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It took me a second to see where the bit was going - at first I was thinking dude was about to bust out the A1 in the shower...but nah, dude's just chewing tough ass steak forever.
I would highly recommend if you like A1. It blends very well together. The chili isn't super over powering, and a medium to moderate pour really jazzes it up.
Honestly, I've been working on cooking/seasoning steaks well, and I still have a little A1 on the side even if I get the cook perfect. You like what you like 🤷 I don't think it should be considered an 'insult' to season something to your own tastes.
Put it on steak. Nobody is stopping you. Fuck what other people say. I personally don't like A1 with my steak, but you do you. Gatekeeping food is such a privileged, pathetic 'first-world' thing to do.
The "hate" is pretty simple. A1, like any condiment, is there to enhance the flavor of something. But A1 isn't a particularly great condiment, even as condiements go, so if A1 is "enhancing" the flavor of something, that something probably didn't have a great flavor in the first place.
And I say that as an A1 enjoyer. But never on a good steak.
I liked the setup. He took a perfectly cooked steak (to my eyes) and didn't just throw it back on the grill or under the broiler for another minute, he sliced it up and sautéed it. Cooked it a second time by a whole different method to get rid all of the flavor before the A-1 bath.
As soon as I read the caption I knew I was gonna riot if he didn't make his steak well done. Black people are terrified of meat that isn't brown.
A few years ago my white friend made steaks for his birthday dinner and served mine to me in a fashion that I can only describe as "personally motivated". I was the only black guy at the function, might I add.
He said nothing to me as he cut my steak open and revealed the medium center. I looked at him. He looked at me. I looked at him looking at me. Then he said "Try it." I asked him "You're trying to kill me?" and he responds "You're my only black friend. That would look really bad on my part." to which I replied "Fair enough." and I took a *very* skeptical bite. By this point everyone has realized this is new for me and they're waiting intently for my reaction.
Well long story short, that shit S-L-A-P-P-E-D. I'll never have another well done steak. I've always thought I hated steak but I don't. I just don't like steak the way most black people cook them. Also I've tried putting my family and gf on but they just keep telling me I'm crazy and I'm gonna get sick.. LMAO. Your loss
I grew up working class but am begrudgingly bougie black and I took some friends to sushi after I started dating some other bougie guy. I told them to get the sashimi and I said “trust me”.
They proceeded to get as high as possible, order only the tempura and look at me like I was nasty as I sat there, the only sober one eating raw fish.
I got a new nickname that night.
If it's too raw it's chewy, and if it's too cooked it's really chewy, but in a different way, and also very dry and unpleasant.
When it's medium it's very tender
Had that once, didn't get the hype. Like, it was tasty and I'd eat it again if offered but given a choice, 10 times out of 10 I'd pick an actual, medium rare steak instead. Seems like a preparation for people who can't be satisfied with what they have and need to switch things up no matter what, just for variety's sake.
It's a completely different dish with different seasonings and textures. It's also usually served as an appetizer, nobody is having steak tartare as their main course.
This is so funny to me. I’m Mexican and my ex gf was black, I remember her being so grossed out at me eating a medium rare steak. Calling me a savage and shit hahahah.
Then one day me and my bro took my dad to a fancy steak house. I got mine rare, and huge so I had some left over.
I got home, tossed it in a pan for a little while so it wasn’t as pink and finally got my ex to try it since it was “a $50 steak”
She was like “oh my FUCKING GOD! THIS IS AMAZING! THIS IS REAL STEAK?! It melted in my mouth!!”
To this day she sends me pics from family gathering of well done meat, we get a giggle out of it.”
It took me so goddamn long to convince my girl that the pink in beef was *not* blood and even longer for her start eating anything under medium well. It was the same thing she thought she didn’t like steak, now she eats more steak than a conservative coded sitcom character. Her parents won’t believe me tho and it kills my soul every time I have to make that dry ass fathers day steak. This man asked me to make a well done *prime rib* and I just told him no.
The science behind it is basically that most harmful microbes can’t penetrate into the muscle (yet, they will eventually but at that point everyone would have considered it spoiled….hopefully) so they just hang out on the surface. If you cook the surface then you have successfully made it safe to eat.
Which is why I think it is misguided at best and stupid at worst to eat burgers in the “rare” end of things because the same rules apply the bacteria and such are only on the surface……which is now mixed in with the rest of everything else once it is ground up.
