Cooking steaks on a stone (master class)

[Preparation]

Cooking steaks on a stone (master class)

Category: Meat dishes

Ingredients
Fresh meat (pork neck or ribeye steak)	800 g
Unpeeled garlic cloves	10-12 pcs small
Freshly ground black pepper	taste
Rosemary or sage (or optional)
Olive oil	2-3 st. l.
Natural stones	by the number of guests or one large
Foil for wrapping stones
For cooking charcoal grill, oven, stove or fireplace
For the sauce:
Pomegranate sauce or concentrated pomegranate juice	100 g
Chopped strawberries	6 pcs.

Cooking method

• In summer, guests often come to our dacha. And, of course, no one has invented a better dish like grilled steak or aromatic barbecue on charcoal. As always, there is one small but: my husband or one of the men in the process of cooking kebabs or grilling are forced to constantly leave the table, scurry back and forth. As a result, discrimination is evident: everyone is resting, and the chief of meat is working. For a small company, we have found such an original solution, which I want to offer you - to fry meat on hot stones, right at the table.
• This idea is not new, but it is little used in our native land. While it's not really complicated, you just need to have a few good flat stones of medium size or one big one for everyone. The stones can be bought in specialized shops for bath equipment. And even if it rains and you cannot warm up the stones in the grill, you can heat them to the desired temperature in an ordinary oven, stove or fireplace.
• One day we were lucky with good weather, despite our rainy summer. Managed to cook mini pork steaks on stones.
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• Preparation
• - First of all, we choose good soft meat. A pork neck or, which is generally incredibly tasty and wonderful, a real ribeye steak will do.
• - An hour before serving, we take our stones, wash and dry them. If you are going to reheat stones in coals or over a fire, wrap them in a double layer of foil to prevent them from getting dirty, and bury them in the coals for about an hour.
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• In the same way we do the same for the fireplace and for the stove. If you heat the stone in the oven, then you do not need to wrap it.
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• - Then we start preparing the meat. Cut the meat into wide cubes about 1.5 cm thick. Salt it, put it on a sheet of parchment. Top with pieces of garlic right in the peel. Pepper, sprinkle with rosemary, thyme or fresh sage. Fresh sage is especially suitable for pork. Pepper and top with a second piece of parchment or baking paper.
• Next, we take a hammer, rolling pin or a special culinary press for beating meat and very well, almost to a translucent state, beat off our pieces between the layers of paper. We hold the paper at the ends so that the pieces of garlic do not fly out. In principle, you can grate the cubes with garlic in advance, and some do not like garlic at all. In this case, you need to use some kind of spicy salt.
• Sprinkle our thin slices of meat with olive oil on one side.
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• - Now you can start cooking our mini steaks on the stone. We set the table, in front of each guest on a fireproof plate we lay out a pebble extracted from the coals (of course, the foil must be removed from the stone). And we proceed to the culinary celebration.
• For some reason, it seems to me that this action has something of the call of the ancestors. But we are cultured people and will use small forks. By the way, the wooden handle of my favorite fork broke off, and the rest of the forks somehow did not fit into the big picture, and we thought of making a handle from fresh carrots - it turned out very funny.
• And now we take and string the thinnest pieces of meat on a fork and simply spread them on the stone with the side splashed with oil. Fry on a stone on both sides for about 2 minutes until tender. The meat will first stick to the stone, but as soon as it is fried on both sides, the piece will immediately easily come off the stone, and you can turn it over to the other side.
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• If the stones are small in size (as in my photo) and are well heated, then their heat will be enough for about 20 minutes. A large well-heated stone keeps the temperature up to 40 minutes.
• - For meat, you can make an original sauce from pomegranate sauce and chopped strawberries.
• We got this idea of ​​cooking steaks after our dinner in a Viennese restaurant, where, however, they brought us a heated volcanic stone (it's my old dream to have it) and an almost ready-made huge steak, from which, as it cools, we could cut off pieces and reheat them on the stone ...
• I got the preliminary preparation of small steaks from one TV show on the Food channel, where the chef prepared such mini-steaks from Australian ribeye.
• Help yourself! You are guaranteed to have fun at a friendly table!

The dish is designed for

4 servings

Note

P.S .: Then they ate the fork handle.
I planned to fry ribeye meat, but due to unforeseen circumstances I had to make pork from pre-marinated in apple cider vinegar. It's delicious too!

And again a coincidence of tastes, Olenka! We also cook on stones very often! It seems that we had a few years ago and the topic was appropriate. It's a pity, there is no time to look, here I have such a terrible connection ... But there were definitely pictures here! I will definitely find it later.

[dopleta]

dopleta, I did not find on request "Meat (steaks) on stones", yes, and I think that there was no such technology for preparing the meat itself!

Ooohl ...

what are you doing with us ...
I wash my face with saliva, I had to go to bed right after the profiteroles
super idea for capricious weather: no need for a heated barbecue on the veranda swear being burned to drag under a summer shower

Olga !!! You didn't understand me! I only meant common interests! What did you think? No no! There was no such recipe! We were just sharing the technology of roasting on stones! And not just meat. Lord, it even became scary from the thought that I could offend you with something ...

[dopleta]

dopleta, Lar, well, excuse me, I'm afraid I offend someone incessantly by repeating! Just paranoia!

: girl-swoon: Exotic!

This paranoia haunts us all! But it makes no sense to be offended even for repetition, because this does not happen intentionally, but by accident. True, unfortunately, not always, borrowings also happen. God bless him, the forum is culinary, and the more options for familiar dishes, the better! And I have these stones, I dragged 12 pieces from Finland many years ago:

: girl-swoon: Exotic!

