entremet
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I would say it doesn't need it. It's a nice complement for that cut.
I never order filet, though. I always get the fattier cuts.
Usually béarnaise is served on the side as well. It never tops a filet.
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True or False? A steak that needs steak sauce isnt a good steak.
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I would say it doesn't need it. It's a nice complement for that cut.
I never order filet, though. I always get the fattier cuts.
Usually béarnaise is served on the side as well. It never tops a filet.
A steak that needs steak sauce isn't too good. That doesn't mean that cause you prefer steak sauce on a steak makes it bad. I mean I always prefer A1 with my steak (and yes i know some people consider that blasphemy). But, I can eat a decent to good steak without it (If I have to. I do have one friend that she will get insulted but she's also really good with steak so it balances out). But if I have to have it to enjoy the steak, it wasn't too good of a steak.
ElectricBlanketFire
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I like mine medium rare with just olive oil, salt, pepper and a pat of butter, but eat what you like. Who the fuck cares?
EDIT: Sometimes I'll put some caramelized onions up there.
EDIT: Sometimes I'll put some caramelized onions up there.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
I like my steak where I have to bite it off the cow while it's still living.
Steak with sauce is not sacrilege because the French have done it forever.
Steak bernaise, steak au poivre, in America steak diane.
But A1 steaksauce is shitty sauce.
My stance is if you want to mask the flavor of expensive steak with sauce fine thats your discretion but don't use inferior sauces to pair with a great steak (ketchup, A1, ranch etc.)
Steak bernaise, steak au poivre, in America steak diane.
But A1 steaksauce is shitty sauce.
My stance is if you want to mask the flavor of expensive steak with sauce fine thats your discretion but don't use inferior sauces to pair with a great steak (ketchup, A1, ranch etc.)
John Kowalski
Banned
oh my god
Wat?
Tenderloin has no bones. Do some restaurants actually sell a filet with a tiny piece of vertebrae still attached and act like it is adding something?
Not through the meat, but it's absolutely attached to a bone and can be served that way. A T-bone has a part of the tenderloin attached to the bone.
The filet is one half of the tbone. A bone-in filet would be a tbone with the strip steak removed.
Escape Goat
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'attached' is a very loose definition in this case i think. You can basically almost pull the tenderloin off with your bare hands, and that is the whole reason people like the tenderloin, no pesky connective tissue. It seems completely ludicrous to me that a steakhouse would advertise a bone in filet. All you are doing by that is complicating the butchery.
Of course really i'd just take the porterhouse and be done with it, but that's a whole other topic. Also ribeye > *
zeopower6
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I don't think your example fits.... Like... at all, lol.
NoblesseOblige
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A steak that needs steak sauce isn't a good steak. Because if it were a good steak then it could stand on its own.
But that doesn't mean a steak with steak sauce is a bad steak. It could very well be a good steak without the sauce.
But that doesn't mean a steak with steak sauce is a bad steak. It could very well be a good steak without the sauce.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Uh... a pizza is literally about the toppings. A steak is... a steak.
Worst analogy ever?
It's also not accurate, because simple pizzas are 1000x better than pizzas overloaded with toppings. A well done Margherita is one of the best food experiences you can have on this planet, and you can't get much simpler than that while remaining pizza.
Once you get above two toppings on a pizza it is effectively impossible to cook it properly, everything is a range of undercooked to burnt to a crisp.
This reminds me of something I heard years ago:
A band is only as good as its drummer
A pizza is only as good as its crust.
I like that, though there are exceptions to it.
brainchild
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Rock Hardy
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Meh. Not sure. The steaks that don't need sauce were just seasoned properly. But a steak is more than just it's flavor IMO. The texture is really important to me too. So how it's cooked matters a lot to me. I will say the best steak I had was add a Brazilian steakhouse, and it didn't need a damn thing added to it other than a fork. Do juicy and so delicious. Those Brazilians have the steak game mastered.
GeneralHerpes
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Two great tastes that taste great together.
Endorphineforeverybody
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Jup steak, with blood is enough, good pepper some salt, love it, maybe some beef marrow on top.
But it's a British import.
highrider
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The rare occasions I have steak it's a good one so I'm not using any steak sauce, although our family usually has beef tenderloin at Christmas and my mom makes a horseradish sauce for that which is really good.
I kind of think of steak sauce as being more for average a lower quality meat, but I don't know anyone these days that eats steak regularly. It's like a few times a year and something you treat yourself on so it's the best cuts or at a fancy restaurant.
I kind of think of steak sauce as being more for average a lower quality meat, but I don't know anyone these days that eats steak regularly. It's like a few times a year and something you treat yourself on so it's the best cuts or at a fancy restaurant.
GeordieMark
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I'm partial to steak with and without sauce, but whenever I have a particularly nice or expensive cut, I prefer to enjoy it plain.
Brown sauce is the import, but it's not used for steak in Britain. When it got to America, it became steak sauce.
The analogy was bad but this is not true at all. A good pizza place is good because their dough, sauce and cheese are good. Putting high quality ingredients on garbage is a waste.
backflip10019
Member
It's true. Though there's nothing wrong with dressing up a bad steak with A1. Better than eating something that doesn't taste great.
no, you think of ketchup
styl3s
Member
And i smother my $30-40 filet with it because it's delicious.
entremet
Member
ok
Mr. Giggles
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styl3s
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To steak snobs it isn't subjective sadly.
I don't care if you eat your steak well done with mustard long as you are enjoying it.
For what? Added flavor? Lol, that's exactly why some use sauces. Most steaks you get at restaurants are seasoned, so the steak flavor has already been added to. Sometimes I eat high quality steaks with sauce, sometimes I don't. Depends what mood I'm in.
Now, I will cock an eyebrow at those that ask for steaks well done.
Theonik
Member
Fry the steak with olive oil, garlic, thyme, then after it is seared, add butter and baste as you flip every minute or two. So fucking good.
Yogi Bear got punched in the face by a french chef for putting ketchup on a steak.
AngryNapkin
Banned
Cooked bacon chopped
Chopped mushrooms
Chopped onions
Some garlic *to taste
Red wine 1/2
Beef broth 1/2
Salt, pepper and a dash of Montreal steak seasoning
Reduce everything while mixed in a pot.
That's some fine steak topping right there boys!
Chopped mushrooms
Chopped onions
Some garlic *to taste
Red wine 1/2
Beef broth 1/2
Salt, pepper and a dash of Montreal steak seasoning
Reduce everything while mixed in a pot.
That's some fine steak topping right there boys!
Wandering Soul
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I'm no meat expert, but 99.9% of the time I make a good piece of meat (usually a ribeye is my go-to), it just gets some nice salt and pepper with it. 0.1% of the time I might put a tiny little portion of A1 on my plate and dip a couple pieces in just for a quick change of pace, sometimes the fattiness of just the steak gets a little overwhelming to me so that's why I'll have a piece with a little sauce occasionally.
As for ketchup on steak... I don't what the fuck is up with that. Can already eat ketchup on 900 different cheap ass foods, why ruin a steak with it. Sounds absolutely disgusting and like it would completely mask the flavor of the steak as well. To each his own I guess.
As for ketchup on steak... I don't what the fuck is up with that. Can already eat ketchup on 900 different cheap ass foods, why ruin a steak with it. Sounds absolutely disgusting and like it would completely mask the flavor of the steak as well. To each his own I guess.
AuthenticM
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If the steak needs the sauce, then yes, it's a bad steak. But simply putting sauce on a steak does not ruin it. My steaks are delicious on their own and have won plenty of ladies' heart, but they are even better with that one sauce I like to buy.
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