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Dumi’s top tips for the perfect steak

1. Make sure you buy a good cut of the meat several times. For a thicker
meat from your butcher. Unless you cut of meat, turn the temperature
are slow cooking, a tough piece of down to medium high and only turn
beef will always stay tough on a BBQ the meat once. Cook the second side
2. Make sure the grill is nice and clean - for about half the time as the first side
few things taste worse than old BBQ 5. Resting the steak after cooking is very
grease important! This allows the meat to
Always season the meat, but do not relax and re-absorb juices. As a general
3. rule, rest for about half the cooking
add any salt until just before it goes
on the grill, otherwise the salt will time
Grill life draw moisture and you will end up 6. Hold BBQ tongs in your right hand - to
maintain balance and prevent lower
with a dry steak
TOP TIPS 4. The temperature is important. back pain hold a beer in your left (glass
of wine or can of Bundy rum can be
For thinner cuts of meat have the
How to cook the perfect steak temperature at maximum and turn substituted)
with Waterbar’s chef Dumi.
Overlooking the picturesque Marlin How to pimp up your mash potato
Marina at the Pier, the Waterbar and
Grill is renowned for its succulent 1. 2. 3.
steaks with big flavour. But for those While potatoes are on the Mash your potato, season Before eating - make sure
times when you want to stay in, Tropic boil, slowly cook a mixture and add as much butter/ there is a comfortable chair
spoke to Waterbar chef Dumi to get of butter, cream and whole garlic/ cream mixture as it nearby in which you can
his top-secret tips for char-grilling the cloves of garlic will handle! recover afterwards
perfect steak. And as an added bonus
to accompany your perfect steak, For those times when you don’t feel like cooking the perfect steak, come and try ours!
Dumi also reveals how to take your MORE: waterbarandgrill.com.au or for bookings call (07) 4031 1199
mash potato to the next level.

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