All About Aging

Some things are better aged – and your steak is one of them. Here at Chicago Steak Company, we don’t run from aging; we value and perfect it! We specialize in dry-aged beef with the largest dry aging room in the United States. Dry aging helps perfect our hand cuts of beef by slowly breaking down muscle tissue to make your steaks as tender, melt-in-your-mouth as possible, and bringing out the most intense flavor naturally as water content evaporates during the process.
Chicago Steak Company also has wet-aged beef using a wet aging process that prevents oxidation and allows the meat to tenderize naturally and slowly. You can learn more about both processes through Steak University’s handy guides, but you can’t go wrong with a perfectly aged steak from either aging process! Steak University will also help guide you to storing your meats optimally for the freshest, fullest flavor, and aging your steaks at home. If you ever have questions about our aging process at Chicago Steak Company, we urge you to check out these informational articles that explain how the process works and why our standards are set so high for our aging processes to bring you the best steaks possible.

All About Aging

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...

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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...

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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...

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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!"...

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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...

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Unlocking the Secrets of Dry-Aged Beef

Mark Kranenberg unlocks the secrets to Dry Aged Beef.

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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...

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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...

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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?"...

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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...