My Top 5 Favorite Steak Cuts and Why | My List May Surprise You

[@MichaelScheele]

You reminded me of the steakhouse where I had a Porterhouse steak for my 40th birthday. It was perfectly cooked on both sides of the bone, the best steak I've had at a steakhouse. My favorite steak cuts: ribeye, Porterhouse/T-Bone, filet mignon, NY strip, and tri-tip.

[@tomwadek]

That is awesome! When porterhouse is done right, it’s hard to beat!

[@darrylrichman]

My local Safeway routinely puts sirloin roast on sale at, say $4.97/lb. So, I ask the butcher if they'll sell me a whole sirloin cap at the same price. It works almost every time. Recently I did this, and the butcher said "I know what you're doing, that's Picanha! When can I come over?" I almost always smoke the steaks on my Weber Kamado and when they are approaching medium rare, I take them off, let them rest, and get the fire blown up so I can sear them. Yum!

[@tomwadek]

Haha, that’s exactly what I was doing until they got wise to me. Glad your butcher was so cool about it!

[@supernole7819]

Great vid, but wtf is ‘Wagoo’? 🤣.

[@sdslim6929]

In our part of the world (the center of the country -- beef country) a picanha is called a coulotte and I have been loving them for years, along with a good, well aged sirloin. My 2 favorite steaks for flavor. If you buy a whole sirloin you can remove the picanha cap and age the rest for sirloin steaks. I often buy a whole ribeye loin and cut the chuck end part into prime rib roasts, the steaks for the rest, and agree with your 1.5 inches. I was really dissapointed you didn't mention one of my favorite steaks and the second most tender cut on a beef ---- the flat iron. Best flavor, plenty of marbling -- but only lacking in thickness --- and would make my top three! My top 5 would be, (all well aged) NY strip steak, sirloin, coulotte, flat iron, ribeye and #6, 1/2 priced timed out ones early in the morning at the Walmart meat counter near me!

[@tomwadek]

Flat iron is absolutely amazing as well and extremely forgiving. I was planning on doing a dedicated video as for most people, they probably never heard of it. I think it’s a fairly unknown underdog cut. Hanger beat it slightly on my list but it was a hard choice for sure. I just hop the prices don’t continue to climb. Hanger and flat iron are hard to find here.