How to Cook Meat like Joe Rogan

Joseph James Rogan is a well-known American podcaster, UFC color commentator, and comedian. He is mostly known for the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience in which he discusses a variety of topics like politics, current events, comedy, philosophy, hobbies and political science with his guests. He has also been a television presenter in the past.

Joe Rogan was born on August 11, 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He has played Little League baseball and learned karate and taekwondo at a young age. However, he found his calling as a comedian and started his standup career during 1988-1994. Later, he also featured on the television sitcoms Hardball and NewsRadio. He also started his career in UFC and in Fear Factor while learning Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the same time. He has since then hosted comedy specials and eventually started the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience in 2009. He is also a co-founder of the fitness supplements company Onnit (sold to Unilever) and owns Comedy Mothership comedy club in Austin, Texas, United States.

Joe Rogan is married to Jessica Ditzel and has two daughters and a step-daughter with her. His podcast, although popular, has often landed in controversies due to it being sometimes racially insensitive towards its listeners. He is a black belt in 10th planet Brazilian jiu-jitsu and gi Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Joe Rogan’s Meat Cooking Recipe

Joe Rogan cooks meat by using the reverse sear method. Normally, the meat is seared in high heat to lock the juices and then finish it in the oven. The reverse sear method is exactly the opposite of this. In this process, the meat is first cooked in the oven and then seared over high heat.

Types of Meat best used in Reverse Sear Method

The reverse sear method of cooking is best used for cooking meats of elk, venison, chicken, pork, beef, moose and pork. It can be used to cook steak, tenderloins, roasts and backstraps.

Among these, elk meat is a favorite of Joe Rogan and he’s stated that he would choose elk meat if he was given the choice to eat one food for the rest of his life.

Joe Rogan’s Meat Cooking Equipment

Joe Rogan uses a barbeque or oven pellet grill, aluminum foil, tongs, meat thermometer, either gas or electric stovetop, and finally cast iron skillet, frying pan or a grilling pan as his meat cooking equipment.

Joe Rogan’s Meat Cooking Ingredients

Joe Rogan’s meat cooking ingredients are a thick cut of meat, either kosher salt, sea salt or Himalayan salt, black powder, either garlic powder or garlic salt and either grass fed butter or vegetable oil.

Joe Rogan Meat Cooking Steps

Joe Rogan uses the following steps to cook his meat.

First, he seasons the meat with garlic powder, black pepper and kosher salt. Then he rubs the seasonings in the meat.

Next, he slowly cooks the meat at a low temperature. This can be done by heating the oven, barbeque and the pellet grill into 275 degrees fahrenheit. Roghan mainly uses the Traeger Ironwood 650 pellet grill for this. Incase of using an oven , he places the meat on the wire rack in a rimmed baking sheet on a middle oven rack. For gas barbecues, Rogan relies on turning the burners only on one side of the grill. Once it is preheated, he places the meat on the side with the burners off and then closes the lid. He also uses the Ivation Wireless Thermometer to check the temperatures while cooking the meat.

In the third step, Rogan sears the meat over high heat. For this he heats an iron skillet then adds some grass fed butter in it before adding the meat. Then he sears both the sides and the edges. The best would be to sear it till around 135 degrees fahrenheit.

Next, it's time to either rest the meat in an aluminum foil for 10 minutes or slice and serve it directly. Rogan however, prefers to rest the meat in aluminum foil for 10 minutes.

Finally, it’s time to eat meat. Rogan usually adds a side dish of jalapenos and kale. He also likes pan-fried asparagus in coconut oil with garlic salt.