How do you like your steak?

[mgm9128]

I define someone with a good palate as being adventurous to try anything and everything, and then judge whether they like something or not. Most Americans, I feel, have preconceived ideas of what something will taste like, either because they have never tried it, or when they did have it, it wasn't prepared properly; I use Brussels sprouts as a salient example.

 

[gomestar]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Can somebody define what we mean by a good or bad palate?

I've usually understood it as those who can easily pick up on the nusances in the composition of a dish. Maybe I'm thinking of 'sharp' palate or something. In my uneducated mind, I tend to expand on that to include those with discerning taste and an understanding and appreciation of great food or ingredients.

 

[the shah]

please expand on brussels sprouts. i have very fond memories

 

[gomestar]

Originally Posted by mgm9128

I define someone with a good palate as being adventurous to try anything and everything

I just call this adventurous.

 

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by gomestar

I just call this adventurous.
+1. What the **** does trying new foods have to do with being able to discern whether that food is quality?

 

[mgm9128]

Originally Posted by shahanshah

please expand on brussels sprouts. i have very fond memories
Well, I do know that most people are adverse to them, as was my mother. But only because when she had them in the past, they weren't prepared in a very appetizing way. I got her hooked on them after making some with wild mushrooms and a cream sauce last Fall. I think more people would eat more things if they knew how to cook them right.

 

[pebblegrain]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Good= likes the food that i like
Bad = hates the **** I hate

what people actually mean by "good palate"

 

[Bruinsfan]

Brussels sprout sauce with a medium rare stake perhaps?

 

[scientific]

has anyone else noticed it's increasingly hard to get a steak cooked medium rare properly these days? there's an absurdly popular hipster steakhouse in arlington, va that couldn't manage this simple task despite it being their specialty.

 

[HORNS]

Any steak that is cooked over rare tends to upset my stomach to where I get cramps and ultimately the squirts later on.

 

[pebblegrain]

Originally Posted by scientific

has anyone else noticed it's increasingly hard to get a steak cooked medium rare properly these days? there's an absurdly popular hipster steakhouse in arlington, va that couldn't manage this simple task despite it being their specialty.

Ray's? I don't remember the last time a steakhouse messed up a medium rare, though I have never been to Ray's. How did they mess it up?

 

[scientific]

too rare, then too well if i remember correctly. they actually have a disclaimer saying "oh btw we don't know how to cook steaks" or some such equivalent. i mean if it's what you do, figure out how to ********** it

 

[robbie]

Growing up my mother was so afraid of food borne illness she insisted I ate all steak Well-Done leaning towards Charcoal.

I like dull pink. I always order them that way because Medium seems to be BRIGHT red, and Medium Well is always too grey.

 

[kwiteaboy]

Originally Posted by scientific

too rare, then too well if i remember correctly. they actually have a disclaimer saying "oh btw we don't know how to cook steaks" or some such equivalent. i mean if it's what you do, figure out how to ********** it

Weird, I ate there last weekend and had my steak medium rare and it was perfect. My wife's medium well -/) was overcooked, though.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by kwiteaboy

Weird, I ate there last weekend and had my steak medium rare and it was perfect. My wife's medium well -/) was overcooked, though.

That's b/c anytime someone orders medium well the cook automatically assumes that the person doesn't give a **** and they cook it to hell.