cooking tough steak

 One way to cook tough steak is using 🍍 pineapple. There is a trick to it. Also the steak isn't going to be like a regular succulent juicy delicious tender steak. The steak I'm talking about starts off at $5 a pound. Those other kinds of steaks start off at 15 to $20 a pound. This process will take a cheap tough steak and turn it into something that even old people can eat.

It does NOT taste like pineapple!!!

If you want tender pot roast, cook it in a crock pot or in the oven for hours. You can actually cook a regular steak that way too, but it no longer tastes like a steak. It tastes like pot roast. 

The pineapple process will still taste somewhat like steak. It will have an unusual texture. I'm in my 60s and I've never had anything like it, after eating steak for over 60 years. So here it is:

Cut the steak into 3/16 inch strips, against the grain.

Cut up a fresh pineapple into chunks.

Put the steak strips into a quart plastic bag.

Crush pineapple chunks into the bag using a lemon squeezer. About as much as the steak.

Put the chunks into the bag.

Cover the ingredients with bottled water.

Let it sit for 1 hour.

Pour all of it into a strainer, and rinse.

Put the pineapple chunks and the steak into a skillet at medium heat.

Let it cook till the juices evaporate. There is a surprising amount of juice still in the pineapple. This will probably take 8 minutes.

Pour all of it back into a strainer, and throw out the pineapple.

Turn down the heat to simmer.

Put the steak back in the skillet with some olive oil, and let it brown on one side. Maybe 2 minutes

Flip the steak stips over and add more olive oil. Cook 2 minutes.

Then briefly add some soy sauce and barbecue sauce.

Let it cook for maybe a minute while stirring occasionally.

Serve immediately.

Once again, it's no longer like regular steak. It doesn't taste like pot roast, it sort of tastes like barbecue beef on a sandwich. It has a good texture and is no longer tough. If you chop it up a little bit you can simply put it on a sandwich. Call it a steak sandwich.

Some people recommend cooking a tougher steak very rare. The problem with this is you're basically cooking the steak to 125°. That's like leaving it out in the sun a while in the desert. It's not really cooked. You're basically eating a hot raw steak.

This pineapple process will cook the meat until it's brown, but it no longer has the regular texture of 🥩.