FOOD
How to cook steak: are you on team Nigella?
The celebrity cook polarised opinion with her recipe for a rare tomahawk. Harry Wallop tried making it at home
Nigella Lawson’s tomahawk steak
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The Times
If you thought Nigella Lawson caused a stir with her pronunciation of “microwave”, you should see the rumpus that ensued after she cooked a steak. This week she posted a picture to her 2.7 million Instagram followers of a plate of sliced tomahawk steak with “green sauce”. The platter of meat looked deliciously rare, to me, but to some of her followers she might as well have sat astride a still warm slaughtered cow with a knife and fork. “It’s RAW!” one shouted. Another said: “I’ve seen cows sicker than that get well.”
It just proved that when it comes to steak no one can agree on what constitutes perfection. Rare or medium? Fillet or sirloin? Hollandaise or béarnaise?
These divisions will only increase as
