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Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 12 Sep 2006, 01:08

Here's what I had for dinner today: a tender, juicy, delicious T-bone, with home made potato sallad and some greens. Man, I haven't had one of those since I was a kid.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 12 Sep 2006, 01:22

hmmmmm .... t-bone steak .... looks a little over medium rare to me though, medium rare is the way to cook a steak

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 12 Sep 2006, 01:54

I like it either crispy cooked,or bloody raw.No mediums

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 12 Sep 2006, 01:56

crispy cooked steak???!!! SACRILEGE!!

at worst it should be medium, but medium rare is the way to go, if you're feeling brave, rare or blue can be good too

Corribus · Unread postby **Corribus** » 12 Sep 2006, 02:58

It always amuses me when people order a 30 dollar steak at a restaurant and then ask for it to be well done. If you want it well done, you might as well order the 10 dollar steak, since it's going to taste like leather anyway. If it's not red in the middle, it's not worth eating, as far as I'm concerned. Ditto with lamb. And tuna should still almost be cold.

Btw what's with all the food pictures?

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 12 Sep 2006, 06:23

Corribus wrote:It always amuses me when people order a 30 dollar steak at a restaurant and then ask for it to be well done. If you want it well done, you might as well order the 10 dollar steak, since it's going to taste like leather anyway. If it's not red in the middle, it's not worth eating, as far as I'm concerned. Ditto with lamb. And tuna should still almost be cold.

30 bucks for a single stake?Not even for tartar one!Actually,when I do the math,I think my mother did spend somewhere cca 30 dollars in order to make tartar stake for diner.Though it was at least 1kg of meat then

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 12 Sep 2006, 06:24

$30 is expensive, but not far off the mark here, especially for a quality piece of sirloin, or scotch fillet

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 12 Sep 2006, 06:30

No way I would pay $30 for a steak. One I would never be able to eat it all, and 2 if I pay that much for a meal the restaurant better send somebody over to my house to clean after my next homecooked meal as well. Last time I paid that for a meal, I was treating my whole family

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 12 Sep 2006, 06:34

damn .... now that's what i ought to ask for the next time i pay too much for a meal, in actuality i normally would pay maybe $22-$26 for a Surf'n Turf (steak and prawns) or $20 for the steak alone (that's in aussie dollars of course)

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 12 Sep 2006, 06:48

Well I am a little frugal, I like to cook myself more then eat out at restaurants. I do tip well when going though, so I am not cheap

(there is a difference). As my pa would put it (bless his country heart) "She sure do like them eats." Needless to say I am not a wilting flower. Then again never had any complaints about my cooking *grins*.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 12 Sep 2006, 06:59

cooking FTW .... and those wilting flowers should eat some of the steak we are talking about, that'll sort 'em good 'n fast .... i can't stand the waif look, the latest addition, in Keira Knightley, looks shocking now (though she was never that big to start with)

we don't tip in Oz, just isn't really done at all

gravyluvr · Unread postby **gravyluvr** » 12 Sep 2006, 21:09

Mytical wrote:Well I am a little frugal, I like to cook myself more then eat out at restaurants. I do tip well when going though, so I am not cheap (there is a difference). As my pa would put it (bless his country heart) "She sure do like them eats." Needless to say I am not a wilting flower. Then again never had any complaints about my cooking *grins*.

A lot of this may be lost in translation too...

A sandwich at a shop in the DC area will cost about $10 now... and in order for me to make food at my own house for myself, I will spend about half that. So figure that it would cost $5-7 for the sandwich stuff plus start factoring in that if I buy a loaf of bread, half of it will spoil before I use it up so I end up wasting food.

I typical meal at a good restaurant will cost between $15-20 here. If you go for the Fillet Mignon (my favorite), crab cakes, lobster, or other high dollar items you push to $25. If you are in a very stylish restaurant you will pay for the ambiance. A great Steak dinner at a great restaurant can easily get up to $40.

You aren't paying for the food. You are paying for the experience with the food.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 12 Sep 2006, 22:22

stefan.urlus wrote:i think they taste better cooked

Blasphemer....

30$ for 1 steak?!

I know of old ppl that don't even get that much for a pension.

So, anyone wanna see how a piece of bread that was left under my little brothers care for 2 weeks looks like?

You aren't paying for the food. You are paying for the experience with the food.

The food should be the experience. You guys just don't know how to eat.

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 12 Sep 2006, 23:20

hehe I dont have to worry about wasting things. I have an 'extended' family, and we have a country background. Spoiled food is the least of our worries. (not having a heart attack is more of a concern). Were talking mashpotatoes and gravy, biscuits (home made of course not that premade junk). You know things of that nature. Sure since I've moved to the city the portions are smaller and there arn't as many of us gathered in one place, but it was all about the atmosphere more then the food (boy was that some good food though). And the reason I tip well is the atmosphere, that and any restaurant that can put up with MY brothers deserves a tip! Guests at my house have to dodge forks, knives, and be quick on there toes cause it's first come first serve. If you go hungry, you just arn't trying hehe. And everybody chips in to clean up, as much as the guys try to skip out after a meal, they are dragged back in by there ear and told to get to work. It's ordered chaos and a lot of fun. I actually hate when I have to eat alone, it's so...boring.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 12 Sep 2006, 23:28

Well i wasn't talking about dinner with friends/family. That one is sometimes worth it just for the atmosphere, especialy so because you don't and even can't pay for it. Paying 10 times what the food is worth just for some pretty lights doesn't seem right to me. Maybe if there weren't any poor ppl in the world...

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 13 Sep 2006, 00:35

that's a reasonable point TT, but people do like to go out and eat, and to do so they have to cover for the people cooking the food and serving it etc, this then provides employment and good industry .... in turn you have to pay more for the food, seems fair to me

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 13 Sep 2006, 01:58

ThunderTitan wrote: The food should be the experience. You guys just don't know how to eat.

Indeed.I remember what a professor of mine said once:"When I go to a restaurant with live music,I pay them not to play so I can enjoy my food in peace".

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 13 Sep 2006, 02:10

what the hell is wrong with eating the food whilst enjoying the stimulus to your other senses?? last time i checked i didn't use my ears to enjoy a steak!!!

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 13 Sep 2006, 02:32

stefan.urlus wrote:what the hell is wrong with eating the food whilst enjoying the stimulus to your other senses?? last time i checked i didn't use my ears to enjoy a steak!!!

The point is that if you enjoy multiple things at the same time,you enjoy none of those things to the fullest.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 13 Sep 2006, 02:45

not true at all, that's just an opinion .... i can enjoy a steak as much in my home, as i can at a restaurant with some music, etc ....

what a ludicrous statement

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