A steak poll...

[Firearmsrookie]

Someone once said,"I did not fight my way to the top of the food chain just so I could eat vegetables". I completely agree!

 

[sipowicz]

However Dino takes his....

Poll Options
How do you like your steak prepared
Steak tar-tar (raw)
Rare (seared outsdide very bloody in the center)
Medium (cool pink center
Well ( no pink no blood)
Burnt (crusty outside dry tasteless inside)
I'm a vegan. Gimme fish or chicken
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BTW.....a vegan does not eat chicken or fish.

 

[GKC]

Oscar Meyer BEEF bologna no less, not the cheap store brand huh? Eatin kinda high on the hog yourself there buddy!

Well, when I buy a steak, I buy a rib eye instead of a flank steak...so, when I buy bologna, I prefer the good stuff, instead of the beaks-claws-feathers-rat droppings variety.

 

[the ringo kid]

Well, when I buy a steak, I buy a rib eye instead of a flank steak...so, when I buy bologna, I prefer the good stuff, instead of the beaks-claws-feathers-rat droppings variety.

Dont buy the Hill Country Fare brand from H.E.B's, you'd be lucky if theirs was made up of beaks, claws, feathers and rat-droppings.

 

[kwselke]

Umm... Steak! Four to six minute on the fire and it's ready.

 

[walkin jack]

Dont buy the Hill Country Fare brand from H.E.B's, you'd be lucky if theirs was made up of beaks, claws, feathers and rat-droppings.

Buying private label food products can be very risky. In some cases, for example, canned vegetables, it will usually be the same exact product as the name brand. Libby's green beans, with the retailers private label on it. They can buy in great volume and get deals from the manufacturer. Then the retailer can sell it cheaper than the name brand and make money doing it.

But there are some products that the private label product is NOT the same. It will be inferior in one way or another or it will be a very low quality name brand. The consumer really has no way to know which is what.

Trial and error is about the only way to get it figured out. But if you go that way you need to be prepared for some occasional disappointment. I normally avoid private label food products.

 

[the ringo kid]

Same here. Soup--always Campbells, Bread--always Roman Meal,Cobblestone Mill, Rainbow etc, Chili--Wolf Brand only--Austex looks like baby ****, Beef Stew--only Dinty Moore--Hormel gives you meat that resembles rat droppings--same with their Chicken and Dumplings--on that-I stay with Dinty Moore.

 

[kwselke]

Speaking of HEB, I just got their weekly flier and they have their Prime 1 Strip steaks for $7.97 a pound. All this steak talk has me yearning a medium rare beef fix. I may have to get some and fire up the grill.

The HEB branded products are generally comparable to national brands and superior to their Hill Country Fare items. It is a two tiered generic product game. Kroger has Kroger Value and Private Selection.

 

[walkin jack]

Speaking of HEB, I just got their weekly flier and they have their Prime 1 Strip steaks for $7.97 a pound. All this steak talk has me yearning a medium rare beef fix. I may have to get some and fire up the grill.

The HEB branded products are generally comparable to national brands and superior to their Hill Country Fare items. It is a two tiered generic product game. Kroger has Kroger Value and Private Selection.

True dat! Before I got my operating job with a major oil company I was a sales rep for a major food company. And from the time I was 13 until I left home to go into the service and for a year after I got out I worked in grocery stores.

There are lots of ins and outs to the grocery business and my work experience has really come in handy over the years in keepin' up with all the little sales gimmics and trick that are goin' on out there.

 

[the ringo kid]

Speaking of HEB, I just got their weekly flier and they have their Prime 1 Strip steaks for $7.97 a pound. All this steak talk has me yearning a medium rare beef fix. I may have to get some and fire up the grill.

The HEB branded products are generally comparable to national brands and superior to their Hill Country Fare items. It is a two tiered generic product game. Kroger has Kroger Value and Private Selection.

I sure wish we still had Krogers here, WM and H.E>B. chased them, and Albertsons and Safeway--outta town over 20 years ago. Grrrrrrr.

 

[kwselke]

I sure wish we still had Krogers here, WM and H.E>B. chased them, and Albertsons and Safeway--outta town over 20 years ago. Grrrrrrr.

Within 2 1/2 miles of my home I have Kroger, HEB, Randalls aka Safeway, Rice Epicurean Market, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Super Walmart, Sam's Club, and a Super Target. There used to be an Albertons, but for some reason the competition was too tough.

I do not shop at Walmart, Target, or Whole Foods very often. Each store has strong and weak points and I enjoy shopping the sales.

HEB is probably the best all round, but without the intense competition I probably would get irratated with them more than I do now.

 

[USAF385]

Vegetarian here

In fact, since my wife is vegan, I'm practically vegan myself.. I don't go out of my way to get eggs or dairy. (And I hope you were joking about the chicken and fish in the vegan option)


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[the ringo kid]

Within 2 1/2 miles of my home I have Kroger, HEB, Randalls aka Safeway, Rice Epicurean Market, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Super Walmart, Sam's Club, and a Super Target. There used to be an Albertons, but for some reason the competition was too tough.

I do not shop at Walmart, Target, or Whole Foods very often. Each store has strong and weak points and I enjoy shopping the sales.

HEB is probably the best all round, but without the intense competition I probably would get irratated with them more than I do now.

Heh heh, just think if that were the case back 140 or so years ago. 80% of the population would never travel more than 3 miles away from home==let alone 20 miles. Sounds like my kinda of place to live as long as that place aint Austin.

 

[Brian41]

Medium for me but medium well for my wife. I have to adjust cooking times to get it right but pains me to over cook hers in my eyes.

 

[kwselke]

Heh heh, just think if that were the case back 140 or so years ago. 80% of the population would never travel more than 3 miles away from home==let alone 20 miles. Sounds like my kinda of place to live as long as that place aint Austin.

Galleria area of Houston. Densely populated but conservative area.

 

[Fishslayer]

The scale of your poll is incorrect.

Rare = Cool red center
Medium Rare = Warm red center
Medium = Hot pink center
Medium Well = No pink in center
Well = Why did I order an expensive steak when a hamburger cooked like this would be as good.

I like Medium Rare.

^^^This. Medium for me, although my "acceptable" window is fairly wide toward the medium well side, especially if it's the wife doin' the cookin'.

 

[99savage308]

RARE.........

 

[Jessie]

The wife just told me our local market has whole ribeye sides for $5.99/ lb. Time to buy another freezer!
That's how I like to get them and cut them myself.

 

[Onomea]

My preference has changed over time. In my 20s and 30s I was rare all the way. Big steak tartare guy, too. From my 40s I moved to medium rare, and now, early 60s, I am a medium guy...

On the other hand, did not like raw oysters when young, and now they are a favorite...

 

[dcxplant]

I like mine burnt and chewy!

You must be from the mid-west!

My wife is from South Bend, my mom's husband is from Mishawaka, and well, anybody I ever met from IL (not from Chicago) eats their meat with a shoe-leather consistency.

It must be the water!