Just fried some delicious cheap steaks!

My mistake for viewing through a phone - not enough resolution :)

Still, its prolly best to avoid brown sploges on cheap supermarket meat.
 
Nothing better than going into a butchers and telling him to cut you a £40 piece of Fillet Then sharing it equally with the Mrs







When I say equally I mean 70:30 She can have extra veg as I have to avoid at the moment
 
Frying steak can be nice, had some before which was as nice as some of my local butchers Sirlion, and as for that plate of food, apart from the peas looking funny, i dont see whats wrong with it, some horrible snobbery on here.
 
Merlin5 said:
Lot of expected snobbery in this thread, but I don't mind because I enjoyed the food. :)
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It looks good to me. I have had them before and they aren't bad at all, especially for the price. If you would have said they cost £20 people would have been commenting on how nice the fat marbling was :rolleyes::p.

I usually make my own roast potatoes, but the aunt Bessie ones aren't bad if you are feeling lazy. Aunt Bessie chips are the only frozen chips I like as well.
 
Mark A said:
It looks good to me. I have had them before and they aren't bad at all, especially for the price. If you would have said they cost £20 people would have been commenting on how nice the fat marbling was :rolleyes::p.

I usually make my own roast potatoes, but the aunt Bessie ones aren't bad if you are feeling lazy. Aunt Bessie chips are the only frozen chips I like as well.
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Yeah, I do think some people are swayed in their opinion simply based on labels or price, ie, whether it's called sirloin or everyday value. I'd bet in a blind taste test of my steaks, some people here would think they were eating top or almost top quality cuts. Because they did taste good, certainly as nice as any mixed grill steaks I've had at Harvester and better than a sirloin I had recently. On the other hand, maybe my palate just isn't as discerning as others.

I was recommended sainsbury's roast potatoes today which are cooked in goose fat so might give those a try. I'm currently cooking aunt bessie's crinkle chips, now those are tasty. :p
 
Sorry if I seem like a food snob - not my intention. In fact I live off beef shin, beef skirt, lamb shoulder, pork belly - all the cheap cuts and most of the time I get much better deals and much better meat from a proper butcher than from the bleedin' supermarket bargain basement, dyed, bulked up with water, frozen and dethawed and then left on the shelf for five days rubbish. I can't afford a decent cut of steak most of the time. But I won't buy cheap supermarket steak - I think if you are going to eat decent a cut of beef, make it special. Just do a quick google on what some of the superfarkets do to your supposedly awesomely cheap and excellent cuts of meat.

If that makes me a food snob then I am a happy food snob.
 
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Judgeneo said:
To be fair the stake didn't look too bad, and the veg probably tasted fine too. I'm just a potato snob :D
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This is where I disagree, the peas either from a can or over-boiled given their horrible colour. I like my peas green, not khaki :p
 
Efour said:
haha someone posted normal food and got slated for it :P
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It shouldn't be and i disagree that its normal food and its not snobbery wanting basic cooking skills/ingridents. Parents with three kids didnt even serve such stuff. It realy isn't normal food to most people, those saying price/time are also kidding the selfs. How did so many generations survive and cook fresh food without resorting to frozen chips and beans for every meal. People have forgotten how to cook on a budget and its now accepted as normal in some sections of society.


Frozen roast potatoes and bottled peas and carrots shouldn't exist.
Not much wrong with the steak other than a lack of knowledge on cooking, just lightly oil the steak, no oil in pan. And both of those steaks probably need a tablespoon of oil, not a tablespoon per side.
And his claim its the best ever, it won't be. But then if he uses frozen roast potatoes it may well be for him.

At least upgrade the bottled veg to frozen or if you're really lazy the frozen microwave packs.
 
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Glaucus said:
It shouldn't be normal food and its not snobbery wanting basic cooking skills/ingridents.
Frozen roast potatoes and bottled peas and carrots shouldn't exist.
Not much wrong with the steak other than a lack of knowledge on cooking, just lightly oil the steak, no oil in pan. And both of those steaks probably need a tablespoon of oil, not a tablespoon per side.

At least upgrade the bottled veg to frozen or if you're really lazy the frozen microwave packs.
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+1 on the veg.

I wouldn't use that cheapo veg oil myself, I'd rather cook it without oil on a griddle pan or rub some beef fat/lard or VCO onto the meat if pan frying it.
 
Supermarket meat can sometimes be good and sometimes be terrible.
Most of the time it's terrible I find but I've had some really nice bits on occasion.
The measure of a good butchers is consistency.

Also, aunt bessies roast potatos are disgusting, they aren't even an option in my opinion. Vile things.
You can knock up a load of proper roasties in 45 minutes, peel, par boil, smash up, add flour and seasoning, roll in some hot oil and leave in the oven for half an hour. How hard is that?
Wouldn't serve a steak with roast potatos and veg from the outset to be honest.

I'm agreed on the veg, canned veg is vile. Frozen if you're lazy but you can't beat fresh.

Efour said:
haha someone posted normal food and got slated for it :P
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I'm not a well off man these days and I wouldn't consider this "normal food".
"What my dad ate in the 70's growing up on a deprived council estate" is probably more apt.
 
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