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> In rec.food.cooking, Dimitri > wrote:
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>> Salt and pepper the steak about an hour before cooking.
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> Why do it about an hour before cooking?


Lets the pepper flavor diffuse. I like to coat the steak with pepper or,
sometimes mashed green peppercorns, and let it sit all day.


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