See how to cook T bone steak in oven with this beginner-friendly recipe guide. I’ll share exactly how long it takes to make juicy steaks, the right cooking temperatures and all. Plus, you’ll get step-by-step tips for pan searing the most tasty crust ever. Let’s make this super easy steak dinner together…
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Table of Contents
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 bottom of page for 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 oven
Now I’ll 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 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 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 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 the 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 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 check easily if the meat is cooked to your preferred level of done-ness.
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 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…
FAQs
This happened to me, too! When we were Air BNB-ing when moving to Dallas, we were “roughing it” without any of our kitchen essentials, like our trusty cast iron skillet. So pan searing t bone steak in a skillet over high heat wasn’t an option unless we wanted to use a non-stick pan. We didn’t. Luckily, you can cook steak without a skillet, when needed.
For Valentine’s day, for a steak dinner, we figured out how to cook a T-bone steak in the oven without searing it first. Instead of baking t bone in the oven, we broiled it to get that nice crust on the outside and perfectly cooked pink center.
To do this in your home, add seasoned and oiled t bone on a rimmed baking sheet, on the top rack of the oven (within 6 inches is ideal). Broil tbone steaks for ~5 minutes or until a brown crust forms, flip it, then broil thick t-bone for about 5 minutes more (or 3-4 minutes if cooking thin t bone steak). Until you reach the perfect tbone doneness temperature for your liking. Rest it and enjoy.
Not long! If you like your meat medium-rare, your T-bone steak should be ready in just about ~15-17 minutes. That’s just enough to make a fresh peach salad or saute onions and peppers for a t bone steak topping or side dish.
See my temp guide above because what temperature you bring your T-bone steak to will depend on how you like your meat. For rare, 125 degrees F; for medium rare, 130 degrees F. If you prefer well done t bone, well I’d probably just make homemade hamburger patties or something else with ground beef because this is a really nice cut of meat you don’t want to overcook!
They’re pretty similar, but t bone steak has a smaller tenderloin piece.
Create the perfect upscale foodie experience in your own kitchen with my ideas for t bone steak dinner sides.
Serve this T-bone steak with sous vide little potatoes or roasted beets with goat cheese and a simple strawberry feta salad for a special date night meal. If you’re cooking it for a larger crowd or Sunday dinner, go a little bigger and whip up this spinach pesto lasagna or baked rigatoni on the side.
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- Grilled broccoli
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 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 30’s, 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, hope that answers all your questions about how to cook t bone steak at home.
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How To Cook T Bone Steak In Oven (Easy Dinner Recipe) | Sip Bite Go
Ingredients
- 2 T bone steaks 2-3" thick steaks, about 14-16oz
- 2 tbsp steak seasoning 1 tbsp per steak, any bbq rub or steak blend
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp butter ½ tbsp per steak
- ½ tbsp parsley chopped flat leaf Italian variety (optional)
- ⅛ tsp black pepper fresh cracked (optional)
- ⅛ tsp salt fresh cracked sea salt, kosher salt, etc. (optional)
Instructions
- Set out steak on a cutting board. While preparing ingredients for the steak (about 15 minutes before cooking this t bone steak recipe), remove 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. 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 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 the 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 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.
Video
Notes
- 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.
Horsefly says
First time cooking T-bones — absolutely delicious. Thank you!
Amparo Alvarez Parker says
Can I put it in oven without searing?
Jenna Passaro says
Sure, you can do anything you’d like, but if you like the most tasty outside crust on your Tbone steak recipe, use this one!
Sarah says
So easy and so delicious!