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Tips for grilling the perfect steak

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    Omaha Steaks owner and SVP gives advice

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Hi I'm Diane the sale and this is fox extra now barbecues are favorite American past time.

But for the novice -- good advice can make or break a meal so we're talking to Todd Simon.

The fifth generation owner of Omaha steaks and it's just say he knows a thing or two about -- up the good stakes so -- first thanks so much for joining us and I want to pick your brain a little bit.

Share -- that some of.

Your secrets to grilling the perfect steak okay well the first thing you need is a hot clean grill I don't even know -- -- have a low or medium setting on them.

He should just go right for high.

Then you want to take your steak and you want to lightly oil it.

That improves the searing it helps seal on the -- that there's found -- kind of oh million excuse you know I use extra virgin olive oil but really it's whatever your preferences and then you wanna use the seasoning -- of course we like the Omaha steak seasoning you're gonna shake a little on your -- Prior to putting them on the grill.

Into this with.

Continued in an Indian army well -- -- all of your food -- her and and then you wanna see here the stakes lightly any -- wanna turn them -- -- -- source factually you'd never want to use a fork.

Because -- for -- pierce the meat and let all those great juices and out.

Finally you can use the 6040 method of cooking so what you figured out.

How long you're gonna cook the steak for.

And you might use the Hamas takes cooking chart which you can find online or the Omaha steak steak time app to figure out exactly how you want to cook the steak -- humidity 60% of the time on the first side.

And 40% of the time on the second side.

And then when you're done you take the -- off the grill and let it rest for about five minutes and that allows the final cooking process to happen under the heat of the -- itself.

Makes -- juicy tender and -- some.

And -- -- -- big key here is patients such as people like that.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- You just put it on.

Prefer a few minutes turn it over to the second side and then take it off and needed it's perfect and so what are some of the the top sellers as far as what kind of meet you want for the -- Also some of the most traditional cuts for the real -- the T -- -- in the New York strip -- strips my favorite.

Number we sell a lot of really buy stakes of course filet mignon is our signature cut and because people have been more portion conscious lately.

We've been selling a lot of top sirloin steaks as well.

And it finally you brought cooking steak into the 21 century tell us about the Omaha steaks act.

So Omaha steak -- time is available on the android the iPhone and the iPad platforms and what it is is it's up basically.

A toolbox with everything you need to -- the perfect stake it has recipes you can share it has how to videos and instructions and tips.

And most importantly it has a really really great state timer.

That allows you to punch up the thickness and the done this for each one of your guests and that it does all the calculations for you tells you when to put them on the grill.

When to take them off the grill so they all come off the grill the same time so your guess that wants a well well done steak and the guests that wants a rare steak they don't have to week.

That's amazing all the guesswork is taken out of drilling -- take.

Exactly and what he's -- all you need that is the grill and mistaken this one of those two things we can get from years and they've got helping us out all around.

Todd thanks so much for coming in for giving us those tips and as we mentioned for more on Omaha steaks or to order some -- -- -- -- you can go to Belmont Stakes dot com.

And that's it for fox extra I'm Diane Macedo and thanks for watching.