First cook on a birthyear Aristocrat

[Mr.CPHo]

This cook is for Kneab who not only made me a great deal on this Aristocrat, but who also generously contributed to a passion project of mine.   Thank you so much Kneab!

I celebrated my 40th this past week.  I chose to celebrate with dry aged steaks from our local butcher, a bone-in ribeye for myself and a NY strip for the wife. 

I believe 1980 was the last year of the Aristocrat and this was the first time the "B" code Aristocrat gets the call.  I also used a little red SJ as my chimney station.  I've been using Stump Chunks at the bottom of my chimney as my starter; it's a little smokey to begin with, but really gets lump going pretty quickly and holds up those smaller pieces from falling through. 

I followed a biftek pôelé au beurre recipe which recently ran in the WSJ, essentially a pan seared steak sumptuously finished by basting in high fat content European butter.  Yeah, it tasted as good as it sounds...  pretty easy recipe to transfer to the grill.

Seared 3 minutes each side on a smoking hot carbon steel pan, moved over to indirect until about 10 degrees shy of my desired temp, and then basted in garlic and butter while still off heat.  While the steaks rested a full 10 minutes, zucchini and squash joined the party. 

Thanks for looking!

[randy]

You had me at butter
Looks amazing and happy birthday Charlie!


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[CatskillSmoker]

Happy Birthday Charlie. Cook looks awesome. Oh, so does the Aristocrat.

[cigarman20]

Bone-in dry aged ribeye...Now that's a steak! Looks like you cooked to perfection. Happy birthday


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[HoosierKettle]

Spectacular all around!!  Incredible cook. I haven't tried dry aged yet. How would you describe it?  I've looked into that and that's a completely different art. Happy birthday!


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[Darko]

That looks great Charlie! Happy belated birthday.

[michaelmilitello]

Happy birthday .  Beautiful cook and grill. 


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[Kain]

Happy bday. That feed looks amazing


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[JEBIV]

Wow, Charlie all of this post is awesome, now that your 40 you better watch the fat intake LOL

[Kneab]

Happy belated birthday Charlie. Those steaks look great.

And that Aristocrat has found a great forever home. Looking forward to seeing some more cooks come off of it.

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[kettlebb]

Happy birthday Charlie! What an amazing dinner.


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[Bluegrass Boiler]

Happy birthday! Good look steaks on that beautiful grill.


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[bear]

Nailed it!
Happy Birthday mate

[Mr.CPHo]

Spectacular all around!!  Incredible cook. I haven't tried dry aged yet. How would you describe it?  I've looked into that and that's a completely different art. Happy birthday!

Thank you for the kind words.  I do like the more pronounced flavor of dry aged steaks.  A couple weeks ago we compared NY strips in a blind taste test between Costco prime and dry-aged and the latter was both more tender and more flavorful. 

[WeberKell11]

Happy birthday brother... looks amazing!

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