Cooking Guides

The Ultimate Guide to Dry Aging Steak

Dry aging steak is something premium steakhouses rely on for quality meals for customers. But did you know you can actually complete the process of dry aging steak? With the right tools (and some...

How to Dry Age Ribeye: A Grill Master's Guide

photo by Norbert Meissner licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Cooking a steak is an art form, and one of the most popular ways to cook a steak perfectly every time is by dry aging it. Dry aging ribeye ste...

The Best Tips for Storing Meats

The ins and outs of food safety and storage is knowledge essential for any meat-lover. All meats pose significant risks when not handled properly. Most people have suffered, or know someone who’s...

Wet aged Vs Dry Aged Steak: What's the Difference?

Photo by Darren Ridgway licensed under CC BY 2.0 Many people ask us at Chicago Steak Company which of the wet-aged beef or the dry-aged beef tastes better when they order steaks. We answer, "yes!"...

Expensive Steak Cooking 101: How to Cook Wagyu Beef and Kobe Beef at Home

You just bought the most expensive steak in the world and now you’re wondering how to cook Japanese Wagyu beef. You aren’t alone. Steak enthusiasts don’t feel complete without trying this immacul...

Unlocking the Secrets of Dry-Aged Beef

Mark Kranenberg unlocks the secrets to Dry Aged Beef.

The Delicacy of Dry-aged Beef

When it comes to beef, there is nothing better than a dry-aged steak. No other type of steak compares with the tenderness and the exploding beefy taste that a perfectly dry aged steak provides. It...

What Makes an Aged Steak so Great

There are some things that are just better with age. Music is one thing that comes to mind; Beethoven and Mozart were both popular composers in their time but through the years became the Classica...

History of Wet-aged Beef

Aged beef is the delicacy for which we all yearn. When selecting a steak for tenderness and flavor, often the consumer may ask, "Which is the right steak for me? Dry-aged beef or a wet-aged beef?"...

Learn the history of dry aged beef and how to age your steak

Only the finest restaurants in the United States serve steaks with the flavor optimized through special aging processes. There are several aging processes used to age beef with dry aged beef, some...