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Actually, the more I think about it, I have a theory about the steak. Sous vide takes HOURS. You can't go to a restaurant and order something sous vide unless it's precooked or you order at least a day in advance. I bet the restaurant just makes a bunch of steaks sous vide a head of time, and then warms it up when someone orders it, probably in a microwave. It would explain the gross color and unmelted butter.

It's worse than boiled steak, it's microwave steak.
 
Actually, the more I think about it, I have a theory about the steak. Sous vide takes HOURS. You can't go to a restaurant and order something sous vide unless it's precooked or you order at least a day in advance. I bet the restaurant just makes a bunch of steaks sous vide a head of time, and then warms it up when someone orders it, probably in a microwave. It would explain the gross color and unmelted butter.

It's worse than boiled steak, it's microwave steak.
That is how a lot of steakhouses do it, but they just have a couple of baths at different temps and they leave them in there. When you order your steak they pull it out and slap a sear on it then ship it out to you. They typically don't have a 'well done' bath so that's why they warn that those take longer to cook, they're the only ones that actually have to cook
 
Actually, the more I think about it, I have a theory about the steak. Sous vide takes HOURS. You can't go to a restaurant and order something sous vide unless it's precooked or you order at least a day in advance. I bet the restaurant just makes a bunch of steaks sous vide a head of time, and then warms it up when someone orders it, probably in a microwave. It would explain the gross color and unmelted butter.

It's worse than boiled steak, it's microwave steak.
I think sous vide got it's start in restaurants iirc, the idea being to bring the projected steaks to temp and let them sit at that temp throughout the dinner rush, because it takes 30 minutes per half inch of steak to bring it to temp and since it is such a low temp sitting for an extra couple hours doesn't hurt any.
Sous vide is nice because it makes making a good steak super easy, but it's kinda like doing 0-60 in 3 seconds in tesla it's just not the same (imo)
 
Actually, the more I think about it, I have a theory about the steak. Sous vide takes HOURS. You can't go to a restaurant and order something sous vide unless it's precooked or you order at least a day in advance.
Actually a lot of steakhouses do sous vide and just keep it at temperature until needed. If you get really fast turnaround and it's actually good, that's often what it is. Some cuts you can even keep at temp for literal days (although if you do it TOO long it turns to mush).

So they don't need to reheat them (which kind of ruins the point) but just do some kind of prediction as to how many they need on any specific day, start them early, and sear as needed. And if they run out, they can just do a normal skillet/reverse sear/whatever.

I recently did burritos with cheap grocery store stew meat at low temperature for two days and they were delicious. Five meals or so with $5 of meat and stuff I already had.
Sous vide is nice because it makes making a good steak super easy, but it's kinda like doing 0-60 in 3 seconds in tesla it's just not the same (imo)
I like the exactness of it. I got sick of it always being just slightly wrong in one direction or the other. Yeah it won't kill you to eat a medium or a rare steak when you wanted exactly medium-rare but it's not as satisfying as it being EXACTLY the way I wanted it. Yeah, Guga is right that sous vide people are kind of autistic.
What a typical LA mindset, my steak must be good because it was expensive. Most LA types I know don't even care about the taste of the food the eat.
I'd say standard white trash wigger shit, but Maddax is a beaner.
Thesis: Cheese
Antithesis: Steak
Synthesis: Philly Cheesesteak
Excellent. Very Hegelian.
They typically don't have a 'well done' bath so that's why they warn that those take longer to cook, they're the only ones that actually have to cook
I actually think this is still probably the best way to cook well done, if someone insists on that. It eliminates two of the worst features of well done, which is that cooking that long at that high of a temperature dries the meat out and makes it tough. I did this to a ribeye (not for myself) and despite being well done and grey all the way through, it was still tender and moist.

So I would not personally do this for something I planned to eat, but if someone INSISTS on it, it turns out better than other methods. I try not to judge people for how they want their steak, as hard as it is not to, but hey, it's their steak, if I'm cooking for someone else, I will damn well do it how they want it, as much as it makes a part of my soul die.
 
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The London police purposefully rammed into and then ran over a cow with their truck. If there's a UK segment on Tuesday, I hope this can be additional evidence that Britain needs to sink below the waves.


Initial reports are that the police responded after the cow tweeted that men shouldn't be using bathrooms with little girls.
 
The London police purposefully rammed into and then ran over a cow with their truck. If there's a UK segment on Tuesday, I hope this can be additional evidence that Britain needs to sink below the waves.


Initial reports are that the police responded after the cow tweeted that men shouldn't be using bathrooms with little girls.
What the hell? What kinda absolute dipshit rams into a fuckin cow? It's a cow, it's not gonna hurt anyone.
 
The London police purposefully rammed into and then ran over a cow with their truck. If there's a UK segment on Tuesday, I hope this can be additional evidence that Britain needs to sink below the waves.


Initial reports are that the police responded after the cow tweeted that men shouldn't be using bathrooms with little girls.
Knowing bongland theres probably some ancient law from 1100 about cows impeding traveling and how they will get their shit pushed in.

Still, don’t fucking hit a big animal like that, it’s fucking bad news.
 
Of all the dumbfuck ignorant takes so far this has to be the worst. First, the plastic isn't that shit cheap microwave meals come in, it's BPA-free polyethylene. It does not break down at 135 or any temperature you'd ever sous vide at.
Ignorant? They didn't even know BPA was bad until like 2005 when a bunch of parents got scared it was in every water bottle, I am sure there is some other chemicals leaching into that nice cut of meat. "Don't worry we used the not poison (bpa free) plastic this time." I am glad you have verified in your home lab that there are no plasticizers getting into your steak, and that the plastic isn't breaking down. Have you checked your testosterone levels recently?
 
I know Josh was looking in to replacing youtube with radio.

It may have been suggested already, but he try streaming stations on RadioGarden. Yes, there are ads, but its not egregiously bad like in youtube. Or he can try the UtwenteSDR for AM and Shortwave listening, but thats mostly for EU listening and it's kinda boring.
To add to this, Phone Losers of America use (or used to use, don't know if they still do) Mixlr to broadcast their streams. I personally haven't used it (either as a listener or a broadcaster) or any other kind of audio streaming service since shoutcast based stations were big in the 00s, but the prices seem reasonable.
 
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