Cast Iron Skillet Steak Cooking Question;

[Bully13]

Did one for the 1st time the other night. Awesome. Followed the instructions on Youtube but may have made an error.

Instead of waiting till the skillet was red hot to throw the oil on, I threw the oil on THEN fired up the stove eye.

I used a combination of olive oil and coconut oil.

Kitchen smoked up like a burning building. Right Before the steak was ready, smoke alarms jolt my ass.

Anybody think that was due to throwing the oil on from the get go instead of waiting till the skillet was red hot?

[msstatelp1]

If you're gonna go high heat on your skillet, you may want to use clarified butter or avocado oil. Olive oil and coconut oil both have fairly low smoke points.

[Bully13]

If you're gonna go high heat on your skillet, you may want to use clarified butter or avocado oil. Olive oil and coconut oil both have fairly low smoke points.

Gracias Amigo. will remember.

[viverlibre]

It's going to smoke, better to do outside on a burner on a gas grill.

[Matty Dispatch]

You can use grape seed oil or duck fat for less smoke. I just always use olive oil, but I wait to put it on until I've had the skillet over high heat for 8-10 minutes, then I immediately put the steak in the pan. It smokes, but never anything too bad.....usually do two at a time so the oil is only in the pan for about 10 minutes total.

[BeastMan]

See i really like the flavor of olive oil so I use it cooks "too hot" for olive oil fairly regularly and when I do I throw in some butter to increase the smoke point. My favorite high heat oil is grapeseed. That cast iron is going to smoke, just is what it is. One thing I really like to do is have my oven preheated to 350. Get that cast iron screamin hot and sear big steaks and then transfer them to the baking pan (or you can throw the cast iron in there). Then I hook up my iGrill thermometers to the steaks in the oven and pull then at 130 before I rest them. Its a totally fool proof way to cook a perfect steak.

[Johnson85]

I use s mix of olive oil and butter and it doesn't smoke to bad. But if you put the olive oil in early it cooks off and you miss the flavor.

[Matty Dispatch]

I use s mix of olive oil and butter and it doesn't smoke to bad. But if you put the olive oil in early it cooks off and you miss the flavor.

I forgot about the butter. Definitely heap plenty of butter in there and spoon it over the steaks near the end. And throw some extra pepper on it. Yum