YesButNoButYes: Cakes That Look Like Steak
The above picture is from a followup.
July 25, 2008
March 6, 2008
gizmo of stats
It’s not about steak at all. but about some baseball stats for a homie of mine on sportsblogsnation.com *(not real URL).
June 29, 2007
You’ll have to forgive me please
This brief dearth of any substantial writing brought to you by a one-time gig writing something for These Jerks.
Meanwhile, stay tuned for another steak mosaic and maybe I’ll drag something out of the pile of Drafts stinking up the place.
June 20, 2007
Grill Right Wireless Talking BBQ/Oven Thermometer
Longtime fans of SteakFeed should know, we’re not exactly gung-ho gadget freaks when it comes to preparing steaks well. As a matter of fact, we seem to even disdain using any kind of thermometer at all. Snobs that we are, you’d totally not be surprised to find us mocking the following:
Grill Right Wireless Talking BBQ/Oven Thermometer.
Here’s the problem, according to the product marketing literature: they want you to act like “[there's n]o need to wait by the grill to find out when dinner is ready—this wireless thermometer verbally alerts you when the meat has reached the perfect temperature.
First of all, out of curiosity, I’m going to try getting my hands on one of these for a field test. I really want to find out what kind of voice they choose for a talking thermometer.
Second of all, what??
Imagine your dad: “No need to wait by the grill?!? Oh golly! I’ll just trundle my fat dad-ass down to the workshop and fire up the old Dremel set. Maybe see if I can finish off some of the expressive detailing on the animatronic, Lucite Hansel and Gretel cuckoo clock while the fish grills!”
Your mother: “Stanley! Get back here right this minute! You know better than anyone the signal range on that goddamn piece of metallic crap is far less than 330 feet in practice given the various construction materials and techniques used to build this cantilevered deck and rec-room addition!! You’ll never receive even an “out of range” alarm!”
Meanwhile, the halibut cheeks good ol’ Dad threw on have become about as tender and flaky as those of a Le Mans-era Steve McQueen.
What I’m saying is, except in the rare case when you’re doing a long-haul, actual Bar-Be-Cue of a large cut of meat like a brisket or a whole turkey… just effing stand there by the grill in your Bermuda shorts, holding a Tom Collins and monitor things yourself. You deserve the knowledge, experience, and quality robbed from you by over-dependence on wireless talking pieces of crap. And for the last time, get that damn Bluetooth thing out of your ear. You look like a robot.
June 19, 2007
Cows Unite
Apparently, cows “want” to walk around in the sunshiny green meadows, and to not be treated like machines.
I wonder if they also “feel resentment” about being cut up and grilled?
Whatever your point of view (and I hope you’re here because your point of view is that you really, really love to eat the bountiful goodness provided for our health and pleasure by God’s wonderous creation, Cattle) … I just want to say, they’re talking about DAIRY cows. It’s DAIRY cows who are trying to band together to demand better working conditions in the production of MILK! This has 100% NOTHING whatsoever to do with the cattle whose sole purpose on this earth is as a vessel for the conversion of vegetable matter into life-giving beefsteak which brings us closer to holiness.
Thank you very much,
The SteakFeed Team.
June 18, 2007
Well, here we are.
I’m not sure you’ll notice, unless you take your cue from the empty cartons laying around and the stale odor, but we’ve just recently come up at some new hosting digs.
Yeah, the place is looking a little bit of a shambles. That big ugly green box across the top; the logo hanging out one of the side windows; the little doodads and crap that have settled back down into a jumble on the bottom floor.
But we’ll get the grill fired up here pretty soon, and tidy up a bit. We think you’ll like it here a little bit better. It’s faster, for sure. And we have a bunch more flexibility with what we can do. We might even put up a Steak Wiki out back, who knows?
Keep us in your thoughts, drop by for a drink and to socialize every now and then.
May 31, 2007
Surprises Ahead
This is a pretty big deal for us. Probably not such a big deal for you. But stay tuned. We’ve got some surprises in store for SteakFEED.com.
You might observe things get bumpy or flaky. Or, considering the fact that there are so few of you, reading so seldom, this whole thing might pass by completely unnoticed.
If a blog crashes but nobody reads it, does it make a sound?
May 22, 2007
May 12, 2007
spiffy, huh?
I spent some time the last few days making some real spiffy changes to our layout, incorporating the flare new logo and some more color.
There’s still some stupid or silly quirks, like that the logo somehow resists scrolling for a while down the page, and the right-most sidebar thingy only displays beneath the ads, unless you’re on a really wide screen.
But otherwise, it looks pretty great, huh?
May 8, 2007
laser vs button
Bonjour Laser Probe Combo:
Laser probe combo measures the temperature of cooking surfaces
- Bonjour - Brands - Sur La Table
It looks like how G.I.Joe might check his steak’s temperature in the field.
vs.
Reusable Steak Button Thermometers:
Use these button thermometers to gauge your steak
- Grilling & Barbecue - Features - Sur La Table
These lil guys are really cute, but how accurate can they be, right?
I’m writing the MFGR to get a test units!