/ck/ - Food & Cooking

No, but steak burgers are a crime against humanity.

>>15729389
Not reached meme status, but definitely overrated. Over the last few decades there has formed a narrowminded cult of people who seem to think a fucking steak is the high pinnacle of culinary art
americans, usually

>>15729592
This. Steak is probably one of the easiest things to learn how to cook. If I had a cooking class for absolute beginners, it would probably be the third thing I'd teach right after eggs and pancakes. You can make some delicious steaks on the cheap while restaurants just put salt, pepper, and one or two other seasonings on it and charge upwards of $120 for it. I am a shitty cook but I quickly learned to make better steaks than any restaurant I've ever had, and I've been to some nice, upscale big city places.

Steak has become the personality of many a boring person.

Steak became a meme when steakhouse chains started gatekeeeping what the perfect way to make a steak is to cut down on grill times and increase turnover. This then caught on when people found out they could feel a sense of superiority over how they hold the mainstream opinion about how a meat hunk is cooked while acting like it's some niche thing to eat a fucking medium rare steak

>>15730033
double dubs of truth
also this

>>15730046
>based department
What are you, 13 yo? Kys faggot.

>>15730080
Get out, nigger. I very much doubt you have ever eaten a steak, you sorry excuse for an imageboard poster. Go back to your vegetarian subreddit and learn how to season your meat substitute with hot sauce.

>>15729389
This a great question. Yes steaks are a meme.

They’re good to great but people take them way too seriously and make it way too hard.

>>15729389
everything is a meme

>>15729389
It became a meme back in the 19th century when cattle were driven by drovers thousands of miles to metropolitan slaughterhouses so they were primarily eaten by the wealthy. After the railroads became a cheap, effecient way to transport them, steak became cheaper and the petit bourgeoisie copied the rich monied classes and fooled themselves into thinking it was some special delight. That has carried over to this day. Pork, chicken and lamb are all better meats but were considered commonplace.

>>15729592
Fucking Americans I hate them so much
I can't stop consuming their media it files me with such pure rage
All day I hate them and it's like they don't even know or care about me

>>15729389
They are to a certain extent. I.e. as “manly-man grill master” food. An actual good quality steak is no joke though. I went to a local steakhouse not too long ago as a treat, and split a 2 1/2 lb porterhouse with a friend. He knows a lot more about food than me and insisted on cold center rare. It was literally almost “melt in your mouth” tender. Proper steak is fucking amazing

Yes

>>15730939
You are mentally ill if you think chicken is better than beef

I like steak

>>15731129
Fried chicken is genuinely better than steak.

>>15731062
This but ironically

>>15730033
i was so mad when i looked at our steak temp scale at outback, fucking rare is 110-115 after rest for fucks sake. one time me and my friend went in near the end of the night but still before the 1 hour cutoff and we ordered rare filets, niggas gave us cold fucking filets. center was below room temp my nigga

>>15731195
>>15731062
>>15729592
All Americans should be euthanised.

>>15729389
you're life is a meme LMAO

Most steaks like filet mignon are a meme. Then a nice bone-in ribeye is pretty grand. But then they go too far and dry age it, making it almost unpalatably fatty. So yes, these two extremes of steak: too lean and too fatty, are memes indeed.

>>15729592
>>15731062
>>15731311
wow, seethe harder faggots. we americans don't think about you at all :)

>>15730939
Pork is fatty, chicken is plain, lamb is dry valley and beef seems to be always at least okay.

>>15731604
you americans don't think at all

>>15731606
>he thinks beef is at least always ok
this guy hasn't had british beef, lmao

>>15730808
how many pictures of shirtless men do you have on your computer?

Get a filet mignon bLuE RArE, like 120 degrees in through

>>15731704
More than you, fag.

>>15731704
not enough

>>15731872
wtf is blue rare

>>15729389
No because it's good.

No, but how people prefer their steaks on opposite sides of the spectrum has been rustling jimmies since a meme's inception.

>>15729592
probably stems for back in the day when a steak dinner was synonymous with expensive high end dining

I've never liked it honestly and wouldn't pay for it ever
I did grow up eating extremely overcooked steaks though so maybe it's just that experience
That said the concept of eating a slab of meat isn't all that appealing to me

>>15731062
rent free

>>15733951
Typical burger, no sense of irony

>>15729389
Steaks are great but I never understood the belief that steaks are such a fancy and "high culture" food. It's just real good food. It's good for a friday dinner. But it's not something I would cook up at a special occasion.

>>15732566
A meme

>>15730033
Insecure steaklet detected. Post pics of your boiled steaks so I can have a good laugh

>>15729389
It depends on the quality of the meat and how well you cook it

steak's amazing. Just kind of shit to cook at home, not because it's hard, but if you got a shit fume hood, your everything will smell like beef for the next few days.

>sous vide
>"reverse" sear
into le trash it goes

>>15734299
How do you cook steak my man? I have never had that problem unless I've fucked up.

>>15734311
quick sear on both sides followed by butter baste

>>15729389
>steak
burgershit

>>15734324
What kind of pan do you use? I've found that teflon pans produce a shitload more smoke on high heat than a cast iron. For that reason I always use cast iron for steak.

>>15734341
I only got cast iron. What sucks is I also only have electric range at my current place. I so fucking miss my last place with gas range.

>>15734590
cast iron plus gas = best steak
>butter
>garlic
>thyme
sear steak for 45 seconds on high ass heat on fresh sides of the pan for each side. Sear the sides for 15 seconds. Into the oven for 7 minutes at 420f, out the oven and let it sit for 5 minutes, eat.

>>15733427
>a slab of meat
So... you only eat ground meat?

>>15734247

>>15731062

I know you, cocksucker. I'll pray for you.

>>15736004
>butter in the 420ºF oven for 7 minutes
That sounds like the butter would burn.

Incredibly overrated.

>>15731062
the rent i charge is nothing
enjoy your stay

>>15733954
God damn burgers. They're so fucking stupid and responsible for most of the world's problems but pretend like they're honest people who other people are just jealous of. I fucking hate them so much and it's like no matter what I do or say they won't even care, maybe they'll get mad for a second but then they'll just go back to being dumb and fat and talking about muh rights. They don't even understand how great and wealthy my culture would be if they weren't in the way being fat and dumb. I hate them so much and they don't even fucking take me seriously.

>>15729570
based

>>15729592
Shut the fuck up euro

>>15729570
This. Burgers are a way to make tough cuts like chuck edible.

>>15729389
yes

Everything's a meme if you really look into it