Forgot to post my worst steak, definatley from Applebees. Absolutley horrible it was actually green!

best: I’m a steak fan, but not overly selective, so primacy takes the rule…just last week I had a nice filet with my girl after a longgggg weekend with family. Just us, perfectly medium steak from a restaurant…delish.

worst: sometimes my dad gets too busy hitting golf balls around the yard and forgets to check the steaks. Charred blocks with crumbly t-bones in them make me cringe, but have happened a couple times in the past few years.

QOTD: Worst steak I ever had was in Nova Scotia, at the Grand Hotel. Thing was Flat gray in color and utterly tasteless, It looked like it was boiled. I believe it was a sirloin

Best Steak I ever had was a ribeye from Saltgrass in Irving Texas, was just cooked perfectly and not over seasoned.. quite amazing.

Best Steak: The 14oz NY from McLintocks in Shell Beach.
Worst Steak: A broiled slab of London Broil I got on sale…sad

QOTD: Best steak: Peter Luger with Sue and Uncle Sy. Luger is sorta like that joke “How is sex like pizza? When it’s great, it’s amazing, and even when it’s not great it’s still pretty good.” So we had a 3:45 rezzy at the Luger in Williamsburg. That’s right, 3:45. Uncle Sy is in his 80s. Can u say early bird special? Well, anyhow, we had a table right across from the kitchen and ordered the steak for two for the three of us. It was an absolutely religious experience. The char, the tenderness and flavor of the meat — absolutely incredible.

Worst steak: I love my mom, BUT… When I was a kid she made steak “Bronx kosher-style.” That is, burnt to a crisp in a wimpy broiler so the texture was something like shoe leather and then doused with ketchup to hide the lack of flavor. Hmmm, too bad mom wasn’t a wine drinker. It would have been nice to have something to wash away the agony that she called a steak dinner. Sorry mom.

Best Steak:

Prime Rib from Morton’s Steakhouse or Bone-In Ribeye from Del Frisco’s

Worst Steak:

Anything I cooked on my skillet in college yet still finished.

QOTD:
Best Steak (hands down) – Prime Rib from Wobbly Barn Steak House in Killington VT
Worst Steak (hands down) – Any steak at Outback Steak House!! They suck!

QOTD: I’m not a big steak eater in fancy restaurants, and while I’ve had some pretty good steaks when eating out, nothing really rocked my world. So for the best and worst, I’m going to have to with:

The worst: a steak my dad made when I was little. Burnt, tough, dry. I ate it though.
The Best: a steak my dad made a few years ago. He got better.

On a tangent, I recently had a tuna steak that fooled me into thinking I was eating an extremely rare, extremely tender beefsteak. It was one of the most perplexing meals I’ve had in recent times.

Best and worst steaks, eh? Hard to say. I haven’t had a really great steak in a long long time. No, I take that back, last weekend I had a fantastic steak at Grolla in Portland. Worst? The line is so long…it’ll have to be some tough piece of something that we cooked up on the grill on the back porch.

Best steak, Lomo de Res cooked on my friends family asado in El Pinar, Uruguay.

Worst steak, I have a friend who worked at Frigid Meats on the south side of Chicago (I think they supplied Ponderosa). He got a box of t-bones. Shoe leather.

Best steak, Lomo de Res cooked on my friends family asado in El Pinar, Uruguay.

Worst steak, I have a friend who worked at Frigid Meats on the south side of Chicago (I think they supplied Ponderosa). He got a box of t-bones. Shoe leather.

My mom brought me a box of shiraz from Australia about ten years ago that was the size of a kids juice box. It was nasty but I did think it was an interesting concept.

Best steak was a friends bachelor party. It was just the two of us and we each had a 26oz NY strip nice and rare, then we shared a 30oz kobe ribeye washed down with cheese and a 1985 Lynch Bages. All at home and all great. Worst was at one of the high end chain steakhouses. The meat was ok but it was such a disappointment. I asked for a medium rare strip. One end was almost raw and the other end was beyond well done. I don’t understand how you can screw up a steak like that at such a “nice” place.

