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Appreciation post: the line cook at a diner in Tulsa who showed me how to smell when a steak is done
Back when I was 19 I got a job washing dishes at a little diner off Route 66 in Tulsa, and there was this line cook named Dwayne who had been on that grill for something like 15 years. One slow Tuesday he watched me poke at a ribeye with my finger trying to guess the temp, and he just laughed and told me to put my hand over the steak instead. He said the fat tells you everything, if it smells nutty it is close, if it smells like iron it is still cold in the middle. I thought he was messing with me but I tried it for a solid two months and he was right almost every time. I still keep a thermometer in my kit but my nose does most of the work now, especially on a busy Friday when I have 8 steaks hitting the broiler at once. Dwayne never wrote anything down, he just learned it from the guy before him and passed it on to a dish washer who could barely hold a spatula. Anyone else here pick up their best trick from someone who never got credit for it?
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tessa_carr15d ago
Nose beats thermometers on a packed grill every time.
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