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Bistecca alla Fiorentina
Lorenzo Baldini
Grill chef, Buca di San Frediano, Florence, IT
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Bistecca alla Fiorentina

4 h total35 min hands-onServes 4Medium

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A Chianina T-bone four fingers thick, salted after the fire, and never turned more than once.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Charcoal grill, Long tongs, Probe thermometer, Wire rack
Allergens
None declared
Method
14 steps · 12 photographed · 6 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 19 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Tempering

The steak taken out of the fridge three hours before it sees fire and left uncovered on a rack.

A cold centre means the outside is ruined before the middle is warm, and no resting fixes a steak cooked from the fridge.

  • T-bone steak000 g
Steps
3
Time
3 h
Hands-on
5 min

Makes 1 steak, serves 4

Three hours before service, no earlier

Weights and method unlock on purchase

The fire

Film

Charcoal burned down to grey embers with no flame, banked deep on one side.

Flame chars the fat before the meat cooks; radiant ember heat is what gives the crust without the soot.

  • Hardwood charcoal000 g
Steps
4
Time
45 min
Hands-on
20 min

Makes One cook

Light 45 minutes before

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • T-bone steak, 1.2 kg000 g
  • Coarse sea salt000 g
  • Extra virgin olive oil000 g
  • Rosemary000 g
  • Black pepper000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 19 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING7:00

Chianina, Fassona and what your butcher can actually get

TECHNIQUE6:00

One turn, and standing it on the bone

KIT6:00

Building an ember bed that lasts

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 14 STEPS

12 photographed · 6 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 12 of the 14 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 6 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: judging when the embers are ready — step 8 of 14.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 8 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Lorenzo Baldini watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Salting after the fire, never before

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Reading it by probe, not by minutes

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Resting on wood, not on metal

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The internal temperature to pull at, and the minutes standing on the bone that finish it without any more heat.

Written by Lorenzo Baldini. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

13 verified cooks · 89% said it worked

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