This. If you like steak sauce then whatever, that's your preference I guess but you can't try and call it a good steak if you can't eat it without sauce.
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True or False? A steak that needs steak sauce isnt a good steak.
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This. If you like steak sauce then whatever, that's your preference I guess but you can't try and call it a good steak if you can't eat it without sauce.
zeopower6
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frankie_baby
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Peppercorn or bernaise are the sauces you want with steak, not some shitty HP sauce knockoff
I'm Asian. When I went to America I applied some A1 sauce without knowing what it was. God it tastes disgusting to me, so sour. I have no idea how you guys can even apply that sauce on a fine piece of meat that is steak.
Ketchup or mustard, maybe, but A1 and all the various steak sauces are so overpowering it doesn't even go with the steak. It just overpowers it.
Ketchup or mustard, maybe, but A1 and all the various steak sauces are so overpowering it doesn't even go with the steak. It just overpowers it.
A steak that NEEDS steak sauce is not a good steak.
However, that does not mean that steak sauce cannot improve a steak. I like the flavor of A-1 sauce, personally, but I only use it occasionally. If you like steak sauce, put on the steak sauce. A good steak shouldn't need it, but if you like it, you like it.
However, that does not mean that steak sauce cannot improve a steak. I like the flavor of A-1 sauce, personally, but I only use it occasionally. If you like steak sauce, put on the steak sauce. A good steak shouldn't need it, but if you like it, you like it.
Eighty Deuce
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Steak sauce is garbage, and cooking steak more than medium rare ruins the meat
JetBlackPanda
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Team NO sauce!!
I cooked a perfect New York for my cousin and the first thing he says is do you have A1?
I took the rest of his steak and ate it myself.
True story
I cooked a perfect New York for my cousin and the first thing he says is do you have A1?
I took the rest of his steak and ate it myself.
True story
CarpeDeezNutz
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At most I will put a little bit of A1 on the side, but most of the time I just eat my steak straight.
Jacksinthe
Banned
Only thing going on my steak is butter.
Good job at misconstruing my post guys, I wasn't saying steak and burgers were the same thing. But like a good burger not always requiring ketchup, a good steak shouldn't necessarily require steak sauce.
It's like saying a really good slice of bread being toasted doesn't always need butter, but I'm not comparing toasted bread to steak.
It's like saying a really good slice of bread being toasted doesn't always need butter, but I'm not comparing toasted bread to steak.
PdotMichael
Banned
I'm not a big fan of sauces.
Even good French fries don't need ketchup or mayo - though vinegar is not bad.
Even good French fries don't need ketchup or mayo - though vinegar is not bad.
NullPointer
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False.
the end result is all that matters. If a steak is prepared so that its fucking amazing with a paired sauce, my compliments to the chef.
Applying some random sauce to a steak prepared to stand on its own without even tasting it is pretty rude. Customer's always right when it comes to their taste buds though.
the end result is all that matters. If a steak is prepared so that its fucking amazing with a paired sauce, my compliments to the chef.
Applying some random sauce to a steak prepared to stand on its own without even tasting it is pretty rude. Customer's always right when it comes to their taste buds though.
Warm Machine
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Some cuts are better at medium as it allows the fat in the meat to better melt in. It is a really delicate balance though. Any more and you can really ruin it.
Shadax the wizard
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Imagine a steak that's looks kind of well done. You cut into it and look around the table for sauce. But damn it, you can't find any. What kind of restaurant is this anyways? Then you notice the juice flowing onto the the plate, it looks so damn juicy you figure 'fuck the sauce' and take a bite anyways. Your eyes dialate and you feel a wave of endorphins cruising through your body. At this point you question the universe. Where the fuck am I and what the fuck did I just put in my body? That's right, you just ate a piece of Wagyu beef you motherfucker.
way more
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No. That's like saying sushi doens't need wasabi. At some point your taste buds acclimate to the thing your eating and it needs a kick.
Does steak need butter compound?
Do burgers need pepperjack and green chili?
Some people like to treat food like it's a edible fedora. Like people who won't shut up about how they only drink black coffee.
Does steak need butter compound?
Do burgers need pepperjack and green chili?
Some people like to treat food like it's a edible fedora. Like people who won't shut up about how they only drink black coffee.
Escape Goat
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No. That's like saying sushi doens't need wasabi. At some point your taste buds acclimate to the thing your eating and it needs a kick.
Does steak need butter compound?
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Do burgers need pepperjack and green chili?
Some people like to treat food like it's a edible fedora. Like people who won't shut up about how they only drink black coffee.
Oh shit. Its coffee oclock.
Well, as a red meat expert, if you were looking for a flavorful steak then you made a mistake ordering filets. Filets are bland cuts that you should really only get if you care a lot about tenderness or you get freaked out by the idea of eating fat. It is really not uncommon to eat filets with some kind of sauce or topping to give it flavor, although a more snobbish consumer would go with a red wine sauce or Oscar style rather than A1.
If you want to get a steak with a strong natural flavor, then you should order either a Ribeye or a NY Strip, depending on your tastes for fattiness and texture.
This is the correct answer.
milanbaros
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Never heard of steak sauce but even fine pieces of steak go well with English mustard.
UltimaPooh
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I think this is true... it's probably not a good quality of steak or good cook of the steak if it needs sauce.
However if it ends up being a low quality steak and you use sauce there's nothing wrong with that.
I would say if you're spending above 30 dollars for 6 oz steak it shouldn't need sauce.
However if it ends up being a low quality steak and you use sauce there's nothing wrong with that.
I would say if you're spending above 30 dollars for 6 oz steak it shouldn't need sauce.
I wouldn't say any steak really needs steak sauce, though I guess some may prefer to replace the taste of the steak with the taste of the sauce, for whatever reason. I don't think those sauces are really complimentary to a steak in any way – they're very sweet, and acidic, and heavily-spiced and will overpower the more subtle beef flavours that are part of the pleasure of a good steak for most people.
That's not to say there aren't sauces that are good with a steak. A bearnaise, red wine sauce, mushroom sauce, herbed compound butter, etc. can be good, as those aren't generally as strongly-flavoured and can bolster the actual qualities of the beef (fat, umami) rather than overpowering it.
That's not to say there aren't sauces that are good with a steak. A bearnaise, red wine sauce, mushroom sauce, herbed compound butter, etc. can be good, as those aren't generally as strongly-flavoured and can bolster the actual qualities of the beef (fat, umami) rather than overpowering it.
John Kowalski
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butter on steak sounds like a shortcut to an early death
A happy, glorious death
MultiCore
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Does it count as Au Jus?
zeopower6
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It's often considered the best way to cook a steak in the culinary world*; in a cast iron pan, continuously ladling butter.
* at least that's what they say on a lot of cooking shows
Wolfe
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Yeah, pretty much this.
F0rneus
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I'm pretty sure that when the OP says "steak sauce" they're specifically referring to A1 and condiments in that vein, not any kind of sauce you might put on a steak.
old
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Why make a $45 steak taste like a $3 sauce?
A good steak is expensive. The flavor of a good steak is by definition expensive. It usually costs $20 plus for the chance to taste a good steak. Why pass that opportunity up to taste a sauce I can put on anything cheap?
If I want to taste A1 I'll put it on some chicken or pork or cheap steak.
A good steak is expensive. The flavor of a good steak is by definition expensive. It usually costs $20 plus for the chance to taste a good steak. Why pass that opportunity up to taste a sauce I can put on anything cheap?
If I want to taste A1 I'll put it on some chicken or pork or cheap steak.
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