This recipe is my go-to for an easy Friday night peppered beef jerky recipe. This post may contain affiliate links.
You can read my affiliate policy here. Air fryer steak with garlic and herb butter. How to Cook Steak in an Air Fryer Air frying steak is one of the quickest and easiest ways to cook it. I do love a steak dinner grilled outdoors on a BBQ or a cast iron grill, but cooking it indoors in a pan can be messy, and you have to constantly watch over it so it is a really intensive kind of cooking.
This is why air frying is really great! The thing I love most about air frying steak is that it is really hands-off. You just prep the meat put it in and wait. However, the difficult thing with air frying steak is getting the timing exactly right, but see below for help with that! Another reason air frying is a great way to cook steaks is that the action of the hot air helps to quickly form that delicious outer crust, but without adding a lot of extra oil.