The trusty crock pot will always have a special place in my heart. Let’s get right to it.Cook flat iron steak in the crock pot for perfectly fork-tender and juicy meat, without fail! We add baby potatoes, baby carrots and onion soup mix to this easy slow cooker recipe to make it a full dump and go meal. Most of the time, fresh ground pepper is all you need. I admit, I let a few of the steaks sit in a little Worcestershire sauce, and it was delicious but not too overpowering. The flat iron steak should not be cooked past medium temperature or it will get a little tough. Like many other cuts of steak, your job is to not screw it up, cook it just right and let the natural beefy goodness come through. Now that I have a few flat irons under my belt (both figuratively and literally), I feel like I have been missing a great cut of meat. Yep, the quickest way to my grill (and stomach) is via my grocery store’s weekly ad. Now in the last 10 days, I have grilled 4 of them. So it was “developed” in 2002, but I didn’t really develop and interest until they went on sale at my grocery store 2 weeks ago. Count me as one of those flat iron steak fans.

Some even think it has a better taste than more expensive cuts like the New York Strip. Fast-forward to 2010 and this steak is now the fifth most popular cut of steak, and one of the most economical. When I say “developed”, I mean that these guys realized that this meat that was usually turned into hamburger could actually be cut in a way that made it a delicious steak.

The flat iron steak (also known as top blade steak) was “developed” in 2002 by two researchers at the Universities of Nebraska and Florida (what a job, huh?). Actually, until 2002, the only though any butcher had given to this cut of meat was how quickly they could get it into the grinder. Up until recently, I hadn’t ever given much thought to flat iron steaks.

Slow roasted flat iron steak