Are you craving a delicious T bone steak but don’t know how to cook it in the oven? Look no further! In this beginner-friendly recipe guide, I will show you exactly how to make juicy steaks with the perfect cooking temperatures and a mouthwatering crust. Get ready to impress your taste buds and enjoy a super easy steak dinner.
Prepare juicy, flavorful T bone steaks with my recipe that’s so easy – even a beginner cook will be successful.
Why my T bone steak recipe is 100% amazing…
- FEEL CONFIDENT! Make juicy steak on your very first try.
- Cook it to your favorite steak temp with my easy temperature guide for T-bone steak.
- No foil needed!
- Tips for helping steaks rest (and how to pull them out of the oven a little early).
- Make it a date-night-in dinner. Spend bonding time in the kitchen preparing this frustration-free gourmet meal, then light the candles and enjoy a relaxing at-home date night.
- Cooking T bone steak for the first time? This tutorial includes a full-length “cook with me” video for beginners (scroll to the bottom of the page for the YouTube video).
Ingredients
Here’s what you need to make this cut of beef juicy, tender, and tasty.
For searing and oven cooking
- T bone steaks (thick preferred, about 14-16 oz)
- Steak seasoning (1 tbsp per steak, any BBQ rub or steak blend)
- Olive oil
For garnishing and serving (optional)
- Parsley (flat leaf Italian variety, fresh)
- Butter
- Fresh cracked salt and pepper
How to cook T bone steak in the oven
Now, let me walk you through whipping up this steak dinner at home…
Quick look at this T bone recipe
- Prep steak: season T-bone, preheat oven, and oil up a hot skillet on the stove.
- Pan sear it quickly to form a tasty brown crust.
- Finish cooking T bone steaks in the oven.
- Rest, serve, enjoy!
Detailed recipe steps
- Set out steak on a cutting board. While preparing ingredients for the steak (about 15 minutes before cooking this T bone steak recipe), remove the steak from the fridge. This will help bring it closer to room temperature.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Add seasonings for T-bones. Pat T bone steaks dry with a paper towel and season them all over (don’t forget the sides!) with steak rub or steak seasonings of your choice.
- Prep a hot, oiled skillet. Add a large cast iron skillet to a burner on medium-high heat. Add olive oil. Once you have a nice, hot skillet (it will slightly start to smoke – turn on the oven fan for this recipe!), then you’re ready to add the T-bone steaks to the hot oil (stand back!).
- Sear the steaks. Place both T-bone steaks in the cast iron pan and sear both sides for 2 minutes on each large, flat side. Next, sear the edges, what my husband calls the “fat sides,” for 30 seconds. This is just to brown them with a little pan-seared crust.
- Cook T bone in the oven. After the sear, move the cast iron pan into the preheated oven and cook for 5-7 minutes, flipping once halfway through until the internal temperature is about 5-10 degrees below your desired temperature. (In the Sip Bite Go video demonstration, we removed the steaks from the oven when they reached 135 degrees F for med-rare to medium T-bone steaks.)
- Rest T bone steaks. Remove cooked steaks from the oven and place them on a cutting board to rest for at least 10 minutes. During this time, I recommend topping T-Bone steaks with butter so it melts in and provides a little more flavor and juice.
- Garnish steaks and enjoy. Cut the steaks off the bone, then in slices (see my guide to cutting T bone steak), or serve them in a full piece. Top them with anything you’d like, such as fresh chopped Italian parsley, fresh cracked salt and pepper, or recommended steak sauces in the notes.
YUM! I suggest whipping up a T bone steak sauce like this creamy peppercorn sauce, jalapeno ranch dressing, or garlic herb compound butter made with fresh rosemary.
How do you slice T bone steak for serving?
First, cut out the bone in the center. Then, slice perpendicular or horizontally from the bone. To get fancy with the plating, you can slice the steak but leave it in the original shape.
T bone steak temperature chart
Wondering how to know when T bone steak is done? With a meat thermometer, you can easily check if the meat is cooked to your preferred level of doneness.
Rare? Med-rare? Well done (eh! Really?! Womp womp…) – I got you…
- Rare T-bone (125-130°F) is still red inside.
- Medium rare T bone (130-140°F) is red to pink inside.
- Medium T bone (140-150°F) is mostly pink.
- Medium well (150-160°F) has just a slight bit of pink inside.
- Well-cooked (160°F) has no red or pink inside. Whoever cooks the steak this well done is crazy and should instead make my crockpot meatballs.
Meat thermometer recommendations
Every home chef needs a reliable meat thermometer to cook food perfectly.
On Sip Bite Go, you’ll often see me using:
- Meater thermometer – a fancy wireless thermometer that connects to a phone app – gifted to me from a Traeger partnership.
- ThermoPro digital thermometer – which has a wire that connects the thermometer to a display box outside the oven/grill.
It’s like being psychic! The great thing about either of the thermometers above is that I don’t have to take the food out of the oven to know the temperature.
How to use ’em… What I do is stick the digital thermometer in steak, pork, chicken, whatever… Then put the food in the oven, on the smoker, or grill.
While the meat cooks, it reads the temperature so I know exactly what temp the meat is as it’s cooking. Without having to take it out and check. It’s really difficult to overcook food when you know exactly what temp it is inside!
For another impressive main dish, see how to smoke a turkey and try these Traeger 321 ribs…
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Meat thermometer recommendations
Every home chef needs a reliable meat thermometer to cook food perfectly.
On Sip Bite Go, you’ll often see me using:
- Meater thermometer – a fancy wireless thermometer that connects to a phone app – gifted to me from a Traeger partnership.
- ThermoPro digital thermometer – which has a wire that connects the thermometer to a display box outside the oven/grill.
It’s like being psychic! The great thing about either of the thermometers above is that I don’t have to take the food out of the oven to know the temperature.
How to use ’em… What I do is stick the digital thermometer in steak, pork, chicken, whatever… Then put the food in the oven, on the smoker, or grill.
While the meat cooks, it reads the temperature so I know exactly what temp the meat is as it’s cooking. Without having to take it out and check. It’s really difficult to overcook food when you know exactly what temp it is inside!
Why I wrote this recipe
I’ve been helping a lot of people create delicious steak dinner recipes at home for a while now. Serving up a big juicy steak or two with a few tasty side dishes is my idea of a perfect, easy date-night-in.
Personally, I love experimenting with impressive cuts of beef like this one, air fryer filet mignon, tri tip, sous vide NY strip steaks, and sous vide porterhouse, which was featured in my cooking segment on Oregon Home.
So after a trip to the toy store for my toddler (kid loves his trucks!), we headed over to the “adult toy store” with my husband – no, nothing you might be thinking of – I’m talking about the butcher case at the gourmet grocery store. AKA the toy store for foodies. We decided to pick the first thing that caught our eye – and on that particular night, it was this T bone beef steak.
Some of these recipes we cook over and over and over again are the LAST ones to make it on Sip Bite Go. Some of them I’ve perfected and glued to my memory bank but never take the time to write down. For instance, I’ve been cooking perfect scrambled eggs since I was 12 and just posted them this year.
And now I’m deep into my 30s, friends!
With the weather in Portland being perfect that particular steak dinner evening, and the light for recording just right, we decided to film this video for T bone steak in the oven and write it up. Most of our inspiration is impromptu like that.
And it’s only taken me about 6 months to post it from that night. We don’t even live in Portland anymore. So I guess, better late than never, right?!
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Hey home chefs, I hope that answers all your questions about how to cook T bone steak at home.
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Remember, cooking a fantastic T bone steak is easier than you think. So grab your apron, fire up the oven, and let’s get cooking!
