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Coffee also only has two ingredients, beans and water. Maybe a third if you got milk. That’s it, so it’s very easy to make good coffee every time.

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Steak has only one ingredient, meat. That's why I make it so often, it's impossible to mess it up.

For me, steak without butter, salt, pepper, garlic and thyme is a sad time.

Substitute ghee for butter and you've got one foot in heaven.

I love ghee, it’s like freebasing butter.

I love both. Ghee to fry the steak, butter to baste the steak towards the end. Heavenly

I totally forgot about ghee despite having a tub in the fridge, and using it last time I cooked a steak lol. Good shout. It adds a nice nutty flavour if I recall

But butter is only for finishing, to bring out the garlic and thyme flavours. I cook it with a bit of oil if I finish with butter

Nothing wrong with those. But if you buy great meat you can grill a steak with absolutely nothing on it and it comes out fantastic.

Steak without salt is gross so it needs 2 at least

Coffee is mostly ingredient however. Good luck doing a good coffee with poorly roasted or stale beans while fresh beans will give you a proper cup using a press even if you do it extremely poorly (in so much as you can even mess up a press).

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