How To Season Steak

I'm going to show you how to season a steak, real, real simple and mainstream. In any kitchen, this is how they're going to season their steak. Before cooking your meat, we want to put some herbs, some oil for moisture and obviously, there will be salt and pepper for flavor.

A lot of chefs will add their salt and pepper right at the end because they feel that the moisture is being withdrawn from the meat, but I don't believe that. It's not going to be in the pan long enough. I want my meat to be flavored from the second it goes in that pan, so I'm adding some sea salt and of course, ground black pepper on my meat straight away.

I know that when it's cooking, it's impregnating the meat, it's putting pressure onto the salt and pepper and it's getting through. It's literally just bursting through the meat and I'm happy with that, and that's how I cook it. I've got a 3 to 4-ounce rump steak and I'm going to season my meat, but I'm not going to over-season it, because when it gets to the table, people like to put more salt and pepper.

So I'm just going to lightly season it, don't go too overboard. Less is more, very important. Like I said, when we've got our meat in the pan, it's going to literally impregnate the meat.

It's going to push the salt and pepper into the meat, it's going to disperse, it's going to dissolve, it's going to add the flavor, it's going to bring all the juices out and it's going to caramelize the meat. Chefs will put their salt and pepper on at the end and I feel it's going to fall off and do nothing to it. So, get it in there in the beginning.

Like I said, get it in there and impregnate it. Get a nice bit of olive oil, keep it natural. Again, a lot of chefs are starting to use rapeseed oil.

It's very high in Omega 3, 6 and 9 and it's cheaper. A lot of people don't understand how to use olive oil. When you're cooking with olive oil, it's overpowering.

You can break it down a bit by using half and half. Use olive oil and sunflower or olive oil and rapeseed. It's very important, you're not understanding fully how to use the olive oil.

So what I've done is, like I've said, I've done the salt, I've done the pepper. I've done the oil. My pan is nice and hot.

In it goes, in and out and however you want your steak or your chicken cooked is important. And that's how I season my steak. .