Teigen promised her recipe would yield a "restaurant-quality steak at home" that would taste juicy, look perfectly golden-brown, and be super tender.
"Making a steak can be intimidating, but it doesn't have to be, I swear," she writes in the recipe's introduction. "All you need for a super crispy exterior and juicy, perfectly-cooked interior is a super hot cast iron skillet, a generous amount of salt and pepper, and… butter!"
To be honest, I can't remember the last time I cooked a steak for myself at home. As a novice chef, with most of my new cooking experience in various pastas, steak has always seemed out of my league. Should I cook it on the stove or in the oven, or both? What about the grill? What do I season it with? How long should it rest? Which way should I cut it?
As someone who gets easily intimidated in the kitchen, steak has just seemed like a lot. But Teigen's recipe looked so simple, I knew I had to give it a shot.