What Steak makes the best Steak Sandwich?

What steak makes the best steak sandwich?

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:53 Steak Sandwich Framework
5:26 The Cheesesteak Test
13:30 The Chimichurri Test
19:26 What steak makes the best steak sandwich?

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Music: Provided by Epidemic Sound
Filmed on: Sony a6600 & Sony A7C
Voice recorded on Shure MV7
Edited in: Premiere Pro

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[uwuBlaze]

Is it just me or does anyone else also find it impressing how well Ethan can navigate while being blindfolded. I'd just straight up put my hands into the food by accident

[whutevausai]

I appreciate every minute of the insane amount of work that goes into these videos

[tomgio]

One of the best food channels on YT, by far. But more importantly, I don’t feel guilty anymore for taking huge bites (and double bites) of my sandwiches after seeing Ethan attack them unapologetically!

[alt]

Marbled short rib is my go to for sandwiches. Trim the excess fat dry rub for flavor & moisture. Slice thin & shallow fry in it's own fat & grape seed oil.

[a.]

Best cook on youtube. No nonsense. No "papibless" nonsense. Just real, great, high production value, informative content

[Dtanuki]

Finally, someone doing a cheesesteak who shows Jim's from South St. So many Youtubers making cheesesteak ignore this place and its one of my favorite in Philly.

Also, you know how to order "Wiz with". Makes me believe your opinion more.

[enfjftw]

12:11 is the smallest bite Ethan Chlebowski has ever taken in his entire life hahaha, he always *houses* his food and I love it

[victorautumnarroyoforrest]

The butcher at my local grocery store was talking to his coworker when I said I needed a flat iron for a cheesesteak and said it wouldn’t be his first choice. Boy was he wrong. This was the first time we tried it with a flat iron and it was delicious! Very tender!! My wallet is very happy with your suggestion!! Best cheesesteak

[brennonoverton]

2:01 naughty naughty. That is what popped into my head 🤣

[donttouchthisatall]

As a chemist, i thoroughly enjoy your approach to cooking 😺 Kudos! Very cool!

[mrbotmcgee]

Have you considered making one about real vs fake wasabi?

[TheBdg]

Actually surprised you thought flat iron was that much better than ribeye. I love a good flat iron steak, but I've never thought to myself that it is definitively beefier than a ribeye

[jordanschmidt]

Thank you for doing these in depth videos. They are so entertaining and educational!

[Milesofgaming]

I don't even cook a lot, but honestly Ethan, you're teaching me leaps and bounds about cooking.

[rodeobillis]

I wonder if frying the onions in beef tallow might have muddied the end taste test if you were specifically trying to test the beef part of the sandwich as opposed to frying the onions in a neutral oil.

Love the channel and love how you share your experiences and even mess ups so we dont have too!

[violettecoffee]

Just moved to uni and this is getting me through my first night, thank you. You've always been such a comfort to me and I really needed this :]

[jbitt]

Didnt know you were a fellow pennsylvania native. Loving the videos!

[CheAshBri]

Finally! A fellow Philly native cook who’s opinion I can actually trust on which steak to use for cheesesteaks! Can’t wait to recreate my hometown fave! Thanks!

[RenoNV]

Ethan, you make great content. Can we get some pork chop / cutlet pro tips? Too many chefs won't touch pig, but I know my local grocery store goes through a lot of it.

[Famine]

Labor Day weekend I made cheesesteaks for a house full of guests (I live at a beach resort) & invited everyone with an understanding they'd most likely be sleeping on the floor like back when we were in our 20s. Anyway I ran frozen London Broils (LB) through my meat slicer as thin as I could before the meat would fall apart. I fried up 8 HUGE softball sized onions & browned the steak meat in the same two dutch ovens (used dutch ovens so their thick iron would hold the heat between batches). ...had 30+ adults, the steaks were served with corn on the cob, baked potatoes, baked beans (with Jameson Irish whiskey added) & with Herr's barbeque potato chips, & fresh water melon.

