Grilling the BEST STEAK!

[Cow Poke]

Just trying to help you get past the "NY" thing you were complaining about.

You're such a loving brother.

[rogue06]

I just call it supper. (or lunch, dinner, breakfast...)

Just trying to help you get past the "NY" thing you were complaining about.

[Cow Poke]

You do know that another name for a New York strip is a Kansas City strip don't you? Another name is the Top Loin.

I just call it supper. (or lunch, dinner, breakfast...)

[mossrose]

[Jedidiah]

I did not see either of your posts, moss. You are not here.

[mossrose]

You did not see the last post. I am not here.

[mossrose]

We just call it strip loin, and it is our preferred cut.

Alberta beef, all the way.

[rogue06]

Yeah, I've had better results with NY Strip.. I just have to get past the "NY" part.

You do know that another name for a New York strip is a Kansas City strip don't you? Another name is the Top Loin.

[Cow Poke]

Right now, I'm pretty much at the minimum required by law to maintain my grazing exemptions.

Just to be clear, it's not so much an "exemption" as it is a lowering of valuation -- the same tax rates still apply, but on a lower value. In Texas, if I were to sell that land, all of the "back taxes" on the actual appraised value become due and payable.

We found some land in Victoria Texas (when I was with the Gas Compression company) where we wanted to build an area office, and the land was REALLY "priced to sell". Then I found out why -- it had been valued as "grazing land", and would be reclassified as commercial property, so we would have had to pay the "back taxes" for the previous 7 years. It made the deal WAY too expensive.

[Cow Poke]

How many do you have?

We try to keep it right at 40 for now. Maybe when I fully retire, we'll go the max.

[Cow Poke]

I think with sirloin, a lot of time it is the way you cook it. Most steak experts say you are supposed to sear steak at really high temps and then cook it pretty fast on high heat. For me, when I do that with sirloin, it seems to make it tougher. If I sear it a little on each side, then cook it fairly slow on about medium heat, it seems to come out more tender.

Yeah, when I do sirloin on the grill, I pile all my charcoal to one side so I have a good "hot zone", and I can move the steaks over to the cooler side if, for example, somebody wants theirs medium well and somebody else wants them rare or medium rare.

I have also experimented with letting them "warm up" on the "cooler" side of the grill for about 20 minutes, THEN moving them over to the "hot zone" for that sear and sizzle.

[Sparko]

We had to cut the herd WAY BACK a few years ago when the drought was hitting us really hard, and hay became so dadgum expensive. Sold off a lot of beef for some pretty lousy prices.

Right now, I'm pretty much at the minimum required by law to maintain my grazing exemptions.

How many do you have?

[Sparko]

Yeah, I've had better results with NY Strip.. I just have to get past the "NY" part.



See previous post.

I think with sirloin, a lot of time it is the way you cook it. Most steak experts say you are supposed to sear steak at really high temps and then cook it pretty fast on high heat. For me, when I do that with sirloin, it seems to make it tougher. If I sear it a little on each side, then cook it fairly slow on about medium heat, it seems to come out more tender.

[Cow Poke]

You mean you don't raise your own beef cattle, CP?

We had to cut the herd WAY BACK a few years ago when the drought was hitting us really hard, and hay became so dadgum expensive. Sold off a lot of beef for some pretty lousy prices.

Right now, I'm pretty much at the minimum required by law to maintain my grazing exemptions.

[Cow Poke]

I will give it a try next time. I agree with you on the sirloin. sometimes you get a cut that melts in your mouth, other times it is like eating the sole of a shoe.

Yeah, I've had better results with NY Strip.. I just have to get past the "NY" part.

You mean you don't raise your own beef cattle, CP?

See previous post.

But sometimes, I just go to the 'back yard' to get a good steak.