The Most Incredible Chuck Eye Steak I ever ate

[Retired Spook]

HEB select chuck eye steak - patted dry with paper towels, dusted with Adolph's meat tenderizer, let rest on counter for 1-hour, then dusted with granulated garlic, granulated onion and freshly ground black pepper.

Sauteed mushrooms, onions and chunked garlic in EVOO and butter, plated the mushroom, onions and garlic and seared the chuck steak for 3-minutes each side in the very hot carbon steel pan. It was as tender as the best tenderloin I have ever tasted and had that fantastic beefy chuck flavor that I love.

Look closely you can see the similarity it has to a rib eye - the cut that a chuck eye is a kissin-cousin to!

Just phenomenal - the Adolph's took it over the top!

 

[JLeonard]

Great looking steak...And the onions and 'shrooms are a perfect accompaniment.

Jim

 

[JC in GB]

That looks like money right there. YUM!!!!

JC

 

[civilsmoker]

That is a NICE looking plate!

 

[Retired Spook]

That is a NICE looking plate!

Thank you sir!

 

[chopsaw]

I need to get the ones I have thawed out . Fantastic steak , and that looks great .
Which Adolph's did you get ? Red or yellow lid ?

 

[Retired Spook]

I need to get the ones I have thawed out . Fantastic steak , and that looks great .
Which Adolph's did you get ? Red or yellow lid ?

Red - original. I saw the yellow label "seasoned with spices" but I just wanted to see how well the stuff worked.

 

[chopsaw]

I love the yellow lid for chicken wings . The stuff works .

 

[Retired Spook]

I love the yellow lid for chicken wings . The stuff works .

I'm going to have the try that! I love chicken wings.

 

[Hijack73]

Chuck eyes are hit or miss. I've had some great ones, and some like shoe leather.

Looks fantastic!

 

[thirdeye]

HEB select chuck eye steak - patted dry with paper towels, dusted with Adolph's meat tenderizer, let rest on counter for 1-hour, then dusted with granulated garlic, granulated onion and freshly ground black pepper.

My family used Adolph's tenderizer on things like round steaks. I remember ads that had a cartoon matador sprinkling some Adolph's on to a bull's head.

 

[chopsaw]

You only get a couple Chuck eye steaks off of each animal . Never had one that wasn't fantastic and completely tender . Not to be confused with a chuck steak .

 

[Retired Spook]

You only get a couple Chuck eye steaks off of each animal . Never had one that wasn't fantastic and completely tender . Not to be confused with a chuck steak .

HEB is hit or miss with the chuck eye steaks - many are "less than tender." Nevertheless, this one was phenomenal - Filet Mignon tender.

 

[babydocsmoker]

That is a good looing cut! Glad it came out nice!!

 

[edmonds]

The scientific way.
Get 2 identical steaks from the same animal, treat both the same except one gets Adolf, then compare.

Regardless, that steak looks really good.

 

[jcam222]

I LOVE chuck eye

 

[Retired Spook]

The scientific way.
Get 2 identical steaks from the same animal, treat both the same except one gets Adolf, then compare.

Regardless, that steak looks really good.

The experience way - HEB select chuck eye I would rate as good as you guys want them to be, about 20% of the time.

Nevertheless, in the last 9-years of buying chuck eye steaks at the local HEB, not one was anywhere near as tender as this one. I have enjoyed almost all of them because I prefer the flavor - some were pretty tough - but not one came anywhere near the tenderness of this one.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Looks killer! I love Chuck Eyes. That Bromelain is in pineapple which is why I use it for a tenderizer.

 

[Retired Spook]

I realize that some folks are purists but - at least in my part of the planet - meat quality is going down, and the Adolph's has been making that fact slightly more tolerable.

 

[smokerjim]

Looks good mr. spook. dont think I ever had adolphs, may have to try it.