NO ONE, not one single person believed I made the best cheesesteak in their life using LB.

The way to make the best cheesesteak is to brown the meat, something I've only seen done ONCE while living in Philadelphia. Most places are using a squirt bottle to squirt on the meat, it is nothing more than water since they steam their steak, I guess it cooks faster? But ZERO browning, WHY?

Smash burgers are amazing for a reason, kids w/in a family fight over the end pieces of the Sunday roast for a reason, & it isn't because it was soaked with water from a squeeze bottle, more than other pieces of the beef. It is the browning of the beef.

Picture a steak sandwich where every piece of it is like the first slice of a properly browned Sunday roast beef. Now picture it browned on both sides, cut super thin & there being 20 slices of steak on a roll with way to much American cheese & perfectly fried onions. Rolls are cheaper, so most of the guys I handed two steaks right off the bat, the girls I gave one, & I plated up more simply cut in half on the counter. Most of the girls that do not like to be seen eating, why I do not know why ... grabbed at least one extra half, & only a few of the guys had the balls to grab another half after finishing two, I think I ate 3 & a half & 3 ears of corn, and no, I've never been fat in my life.

Since I had the oven on I even made a few pizza steaks, (I made them for those that worked with me in the kitchen) they are a plan steak on a roll with fried onions open face with pizza sauce & shredded mozzarella on top, like french bread pizza, but replace the french bread with a steak sandwich, & put under the broiler, & once the cheese is browned & melted you serve, & you close it & eat like a sandwich. IMO it is the best version of a cheesesteak, but you can only get a good one from a place that makes both good pizza & cheesesteaks. We used up 6 quart jars of hot peppers, it just blew my mind.

We went out to the bar afterwards dancing, drinking, & we walked to & from, the next morning the few cheesesteaks halves that didn't get eaten were put in the fridge, they were all gone the next morning.

The next day we made pizza from scratch since I didn't want to go to the beach, I like AFTER Labor Day when the beaches are EMPTY!! So with everyone from the resort town that was one of my guests (they also know not to go to the beach on holidays), & those that do not tan but burn. And we just made pizza after pizza after pizza with the sauce & dough I made earlier in that week, while enjoying black russians, first time I ever had one, amazingly delicious, but the only milk I had in the fridge was Half & Half and heavy whipping cream. So 11 of us were full of pizza & HWC, Kalilah, & Vodka, everybody was fighting off the food comas, & yes everyone putting the pizzas in or out got burnt at least once. Kids, do not drink & bake with an oven maxed out to 550 degrees, you're just asking for it.

Pizza made right at home only takes 7 minutes to bake, trick is crank up the temp on the oven, & as soon as you put in the raw pizza crank up the broiler. And preheat, preheat, preheat your oven, & add mass to hold heat if you can, I do not have the right kind of mass, I am guessing fireplace bricks would be what is needed. But you might want to make sure to drive out the moisture slowly & at a lower temp before cranking it up so you do not get a steam explosion, or to keep them from cracking. Anyway, all 11 of us would make a pizza, meaning I made 11 pizzas, & put them in once one was done, one after another, to many people to make one at a time, home made pizzas you do not get 11 slices out of one, this way we're all getting a lot of pizza at once ... after girls were filled they ran outside to get out of the heat & the guys kept going for another 3 or 4 sets of making pies. We had store bought pepperoni & homemade italian pork sausage that I made, had also let this age three days in the refrigerator.

IMO Pizza we buy is made for the palette of children, what I make is made for an adult's palette, just means a hell of a lots of garlic, & onion, & some additional spices. I get yelled at for feeding my friends because they say I ruin everything I feed them from them ever wanting the normal version again.

BTW, CURE! for SUNBURN! black tea plain cold or room temp, soak a towel & put on affected area, instantly removes all pain, does nothing, or next to nothing for oven burns.

Hope you liked my Book Report on "What I did Over My Labor Day Holiday Weekend", yeah I got carried away.