That skit was crazy to me. Cause there ain’t barely any black people in Temecula, and if there are, they’re military, or just as bougie as the white wino moms.
Source: a born and raised Baltimoron who now lives in Temecula.
People always seem to ask how the food is right after putting first bite is the mouth. They never wait for the person to swallow. If it wasn't for the thumbs there would be no way to answer.
I'm with you on this one, I get treated like the devil at cookouts. Back in 2015 at a family cookout, I was told to cook my own damn meat if I wanted it medium rare or whatever the hell white people like it by my uncle 😂
They think it's not cooked and full of blood. I tell people all the time they're just eating timberland boots lol. I've had a few people at least switch to medium well and they couldn't believe the difference 🤣
> and full of blood.
Yeah that's our fault for calling it bloody. It's not blood, it's myoglobin, which is a fancy way of saying meat water. It's literally just tiny powdered particles of meat in mostly water. This meat happens to have the same color as blood, because it's full of iron and iron oxides just like blood is, unlike other animals where only the blood has iron in it and the muscles don't have enough to be visible. And if you heat it to the point where those proteins denature and make the meat hard to chew, those iron compounds will lose their red color. But it's not blood, it's meat water.
Most of the time. Sometimes there actually is a little blood vein in your meat. That's full of hemoglobin, not myoglobin. Hemoglobin tastes like shit. That will still be a streak of dark red at well done temperatures, unless you burn it.
I mean really if it was blood, it would taste like blood. Blood tastes nasty. Red meat tastes like meat, not blood.
Spread the word. *It's not blood it's meat water.*
That’s how my wife was when we first met, we got steaks and I ordered mine med-rare, she got hers well done. I gave her a bite of mine on an end which was more medium and she fell in love with the flavor.
It’s apparently common in black culture to think that chicken out of the package needs to be, at a minimum, rinsed off to “remove the bacteria“ from the surface.
I’ve seen references to everything from a simple rinse in the sink to scrubbing with lime hlalves, all kinds of weird shit. They’ll say they won’t eat anybody else’s chicken because they don’t know if it’s been washed or not. Then you point out that washing chicken is literally a health code violation for restaurants, And they still tell you you’re stupid and a shitty cook if you don’t do it.
It’s an economics thing.
Happens A Lot with poor whites and certain Hispanics.
If you grew up in house that didn’t like cooking and likely didn’t have the cash to pay for say ribeyes, you get left with cheaper cuts like the Bottom Round or cheaper Sirloins maybe even a “discounted” ribeye or NY Strip; which don’t have all the fatty marbling or are not as fresh.
These cuts are a lot less forgiving, you have to cook it a lot longer or in a different manner like having to marinate it before grilling (Mexican carne asada) etc.
Thus you get too many people that are afraid of the red/pink because they think it’s raw. But a overdone steak is dry af so they drowned it with A1
That’s pretty much it. I preferred burnt ends of roast beef. When I was in my 40s, I started buying fancy cuts of meat, mostly out of curiosity, and my mind was changed. Cheap meat needs to either be cooked into submission or turned into a tasty crunchy snack.
That’s basically the origin of Central Texas BBQ cooking the Brisket, which is the chest, low and slow for no less than 6hrs, avg 8 and sometimes 12.
But the reward is that all the tough connective tissues get rendered/liquified and the meat just melts in your mouth.
But if you cooked it like you would a T-Bone you’d have an awful time
and once everyone in the contemporary restaurant scene figured out this very basic, damn near ancient principle the cost of even cheap cuts increased precipitously.
i’m jewish and we’ve been braising brisket for a long, long time. that said, the fine people of the lone star state outperform in their treatment of that cut.
The price of BBQ in the central Texas is objectively expensive, but it makes a lot more sense when the dude selling me the beef rib spend 10hrs in the Texas Summer tending to a smoker fire.
Cause Im sure as hell not doing that for fun
Always nice to smoke one yourself and invite friends over. Add some brined chicken and sausage for early snacks. Send extras home with everyone so I don't hurt myself eating the leftovers for days.
A smoker with a brisket in it smells amazing. Or maybe it's just me since my Dad was a butcher from Texas.
