Help getting 2” strips to medium for wife

[jfmorris]

patcrail Glad your cook came out good, and I hope she enjoyed her steak!

I think with that small a grill, your indirect zone is just getting hotter than on a larger kettle. My advice is to try the front sear next time, so that you can get a good color on that meat while it is still 35-40, straight out of the fridge, THEN move it indirect and close the dampers on the grill if need be, and let it creep up to the 5 degrees below the doneness you want before pulling. I've had more luck with that than with the reverse sear lately. For some reason I seem to always overshoot while doing the sear at the end.

[patcrail]

Good advice ... I think the small grill is really killing me trying to go "low & slow", and getting more radiant heat than I realized... I’m gonna try going back to a front sear on the next couple

[Blues1]

Thumbs up!

[patcrail]

Shifty, I suspect I was both cooking significantly hotter than I realized, and my readings were in the very thickest end of the strips... so carryover was legitimately about 15 degrees, but at the bulk of the steaks, that pushed them well past my taste... first time with this grill/charcoal/reverse-sear, so I’m happy with the result, now it’s time to learn