Borzak
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Gravy's Cooking Thread
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Lanx
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Yea, everyone that gets a steak from me, gets it med-rare. The only person i cooked a steak well done for was a pregger, cuz you know, they're like "i can't eat raw, mah baby, mah baby!" i'm not dealing with that shit, and would rather just cook up a piece of leather.
Rezz
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Yeah, definitely not telling the usual friends I hang out with/cook for occasionally that they're all getting medium rare or nothing, haw. Some like theirs so rare it is barely marked, others towards the medium-medium well end of the spectrum. Medium rare would make exactly 3 out of 11 happy, including myself. Too many years in the cooking/service industry to force my tastes on others, though it would really make cooking easier if everyone had my taste in temperature/texture.
Don't worry, everyone is totally buying your story where you occasionally cook 11 steaks of varying temperatures for your group of friends.
Rezz
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If you read the post, I never said I cook 11 steaks occasionally for friends, I said that out of the 11 people I occasionally cook for, only 3 like medium rare. Cool beans if the people you cook for all like theirs the exact same temperature. Mine do not, so sous vide does not work in my situation for the most part when I make steak. Anyway.
Lanx
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With most ppl i find that the hang up w/ temps is really bad restaurants that give them fucked up steaks. If i lay down steaks for you, you take the temp i give you, isn't that how it's supposed to be in your castle?
I mean of course i've only done this since i've been doing sous vide steaks, especially with the cuts i've been giving ppl, ha!
I mean of course i've only done this since i've been doing sous vide steaks, especially with the cuts i've been giving ppl, ha!
Rezz
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It isn't so much a hang up with temperatures, but I know they like their meat cooked a certain way, and they won't enjoy it as much otherwise. The sous vide (for steaks) just doesn't save me much time away from the grill/kitchen. If I'm making a specific dish, then what I make is what I make at whatever temperature. That said, since I know a thing or two about slinging pans, I usually make something else for the people who I know won't enjoy whatever item I started with.
Frankly, I've never thought about -not- asking someone what temperature they want their steak when I'm cooking them.
Frankly, I've never thought about -not- asking someone what temperature they want their steak when I'm cooking them.
If someone eating steak at my home asked for a medium or a rare, they'd both be happy with the sous vide cook I gave them. The medium orderer would be happy right off the bat because he wouldn't really know the difference. They rare orderer might complain about the look until he bit into it.
If someone is ordering med-well or higher fuck them, I'm not wasting a steak on them with the exception of my father-in-law because I'm fucking his daughter and he hasn't killed me yet.
I don't even quite understand why ordering steak temperature is a thing. You don't specify how much you want your brocolli steamed, if the chef doesn't make it quite as mushy as you like it, well that's just how the dish comes. When did people start being able to order their steakswrong?
If someone is ordering med-well or higher fuck them, I'm not wasting a steak on them with the exception of my father-in-law because I'm fucking his daughter and he hasn't killed me yet.
I don't even quite understand why ordering steak temperature is a thing. You don't specify how much you want your brocolli steamed, if the chef doesn't make it quite as mushy as you like it, well that's just how the dish comes. When did people start being able to order their steakswrong?
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This is my exception... with my mother-in-law also because she should be a saint.
BrutulTM
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Yes. In blind taste tests everyone picks medium rare regardless of what they say their preference is before the test. The rare people are just showing off and the medium+ people are just squeamish at the way it looks. I even had a well done eater tell me once that he ate a medium rare steak once and it was the best steak he'd ever had but he was only able to eat it because it was really dark in the room. When it comes down to it the rare person isn't going to be *that* unhappy with a medium rare steak unless they are just a prima donna and the well done eaters don't deserve to have steak in the first place.
opiate82
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It isn't that hard to sous-vide for different temp preferences, you can always get it to where you want it during the sear. If I had to do 11 different steaks to varying temps that might be a little difficult to manage, but if you are having like another couple friend over and one of them like a medium-well just pull it and start searing it sooner than the rest of the steaks, throw the lid on your cast iron while you do it. Pretty simple still.
Lanx
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if you really wanted to please your friends by giving them something higher than med-rare for steaks, then yea just torch that shit up longer on the bottom, on low setting w/ the flame further away. (you get the heat but no sear, after torching for a while you really get to know how to control the inside temp kinda)
BrutulTM
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So like 5 years ago I wisely decided to use my Shun serrated bread knife to try to saw an electrical connector in half. I broke a tooth out of it. It still cut fine and it was totally my fault so I didn't even try to send it in but a week ago I was sending in my other knives to be sharpened and I thought "what the hell" and threw in the bread knife too. They came back today all sharp an in a separate box there was a brand new serrated bread knife. I feel mildly guilty but they didn't even ask what happened, just sent a new one no questions asked so it's not like I lied about it. The bread knife was close to 10 years old.
Interestingly, I sent in two broken Leatherman tools on the same day and they also both came back today and as far as I can tell they are brand new as well. Feeling like a well-served customer tonight.
Interestingly, I sent in two broken Leatherman tools on the same day and they also both came back today and as far as I can tell they are brand new as well. Feeling like a well-served customer tonight.
There's nothing wrong with criticizing Shuns, as long as you're criticizing the correct things. They're fine knives, though sometimes the profiles are a little odd. Depending on the series though they're quite expensive for what you're getting, especially the faux-Damascus stuff.
They have always had great customer service, you certainly can't knock them for that.
They have always had great customer service, you certainly can't knock them for that.
Khane
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