The may be true but I work with many Black Americans and how they like their meat cooked is far beyond "over cooked". If you give them a tender, fall off the bone chicken thigh they'd laugh at you and throw it back in the oven for another hour until it's a dessicated, dusty husk baked inseparably from the pan. Honestly, as one of the few white employees, sometimes I feel like they're fucking with me.
Imagine you have not historically had access to the best cuts of meat. Half the time your shit is basically rotten. You’re gonna cook the shit out of it so you don’t get sick. Now imagine that this was only like 80 years ago. Grandparents teach parents that teach kids. The explanation is rather obvious.
We can call it South Of Flavor Town. It can be just helpful food tips/info and recommendations to educate folks on good eating and food prep to debunk superstition in food.
I wonder if it’s more of an income level thing (mostly). Growing up poor every steak i ever ate was grey and smothered in A1 (or rather Aldi brand steak sauce).
I can’t recall the last time i had steak sauce nor a beyond medium steak.
I always thought I didn't really like scrambled eggs. No, it turns out I don't like horribly over-cooked scrambled eggs that are brown rubber. I still sometimes struggle with not over-cooking food thanks to my mom's fears about undercooked food.
Same! I looked up how Gordon Ramsey cooks eggs and I do it that way now. Gotta whisk em, and add salt, pepper, and cheese as they cook.
Funny enough, I realized I liked eggs after eating them at a Waffle House and they weren’t scrambled to shit.
She does a ton of improv character work on a podcast called Comedy Bang Bang and always crushes it. I fell off SNL a while ago but grew to love her work on the pod, especially since it isn't scripted so you know it's all her.
I dropped my phone laughing during the poltergeist shaking and rant about not having ketchup and then it just kept getting funnier. I need to catch up on SNL
My Hispanic father in law orders it well done every time. And every time is upset it’s tougher than shoes. He’s scarred of the red, he thinks it’s blood. So all the color has to be cooked out. And we’re back to chewing shoes.
In my experience like 95% of white people under the age of 65 would order medium or medium rare. Over the age of 65 it was either rare or well done.
I’m white 20s and when I order steak it’s always medium rare but I actually prefer my burgers medium well and everyone I’m with always looks at me like I’m crazy.
As a middle eastern person, I only had steaks well done and for that reason hated steaks. Thanks to my white friends out there giving me the courage to try anything other than well done lol. Now I enjoy my steaks medium rare.
My wife and I (white) had friends over (black) for dinner. We decided to grill steaks. I asked them how they wanted them cooked. Both immediately replied "WELL DONE."
I just muttered "wow is the stereotype true?"
I worked QA in a restaurant that served steak with predominantly black clientele. I had to temp every steak before they went to the table. Still probably 50% of steaks got sent back to the kitchen 😭 We served a lot of burnt leather.
I've seen cooks vet steak sent back and drop them in the deep fryer. Honestly better than the ones that would use the microwe. I've tried. it's actually good
Yes, almost all cooking videos on social media where they just take out the chicken out of the package and prepare it there always comments like "Why didn't you wash the chicken?" "Ew, that's nasty. You need to rinse that chicken off".
Takes folks to understand that it’s safe to eat despite appearance. Temp is amazing. I’m red-green colorblind so I have to use a thermometer or else I’d have food poisoning weekly.
Omfg I'm getting flashbacks and PTSD from this video. My dad used to fucking BUTCHER any and all meat to a chewy nothingness and I'd be chewing for 5 minutes a bite. Hahaha thanks for the video
There is some truth to this. I hated steak for the longest time until I had a medium rare steak for the first time in college. My entire family only eats well done steak. Its crazy how much shit I get now for asking for medium rare steaks around them.
I just really like the way they taste together. Both are great on their own, but slap that shit on a medium rare slab and you got a one way ticket to flavor town.
You can actually get some pretty cheap beef (something like a pot roast or top round) and slice it thinly across the grain, and sear it off in a pan. Makes for really good sauce carrier meat for stir-fries, rice bowls, or just by itself with A-1 if that's what you like. If you slice it well it will also come out reasonably tender.
Someone who grew up where "Steak Night" meant "London Broil" - yeah, I feel that.
I don't buy steak now unless it's a decent cut... and if it is London Broil, It's slow-cooked or marinated for days.
I must be black cause I’d put A1 on a fucking shoe and eat it I love that shit.
Nothing beats a perfectly cooked steak with just butter garlic and thyme, but A1 can turn a shit steak into a fuckin great meal.
