Mmm. Meat!
Steve is talking food again.
Now, I loves me a good steak. I prefer one that has some serious texture, but I have to be careful what wiht the surgery. So tender helps me digest better. But: other than gristle, the tenderest a piece of meat is, is when it is raw.
No, I’m not suggesting you go out and eat raw meat. In fact, it’s a pretty good way to get some nasty intestinal parasites, if you’re not careful.
But I have a butcher I trust. And he’s good. SO once in a while I stop by and he gets me nice big rib-eyes, or filets. Depending on the source, they’re pretty good. So I stop by the butcher shop- this is, six, eight years ago, now, and get myself a hunk of real prime.
And damned near got myself arrested.
See, I was hungry. ANd when it came right down to it, I wasn’t going to cook this thing a whole lot, and I figured, if I’m barely going to introduce this meat to the flame, why bother at all? SO I’m in the parking lot next to Jewel, chowing down, and a cop pulls up.
“Sir, you wantto step out oif the car?”
So I get out, still holding my lunch.
“You want to drop that meat?”
“I’ll put it down on this plastic. I just paid eight bucks for it”
Apparently there had been some complaint by someone who saw me gnawing on a three pound hunk of raw beef in the car, and he felt as if it had to come to an end. After some discussion I agreed to leave and eat my lunch away from prying eyes, and wipe the blood off my shirt and face.
People are such busybodies. I mean if a guy wants to chew on a big hunk of raw meat, what’s the problem?
Yep, I don’t see an issue with it. When you’re hungry, you’re hungry.
Hell, I’ve eaten raw deer tenderloin before. I was hungry, the doe was still steaming and the wood was wet. If it didn’t kill Uncle Thag it ain’t gonna kill me. Little bit of salt and pepper and you’re good to go.
Only you, og. Only you…
Jay G, that’s known as “Steak Tartar” to epicures. Goes VERY well with Johnnie Walker Black.
I’d say that chewing on raw meat in public is a right protected by the First Amendment.
The cops should have had the sense to tell the idiot busybody to go to hell.
Nah nah nah Og, you’ve got it all wrong. The ternderest time is just when the collagen starts to denature.
That just happens to be right on the line between rare and medium rare.
It’s the perfect balance of texture, mouthfeel, ideal resistance to chewing (not too much, not too little) and the blood has cooked jsut enough to be a real sauce.
Yummy.
Raw meet is just a bit too chewy… now when it’s still around 100 degrees; that’s a different story.
depends on the cut. and room temp- at the time- was 96.