When to season your steak!

[TXFlyGuy]

Over the last two day I have grilled some nice Rib Eye Steaks. These were Choice, from Costco.
Yesterday they were salted one hour prior to grilling. Today I salted mine at 7am, and grilled at 3:30pm.

The longer exposure, plus the short term "dry aging" in the fridge made a big difference.
More beefy flavor, more tender. My wife did not want any seasoning on hers.

Going forward, all of our steaks will be seasoned at least 12 hours prior, if not a full 24 hours. Then allowed to "dry age" in the fridge on a rack.

The kettle is my daily driver, the '79 model H. Cooker.

A few pics.....

[butterybenihana]

I’ve been doing this as well, I’ve done 24hrs and works great with ribeyes and strips for me, didn’t like it as much with tenderloin maybe because of how lean it is but may be good with a shorter seasoning time.
Looks delicious!

[TXFlyGuy]

These were Rib Eye's, and were 1.5" thick.
Next time I will do the 24 hour seasoning. I think leaving the salted steaks on a cookie rack in the fridge helps them age a bit, which adds tenderness and flavor!

I would like to know what others here are doing.

[bbqking01]

So I usually pull the steak out of fridge then dry rub with whatever I feel like. Usually just SPG. Then go light up whatever I’m using, kettle, SmokeFire, gasser? If I’m doing a tritip, I do my best to give it a rub down the day, evening before. Then in a ziplock bag in the fridge. Usually use something with bold flavor. I like to add coffee every so often to the tritip rub.


Sent from my iPhone using Weber Kettle Club

[1MoreFord]

My rule of thumb is to dry brine a minimum of 1/4 hour per 1/4" of steak thickness.  No more salt needed but some pepper is good.

[TXFlyGuy]

The YouTube video showed an experiment, with a 1 hour, 24 hour, an 0 hour seasoning and dry age.
The result was the best flavor was the 24 hour aging, followed closely by the 1 hour. Both were much better than the steak that was seasoned immediately prior to going on the grill.

Only salt was used in this experiment.