Grill masters - I need your help

PirateNinja

Melissa and I bought steaks for tonight forgetting she has volunteer work tonight. We got home, I seasoned them with salt and pepper and tossed them in the fridge to be grilled later this evening.
Next, Melissa remembered she had to work and immediately rushed out the door. She won't be back for four hours.

Question:
Do I need to grill this steak tonight because I seasoned it? Or will the salt and pepper be ok to sit on it for 24 hours so I can just make it tomorrow evening?

Cheers!
- grill n00b

HumerusMeg

Should be fine imo, take the opportunity to whip up a marinade! Toss the steaks in a bag with: Worcestershire sauce, garlic, ginger (if you have it), a tbsp or 2 of olive oil, or canola oil, some red or white wine, a tsp of sugar, a shake of red pepper flakes, and green onions. Will be perfectly tender and deeply flavored by the time you grill it tomorrow.

You can also sub the wine for rice vinegar, can sub sugar for honey, and can use sesame oil instead of olive or canola, and soy sauce instead of Worcestershire sauce. Hopefully that covers all the bases for you to have an amazing marinade if this sounds like a good idea to you!

Happy Grilling

PirateNinja

Awesome, I have all of those ingredients handy. Cheers!

primesuspect

Agreed. Marinate and enjoy tomorrow.

BobbyDigi

ITT: PirateNinja gets his meat left cold and Icrontic suggests he lube it up

shwaip

BobbyDigi said:

ITT: PirateNinja gets his meat left cold and Icrontic suggests he lube it up

Not his fault, his woman had other plans.

PirateNinja

As usual, I got lazy. So my meat sat dry then my woman came home early on her own accord. I'll probably marinate my meat and finish it off myself tomorrow.

Sonorous

PirateNinja said:

As usual, I got lazy. So my meat sat dry then my woman came home early on her own accord. I'll probably marinate my meat and finish it off myself tomorrow.

So many jokes, I don't even know where to start...

Cyclonite

Since it's a grilling thread, I wanted to throw this marinade in for my favorite of all time for steaks: Pirate's Gold

I found it hidden behind one of the hooks that have random stuff on them in the marinade aisle at my local grocery store one day a couple years ago. Thought, "hey, pirates are pretty damn cool, and the ingredients sound delicious; I'll give this a try." Anywhere from an hour to two days is amazing. I usually shoot for about 24 hours.

And always remember to let your steaks come to room temperature before throwing them on the grill.

ardichoke

Cyclonite said:

And always remember to let your steaks come to room temperature before throwing them on the grill.

Quoting for importance. You want perfect grill marks without overcooking? They gotta be room temp before they go on the grill. Recognize.

midga

Sub a good flavourful beer or two for the wine or whatever. Like a Deschutes Jubelale or something. Use a bottle and a half or something, though. You wanna leave a little left over for drinking.