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Steak on a Stone

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  • #32
    Dracula!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭Dracula!


    Steak on a stone It's just packaging. You don't have to buy it. I t's nice with thick sea salt ! Why do people complain about choice. Why give out about something you don't like and rubbish it.


  • #33
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Ive never heard of this cook your own steak in a restaurant malarkey, sounds kinda fun or at least different!

    Best places for steaks Ive had so far imho, Captain Americas, TGIS, Joels and Smyths in phibsboro, gorgeously yummy, as you like it and pretty affordable for what you get :)

    hmmmm, I want a nice rare steak now!!!!


  • #34
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    i'm not trekking out to Swords to eat a steak on a stone. 100% gimmick.

    Cafe Carlo, O'Connell Street then.

    I've had, like it and will have it again at some stage.


  • #35
    Dracula!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭Dracula!


    Perfect post. Don't like it ? Eat something else. CHOICE it's great.


  • #36
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,150 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I cook it on a pan. Much harder to clean a stone after use.
    Really? 10 seconds with a belt sander = job done! ;)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #37
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    bnt wrote: »
    Really? 10 seconds with a belt sander = job done! ;)
    Poor sander!:eek:


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭ [Deleted User]


    GenieOz wrote: »
    Nothing more defensive than someone who cremates their food alright.

    You'll notice I never actually said how I liked my steak cooked (medium, as it happens). And I'm not being defensive, just remarking on what I regard as the pointlessness and arrogance of people who dictate to others how they should like their own food.


  • #39
    mulamike
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭mulamike


    cml387 wrote: »
    If you like steak well done, then you don't really like steak at all.

    So what if he likes it well done - doesn't effect your steak. This nonsense of oh "he's ruining the meat". In fairness it's pretty ruined when it's eaten anyway and ends up in a toilet bowl 8 hours later as half pound of $hite.


  • #40
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Mena wrote: »
    That's because we South Africans prefer to serve steak as opposed to shoe leather. Hence the stone was programmed to ignore your, frankly, rather ludicrous request to burn it to a crisp.

    A job well done (so to speak).
    cml387 wrote: »
    If you like steak well done, then you don't really like steak at all.

    Sorry but i don't like a lump of meat with blood pissing out of it...

    A well done steak doesn't have to taste like shoe leather tbh...


  • #41
    GenieOz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭GenieOz


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Sorry but i don't like a lump of meat with blood pissing out of it...

    A well done steak doesn't have to taste like shoe leather tbh...

    What blood? The red isn't blood.

    And well done steaks will always taste like that, when they're cooked through all the flavour is removed.


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  • #42
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,493 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    I personally don't mind it - sure it's a gimmicky touch, but you don't have to get it - ask them to cook it themselves and they will. It doesn't cost extra, you'd pay that much for a 'chef-cooked' steak regardless and it affords you personal control as to how the steak is cooked. Personally, I'm a 'blue as you can get it' man, so I like the ability to take it off from the start, give it three seconds to warm it a bit while having it pretty much raw.

    That and in a lot of places, you get a multiple of sides - garlic butter, pepper sauce and a.n.other - instead of just one with your steak. It adds to your options for the same price. I don't get the downside here, unless you're too lazy to not order it.


  • #43
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Never really get the point of ordering steak in a restaurant, it's pretty expensive and very quick and easy to cook yourself.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I prefer to cook my steak 'medium' or 'medium-rare' and do so regularly, but every once in a while the notion takes me to cook it 'well done' and I can understand the attraction to be honest. If cooked actually 'well done' rather than just burnt to a crisp, I like the taste experience. I would never order 'well done' in a restaurant though, and couldn't see those hot stones being adequate to cook a steak to that preference.

    I had the steak on the stone experience once before from a nice rural restaurant. Lovely for the most part, but by the time I was down to the last few slices the stone was no longer hot enough to cook the meat and those remaining bits were a bit too 'blue' for my liking.

    TL;DR - Mmm...steak.


  • #45
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,858 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Stella Virgo wrote: »
    Beef or Salmon......

    No, that was horse


  • #46
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,559 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Sorry but i don't like a lump of meat with blood pissing out of it...

    What blood? :confused:


  • #47
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    GenieOz wrote: »
    What blood? The red isn't blood.

    And well done steaks will always taste like that, when they're cooked through all the flavour is removed.

    What is it then?


  • #48
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,559 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Hootanany wrote: »
    What is it then?

    Myoglobin. It doesn't even look like blood? It's clear and not very viscous.

    All blood is dried out from dead animals relatively quickly, there's no blood present when buy your steak.


  • #49
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    I know its very watery, but how come that doesn't dry out as well?


  • #50
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,137 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Mena wrote: »
    That's because we South Africans prefer to serve steak as opposed to shoe leather. Hence the stone was programmed to ignore your, frankly, rather ludicrous request to burn it to a crisp.

    A job well done (so to speak).
    You're completely wrong
    The correct way to serve steak is to cook it the way the person paying for it wants .


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