QoTD

Best steak: Half of a grass-fed hanger steak bought from Prather Ranch at the SF Ferry Building, taken home and seared only up to being blue/sub-rare. Port and demi-glace reduction in the pan with shallots, steamed broccoli, mashed potatoes. I guess all the ingredients put together cost no more than $7 for the whole meal.

Worst: An Applebees industrial rib-eye steak somewhere around San Jose cooked well-done (against my instructions) and costing more than twice as much as my homemade hanger!

QoTD

Best steak: Half of a grass-fed hanger steak bought from Prather Ranch at the SF Ferry Building, taken home and seared only up to being blue/sub-rare. Port and demi-glace reduction in the pan with shallots, steamed broccoli, mashed potatoes. I guess all the ingredients put together cost no more than $7 for the whole meal.

Worst: An Applebees industrial rib-eye steak somewhere around San Jose cooked well-done (against my instructions) and costing more than twice as much as my homemade hanger!

Well, I am finally de-lurking. The Christmas pack sounds awesome, but alas, I live in Pennsylvania where my local state store has more varieties of vodka than Cabernet. But I’m not bitter .

QOTD: Best steak would probably be one I had recently at the Cock and Bull in Lahaska, PA. Just perfect, melt-in-your-mouth goodness.

Worst steak is tougher (no pun intended) as usually bad steak is still better that no steak!

QOTD: Tender juicy filet with crumbled blue cheese and a butter sauce was best. Worst was any number of well done (burnt, charred, etc) chewy steaks on my parent’s grill growing up!

QOTD: Tender juicy filet with crumbled blue cheese and a butter sauce was best. Worst was any number of well done (burnt, charred, etc) chewy steaks on my parent’s grill growing up!

QOTD: Not a big fan of a chunk of red meat…sorry! hehe!

Worst steak: Inlaws. Filet on the George Forman.
Best Steak: Smith and Wollenski’s Chicago.

Nice show, I’d like to find a good wine in a box. Why not?

Qotd:
Best: Porterhouse at Chicago Chop House
Worst: Jeez..its soo hard to choose, probably Applebee’s yuck

Love the steak at Misty’s, but the wine list left a little to be desired …

QOD: inch thick porterhouse with herbes de Provence on the grill, on the front porch, with an ’85 Krug cabernet that held up just beautifully. Good enough to evoke tears of joy, just about. Ain’t no steak like the one you don’t have to leave home for.

Worst? Who thought you could get a bad steak in IA, but when I was a kid I ordered a T-bone once in Le Mars that looked like it had been in a 350-degree oven for 5 minutes. Grey on the outside, raw on the inside. Feh!

Best Steak – Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa. The quality of top-tier steakhouses can be argued, but there is no place like Bern’s for the overall experience.

Worst Steak – A friend cooked steaks over charcoal, but the lighter fluid had not burned off when he put them on, and the top was on the grill the whole time. Also, they were well-done. It was like eating gritty gasoline drenched crap.

Best Steak: A ribeye at a steakhouse in Antigua Guatemala.
Honorable Mention: Filet Mignon at Joes, the Brontesauras Ribeyes we cooked up at Dave’s, and some ribeye steaks we had at a co-workers house when we were hosting the Mexican Beef Delegation…they made they own sauce from chilies they brought with them from Mexico.

Worst Steak: Any well done dine steak

Best Steak: A ribeye at a steakhouse in Antigua Guatemala.
Honorable Mention: Filet Mignon at Joes, the Brontesauras Ribeyes we cooked up at Dave’s, and some ribeye steaks we had at a co-workers house when we were hosting the Mexican Beef Delegation…they made they own sauce from chilies they brought with them from Mexico.

Worst Steak: Any well done dine steak

QOTD:
best, Peter Luger’s with “the bacon”
worst, local place called Murtha’s Steakhouse