Steak on a stone

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:

Valetta

Ah, I love a good steak snobbery thread.

They're so well done, but rare around here.

Richard Hillman

Another sign that the Celtic tiger is on his way back into town.

Nidgeweasel

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Another sign that the Celtic tiger is on his way back into town.

Aye, in fillets.

Davarus Walrus

Call me a traditionalist, but when I go out to a fancy eatin' house for food I prefer when the food is cooked in the kitchen, before being served on a plate. Not on a sod of turf, a slate or on a block of wood. Plates have curved edges and really are about as good as it gets when it comes to serving solid food.

FunLover18

I was in a Dublin cafe a few weeks back and I ordered a hot chocolate. I was brought a cup of hot milk and another cup of chocolate buttons. Not only that but the waiter then explained to me that I got to add the buttons myself in a tone that suggested it was going to be the best experience of my life and I was a very lucky boy

I am pie

Here have some hot milk and low grade cheap chocolate with low coco content.

Cool.

I'll have my meat on a plate thanks, cooked to order.

Still, people go and pay over the odds so I congratulate yer man for having the gumption that people are easily mugged with an aul gimmick and some waffley marketing

eisenberg1

I am pie wrote: »

Here have some hot milk and low grade cheap chocolate with low coco content.

Cool.

I'll have my meat on a plate thanks, cooked to order.

Still, people go and pay over the odds so I congratulate yer man for having the gumption that people are easily mugged with an aul gimmick and some waffley marketing

Jesus, imagine if you wanted tea!!

\Maybe a tin can of water, a candle, some leaves......

ToddyDoody

Its a bit like 'YOU fcuk it up'

whiskeyman

I'm looking forward to the next tranche of fads where the restaurant brings out the cow and you have to slaughter it and cut out what bit you want.
'Moo's n Choose'

Mr Steak

[Deleted User] wrote: »

mmmmmmm steak

Me likeee. Me likeeee lots !