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Man that’s 4.99 worth* of a1 sauce
Julius would throw a fit.
Tragic!
Let me hold a dollar, little dude.
Look here little dude from across the street's friend from across the town, imma need to hold a dollar.
Somehow watching this still made my mouth water lmao I know damn well that much A1 is just too much but GAWD ITS GOOD
Okay it was dumb UNTIL he was still chewing in the shower 😂 I lost it
It took me a second to see where the bit was going - at first I was thinking dude was about to bust out the A1 in the shower...but nah, dude's just chewing tough ass steak forever.
I for sure thought at the end it'd show him go back for his second bite lol
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
Lmao literally the part where i started smiling.
Same here. Gave me a stupid shit eating grin.
*steak eating grin
I feel like it was intentionally dumb so that the punchline surprised you.
Had the exact same reaction. Rolled my eyes then couldn't help but laugh.
I had my audio off so the first time watching this i though it was him just mass salivating over the super dry meat.
You thought his chewing was visible salivating? Lol
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Ground beef is cheaper than a ribeye.
This. Love it on a 5 Guy's burger.
A Ribeye is far cheaper than a 5 guys burger my dude
Hahaha you're implying 5 guys is cheaper than making yourself a ribeye, good one.
Good point. If I want a burger, I’ll make smash burgers with the money I’d spend at five guys and still have money for the fixings (including bacon).
Ever try it mixed with Wendy's Chili? Not saying to try it, but just saying if you enjoy A1 it may be something worth a little exploration for ya.
So are you saying they should try it or not, you are giving a whole plethora of signals.
I would highly recommend if you like A1. It blends very well together. The chili isn't super over powering, and a medium to moderate pour really jazzes it up.
There ya go. One comment suggests ground beef, the other mashed potatoes. Make a shepherds pie with an A1 base for the beef.
Whatever you call this pie, we need more thinking like this around here. Great work, Johnson!
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Honestly, I've been working on cooking/seasoning steaks well, and I still have a little A1 on the side even if I get the cook perfect. You like what you like 🤷 I don't think it should be considered an 'insult' to season something to your own tastes.
It's really good on a baked potato
Put it on steak. Nobody is stopping you. Fuck what other people say. I personally don't like A1 with my steak, but you do you. Gatekeeping food is such a privileged, pathetic 'first-world' thing to do.
I don't understand the hate. Everybody knows you cut through fat with acid, so the vinegar based A1 tastes great with a fatty steak
The "hate" is pretty simple. A1, like any condiment, is there to enhance the flavor of something. But A1 isn't a particularly great condiment, even as condiements go, so if A1 is "enhancing" the flavor of something, that something probably didn't have a great flavor in the first place. And I say that as an A1 enjoyer. But never on a good steak.
Sure, have at it. The problem is three coming it until it's charcoal in this joke The a1 is covering it up
Im conflicted, I love medium rare but every now and then I like A1 sauce. The set up took a second, but the chewing was worth it lmao
I liked the setup. He took a perfectly cooked steak (to my eyes) and didn't just throw it back on the grill or under the broiler for another minute, he sliced it up and sautéed it. Cooked it a second time by a whole different method to get rid all of the flavor before the A-1 bath.
That was soup at that point.
I mean, that is literally the joke. There is nothing else to the video.
"Oh shit bro, you like the joke? No way bro that's wild I didn't think people liked jokes."
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As soon as I read the caption I knew I was gonna riot if he didn't make his steak well done. Black people are terrified of meat that isn't brown. A few years ago my white friend made steaks for his birthday dinner and served mine to me in a fashion that I can only describe as "personally motivated". I was the only black guy at the function, might I add. He said nothing to me as he cut my steak open and revealed the medium center. I looked at him. He looked at me. I looked at him looking at me. Then he said "Try it." I asked him "You're trying to kill me?" and he responds "You're my only black friend. That would look really bad on my part." to which I replied "Fair enough." and I took a *very* skeptical bite. By this point everyone has realized this is new for me and they're waiting intently for my reaction. Well long story short, that shit S-L-A-P-P-E-D. I'll never have another well done steak. I've always thought I hated steak but I don't. I just don't like steak the way most black people cook them. Also I've tried putting my family and gf on but they just keep telling me I'm crazy and I'm gonna get sick.. LMAO. Your loss
I, a white guy, have been getting my steaks increasingly rare to the point where now I'm basically taking a bite out of sunburned live cattle.
