Steak preferences

[mikbone]

Best way to ruin a steak.  Add asparagus.

And I don’t see the desire for wine.

I cant imagine how much my colleagues have wasted on EtOH, wine collections and cellars, etc.

I do get some swazzy balsamic vinegars and maple syrups though.

I love salt.  

Overheard at my house.

“I already oversalted it”

“Yeah, but I didn’t see it go on.  And my eyesight isn’t what it used to be.”

audible eyeroll.

[LDSGator]

7 minutes ago, mikbone said:

I love salt.  

Overheard at my house.

“I already oversalted it”

“Yeah, but I didn’t see it go on.  And my eyesight isn’t what it used to be.”

So, I’ll be over in a few hours. I’ll bring the steaks, go to your local supermarket and buy all the salt possible. I’m there dude I also love salt. 

 

[mikbone]

26 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

So, I’ll be over in a few hours. I’ll bring the steaks, go to your local supermarket and buy all the salt possible. I’m there dude I also love salt. 

 

This is another favorite.

“You salt your bacon?!” 

When I get home I may take a photo of our collection of salt pepper and shakers.  I’m a bit of a snob.

I like my sea salt shaved.

This baby shaves off flakes that increases the surface area of the salt.

Edited July 2, 2024 by mikbone

[LDSGator]

11 minutes ago, mikbone said:

When I get home I may take a photo of our collection of salt pepper and shakers.  I’m a bit of a snob.

My wife is snobbish about pepper. She only buys this type. 
 

It all tastes the same to me. 

Edited July 2, 2024 by LDSGator

[Ironhold]

1 hour ago, mikbone said:

Best way to ruin a steak.  Add asparagus.

 

Over in Japan asparagus is commonly paired with *pork* instead of beef, to the point that you'll see people doing bacon-wrapped asparagus as a light menu item. 

[mikbone]

37 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

My wife is snobbish about pepper. She only buys this type. 
 

It all tastes the same to me. 

Oh, I definitely side with the wife here.

[LDSGator]

33 minutes ago, mikbone said:

Oh, I definitely side with the wife here.

I’m going to give both of you a blind taste once, I swear. 

[NeuroTypical]

1 hour ago, mikbone said:

I love salt.

1 hour ago, LDSGator said:

I also love salt. 

 

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.  - Leviticus 2:13

And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. - 2 Kings 2:21

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? - Job 6:6

Salt is good - Mark 9:50

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. - Colossians 4:6

 

Edited July 2, 2024 by NeuroTypical

[mikbone]

Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Edited July 2, 2024 by mikbone

[zil2]

I've been pondering this for some time (while nibbling bits of New York strip seasoned with Daddy Hinkle's original), and here's all I've managed to come up with:

• peak
• speak
• teak
• steak
• take
• stake

Therefore, stake is something you pound into the ground (or a vampire's heart, whichever), and that slab of cow-meat?  We've been pronouncing it wrong.  It's a "steek"...  And it just so happens that my steek is just as good cold as it is hot. I think I'll go get some and have it for a treat.

[Jamie123]

I like it rare - though not too rare. Rare enough to be red in the middle, but not cold. When I'm cooking it myself I like it with fried onions and mushrooms, and baked potato with actual butter, and peas*. My mouth is watering at the thought!

*Fresh peas only though. Or frozen are as good as fresh. The very thought of tinned peas makes me want to vomit!

Edited July 2, 2024 by Jamie123

[mikbone]

Some of the salt.  And spice rack.

[Backroads]

Medium rare, here. 

[mirkwood]

9 hours ago, LDSGator said:

I’m there dude I also love salt. 

 

and @mikbone

 

 

Salt how I love thee.

 

Chips and crackers over cookies and ice cream EVERY time.

[mikbone]

20 minutes ago, mirkwood said:

Salt how I love thee.

 

Chips and crackers over cookies and ice cream EVERY time.

How about both?

[NeuroTypical]

17 hours ago, mikbone said:

Not bad, not bad.   Here's mine, after we got those cool slidey-outey bottom racks:

(Yes, that can on the top shelf is indeed genuine Family Canning rolled oats from 2006.  I've been rotating them through by making banana cookies.)

[mordorbund]

On 7/2/2024 at 12:57 PM, mikbone said:

Best way to ruin a steak.  Add asparagus.

And I don’t see the desire for wine.

I cant imagine how much my colleagues have wasted on EtOH, wine collections and cellars, etc.

I do get some swazzy balsamic vinegars and maple syrups though.

I love salt.  

Overheard at my house.

“I already oversalted it”

“Yeah, but I didn’t see it go on.  And my eyesight isn’t what it used to be.”

audible eyeroll.

 

[LDSGator]

[NeuroTypical]

Everyone I know with a strong opinion about steak would say the above picture is "too burnt".

[LDSGator]

1 minute ago, NeuroTypical said:

Everyone I know with a strong opinion about steak would say the above picture is "too burnt".

Why do I have the sudden urge to read about the Donner party?

 

😜 

[Carborendum]

On 7/2/2024 at 11:57 AM, mikbone said:

I love salt.  

Overheard at my house.

“I already oversalted it”

MSG is far superior.  I put it on everything humans can consume.

[JohnsonJones]

On 6/30/2024 at 8:27 PM, LDSGator said:

@NeuroTypical & @Ironhold-

Speaking of eating contests, I’m sure you guys know this but in 2020 we passed through Amarillo. A place there was offering 72 oz steaks. Even in my teenage years when I would eat nonstop I don’t think I could do that. 
 

It was the same trip where we met @NeuroTypical I think 

Well, the Steakhouse in Amarillo I think could be this place...

The Big Texan Steak Ranch. 

Was just there this past Spring!

Not the best Steak I've ever had, but decent. 

As for my steak...don't normally care about what the cut is as long as it is decently SEASONED.

The better one is at seasoning it while it is cooking (marinades work as well...not all marinades are made equal) the better the steak in general.

I prefer mine cooked medium.  I've had far too many medium cooked medium rare (or on one or two occasions...rare) and far too often medium well.  At least medium keeps it somewhere in the vicinity of where I like it.  Still, as well as it's seasoned well...I can probably still eat it...unless it is well done.  In which case it becomes unpalatable for me normally.