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re: My Microwaved Steak Experiment
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:12 am to Tigercat
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:12 am to Tigercat
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Cooking is like screwing, if you don't try new things and you start worrying about what should never be done on principle, you're missing out.
Yeah, NO it's not like screwing, unless you're a member of NAMBLA and just want to try new things out.
NO, cooking is like cooking, and there are restrictions based upon many factors. Using a sound foundation of technique and principle is what makes a dish have value that can then be built upon to create. Get the foundation right, and then you can start working with different flavor combinations to "try new things," but everything of worth is rooted in traditional cooking techniques passed down for hundreds and thousands of years. Nuking a steak is not the same as molecular gastronomy or sous-vide which are ways of simply incorporating flavors into foods and creating texture and the like. Microwaving a steak is more like a science experiment gone horribly wrong, and I'd say stems more from cooking ignorance and a generation that grew up on mom popping prepackaged shite in the microwave when she got home to feed the fam out of convenience or pushed for time than anything relating to substance or a flavor that brings something new and unique and tasty to the table.
I can just see us in a hundred years or so with this mentality. "Hey Boudreaux, how do you do your red beans so good man." "Oh me cher, I dunned it like a good cajun supposed to do da red beans. I put the Zatarain's in da microwave yeah."
I sure hope something stops this train before it wrecks. 
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Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:37 am to Mike da Tigah
ya'll still talking about microwaving steaks?? 
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:42 am to trillhog
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ya'll still talking about microwaving steaks??
No, I think it's now gone to sex. Know how I know it's an OT perspective?
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:47 am to Mike da Tigah
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No, I think it's now gone to sex. Know how I know it's an OT perspective?
well in that case microwave it so i'm done faster and i can go to sleep
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:54 am to Mike da Tigah
The only thing that I condone microwaving over the traditional method is for making a roux. I promise you I can make just as good of a roux in the microwave or oven as most people can having to sit and stir forever on a stove.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:54 am to trillhog
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well in that case microwave it so i'm done faster and i can go to sleep
Crock Pot says
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:58 am to Hat Tricks
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The only thing that I condone microwaving over the traditional method is for making a roux. I promise you I can make just as good of a roux in the microwave or oven as most people can having to sit and stir forever on a stove.
I don't do mine on the stove. I do it in the oven, and every fifteen minutes for the next 45-1hr I hit it with a whisk, close the door back, and that's about the extent of my labor.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 8:53 am to TorNation
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I actually tried it tonight, not gonna say it was good or bad but different. I used a 13 oz ribeye about 1 in thick. Cooked for 1 min in microwave then 2 and 2 and it was past medium. I've cooked them on the pit and also the stove/oven method and I must say I would do either of these methods over the microwave.
You didn't ultra-permeate it with boiling water first, that's why it wasn't that good.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 10:29 am to LSUPHILLY72
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I challenge someone to spend the $10 and report your findings...like the scientific method
I'll give it a try this week! Looks good to me
Posted on 7/10/12 at 10:38 am to LSUPHILLY72
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24 hours in Dales and u are good to go.
Was this a joke?
Thats worse than using a microwave and I like Dales. 24 hours would produce a salt lick. I dont advocate anymore than 20 min.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 11:20 am to Mike da Tigah
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Yeah, NO it's not like screwing, unless you're a member of NAMBLA and just want to try new things out.
Ha, OK, with an addendum. Don't go breaking any (serious) laws in the kitchen or the bedroom.
A microwave is just a tool. A limited sometimes crappy tool, yes. But I am not going to assume that you can't use it with a light brush stroke to make something good.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 6:40 pm to Tigercat
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A microwave is just a tool. A limited sometimes crappy tool, yes. But I am not going to assume that you can't use it with a light brush stroke to make something good.
Yeah, mine is sirca 1984 and a part of a kitchen I'm dragging kicking and screaming from Growing Pains and Doogie Howzer era to present. At present it serves as a coffee warmer but with my two cup coffee press it doesn't see much action anymore. Perhaps I'll donate it to the Smithsonian under bad ideas for cooking steaks in 2012. Maybe it gets a chuckle or two in future generations.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 6:47 pm to Tigercat
sorry, double post
This post was edited on 7/10/12 at 6:50 pm
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:17 pm to Mike da Tigah
Crocs with Socs, what are you smoking?
You really believe top chefs are using a microwave? Are you trying to refer to sous vide way of cooking and you think it's a microwave?
You really believe top chefs are using a microwave? Are you trying to refer to sous vide way of cooking and you think it's a microwave?
Posted on 7/10/12 at 9:05 pm to Hat Tricks
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The only thing that I condone microwaving over the traditional method is for making a roux. I promise you I can make just as good of a roux in the microwave or oven as most people can having to sit and stir forever on a stove.
And reheating rice.. Nothings better..
And I will admit many years ago when I was young, dumb and mostly drunk I microwaved a steak or two.
I will admit it can be pretty damn good. Not the best by far. But a word of advice, overcook it by 20 seconds and its leather.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 9:35 pm to LSUPHILLY72
Nice
Posted on 7/10/12 at 9:35 pm to LSUPHILLY72
Nice
Posted on 7/10/12 at 9:37 pm to Kajungee
thats it i am microwaving a steak next week
Posted on 7/10/12 at 9:38 pm to tracytiger
Ferran Adria makes a mean sponge cake in the microwave
Posted on 7/11/12 at 12:24 pm to Caplewood
This is a honest question: how do you make roux in the microwave?
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