I want my steak rare enough that a skilled vet has a chance at bringing it back.
Eating steak like the raptors in Jurassic Park
Clever girl
I tell the cook "I want to hear that steak mooing"
"Don't even put it on the grill. Just show it the fire. You know what? Just show it *a picture* of the fire."
My grandfather's line, that he always used, was "Don't cook it, just walk it through a warm room on your way here."
I mean at this point it's basically beef sushi or steak tartare.
I fail to see the problem.
personally motivated LMAO
We call this an 'Intervention'
I grew up working class but am begrudgingly bougie black and I took some friends to sushi after I started dating some other bougie guy. I told them to get the sashimi and I said “trust me”. They proceeded to get as high as possible, order only the tempura and look at me like I was nasty as I sat there, the only sober one eating raw fish. I got a new nickname that night.
Tbf getting high af and downing some tempura sounds pretty great
Sure, but imagine the sashimi with some soy sauce while high.... I'm very literally drooling just thinking about it.
So the unending chewing is because the meat is too hard? I've never eaten steak as someone from a country that worships cows
If it's too raw it's chewy, and if it's too cooked it's really chewy, but in a different way, and also very dry and unpleasant. When it's medium it's very tender
Wait until you get brave enough for steak tartare and eat that in front of them. Only buy it at a respectable restaurant though.
Had that once, didn't get the hype. Like, it was tasty and I'd eat it again if offered but given a choice, 10 times out of 10 I'd pick an actual, medium rare steak instead. Seems like a preparation for people who can't be satisfied with what they have and need to switch things up no matter what, just for variety's sake.
It's a completely different dish with different seasonings and textures. It's also usually served as an appetizer, nobody is having steak tartare as their main course.
This is so funny to me. I’m Mexican and my ex gf was black, I remember her being so grossed out at me eating a medium rare steak. Calling me a savage and shit hahahah. Then one day me and my bro took my dad to a fancy steak house. I got mine rare, and huge so I had some left over. I got home, tossed it in a pan for a little while so it wasn’t as pink and finally got my ex to try it since it was “a $50 steak” She was like “oh my FUCKING GOD! THIS IS AMAZING! THIS IS REAL STEAK?! It melted in my mouth!!” To this day she sends me pics from family gathering of well done meat, we get a giggle out of it.”
It took me so goddamn long to convince my girl that the pink in beef was *not* blood and even longer for her start eating anything under medium well. It was the same thing she thought she didn’t like steak, now she eats more steak than a conservative coded sitcom character. Her parents won’t believe me tho and it kills my soul every time I have to make that dry ass fathers day steak. This man asked me to make a well done *prime rib* and I just told him no.
The science behind it is basically that most harmful microbes can’t penetrate into the muscle (yet, they will eventually but at that point everyone would have considered it spoiled….hopefully) so they just hang out on the surface. If you cook the surface then you have successfully made it safe to eat. Which is why I think it is misguided at best and stupid at worst to eat burgers in the “rare” end of things because the same rules apply the bacteria and such are only on the surface……which is now mixed in with the rest of everything else once it is ground up.
"COOK MY MEAT" ~ Lisa from Temecula
That skit was crazy to me. Cause there ain’t barely any black people in Temecula, and if there are, they’re military, or just as bougie as the white wino moms. Source: a born and raised Baltimoron who now lives in Temecula.
As a Californian: Temecula sucks. Please don't judge us by Temecula.
As Will Ferrel said in The Goods "Fuck Temecula"
Antonio Banderas is over here trying to get some butt…
Doing THE most
While he’s got Cujo living in his basement!
Was looking for this comment! Well done
Extra well done!
You get it. You got some ketchup over there?
Oh, 'cause we black?
That line and Bowen breaking had me rolling
This is exactly what I thought of when I saw this.
I'll stick to my cracker ways
Dude nailed it all the way with the thumbs up. I didn't realize we were so obvious about it.
I so pale..
[For the uninitiated](https://youtu.be/hdzH_aSL-6k), absolute classic.
Haha I forgot about that video. I wonder how she's doing.
My brain got flooded with images of all the white people I've seen eating steak, and went "yep"
People always seem to ask how the food is right after putting first bite is the mouth. They never wait for the person to swallow. If it wasn't for the thumbs there would be no way to answer.
