What's for dinner? Here's mine...

[Stewie]

A black bean and chorizo soup with focaccia to dip. Lots of great ingredients in the soup and a fresh-baked focaccia to slice and dip. The chorizo is soy and really spicy.

What you got?

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

Makes the meat shrink and it's suggested by many bbq experts not to sear steaks. You watch Alton Browns video? He's a genius.

If it's the Good Eat eps where he debunks searing sealing in juices, then I've seen it. And he's not actually suggesting you don't sear. He's simply proving that the act of searing doesn't seal in juices and in fact causes more moisture loss than not searing.

But again, searing isn't for moisture retention or anything else besides flavor and maybe texture.

If you don't want to sear, that's a little weird but whatever. Every chef in the world, AB included, sears their steaks because it means a better steak.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

According to Alton Brown searing a steak does not seal in juices.


http://www.foodnetwork.com/videos/to...ear-98517.html

OK, so yes, we're talking about the same thing.

Go here for the full episode: http://www.ulive.com/video/myth-smashers

At 5:10 picks up where the video link you posted stops, where they go on to say searing may not sear in juices, but it does produce flavor.

Here's another quote from a food myths segment on searing, which touches on the Maillard reaction I mentioned in a previous post.

http://lifehacker.com/5847591/10-stu...-just-wont-die

In reality, the best thing about searing meat is that when applied to high heat, the surface of the meat undergoes the Maillard Reaction, which results in some delicious browning on the surface of the meat. At the end of the day, you should definitely sear your steaks—not because it "locks in juices," but because it's tasty.

If you're familiar with Good Eats, then you're familiar with the "fact cards" between segments. This is the one that immediately follows your posted video:

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by lewdog

You're more fun when you are drunk than posting about food.

Friday we gonna do this. I bought a bottle of The Kraken.

[srvy]

Last nights dinner leftovers from wives party at Thai friends.

The bottom was Pad Kee Mao Chicken very delicous with just the right kick. I told my wife she need to get recipe and make that mess more often.

The top not so much simply to hot and spicy to me. Called Paan spicy betel nuts its like a delicacy in asian countries known for staining teeth if chewed a lot. I wont have this problem! Its almost like a stimulant like tobacco. one bite first and last!

I wanted me some that crab I posted earlier but so did everyone at the party.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by srvy

Last nights dinner leftovers from wives party at Thai friends.

The bottom was Pad Kee Mao Chicken very delicous with just the right kick. I told my wife she need to get recipe and make that mess more often.

The top not so much simply to hot and spicy to me. Called Paan spicy betel nuts its like a delicacy in asian countries known for staining teeth if chewed a lot. I wont have this problem! Its almost like a stimulant like tobacco. one bite first and last!

I wanted me some that crab I posted earlier but so did everyone at the party.

Does you wife make Larb. My old neighborhood had a restaurant that made a Beef Larb that I miss dearly. Sliced flank steak like fajita, seared in a thin sauce so spicy my hair would sweat, ground rice, and whole Thai chiles you could chew if you wanted to go into spice hyperdrive.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Does you wife make Larb. My old neighborhood had a restaurant that made a Beef Larb that I miss dearly. Sliced flank steak like fajita, seared in a thin sauce so spicy my hair would sweat, ground rice, and whole Thai chiles you could chew if you wanted to go into spice hyperdrive.

She has not cooked it but she said she has eaten it in Thailand. Its a Laotian dish and there is large population of Laotians in Thailand.

She said go to Viet restaurant you will find your Larb. It hotter than Thai foods Veit and Lao. Some Thai restaurants you may find it if the have some Loa in them depends on part of Thailand they are from.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by srvy

Last nights dinner leftovers from wives party at Thai friends.

The bottom was Pad Kee Mao Chicken very delicous with just the right kick. I told my wife she need to get recipe and make that mess more often.

The top not so much simply to hot and spicy to me. Called Paan spicy betel nuts its like a delicacy in asian countries known for staining teeth if chewed a lot. I wont have this problem! Its almost like a stimulant like tobacco. one bite first and last!

I wanted me some that crab I posted earlier but so did everyone at the party.

I wanted to add if your in Thai Restaurant the bottom dish pictured would be called Drunken Noodles. They got the name for Thai out late at niteclubs drinking. They eat that to cure the hangover . So she says.

[Stewie]

Strip Steak
Baked Potato
Fresh corn on the cob
Salad

[Fire Me Boy!]

Porterhouses, seasoned appropriately (salted yesterday, fresh cracked black pepper, and granulated garlic).

[Fire Me Boy!]

Cooked.

[In58men]

Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball!

Cooked.

Doesn't have that steak color, at a glance it looks like a pork chop. Perfect grill marks, always a nice touch with butter. How was it prepared? Well done? Medium?

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

Doesn't have that steak color, at a glance it looks like a pork chop. Perfect grill marks, always a nice touch with butter. How was it prepared? Well done? Medium?

The color is bad fluorescent lighting. And I overcooked it. Medium mostly, with a touch of med rare next to the bone and some med well right at the tip of the strip. Overall, pretty disappointed.

It cooked faster than I anticipated (and I cook porterhouse maybe once a year).

Gimme a ribeye any day. I can't even remember the last time I screwed up a ribeye.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

Alton Brown's homosexuality will likely come as a big shock to his wife and daughter.

Really?! I just assumed he was gay. Really comes off like that. Not that I care. I watch him and read his recipes quite a bit. He knows his shit.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball!

Cooked.

Originally Posted by Fried Meat Ball!

The color is bad fluorescent lighting. And I overcooked it. Medium mostly, with a touch of med rare next to the bone and some med well right at the tip of the strip. Overall, pretty disappointed.

It cooked faster than I anticipated (and I cook porterhouse maybe once a year).

Gimme a ribeye any day. I can't even remember the last time I screwed up a ribeye.

It hurts my heart to do this, but;



Like inmem, fleas be upon him and hell-no-ed be his name, I exclaimed 'that's a pork chop!!'

A cow DIED for that, man!!

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

It hurts my heart to do this, but;



Like inmem, fleas be upon him and hell-no-ed be his name, I exclaimed 'that's a pork chop!!'

We all screw up sometimes. Even the best restaurants over cook a steak every now and then. I still posted, willing to accept my beatings.