I got a great deal on a 6-1/2# striploin today. I'm going to slice it into 2" thick steaks, apply freshly cracked Tellicherry pepper, and cook it over a fire of well-seasoned hickory, seared on the outside, and blue rare in the middle. Thin sliced steak is just plain stupid, even if you prefer beef medium in the interior. We're going to have it with that nice, gray French salt. Perhaps a bit of garlic butter. IMO, the strip steak is the best tasting cut, and I can hardly believe it was that cheap ($2.98/#!!) Happy, happy.
On Thu 02 Mar 2006 10:32:29p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Food Snob?
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I got a great deal on a 6-1/2# striploin today. I'm going to slice it into 2" thick steaks, apply freshly cracked Tellicherry pepper, and cook it over a fire of well-seasoned hickory, seared on the outside, and blue rare in the middle. Thin sliced steak is just plain stupid, even if you prefer beef medium in the interior. We're going to have it with that nice, gray French salt. Perhaps a bit of garlic butter. IMO, the strip steak is the best tasting cut, and I can hardly believe it was that cheap ($2.98/#!!) Happy, happy.
--Bryan
I hope it's tender. The last time I bought steak at a sale price, it looked beautiful but was tough as leather. I don't take a chance on steak anymore, and pay full price at the butcher shop. It's guaranteed.
On Thu 02 Mar 2006 10:32:29p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Food Snob?
Quoted message said:
I got a great deal on a 6-1/2# striploin today. I'm going to slice it into 2" thick steaks, apply freshly cracked Tellicherry pepper, and cook it over a fire of well-seasoned hickory, seared on the outside, and blue rare in the middle. Thin sliced steak is just plain stupid, even if you prefer beef medium in the interior. We're going to have it with that nice, gray French salt. Perhaps a bit of garlic butter. IMO, the strip steak is the best tasting cut, and I can hardly believe it was that cheap ($2.98/#!!) Happy, happy.
--Bryan
I hope it's tender. The last time I bought steak at a sale price, it looked beautiful but was tough as leather. I don't take a chance on steak anymore, and pay full price at the butcher shop. It's guaranteed.
I agree, Wayne. Great looking steak is usually tough as nails. It absolutely *must* have some fat on it in order to be tender and taste good. And some of the best steak I've ever had was thin cut "breakfast" steak.
I got a great deal on a 6-1/2# striploin today. I'm going to slice it into 2" thick steaks, apply freshly cracked Tellicherry pepper, and cook it over a fire of well-seasoned hickory, seared on the outside, and blue rare in the middle. Thin sliced steak is just plain stupid, even if you prefer beef medium in the interior. We're going to have it with that nice, gray French salt. Perhaps a bit of garlic butter. IMO, the strip steak is the best tasting cut, and I can hardly believe it was that cheap ($2.98/#!!)
I have a very ugly suspicion that you might have gotten some select-grade meat at that price. If not, you're very fortunate.