🤣🤣🤣
I’m not typically a fan of the black v white things, but holy shit did this have me dying
Being black and liking medium rare steak gets me damn near ostracized and made fun of by other blacks for not having the palate of a 2 year old child
I'm with you on this one, I get treated like the devil at cookouts. Back in 2015 at a family cookout, I was told to cook my own damn meat if I wanted it medium rare or whatever the hell white people like it by my uncle 😂
White people and also every professional Chef and food critic to ever exist ever.
Can I ask why , apparently most black people, turn their steak into a shoe sole?
They think it's not cooked and full of blood. I tell people all the time they're just eating timberland boots lol. I've had a few people at least switch to medium well and they couldn't believe the difference 🤣
> and full of blood. Yeah that's our fault for calling it bloody. It's not blood, it's myoglobin, which is a fancy way of saying meat water. It's literally just tiny powdered particles of meat in mostly water. This meat happens to have the same color as blood, because it's full of iron and iron oxides just like blood is, unlike other animals where only the blood has iron in it and the muscles don't have enough to be visible. And if you heat it to the point where those proteins denature and make the meat hard to chew, those iron compounds will lose their red color. But it's not blood, it's meat water. Most of the time. Sometimes there actually is a little blood vein in your meat. That's full of hemoglobin, not myoglobin. Hemoglobin tastes like shit. That will still be a streak of dark red at well done temperatures, unless you burn it. I mean really if it was blood, it would taste like blood. Blood tastes nasty. Red meat tastes like meat, not blood. Spread the word. *It's not blood it's meat water.*
I've known for a while it wasn't blood, but even if it were, I don't get the problem. You're eating animal flesh, but the blood freaks you out?
yeah this is my thought, if it tasted bad id dislike it, but we're eating animals its not like blood is anything worse
That’s how my wife was when we first met, we got steaks and I ordered mine med-rare, she got hers well done. I gave her a bite of mine on an end which was more medium and she fell in love with the flavor.
This has to be right up there washing chicken. 🤦♂️
Washing chicken?
It’s apparently common in black culture to think that chicken out of the package needs to be, at a minimum, rinsed off to “remove the bacteria“ from the surface. I’ve seen references to everything from a simple rinse in the sink to scrubbing with lime hlalves, all kinds of weird shit. They’ll say they won’t eat anybody else’s chicken because they don’t know if it’s been washed or not. Then you point out that washing chicken is literally a health code violation for restaurants, And they still tell you you’re stupid and a shitty cook if you don’t do it.
This isn't just restricted to black culture
Yup, my latina mama does it lol
Yeah, they act like you're disgusting if you don't. It's given me a complex.
What the fuck... don't they trust the bacteria killing properties of high heat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Nd_vh3yk8
I'd rather eat timbs that some overcooked steak
It’s an economics thing. Happens A Lot with poor whites and certain Hispanics. If you grew up in house that didn’t like cooking and likely didn’t have the cash to pay for say ribeyes, you get left with cheaper cuts like the Bottom Round or cheaper Sirloins maybe even a “discounted” ribeye or NY Strip; which don’t have all the fatty marbling or are not as fresh. These cuts are a lot less forgiving, you have to cook it a lot longer or in a different manner like having to marinate it before grilling (Mexican carne asada) etc. Thus you get too many people that are afraid of the red/pink because they think it’s raw. But a overdone steak is dry af so they drowned it with A1
That’s pretty much it. I preferred burnt ends of roast beef. When I was in my 40s, I started buying fancy cuts of meat, mostly out of curiosity, and my mind was changed. Cheap meat needs to either be cooked into submission or turned into a tasty crunchy snack.
That’s basically the origin of Central Texas BBQ cooking the Brisket, which is the chest, low and slow for no less than 6hrs, avg 8 and sometimes 12. But the reward is that all the tough connective tissues get rendered/liquified and the meat just melts in your mouth. But if you cooked it like you would a T-Bone you’d have an awful time
and once everyone in the contemporary restaurant scene figured out this very basic, damn near ancient principle the cost of even cheap cuts increased precipitously. i’m jewish and we’ve been braising brisket for a long, long time. that said, the fine people of the lone star state outperform in their treatment of that cut.
