Fifey
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Kind bars are amazing, blueberry vanilla ones ate the best but I like dehydrated dog turds.
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Harshaw
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My brother and I both died a little bit inside the day our Dad told us that when he cooked steaks, he knew they were done when they stopped glistening. We haven't let him cook one at family gatherings since then.
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I had the exact opposite experience. My dad cooked all steak medium rare for us kids and started allowing us to try his rare steaks when we hit middle school. I was off the condiments-on-grilled-meat train by 8th grade. Even in college my friends would try and entice my father to make the 30 minute drive from Edmond to Norman so that he could cook the steaks.
Jysin
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Definitely generational influence. My parents, born in the 50s, also made sure there was no pink on any meat or else it was considered "raw".
My mom does have some great meals that I love to enjoy when I visit. Unfortunately, she still thinks that her roast beef dinner is one of those highlights. Entire thing is a weird greyish color all the way through. As kids, we would just drown it in A1 or whatever. She still thinks this is normal and I honestly do not have the heart to tell her I can't stand it anymore! Pretty sure my sister cooks the same way. Just me and my brother have modern meat cooking mindsets.
My mom does have some great meals that I love to enjoy when I visit. Unfortunately, she still thinks that her roast beef dinner is one of those highlights. Entire thing is a weird greyish color all the way through. As kids, we would just drown it in A1 or whatever. She still thinks this is normal and I honestly do not have the heart to tell her I can't stand it anymore! Pretty sure my sister cooks the same way. Just me and my brother have modern meat cooking mindsets.
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Old people that learned wrong can be converted though - it's taken a while but the mother in law after having my steaks a few times and insisting on me making them whenever an event happened involving us both has started taking my tips to heart and although mine are still better than hers, she's improved from the charcoal stage that used to make my wife think steaks were awful before she got used to properly made steaks. [seriously, it was like 3-4 years into our relationship before she let me make her a steak - then history was changed]
Xevy
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My father's roast beef used to be he same. After 60 year he now cooks it rare and it's at least twice as good.
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Depending on the roast you should cook it well done. Pot Roast is not steak. It's a totally different cut and shouldn't be treated like it. If you're cooking prime rib then by all means cook it rare, but if you're cooking a chuck roast or a round roast then you need to cook it low and slow and well done to break down the connective tissue and make it tender.
Gravy
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This. I cooked a butt roast this weekend low and slow and it was so damned good. I'm not familiar with the cut, but it was laced with tiny ribbons of fat. Made a great roast.
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Harshaw
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My grandparents and older side of the family are all from the Phillippines and they have a thing about everything being cooked well done. If there is even a little pink they will throw it back in the pan or oven. I picked up that habit though with pork. When I see Chefs on cooking shows eating/cooking raw or under cooked pork I cringe and go eww.
In other news I had the Triple Bacon burger at Applebees. It was decent but the sauce was kinda meh. If I got it again I'd go without the sauce and some mustard, lettuce, tomato, and onion. Also someone at the table ordered the slider appetizer and damn I think that was better than the bacon burger.
In other news I had the Triple Bacon burger at Applebees. It was decent but the sauce was kinda meh. If I got it again I'd go without the sauce and some mustard, lettuce, tomato, and onion. Also someone at the table ordered the slider appetizer and damn I think that was better than the bacon burger.
Odd my parents were born late 50s/early 60s and they're the reason I eat my steaks near raw. Both of them prefer steaks which are bleeding heavily. Certainly influenced my taste. No clue about what my grandparents preferred, though.
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You're a man when you take turkey day away from your mom/dad (my dads the cook), took a few years but he relented and let me do the turkey a few years back.
He freaked out the day b4 when i was brine'in it, then when i said it'd only take maybe 2.5 hours to cook a 20lb turkey, he though i was gonna poison the whole family. ( use 2 different probs one in breast, one in leg 165 and 180)
Been doing it ever since when i visit home.
He freaked out the day b4 when i was brine'in it, then when i said it'd only take maybe 2.5 hours to cook a 20lb turkey, he though i was gonna poison the whole family. ( use 2 different probs one in breast, one in leg 165 and 180)
Been doing it ever since when i visit home.
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My mom is 65 and has always ordered her steak "rare but warm", because typically if you order rare from an Applebees-level restaurant the cook doesn't know how to do it right and it comes out cold. She learned it from her dad (who would be about 100 now if he were alive), because her mom cooked the shit out of everything but he refused to let their steaks be treated that way. I don't know how many times she's sent it back over the years, but enough where you'd think she'd just stop ordering it, or have moved up to medium rare. I didn't have the heart to show her the movie "Waiting."
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I can't even cook steaks for my mother in law. She likes them "burnt", her words not mine. It's really difficult to cook a burnt steak because every fiber of my being tells me I am ruining it.
My aunt is the same way, she tells me to make a "hockey puck" when I cook a burger. I don't know how they do it.
My aunt is the same way, she tells me to make a "hockey puck" when I cook a burger. I don't know how they do it.
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These are the kind of people you serve hotdogs to, instead of steak. If you're paying for the steaks, anyway.
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