Ordering chicken in a restaurant.

darced · 28-07-2013 11:10AM

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suicide_circus · 28-07-2013 11:21AM

the only chicken i eat when out is wings.

Czarcasm · 28-07-2013 11:24AM

darced wrote: »

I eat my steak med rare but if say I'm at someones house for dinner and they do it well done ill happily eat it and still find it very tasty.

I can never understand the snobbery around steak,it is still pretty delicious well cooked.

It's people who think it makes them sound like they have a more refined palate. I never realised there was snobbery around chicken until I read this thread, aside from the organic/factory reared chicken debate.

Snobbery around potatoes too is another one!

shootermacg · 28-07-2013 11:26AM

truebluesac wrote: »

I dont understand people who order steak every time they eat out . When i eat out i love to treat my taste buds with some fine and different foods than what i can make at home . I can get a fine sirlion or fillet steak in the butchers for a fiver and i can cook a preaty dame good steak so it just seems a waste to spend close to or more than a score for somthing i can cook to the same level at home

Where in this country do you get fillet steaks for 5 euro? I've just been to the butchers and 2 cost me 17 euro.

GHOST MGG · 28-07-2013 11:30AM

i always order chicken as i have no ****ing clue what part of the mignon the fillet is from.

branie · 28-07-2013 11:31AM

I like Southern Fried Chicken in a restaurant

28-07-2013 11:31AM

shootermacg wrote: »

Where in this country do you get fillet steaks for 5 euro? I've just been to the butchers and 2 cost me 17 euro.

Got two fillets in Aldi recently, 6 bob and some change a pop.

truebluesac · 28-07-2013 11:40AM

shootermacg wrote: »

Where in this country do you get fillet steaks for 5 euro? I've just been to the butchers and 2 cost me 17 euro.

There are plenty of butcher / wholesale meat shops in my local area . Doesnt have to be a super market .

Big windows on your butchers shop ? 😳

Stinicker · 28-07-2013 01:19PM

Is it politically correct for a white man to order Fried Chicken and a Grape Soda in a restaurant in the United States?

truebluesac · 28-07-2013 02:06PM

Let me know how you get on 😄

Lapin wrote: »

Again, I fully agree.

Tha steaks served in most restaurants most probably are out of the fridge on under the grill though.

I must try your method. 3 or 4 minutes in the oven would do me though.
Nice and rare with all the juices !

As for this joker.......

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Apocalypto Panther · 28-07-2013 02:09PM

darced wrote: »

I eat my steak med rare but if say I'm at someones house for dinner and they do it well done ill happily eat it and still find it very tasty.

I can never understand the snobbery around steak,it is still pretty delicious well cooked.

It's because it's usually a waste of an expensive cut of beef when you do it well done. You could cook a cheaper cut well done and not tell the difference. It's similar to mixing lemonade with an expensive wine. You may as well mic it with a cheap bottle.

truebluesac · 28-07-2013 02:17PM

With steak , because of its expence when ordering it when dinning out you should get what you asked for . Steak is easy to cook . Get it right . If i ordered a medium steak and it came out incenerated id send it back . Also if it came out a bit too rare id ask the chef to stick it on again for a min . But if it was med rare or med to well id just eat it

I have a best mate who works in a steak house and they have 30-40 timers , 1 for each steak as its being cook so perfection is garenteed .

darced wrote: »

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greenflash · 28-07-2013 03:06PM

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Not true I like my steak well done because I don't want cows blood rolling onto my chips on the plate and making them soggy.

Still love the taste of it well done.

Each to their own and all but I stand by what I said. I'll eat a steak well done... have no choice when I stay with the in laws as they treble cremate everything with fried onions just to make a point. But if a steak has a good tasty char crust on the outside yet squirts blood when cut through then it's so much better, tastier and tenderererer. Old folk and big girls ask for well done steak when out.

Daveysil15 · 28-07-2013 03:15PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Snobbery around potatoes too is another one!

Snobbery around spuds? :eek: That can't be right.

kowloon · 28-07-2013 03:57PM

greenflash wrote: »

Each to their own and all but I stand by what I said. I'll eat a steak well done... have no choice when I stay with the in laws as they treble cremate everything with fried onions just to make a point. But if a steak has a good tasty char crust on the outside yet squirts blood when cut through then it's so much better, tastier and tenderererer. Old folk and big girls ask for well done steak when out.

The juice is mainly water, the red colour being myoglobin.

A lot of people have never tried a steak that's not well done, and I'll try to get them to have a bit. I've converted a lot of my friends and I'll slag the ones who get queasy thinking about meat. Ultimately everyone has their favourites and if they've tried the alternatives you can hardly fault them for having a preference.

Every once in a while I buy some fried chicken, screw the food snobs.

If you have a big freezer you can bulk buy really good meat and have it cut to your preference or cut it yourself. I get supplies from the English Market in Cork too, particularly before Christmas.

