How to cook a perfect roast beef

High quality beef deserves high quality prep.  

Learning how to make a beef roast, like the famous standing ribeye roast (aka prime rib), is a benefit for your – and your guests’ – taste buds. Roasting begins with a preheated oven and a well-seasoned roast. After that, cooking the perfect hunk of beef depends on your oven and your ability to check desired doneness with an instant-read thermometer. Tent, rest, slice, serve and enjoy are the last steps to roasting perfection.

Roasting Tips

1. Let the roast rest at room temperature for up to an hour before cooking
2. Preheat oven to 450F
3. Brush roast with olive oil, then season
4. Place in roasting pan, then in hot oven
5. Wait 15 minutes, then lower to 325F
6. Check doneness with thermometer
7. Let the meat rest to allow the juices to redistribute evenly