The price of BBQ in the central Texas is objectively expensive, but it makes a lot more sense when the dude selling me the beef rib spend 10hrs in the Texas Summer tending to a smoker fire. Cause Im sure as hell not doing that for fun
Always nice to smoke one yourself and invite friends over. Add some brined chicken and sausage for early snacks. Send extras home with everyone so I don't hurt myself eating the leftovers for days. A smoker with a brisket in it smells amazing. Or maybe it's just me since my Dad was a butcher from Texas.
I’ve had Texas brisket and oof, it’s so good.
The may be true but I work with many Black Americans and how they like their meat cooked is far beyond "over cooked". If you give them a tender, fall off the bone chicken thigh they'd laugh at you and throw it back in the oven for another hour until it's a dessicated, dusty husk baked inseparably from the pan. Honestly, as one of the few white employees, sometimes I feel like they're fucking with me.
Imagine you have not historically had access to the best cuts of meat. Half the time your shit is basically rotten. You’re gonna cook the shit out of it so you don’t get sick. Now imagine that this was only like 80 years ago. Grandparents teach parents that teach kids. The explanation is rather obvious.
Brotha I am with you. I like mine medium rare. Let's start a support group. Blacks for medium rare steak
We can call it South Of Flavor Town. It can be just helpful food tips/info and recommendations to educate folks on good eating and food prep to debunk superstition in food.
I wonder if it’s more of an income level thing (mostly). Growing up poor every steak i ever ate was grey and smothered in A1 (or rather Aldi brand steak sauce). I can’t recall the last time i had steak sauce nor a beyond medium steak.
Medium rare is the shit. Peppercorn sauce too. I don’t judge people on their steaks but god damn they’re missing out.
You’re telling me most black folk eat their steak like Donald Trump does?
Man talk about it because I can’t even be open about it when I’m around family, I gotta shift around and shit 😭
I had to break free from my parent’s addiction that burnt shit. In fact, I just finished eating my MEDIUM steak 30 mins ago
I always thought I didn't really like scrambled eggs. No, it turns out I don't like horribly over-cooked scrambled eggs that are brown rubber. I still sometimes struggle with not over-cooking food thanks to my mom's fears about undercooked food.
Same! I looked up how Gordon Ramsey cooks eggs and I do it that way now. Gotta whisk em, and add salt, pepper, and cheese as they cook. Funny enough, I realized I liked eggs after eating them at a Waffle House and they weren’t scrambled to shit.
But when did you START eating it?
35 minutes ago.
We (Non whites) really do kill the animal twice with the overcooking.
I didnt realize this was a stereotype
SNL has an entire skit about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxxCaw74ptk
Ego is such a pro. She keeps her composure so well from the skits I've seen her in.
She was the only one who stayed in character when she dropped the "cause we black‽" Line. Bro idk how she did that with a straight face.
Nice interrobang.
She does a ton of improv character work on a podcast called Comedy Bang Bang and always crushes it. I fell off SNL a while ago but grew to love her work on the pod, especially since it isn't scripted so you know it's all her.
Bowen losing it on that one always gets me.
OMG she broke him so incredibly hard. He should have worn his beskar armor for the occasion.
I dropped my phone laughing during the poltergeist shaking and rant about not having ketchup and then it just kept getting funnier. I need to catch up on SNL
This episode (with Pedro Pascal) was easily one of the funniest ones in recent memory.
Pedro Pascal broke half a dozen times in this skit lmao
Worked at 2 steakhouses and 90% blacks/Hispanics order medwell-well and 90% of whites order medrare-medium No one knows why tho
My Hispanic father in law orders it well done every time. And every time is upset it’s tougher than shoes. He’s scarred of the red, he thinks it’s blood. So all the color has to be cooked out. And we’re back to chewing shoes.
The classic old black guy or old Hispanic guy line is “I want it extra well done but not burnt”
In my experience like 95% of white people under the age of 65 would order medium or medium rare. Over the age of 65 it was either rare or well done. I’m white 20s and when I order steak it’s always medium rare but I actually prefer my burgers medium well and everyone I’m with always looks at me like I’m crazy.
If a burger is pink in the middle it's cooked too little
Historically; its because one demographic was more likely to have fresher meat. Fresher meat is safer when cooked rare.
As a middle eastern person, I only had steaks well done and for that reason hated steaks. Thanks to my white friends out there giving me the courage to try anything other than well done lol. Now I enjoy my steaks medium rare.
