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- Always oil the meat, not the pan.
- Remove any excess oil and wipe off any marinading herbs as they will burn.
- Heat the pan as high as you can - don’t use a non-stick pan as you can’t heat it high enough without the possibility of it giving off fumes. Use a cast-iron skillet but don’t oil it. (If you use a stainless steel frying pan, you have no choice but to oil it lightly, as it will stick otherwise. However, you will find that the smoke goes everywhere.)
- If you want your steak rare, cook it over high heat to an internal temperature of 50C, then take it out of the pan and leave it to rest covered and measure the internal temperature with a meat thermometer again after 5-10 minutes and after that, until it reaches 60C. If you cook it to 60C in the pan, the meat will continue to cook after that and you will end up with medium-rare meat.
- For medium, cook the steak until it reaches an internal temperature of 61C and leave it to rest, covered, until the thermometer reaches 71C.
- For well done, take it off the pan at 67C and leave it to rest until it reaches 77C.
- If you find it does not reach the required temperature, just pop it back in the pan and sear it again on both sides quickly. Then take it off, cover it, let it rest and measure the temperature again.
- It is very important when you are cooking meat that you sear all sides of the meat. Just lift the meat up with a tongs and hold the edge of the meat against the pan until it is browned.

Testing done-ness by touch
- You can also test the doneness of meat with your fingertip. If the steak is rare, it will feel fleshy. As it turns to medium-rare you will see droplets of bloody juice appearing on the surface.
- When it reaches medium-rare, the surface will ’spring’ back when you touch it. The juices emerging will still be red.
- Medium-done meat is firm, and the juices are pink.
- Medium-well-done meat feels more sturdy, firmer to the touch and the juices are brown and pink.
- Well-done meat has a hard surface, and doesn’t spring back. The juices that come out will be brown.

Anne Kennedy is a food writer, based in Ireland, who just loves food. She thinks there is nothing better than a rare steak served with french fries and mustard, her absolute favourite meal when she visits Paris. Thankfully she is the Managing Editor of a food and wine website, http://www.greatfood.ie so she gets to cook it quite a lot, especially when she is testing a recipe or a cooking method. (After all, you can never be quite sure!)

Whitewater rafting is simply a blast, pun intended. This brings us to the river of no return, an excellent challenge in Idaho.

Idaho is an incredibly beautiful state, a place with no massive cities or the resulting urban sprawl that comes with them. It is a Rock Mountains state sitting on the border of Canada and part of Yellowstone National Park sits within its boundaries. With so much uninhibited nature, rafting opportunities are plentiful and all variety of categories of rapids can be found.

The Salmon River is located in the central area of Idaho and known as “The River of No Return.” If that doesn’t get your whitewater rafting juices flowing, nothing will!

The Salmon is 425 miles long and drains over 14,000 square miles of land. It drops a whopping 7,000 feet in elevation from its headwaters to its final merger with the Snake River. With an elevation drop like that, you just know the rafting is going to be good.

The top rafting area is on the middle fork of the Salmon River. The prime area is a 100 mile stretch running through the Frank Church - River of No Return wilderness area. This section cuts through the second deepest canyon in North America. It is makes for spectacular viewing and a hair raising adventure.

Constriction, elevation drops and plenty of obstructions make the middle fork a top rafting destination. Rapids fall in the category three and four range, making it an adrenaline rush without major risk. One and two day trips can be arranged for the middle fork and there are plenty of rafting companies offering services. Kayaking is also excellent, but you need to have mastered your rolling technique.

Taking on the river of no return is an absolutely blast that you will remember for years. Keep in mind it is a popular destination with over 10,000 people giving it a go each year. Enjoy!

Rick Chapo is with NomadJournals.com - makers of writing journals. Visit us to read more articles about the great outdoors and white water rafting.

Complete connection with every workplace communication is possible when you take time to develop the Expert Persuader
Technique. Here are the tools needed to master this persuasion technique.

Good News First

Your first tool in mastering this technique is GNF - Good News First. This calls on you, each time you have to give bad news
to a work team member, to begin by giving encouraging feedback first. For example, before telling them they missed a promotion, share positive comments from the selection panel.

Early Agreement in Negotiations

Your negotiations, to get a hostile team member to agree to your workplace communication suggestion, need to begin by
selecting three topics on which you already agree.

Get them to say yes to you three times and you will greatly increase the outcome of them then saying yes to the
suggestion they were earlier hostile to.

Constant Smiling During All Workplace Communication

A technique long used by the experts in workplace communication, and even by experts in persuasion, is to maintain the
highest level of favor with the respondent by smiling all the time.

You will soon get mastery in workplace communication and persuasion as you practice the Expert Persuader Technique by, giving Good News First, getting Early Agreement in Negotiations and lastly, beaming with Constant Smiling.

Copyright 2005 Kenneth Little

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