Angel, try that you don’t have stones, but if you have a stove !! Do it for your family!

And I have these stones, I dragged 12 pieces from Finland many years ago:

What a beauty !!! I need to take a closer look at them! And mine is out of the groove!

Olya, no words! Tomorrow I'll go looking for stones around the neighborhood! Thank you inspirer! The husband only now needs to explain why the grill does not need to be taken out. He is our chief on kebabs. I don’t even stick my nose into his barbecue business. but here you have to give orders ... And force him to raise a brazier for steaks, not kebabs.

Olya, no words! Tomorrow I'll go looking for stones around the neighborhood! Thank you inspirer! The husband only now needs to explain why the grill does not need to be taken out. He is our chief on kebabs. I don’t even stick my nose into his barbecue business. but here you have to give orders ... And force him to raise a brazier for steaks, not kebabs.

Is there no stove? Or just in the fire when you burn something!

Olya has everything - a stove, a fireplace, and 2 barbecues ... I will reeducate my husband from skewers and grilling to stones ...

Olya has everything - a stove, a fireplace, and 2 barbecues ...I will re-educate my husband from skewers and grilling on stones ...

When I hear the words: stove, fireplace, brazier, and also our beloved seagulls! Here's a word, I'll fall over to you, Lyudochka, to visit somehow. And I will need nothing but a cup of tea and a good conversation !!! Yes, your air! Yes, pet the kitten, otherwise we dry up in the city ...
Well, maybe alternate somehow !!

Olyushka, it's only 2.5 hours to drive the "Swallow" Smolenskaya. Just think, we will be very happy with my husband. In the meantime, I'll look for the stones.

Olyushka, it's only 2.5 hours to drive the "Swallow" Smolenskaya. Just think, we will be very happy with my husband. In the meantime, I'll look for the stones.

Lyudochka, it's just an itch to travel around native spaces, so sooner or later we'll meet !!

Come to Moscow yourself! Visit us directly!

Olka! Class!
I thought that I cook this tundra meat. It turns out that others also use it.
But it's delicious, especially when people come

Olka! Class!
I thought that I cook this tundra meat. It turns out that others also use it.
But it's delicious, especially when people come

In!! Another living witness of the method !!! Oh, how glad I am!
Have you collected all the stones around? : girl-th: We have, like a sin, big houses, and around the Toko in the grooves!

Lyudochka, it's just an itch to travel around native spaces, so sooner or later we'll meet !!

Olya, we will definitely meet!

Come to Moscow yourself! Visit us directly!

Oh, thanks, Olenka! when I get ready, I will definitely inform you ...

Have you collected all the stones around?

Of course
I cleaned up all the fields 10 years ago, when her state farm was and the fields were sown. Hard workers piled stones in heaps in the forest, as unnecessary and unnecessary material.
Well, I was in advance then. They brought me a couple of trailers of stones for a couple of bottles. And then she asked the spouse to saw. Well, he sent me to the granite workshop. There they were polished to me

So, I thought, I won't write, I won't say anything, especially when I accidentally almost offended Olya (because of misunderstanding, this happens with us), but I read about the granite workshop and still decided. Girls, not all stones are suitable for this purpose! There are even dangerous ones that emit harmful substances when heated! After all, we do not know what kind of mineral impurities the selected stone contains. And granite is also radioactive. Once upon a time I also fried on an ordinary stone, but I received a stick from my sister-chemist and that's why I bought a soapstone.

Finnish stones made of talcum chloride, I have such a round one for pizza, like I baked pizza, but it keeps the heat for a long time - I put the meat on it. It was very tasty. About the stone now the idea came up - we are selling facing tiles for a fireplace / bath made of talcum chloride. You can try it on it, there will be a square plate.

Talcochloride, steatite - this is a safe soapstone. Even for a sauna, not all stones are safe, not that for frying - unknown stones, not to mention radiation, can emit sulfur, radon, etc.

Is it possible to heat a stone just on a gas stove on a flame divider? Will the stone burst?

[Niarma]

Niarma, in the instructions for mine it was written that the heating should be uniform, so it is better to heat it in the oven.

[dopleta]

dopleta, NatalyTeo, dear, I pray, have mercy: sorry: share where and for how much you purchased?
dopleta, what does a chemist relative say about the statit from the store everything for the bath?

[dopleta]

I bought in Finland. Looks like that

dopleta, what does a chemist relative say about the statit from the store everything for the bath?

Sorry, Katya, I didn't quite understand the question. Can I cook on it? Well, my sister didn't chemically analyze steatite from this particular store. But steatite, if it is a real stone, I repeat, is safe for this purpose.

[dopleta]

dopleta, Thank you)
I don't have a chance to go to the finals yet ((I'll try to search in the net.
Yes, I understand that my sister did not analyze the stone or tiles from the store, in no way did she mean it ... I just think so ... that a real stone is used for baths, in fact, it heats up there and should not emit anything ...

🔗
Here I dug up an article, and I was looking for information about stone tiles, and there the history of the people and the recipe)

Katya, the article is undoubtedly very interesting both from a culinary and ethnographic point of view, but, alas, it does not negate the above-mentioned risks. And this phrase: "... we are dealing with perhaps the most ancient way of cooking and the most ancient kitchen utensils of the time of acquisition by mankind" cannot be continued with the epithet "the safest."

[Larissa]

Larissa, absolutely agree with you
Indeed, both in those days and now, many nationalities did not know and probably did not think about any components harmful to humans there.