The cooking time for every steak (and the taste of every cook) will vary, making it difficult to say for certain how long to cook a steak to perfection.
As a rough guide, a 2cm/¾in thick steak will take 3 minutes in total for rare, 4–5 minutes in total for medium and 7–8 minutes for well done.
There is a quick trick, using the palm of your hand, to get the feel of how cooked your steak is, shown in the video above.
A digital probe thermometer is a great tool for being sure all the meat you cook is just right, especially if you cook a big piece of steak for sharing, or a thick steak. Internal temperatures are a more reliable test for how well done or rare the steak is.
The middle of the steak should be around 50C for rare, 55C for medium-rare, 60C for medium and 70C for well done.
