Many chain restaurants with sizzling fajita platters actually work a bit of behind-the-scenes magic to make the spectacle. To recreate such a thing at home, first whip up a plate of steak fajitas.

This all continues to cook at the table, because the fajita plates here are no-joke hot. Even the limes left on the cast iron plate come off nearly too hot to touch. The wooden trays the skillets ...