This isn't the perfect steak and it's certainly not photogenic, but I had fun making it so I'm sharing.
I'm eating one meal a day on my carnivore diet, so all day I've been looking forward to grilling the ribeye that has been dry-brining in the fridge.
I decided to try using less charcoal than I usually do, so I flipped the chimney upside down, put a starter cube into it, and then added some charcoal so it could get hot:
Once it was ashed over (a little past what you saw above), I dumped it into the Slow 'N Sear and put the steak on:
It really wasn't enough charcoal, though. Although I was able to sear it, it wasn't seared as well as it should have been, and after searing it took a long time to almost get up to temp . . . and I actually put it in the air fryer for three minutes at the end, to bring it up a few more degrees. Lesson learned.
Here's the final product, with some butter added:
The plate weighs 12.8 ounces . . . so that steak is over two pounds after cooking. That's a lot of meat and fat!
And yep, I ate every bite of that except for that rubber band of silverskin that's flapping over the side. Well, and minus the Boston Terrier tax.
Added bonus: I've started mixing my own rub, and I'm numbering the recipes as I go. I'm all the way up to Rub #2.
Rub #1 was okay but unremarkable, so I doubled the salt content. Tonight's steak had Rub #2, and it was freaking delicious! Fun stuff.