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Overview Of How To Cook Marinated Steak On The Grill

This covers the entire process of how to cook marinated steak on the grill outdoors.

It’s illustrated using a grilled marinated ribeye steak. The timings are geared towards any steak with a thickness of about 3/4-inch to 1-inch. Reduce times for thinner steaks. You can also easily increase the cooking times if you’re using steaks thicker than an inch. The deep cut slits and marinade make it easier to cook thick steaks more evenly.

When you want to have a great steak with gourmet flavor for a special occasion, this will be the absolute solution. You can grill it outdoors on your choice of BBQ grill types. The greatest thing about this recipe is that every single person who has tasted it, absolutely loved it and said they've never had such a wonderful flavor in a steak before.

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What to Marinate Steak in for Grilling

The steak marinade is easy to make and the ingredients are listed in the recipe. And, because of the unique meat preparations, it can marinate in as little as 1 hour. The general minimum marinating time is anywhere from 30-45 minutes to overnight.

Marinated Steak on the Grill

If it’s a smaller steak, reduce your grilling times. While you can skip the marinade aspect, you’ll be thrilled and blown away if you use it. You will thoroughly enjoy all the phases of this marinated steak recipe.

The cooking process details are covered in the recipe. In a nutshell, you grill it each side for 3-5 minutes, or more if it’s real thick.

About Marinated Steak Recipe

This particular recipe has been perfected over a multi-year period. Frequent questions are answered via the preparation and cooking instructions such as:

Do you grill them on direct heat or indirect heat?
Do you cover the grill or leave the top open?
Can it be cooked on the stove?
Can I store them in the freezer and cook them in the future?

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Marinated Meat Cold Storage

Marinated Meat in Fridge

You can store the marinated steaks in the fridge but no longer than 2-3 days, although some have gone as long as 5 days.

Marinate Meat in Freezer

For saving time in the distant future, you can also prepare to freeze them. You don’t even have to wait for them to marinade! Generally, you won’t want to leave them longer than about 3 months in the freezer.

Double bagging marinated steaks for freezer

Best Way to freeze meat without freezer burn

The best way is using a double bagging method. We used to do this method commercially for seafood as well. It kept the quality of the product intact. And you don’t have to buy the more expensive freezer food storage bags, which don’t always manage food quality during long-term storage.

Prepare the usual steaks (cut with slits) and add the marinade into individual sandwich-sized or quart-sized food storage bags. Then, place those baggies into a larger sealable food storage bag and toss in the freezer.

This way you can do a bunch of them and remove them individually, as needed.

Thawing Steaks

Here is how to defrost steak without ruining it. After frozen, when ready to use these marinated steaks, you can pull the amount of individually bagged steaks from the freezer and begin the thawing process in one of the several ways. Here they are listed.

Preparing to thaw marinated steaks

Thawing Steaks in the Fridge

This is the safest known best practice. The down side is that it requires planning the day before. Put them into the fridge the night before. Be sure you put them in a bowl because the marinade will thaw and might leak out. Another down side is that some refrigerators are colder than others (due to altitude, temp, etc.) and they might not be thawed out enough the next day. And the steaks might be extra thick. Although I routinely have thawed out 1-inch steaks using this method.

Thawing Steaks in the Microwave

You can use your defroster cycle on the microwave. If using the microwave defrost option, start with keying in just 1/2 to 3/4 of the meat weight. This is because every microwave I’ve owned in 30 years have slightly cooked the edges when keying in 100% of the true steak weight.

Also, as you don’t want the marinade leaking out, put them in a microwavable bowl and slightly open each sandwich bag. With using the reduced weight method for the microwave, I’ve never experienced that plastic bag odor or taste. Regardless, you can also remove all plastic and thoroughly wrap the steaks in paper towels. I have used both methods successfully.

Thawing Steaks in Cold Water

You can leave the steaks in their plastic bags and put them in a bowl of cold water. You’ll need to monitor it for food safety reasons as you don’t want to leave it out for too many hours. Usually, for 1-inch steaks, about 2-3 hours is the max I choose to follow.

Thawing Steaks by Leaving Them Out

This is not a good food safety practice to get into, although many have used this method and I have as well. The absolute longest I ever leave out steaks in a bowl on the counter is 2 hours. Then, I put them straight into the fridge.

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Nutritional Values of Steak

The nutritional values are shown in the <Print Recipe> option.

Conclusion And Side Dishes for Marinated Steak

In conclusion, if you liked this marinated steak, check out this Steak Fajitas recipe for a similar flavor. And, for a solid change, enjoy choosing a variety of side dishes shown here.

How To Cook Marinated Steak On The Grill