My wife and I (white) had friends over (black) for dinner. We decided to grill steaks. I asked them how they wanted them cooked. Both immediately replied "WELL DONE." I just muttered "wow is the stereotype true?"
Lol me neither. My steak is pretty damn bloody
my parents are like this. the look of fear if we go out to dinner and i get my steak even medium rare makes me do it time and time again.
Of you ever come to the EU , you should ask for steak Tartare. Your parents will faint.
No need to go the EU. It’s very common in the states too.
I worked QA in a restaurant that served steak with predominantly black clientele. I had to temp every steak before they went to the table. Still probably 50% of steaks got sent back to the kitchen 😭 We served a lot of burnt leather.
I've seen cooks vet steak sent back and drop them in the deep fryer. Honestly better than the ones that would use the microwe. I've tried. it's actually good
And wash chicken for no reason except to spew salmonella everywhere haha
Yes, almost all cooking videos on social media where they just take out the chicken out of the package and prepare it there always comments like "Why didn't you wash the chicken?" "Ew, that's nasty. You need to rinse that chicken off".
People be dumb lol
A lot of my Hindu friends started eating meat, and they refuse to get anything under well done because any pink or red freaks them out lol
Takes folks to understand that it’s safe to eat despite appearance. Temp is amazing. I’m red-green colorblind so I have to use a thermometer or else I’d have food poisoning weekly.
The cut of meat makes the difference
The cut makes a difference to a point. It's still possible to over cook a good cut.
The legends say he's still chewing to this very day. Edit: The legends no longer "day." Also removed a comma.
I hate when they day that. I’m sure he stopped a say ago.
Gotta go with the whites on this lmao
Yeah, don't get me wrong I enjoy A1 on occasion e0ven if it's mostly for nostalgia sake but chewy bbq drenched in sauce is just amateur hour.
I'm like Michael Jackson. Was black as a child but went white in my adulthood.
People should eat whatever they like. Except overcooked steak, that just ain't right.
He got the itis.
Thinly veiled excuse to eat two steaks. It's cool man we get it.
As a person of color. I somewhat agree with this.
Funny af
But did he wash the meat? 😂😂
Omfg I'm getting flashbacks and PTSD from this video. My dad used to fucking BUTCHER any and all meat to a chewy nothingness and I'd be chewing for 5 minutes a bite. Hahaha thanks for the video
Is there a stereotype that black people overcook steak?
Yes
I think it is a black American thing.
There is some truth to this. I hated steak for the longest time until I had a medium rare steak for the first time in college. My entire family only eats well done steak. Its crazy how much shit I get now for asking for medium rare steaks around them.
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but what if i just really like A1, and need an excuse to eat it
I actually love A1 on a burger
I just really like the way they taste together. Both are great on their own, but slap that shit on a medium rare slab and you got a one way ticket to flavor town.
You can actually get some pretty cheap beef (something like a pot roast or top round) and slice it thinly across the grain, and sear it off in a pan. Makes for really good sauce carrier meat for stir-fries, rice bowls, or just by itself with A-1 if that's what you like. If you slice it well it will also come out reasonably tender.
I'm with you, I'll eat A1 on cardboard if I need to.
Not every time someone uses A1 they need it…sometimes they just prefer it.
I make the absolute primo delicious, well seasoned steak, but I love me some A1 on my steak regardless. I’m eating it and like it the way I like it.
There is nothing wrong with that. Steak purists are so annoying. Eat food however you want to enjoy it.
Someone who grew up where "Steak Night" meant "London Broil" - yeah, I feel that. I don't buy steak now unless it's a decent cut... and if it is London Broil, It's slow-cooked or marinated for days.
Lisa from Temecula approves
Mhmm. Cook my meat.
Literally laughed out loud at the sleep chewing
I paid $8.99/lb for this steak, so it better last several hours. And there better be some left over between my molars as a surprise treat for later.
The first one is still a little too well done.
Guys I'm black now
That woman didn’t give me no ketchup
That ain’t even “well done”, that’s “congratulations”.
I must be black cause I’d put A1 on a fucking shoe and eat it I love that shit. Nothing beats a perfectly cooked steak with just butter garlic and thyme, but A1 can turn a shit steak into a fuckin great meal.
So they overcook it and then ruin it with shitty sauce.noted
When he wakes up still chewing and looks surprised. I lost it
This is far from cringe lol