Centrist take: If you can't get a decent sear on a gas stove you need to learn how to cook.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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It looks like it was boiled. I'm sure there's a right way to boil steak (and I will pop a cap in the first motherfucker to say "sous vide"; sous vide is "boiling" like searing is "throwing the steak directly into a furnace"), but I'll never find out because it's fucking sacrilege.
If it's a chewy old steak from an old cow you can pressure cook it, then it passes through the boiling to the other side and becomes tender again.
Then you shred it up and put like taco or donair spices on it and put it on rice or in a tortilla or something... It's questionable whether it's still a steak at this point, but it is tasty after being boiled which is more than you can say for OP's steak
Pressure cooking isn't boiling (I think it's closer to baking, in how it cooks the meat? Open to correction there), but you're bang-on right it would be better than that disaster up top!
Pressure cooking is really its own process. It's wet heat, either in saturated steam or in superheated water depending if you put the meat up on a rack or just on the bottom. For this sort of dish I would just put it on the bottom in the water.
The temperature is quite a bit elevated but not as high as baking, around 250F which would never cook your steak in the oven. It's more like an accelerated braise? You can make baked beans in 30 minutes instead of like... All day in the oven.
My wife is from Taiwan and their culture makes fantastic braised beef dishes, so there's definitely nothing wrong with getting beef wet! I think it's all about knowing the process and not just winging it and making something gross.
Well then you're not just boiling it, are you? It's like throwing a bunch of spices and fresh vegetables in cup noodles; at that point, you may as well just make it properly.
Since we're talking about how boiling steak is a bad idea, we are indeed talking about just boiling it. Does that steak in the picture look like it got a sear in a pan? If course not, so I'm not sure how "it can be fine if you also sear it" is relevant.
I didn't realise that I'd have to defend "boiling is a bad way to cook steak", frankly. It's not a hot take.
Okay bud. You wanna read that into it, that's a you problem.