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Steak on a stone

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  • 27-05-2014 2:49pm
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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭


    I mean what's the point. If I wanted to cook my own steak I'd stay at home.


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    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Birneybau wrote: »
    I mean what's the point. If I wanted to cook my own steak I'd stay at home.

    +1

    If I wanted an overcooked steak I'd ask the wife to cook.


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    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Is it a particularly 'rustic' stone OP?


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    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    stimpson wrote: »
    +1

    If I wanted an overcooked steak I'd ask the wife to cook.

    or just take it off the stone quicker.


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    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Yeah, it's a sad affair when every restaurant makes you have to cook your own steak on a stone. If only there was some other option, like a restaurant that would cook the steak some other way and ask you how you wanted it cooked.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mmmmmmm steak


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    Is it a particularly 'rustic' stone OP?

    I imagine one that came from outside anyway. Unless they make their own, in which case God help us all.


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    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    have to say i think it's great.

    I like it rare-medium and half the time it comes out well done, or very well done

    so on the stone, just take it off, then cook each piece as you cut it, nice and hot every time, and just the way i like it.

    ps, i always get a big thick fillet :D


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    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    FatherLen wrote: »
    or just take it off the stone quicker.

    It's usually overdone by the time it comes out.


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    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Birneybau wrote: »
    I mean what's the point. If I wanted to cook my own steak I'd stay at home.

    It brilliant idea.
    Ya cook your own steak
    Ya pay more the privilege
    Ya get heap of smoke in your and everyone else's eyes

    So it great. Soon there will be places where you get to peel and cook your own potatoes and grow the vegetables as well:rolleyes:


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    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    I was in the US a year ago in a restaurant that does this. I'd done it in Ireland and thought it was a load of crap so I ordered the chicken.

    The chicken came out complete with a stone for me to cook it. WTF?!?


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    [Deleted User]
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    A cow called Daisy wrote: »
    It brilliant idea.
    Ya cook your own steak
    Ya pay more the privilege
    Ya get heap of smoke in your and everyone else's eyes

    So it great. Soon there will be places where you get to peel and cook your own potatoes and grow the vegetables as well:rolleyes:

    Poor Daisy. You shouldn't have to read this :(


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    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    stimpson wrote: »
    It's usually overdone by the time it comes out.

    not where i go for my nice thick fillet.... comes out basically raw, just seared on both sides


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    Seaneh
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    I'm with the OP here. I'f I'm paying €20+ for a steak and then extra for sides, I want the fecking thing cooked the way I ordered it and not handed to me uncooked for me to do the work myself.

    If I wanted to cook myself a steak I could have bought a better, larger one for less in my local butchers and cooked it in my own kitchen in half the time for less than half the cost. When I got out to eat it's so I can relax and be served, not do some lazy chefs job for him.


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    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    A cow called Daisy wrote: »
    It brilliant idea.
    Ya cook your own steak
    Ya pay more the privilege
    Ya get heap of smoke in your and everyone else's eyes

    So it great. Soon there will be places where you get to peel and cook your own potatoes and grow the vegetables as well:rolleyes:

    With a username like that, I'm not surprised by your attitude.


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    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,364 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    stevieob wrote: »
    have to say i think it's great.

    I like it rare-medium and half the time it comes out well done, or very well done

    so on the stone, just take it off, then cook each piece as you cut it, nice and hot every time, and just the way i like it.
    I like my steak done a particular way too, often a way that chefs don't comply with, but most of these restaurants it's dark so ya can't see how far along your steak is anyway.


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    When I was up young we used to cook steak on the back of a turf spade in the bog. Now that was yum!


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    DeanAustin wrote: »
    I was in the US a year ago in a restaurant that does this. I'd done it in Ireland and thought it was a load of crap so I ordered the chicken.

    The chicken came out complete with a stone for me to cook it. WTF?!?

    A full chicken? Would take fecking hours.


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    Chancer3001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    It's about the experience and the awm beeeeeee awwwwwwwnce


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    Tokyo
    Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    You need to hit up a Korean restaurant sometime. You sit crosslegged on the floor, griddle in the middle of the table, they serve you up a bowl of kimchi and a tray of raw meat and, go your hardest.... :D


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    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    Stone steak is sooo winter 2014, you all need to keep up with the times, culinary philistines.


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    The Backwards Man
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    mike_ie wrote: »
    You need to hit up a Korean restaurant sometime. You sit crosslegged on the floor, griddle in the middle of the table, they serve you up a bowl of kimchi and a tray of raw meat and, go your hardest.... :D

    If you want a doggy bag in Korea you have to buy a licence for it.


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    Seve OB
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    Shedite27 wrote: »
    I like my steak done a particular way too, often a way that chefs don't comply with, but most of these restaurants it's dark so ya can't see how far along your steak is anyway.

    was in the Elephant and Castle a couple months back, asked for Fillet steak medium. To say it came out very very very well done is an understatement. I don't normally send food back but it was sooooo bad I had to.

    What happened next....... the very same. I got 3, yes THREE, steaks that day, and the third one was still pretty well done but I was just pissed off at that stage, so didn't bother with it, and most certainly didn't pay


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    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Poor Daisy. You shouldn't have to read this :(

    Is this a first? A sensitive and caring Führer Mod.


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    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    stimpson wrote: »
    It's usually overdone by the time it comes out.

    Eh you put it on the stone raw and then cook it to your own liking :confused:


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Bits_n_Bobs wrote: »
    Stone steak is sooo winter 2014, you all need to keep up with the times, culinary philistines.

    So, jump in the time machine and...?


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    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    Birneybau wrote: »
    A full chicken? Would take fecking hours.

    and that's without having to pluck it!!


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    Effects
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    I'm with the OP here. I'f I'm paying €20+ for a steak and then extra for sides, I want the fecking thing cooked the way I ordered it and not handed to me uncooked for me to do the work myself.

    If I wanted to cook myself a steak I could have bought a better, larger one for less in my local butchers and cooked it in my own kitchen in half the time for less than half the cost. When I got out to eat it's so I can relax and be served, not do some lazy chefs job for him.
    What kind of a moron are you? Don't eat in that kind of a restaurant if it's not what you want. It's a pretty simple concept but it seems lost on you.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,419 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Cooking your own food on a hot stone was all the rage 20 years ago too, although maybe not in Ireland, I don't know I wasn't here then. I'm surprised it made a come back, it was a crap idea then, and it's a crap idea now.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    Is this a first? A sensitive and caring Führer Mod.
    Effects wrote: »
    What kind of a moron are you? Don't eat in that kind of a restaurant if it's not what you want. It's a pretty simple concept but it seems lost on you.

    A thread about steak, STEAK; and people have already resorted to digs at mods and name calling on the first page. STEAK.

    Seriously people. STEAK.


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    Nidgeweasel
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    An old aunt of mine, Joan, had a terrible experience of a stake in France. To say she was well done is an understatement.


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