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Hah. Try ordering a steak any temperature above medium or up at some NYC steak houses and they'll give you a charred hockey puck because they're assuming you're
by technofiend 5y ago
Hah. Try ordering a steak any temperature above medium or up at some NYC steak houses and they'll give you a charred hockey puck because they're assuming you're going to drown it in ketchup and can't taste the difference anyway. It's not always about meat quality or whatever stick the chef has up his butt about serving it barely warmed over. For some of us uncooked / undercooked bloody and gelatinous steak is downright disgusting. It's a texture thing: I don't want rubbery meat in my mouth.
At least for me, I love it when a place serves steak on a hot metal plate. They usually sear it and go under a little, assuming it'll be cooked further just from the plate during delivery. I can cut my steak into little pieces and push it the rest of the way myself. The chef doesn't try to substitute strip for filet because he's a pretentious snob and I don't have to eat gelatinous, bloody steak for the same reason. Not every wants beef sashimi.
- tptacek 5y agoThat doesn't make sense, because the major difference between a properly cooked steak and a "charred hockey puck" is texture, not flavor, and ketchup isn't going to mask that.
- technofiend 5y agoTrust me when the meat's so burnt and dried out that you have trouble getting a knife through it, you don't want any part of the flavor that's left behind. I haven't set foot in Bobby Van's on Park Avenue in a decade after that fiasco.
- halpert 5y agoHave you tried just ordering your steaks medium rare? That's what I do, and I've never had the type of trouble you speak of ordering at steak houses in NYC.
- jjulius 5y agoOP said: >Try ordering a steak any temperature above medium or up... Medium rare is below medium. ;)
- ReaLNero 5y ago> bloody The red liquid isn't actually blood! The blood gets drained out at the slaughterhouse. It's a protein called myoglobin.
- technofiend 5y agoThat's right. I did forget that but it's still a texture issue. Rubbery steak just grosses me the fuck out.
- alar44 5y agoDo you like your steak well done or more rare? Overcooked is rubbery. If you're eating rarer steak that's turning out rubbery, it's a shitty cut of meat.
- dorfsmay 5y agoWhy having steak instead of slow cooked meats then?