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There’s a story here. An interesting story.
May 27, 2009
May 22, 2009
Lifehacker - Nine Affordable Steaks and How to Grill Them Anywhere - Grilling
Lifehacker - Nine Affordable Steaks and How to Grill Them Anywhere - Grilling
nine kinds?
So, in the spirit of hasty reblogging a la Lifehacker, I’m just going to paste a bunch of pull quotes!
need to bone up on cuts that can impress a crowd
Affordable cuts of beef tend to fall into three groups: hanger and flatiron steaks, long prized by chefs; flank, flap, tri-tip and skirt steaks, which used to be even cheaper when they were less popular; and gems such as chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin steaks, which are, for the moment, the least expensive of the lot
food scientists have begun to question not only whether marinades tenderize meat
When the meat goes straight from the fridge to the grill, it takes longer for its center to reach medium-rare or medium, during which time the outside starts to char and the interior can go gray.
then grease them, using an oiled wad of paper towels
Let the meat rest
After the gap, recipes!
July 2, 2008
Williams-Sonoma | Monogrammed Steak Brand
Note: Williams-Sonoma | Monogrammed Steak Brand –
- This item cannot be gift wrapped.
- This item is no longer available for Fourth of July delivery.
December 3, 2007
Low Roast, Jet Engine Grilled Steak on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Low Roast, Jet Engine Grilled Steak on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Now that is REALLY cool. This guy grills steak with a Jet Engine! WOT!?!?!?!?
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 8, 2007
The $500 Fire-Closet of Eternal Agony
Er, I mean “The Patio Fireplace/Grill/Smoker. at Hammacher Schlemmer” …
I first saw this thing posted on Food-Gadgets last week sometime, but I didn’t get to check it out fully.
You can make six feet high of steaks all at once on it, or you could get a whole loin and “hang large primal cuts vertically from the meat hook on the grill smoker’s ceiling”. I don’t know if that sounds delicious or horrifying. I can just picture some creepy old Adderall junkie in a half bathrobe and bermuda shorts, holding a gigantic FORK standing next to this thing with a crazed grin on his face. That’s what I can picture.
May 26, 2007
Getting what we deserve this year for our birthday
Did you know it’s our birthday?? Isn’t that cool?? We’ve been Typing About Steak for a whole year now!!!
Happy birthday to us.
So? What the heck did you get us for our birthday? Uh… Excuse us? You want us to pick it out ourselves, and you’ll pay for it? You’re going to reimburse us for our birthday present? That’s so cheap. We can’t believe it! How could you think that would be a good gift? Do you not know the meaning of the word “gift“?
Here’s an idea, how about, along with remuneration for the gift we select for ourselves, you just go ahead and pay us a decent wage for the time we have to spend choosing and purchasing our OWN DAMN BIRTHDAY PRESENT!!??!?!?
You totally forgot didn’t you? I knew it. I knew you’d never remember our first birthday, don’t even try to cover for your sorry self by trying to make us think you’re generous when you’re really just brandishing cash and making us do all the shopping and thinking. I bet you don’t even have dinner plans for us, do you?
Gadgets We’re Buying Ourselves For Our Lonely 1st Birthday
- Personalized Branding Iron, or Monogrammed Steak Brand, Triple Initials [because, sorry, we're neglected and lonely ... we get crazy fantasies sometimes ... you know, lone ranger, ... vast prairies ... red-hot iron searing flesh]
- Disposable BBQ Grill [because we all have to face the temporary nature of everything, and how ultimately alone we are, without solidity or permanence]
- Rocket Pepper Grinder [because it's time to fly]
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!
April 25, 2007
Armida Cooks blog, Dry-Rubbed Skirt Steak (Batali)
Armida Cooks!: Dry-Rubbed Skirt Steak
This looks terrific! She’s done a nice photograph of the steak, and I think this might induce me to try a Batali recipe too. The dry rub (that always sounds a tad suggestive to me!) is made with ground porcini mushrooms! Yowza!
Now to find a skirt steak for sale in this dumb burgh.
January 31, 2007
TITLE: “The Boring Old Broiler”
Yay!!
The Boring Old Broiler Turns Out to Be a Superstar - New York Times
You can’t beat oldschool, in my book. And here we have a superstar New York Times food guy named MARK BITTMAN to tell us all about the least appreciated standard amurrikun kitchen device, the broiler, and why we should be using it all the time.
I remember very clearly my parents always always always making stuff under the broiler. And then me having to clean out the damn gross broiler pan by scraping heaping slabs of stinky grease out with a spatula. Eeesh.
The best thing about MARK BITTMAN’s article, in my view, is the revelation that the broiler pan of yore is officially an off-limits nuisance nowadays. And that officially, since we are talking Newspaper of Record here, it’s way cooler to use a skillet or grill pan under the broiler.
HA! I already knew that. :-P
I’m totally gonna try more broiling of steak now. And some scallops too! Because my Lodge grill pan is officially starting to give us emphysema in our apartment.
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