

Anthony Worrel-Thompsons place used to do a black and blue.
Cooked over a charcoal grill so it's charred but blue inside.
Yumma yumma yum.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:19, archived)

PERFECT!

( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:20, archived)

Fail.
For cooking steaks at least.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 18 May 2009, 12:16, archived)

Nah, it does work fairly well.

( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:17, archived)

Most people I know put the steak in the pan then turn the heat on, it makes me angry
I want my steak griddled, not boiled! I make sure the pan is hot enough to smelt copper before I even think about adding the steak.
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:13, archived)

Yep.
I always test it by chucking a little something in to see if it chucks it back out again.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:14, archived)

Now I'm hungry and want steak for lunch
I think all I'll get is a chicken sandwich and I have to wait 45 minutes :(
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:17, archived)

I've had half a chicky sarnie and have no money for anything else.

( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:17, archived)

As soon as replicators are invented you will no longer have this problem
Luckily I have a Tesco Express about 250m away from the office, but that wouldn't help if I forgot to bring cash :(
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:23, archived)

I work on the outskirts of a villagy sort of town
15 minute's walk from the nearest link machine, and proper nice food is further still.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:24, archived)

This is only a little village, but that didn't stop Tesco from getting their claws into it :(

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 18 May 2009, 12:27, archived)