The best way to cook a thick steak is to bake it in a toaster oven.

It might sound like I'm joking, but I'm actually not joking at all.

About a year ago my oven broke for approximately four months. I only had two ways to cook things. The microwave and the toaster oven.

At first I was doing things like heating up sandwiches in the toaster oven, but then I started thinking of ways that I could cook actual food.

I bought a large meatloaf style pan from the Dollar Store and put together a recipe of my own making for a delicious steak.

Could a steak come out nice and juicy in a toaster oven? The answer is yes.

Here is how to make it work. Buy a rectangular pan that is almost exactly the same size as your steak. That is easy enough because they sell a pack of pans that are just exactly the right shape.

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Get yourself an onion, several peppers, and a large clove of garlic. Chop up the onions, peppers, and garlic together and line the bottom of the pan with them.

Add a small dollop of real butter to the mixture.

Coat both sides of the steak with pepper.

When I say coat I mean absolutely cover it so that you can barely see any steak through the pepper. That is called encrusting the steak.

Place the pepper encrusted steak on top of the peppers and onion in the pan. Put a medium-sized dollop of butter on the steak and a few dashes of salt to finish the process.

Make sure you set it to convection and 350 degrees.

It's important that you use the middle rack. I usually take the top rack out. Your steak should be checked after 20 minutes because every toaster oven cooks at a different temperature.

I like my steak to be medium with a deep pink throughout. It should have brown juice running through it and be very tender. In my toaster oven that takes about 28 minutes.

Every oven is different though and everyone likes their steak cooked differently. I made a nice London Broil this way today, and believe me when I tell you it was one of the best steaks I've ever had.

You're probably thinking that steaks tastes best on the grill, and you are right in a way....because they have that nice flame-grilled taste.

However, they are more tender on a toaster oven's pan because the steak itself will also baste in it's own juices. The juices on the grill fall through the cracks and into the fire. I do like a grilled steak but they usually come out much drier than when you make it this way in your toaster oven.