Jo Minjoon cut off the fat and put round pepper on it for the aroma. He didn’t put salt. Cooking it to become medium took 4 minutes. Calculating the resting time, then it would be 5 minutes. If he put salt and let it rest, because of the osmotic pressure, it would rise sloppily to the exterior. Because of that juice the heat in the pan got wasted, the juice too got wasted, and the searing could only get weak. If he wasn’t planning to let it rest for 40 minutes, then it was better to put salt at the moment.
Jo Minjoon looked at his surrounding. And at that moment, his brows twitched. He was looking at an incomprehensible scene. Peter was heating the oven. Maybe Alan was thinking the same as him, so he got in front of him and asked.
“…….How are you planning to cook?”
“After putting it in the oven and cooking it, I will use the frying pan to sear the exterior and let it rest.”
“Do you think that you will be able to control how both of the sides cook?”
“If I put only the tenderloin part in the end part of the pan, I think that it will cook less.”
“………I wonder. Let’s see what happens.”
At that moment, Peter’s face became dim. He thought that his cooking method had some chances, but as Alan came like that, his confidence immediately disappeared. However, he couldn’t fix the direction because of one word.
Most of the participants were resting the meat. And 5 minutes passed like that. The participants that were only looking at the clock’s needle, moved as 5 minutes passed.
Jo Minjoon took out the round pepper and put some salt. He then oiled the pan using the fat he had cut off. In the middle it made a sizzling sound, Alan opened his mouth.
“Do you have any experience with T-bone?”
“No. Almost none.”
“Take into account the range the fire reaches in the frying pan. With just that, it will be quite the help.”
He was planning to do so even if he hadn’t told him, but Jo Minjoon smiled without saying anything. Because he wasn’t so spoiled as to act sharply at the worried advice.
As Alan said, controlling the part the fire touches the frying pan was the priority. Jo Minjoon placed the frying pan, and placed the tenderloin part where the fire was strong. But because of that, there couldn’t be too much of a difference. If he did that, then the tenderloin would get more overcooked than the steak strip.
The cooking method of the steak was different from each chef. Some said that you didn’t have to flip it more than twice, and some said that you had to flip it once every minute, or every 30 seconds. Jo Minjoon was the type to flip it every minute. If he did that, the juice that was gathered in the center of the meat, would spread and inflate the meat while it was resting.
Rather than what was right and what was wrong, it was better to look at it as an individual taste. Jo Minjoon checked the clock and flipped the steak. He didn’t particularly use the arroser method. Because not only it dispersed his concentration, but the extra oil could change the cooking point. Jo Minjoon wasn’t on the level he could read the role of the oil on the meat, yet.
The estimated cooking score was 6. It couldn’t be helped. Because he was just roasting it and not using any sauce, so it was difficult to get a score beyond that.
What Jo Minjoon wanted was right a medium. After exactly flipping it three times, he placed the meat on kitchen towel. If he only waited for 1 minute for the juices to return…….Although he didn’t know if both sides would be medium, at least, he was certain that the flavor would be okay.
The buzzer rang. All of the participants took their hands off their dish. Jo Minjoon looked at his own. The score of the T-bone steak that appeared after it rested was 6. It was the same score as the recipe.
The judges called the people one by one. They cut the tenderloin part, and the strip steak part. And after that, if the cooking point was different, then they didn’t even put it in their mouths. For example, Peter was one case.