All this said, I enjoy eating a lot more than most.

Frank Lee Midere · 28-07-2013 04:17PM

I love steak but tend not to pay the extreme markup when out. I mean you're definitely not paying for cooking skills or time, a novice cook can cook a decent steak. The markup is for the fact it is a steak.

Chicken is alright.

hal9000 · 28-07-2013 07:27PM

jaysus! a thread apparently about how its a waste ordering chicken, cue 6 pages of how steak is great, how steak should be cooked and where cheap steak can be bought. I don't think chicken is the right thread title here!

shootermacg · 28-07-2013 08:05PM

I prefer all my food well done. Better safe than have holes in my brain...and I actually p-refer it, my mum used to cook the crap out of cheap cuts when i was a kid.
If a steak is cooked under a low heat for as long as it takes, then it will be tender and juicy.

shootermacg · 28-07-2013 08:06PM

hal9000 wrote: »

jaysus! a thread apparently about how its a waste ordering chicken, cue 6 pages of how steak is great, how steak should be cooked and where cheap steak can be bought. I don't think chicken is the right thread title here!

Steak is much more interesting than chicken!

Apocalypto Panther · 28-07-2013 08:10PM

shootermacg wrote: »

I prefer all my food well done. Better safe than have holes in my brain...and I actually p-refer it, my mum used to cook the crap out of cheap cuts when i was a kid.
If a steak is cooked under a low heat for as long as it takes, then it will be tender and juicy.

No it won't, it will be tough and leathery. Steak is tender and juicy when cooked on the pan at max heat for say 5 minutes flipping every 30 seconds. Then remove it from the pan and wrap it in tinfoil tightly for 5-10 minutes. That will result in one juicy tender steak fit for the Gods.

sdanseo · 28-07-2013 08:12PM

I have just this second ordered a Chicken Korma for myself. It's going to be amazing, not childish.

Femme_Fatale · 28-07-2013 08:17PM

I order it. It's about the sauces/seasonings with it, and the way the other parts of the dish are cooked, not just the chicken. Silly thread topic up its own hole.

"I'm so superior that I don't order something as plebby as chicken" - good for you OP.

Apocalypto Panther · 28-07-2013 08:20PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I order it. It's about the sauces/seasonings with it, and the way the other parts of the dish are cooked, not just the chicken. Silly thread topic up its own hole.

"I'm so superior that I don't order something as plebby as chicken" - good for you OP.

Seriously, do something about that imagination of yours. It's nothing about being superior.

Aineoil · 28-07-2013 08:23PM

I generally order something that's difficult to cook at home. Fish is difficult to cook .....so I would choose fish most times. Again you have to be careful...fish has to be fresh...especially shellfish, like scallops...yum.

I am partial to a shank of lamb with mashed pandy also. Remember mashed pandy anyone?

It takes a cook/chef of great quality to make pandy! Mammy is always the best!

becost · 28-07-2013 09:13PM

I was in KFC a couple of weeks ago and I ordered one of those cream balls. The guy serving me who I thought was a bit of a flamer from the onset asked me if I would like my cream ball now or later with a big dirty grin on his face. Just thought I'd mention it.

darced · 28-07-2013 10:10PM

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FizzleSticks · 28-07-2013 10:47PM

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awec · 28-07-2013 11:03PM

If you eat steak well done then you may as well just buy the cheapest bit of steak you can find. Absolutely no point finding a cut that looks nice if you are going to cook it well done, you are wasting your money.

shootermacg · 28-07-2013 11:32PM

awec wrote: »

If you eat steak well done then you may as well just buy the cheapest bit of steak you can find. Absolutely no point finding a cut that looks nice if you are going to cook it well done, you are wasting your money.

Really? Well my friend, I've eaten cheap cuts and more expensive cuts and I disagree, there is infact a difference. I prefer my meat well cooked.

Speaking about snobbery my wife's from Dublin and she buys all her meat in supermarkets in those plastic trays. I cannot for the life of me get her to buy stuff at a butchers, so she buys her ahem..meat and I buy mine. She also thinks adding veg is a crime becaue there's loads in the uncle ben's jar.

Czarcasm · 29-07-2013 12:40AM

awec wrote: »

If you eat steak well done then you may as well just buy the cheapest bit of steak you can find. Absolutely no point finding a cut that looks nice if you are going to cook it well done, you are wasting your money.

But surely it's just a matter of taste is it not?

I've always ordered my steak well done and I'd know the difference between a tender steak and a tough steak.

As regards the whole "I won't eat something out that I can cook at home", I'm eating out because I don't want to cook at home! :pac:

Yknow what just occurs to me now I think of it- does anyone eat cow heart or chicken arse any more?

Cows tongue - if you've never tried it, absolutely delicious! Must go down and have a chat with the butcher tomorrow while I remember these things!

Ordering chicken in a restaurant.

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