Steak on a stone

Birneybau

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

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.

Michael D Not Higgins

Is it a particularly 'rustic' stone OP?

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.

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.

mmmmmmm steak

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.

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

stimpson

FatherLen wrote: »

or just take it off the stone quicker.

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

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:

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?!?

A cow called Daisy

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

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

Seaneh

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Chancer3001

It's about the experience and the awm beeeeeee awwwwwwwnce

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....

Bits_n_Bobs

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

The Backwards Man

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....

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

Seve OB

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

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.

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

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...?

Seve OB

Birneybau wrote: »

A full chicken? Would take fecking hours.

and that's without having to pluck it!!

Effects

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.

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.

Corvus Maximus

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.

Nidgeweasel

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

Birneybau

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

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

As the flames rose, to her roman nose, and her walkman started to melt.

anncoates

[Deleted User] wrote: »

and people have already resorted to digs at mods.

Always annoys me when people imply that a mod is just an unpaid mignon. If people left the position, it would pretty hard to filet.

Seaneh

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.

I'm the "kind of moron" who expects to have my meal cooked for me when I pay for a meal in a restaurant.

Do you go to the dry cleaners and pay them so you can run the machines yourself?

If you want to cook your own steak and you pay someone else €20+ for the privilege of doing so I'd have to ask what you doing are when you could get a trained chef to do it for you.

eisenberg1

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

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

Noah's was made of wood, your aunt's was made of Orleans

Caliden

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:

Already done! (well cook an egg anyway)

'Best' restaurant in the world dish called 'The hen and the egg'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqDaZsgR5zg

osarusan

Yakiniku restaurants and shabu shabu restaurants are very common in Japan. Each table has a hole in the centre of it for a barbeque (for yakiniku) or a pot of boiling water (shabu shabu) to be lowered into, and then diners order the kind of meat they want and cook it as they like it.

The meat is usually thin slices, though, but you can get steak in some places.

It's good fun and smells fantastic.

Effects

Seaneh wrote: »

I'm the "kind of moron" who expects to have my meal cooked for me when I pay for a meal in a restaurant.
Do you go to the dry cleaners and pay them so you can run the machines yourself?

No, if I went to a dry cleaners I'd expect them to run the machines.
If I went to a launderette though, I would expect to run the machine myself. I also wouldn't start a thread on the internet complaining about launderettes that make me have to run the machine myself.

"I put the three euro in the coin slot, I shouldn't have to load the machine and turn it on myself. If I wanted to wash my clothes myself I wouldn't have gone to a self service launderette, I would have got the wife to do them for me."

Tiddlypeeps

I haven't ever encountered this. Do they actually bring out a raw steak for you to cook yourself? How does the stone work, is it actually just a slab of slate that has been heated before hand, I cant imagine that would stay hot for long so i assume I'm missing something.

jimgoose

I don't particularly care for this stone business, no more than the recent habit I've noticed of serving fish-and-chips on what appears to be a wooden cheese-board, with the aforementioned chips in a little tin bucket, with a handle on it and all. These here chefs are losin' de run a' dimselves, and would want a batin'. Meantime, mine's chateaubriand on the rare side of medium and a rather decent Claret.

Seve OB

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

I haven't ever encountered this. Do they actually bring out a raw steak for you to cook yourself? How does the stone work, is it actually just a slab of slate that has been heated before hand, I cant imagine that would stay hot for long so i assume I'm missing something.

stone is big and thick, heated in oven, and on specific plate to keep it in place

Steak will be seared on either side on grill/pan... just seared, no more no less.

Steak placed on stone and brought out to you.

Ardeehey

Must agree with general consensus of steak on stone being a nonsense, if I'm in such an establishment I always ask if the kitchen will cook my steak to order and have yet to be denied.

SteelyDanJalapeno

stimpson wrote: »

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

It comes out raw buddy.

SteelyDanJalapeno

TiltedBrain wrote: »

It comes out raw buddy.

That's what she said

Seaneh

Ardeehey wrote: »

Must agree with general consensus of steak on stone being a nonsense, if I'm in such an establishment I always ask if the kitchen will cook my steak to order and have yet to be denied.

Novelty sh*te is what it is.
A few years ago it was prawns served on hot pink himalayan salt blocks.
Then it was serve EVERYTHING on slate.
Then it was serve EVERYTHING on chopping boards.

Now it's "pay us more so you can cook your own meal worse than we would".

padd b1975

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.

Steak should be cooked according to firmness.

osarusan

Seaneh wrote: »

Novelty sh*te is what it is.

Maybe some people like the experience.

Have you ever tried sashimi? They don't cook it all, and you don't have a stone to cook it yourself either. Cold and raw!

The lazy cheapskate bastards!

jimgoose

osarusan wrote: »

Maybe some people like the experience.

Have you ever tried sushi? They don't cook it all, and you don't have a stone to cook it yourself either.

The lazy cheapskate bastards!

The Japanese do such unbelievably wonderful things with bits of fish they're probably illegal in most of the Galaxy. :cool:

Birneybau

jimgoose wrote: »

The Japanese do such unbelievably wonderful things with bits of fish they're probably illegal in most of the Galaxy. :cool:

Troy McClure style? Yuck

eisenberg1

"Oh the weather is great, and the suntan is free. You could cook an egg on the stones here, if you had an egg, and you could certaintly sink a pint of Harp...........if you had a pint of Harp"

jimgoose

eisenberg1 wrote: »

"Oh the weather is great, and the suntan is free. You could cook an egg on the stones here, if you had an egg, and you could certaintly sink a pint of Harp...........if you had a pint of Harp"

You know, you're one old muddafukka. Wait a minute... :eek: