Steak-gate

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Light hearted but I’m still irked

DP & I have just been to buy steaks. I made the roast potatoes and veg to go with and he wanted to do the steak. I said I’d do them and he made a thing asking if I didn’t trust him to do it (I don’t) but said okay I trust you but please please do it med rare and not more.

So I sit back and he goes off to cook the steaks. Lo and behold, I cut into it and it’s well done! My lovely steak I was waiting for. He stormed off and I asked if he’d really stormed off and he said yes.

I’ve eaten my well done steak now and he’s apologised for acting childish, we’ll sit and watch a film now with a magnum and all will be forgotten but WIBU to refuse to let him cook the steak next time!? Even if he resists! I tell you.. this is LTB stuff

I overcooked my own steak last night, medium rather than medium rare, was pissed of with myself all night

If I’d cooked it well done I still wouldn’t be talking to myself tonight

Treat yourself to some more steaks tomorrow if you can or you'll feel you’ve missed out all week

off FFS annoyed at me again now 😂

YANBU, my DP does the same with lamb chops. What a waste of good meat.

YANBU

I’m raging at myself if I accidentally cook a nice piece of fillet med-rare.

@emptyplinth

1 year ban from cooking steak.

Or even better required to cook delay until he improves

(like washing-you don't get not to do it just because you balls it up once)

Reminds me of DP, he went to a shop that sells takeaway full English breakfasts, told him what I wanted. He wanted me to have black pudding on mine so he could have it. I HATE black pudding, just the sight of it turns my stomach. I said no but he went on and on so I agreed.

He came home and the black pudding had crumbled over everything, I tried scraping it off but the stuff sticks like fucking glue. It was on everything, I hardly ate any of it and DP got in a strop about it.

I still remind him off it now. How he ruined my breakfast as he wanted his own way.

I'd ban him from cooking steak again. Anything over Blu is over cooked. My dad is a chef and makes amazing steak but no steak will ever be as good as Miller and Carter!

I'm more concerned about the magnum.

Is that the choc-ice on a stick (à bit weird for pudding but we have done this ourselves) or is it a magnum of wine or even champagne (always great for rounding off a meal, I find) ?

DH ALWAYS overcooks my steak. He overcooks his own too, but has stopped admitting it. Extra annoyingly, he undercooks lamb chops. He insists on this sloppy marinating mix that they absorb like sponges, then come out pale and steaming on the bbq. Bleeeuuurrgghh.

He sees himself as the Master of The Grill, so I have to wait until he has plans out elsewhere to cook myself decent meat. I really need a secret fridge to hide the meal in, otherwise he catches sight of it and rubs his hands.

I Would ltb....

@ShinyMe

What happened between you cutting into it and him storming off? I feel something is missing...

Probably the ten minutes in silence she spent trying to get a knife through the thing.

It worked for DP. He made a point of learning how to cook steak and other meat afterwards. Especially when even the cat couldn't get his teeth through the tiny fragment I managed to chisel off.

no steak will ever be as good as Miller and Carter!

Miller & Carter is pretty mediocre steak, one step up from a local pub. I can cook a better steak at home.

I agree @Elai1978

I get a better fillet from my butcher. I think this actually would be ltb territory

What is this big urge to cook the steak (and only the steak)?

I genuinely don't get it - cook the whole meal or none of it, surely?

(Is this connected in some way to how men always seem to want to do barbecues?)

I can't get my head around gravy on a steak. In a pie yes, but otherwise ugh.

Cooking a steak well done is a criminal offence.

My DH has done this to me. More than once! And it usually happens when it is an expensive cut of meat.

He thinks he is a bbq master but it is very much hit and miss. I like medium rare steaks and have burnt meat as well as barely cooked, blue steaks. And he gets seriously huffy if I say anything about throwing it back in the pan/oven/bbq.

Fortunately, he has gone out today and I promised to have food (steak) on the table for him when he gets back because it will be too late for him to start cooking then. 😁

Gravy with steak?

I cook the steak because DH prefers his rare and I like mine medium and he can't get the timings right. He opens the wine because my hands lose their grip on things unexpectedly.

I like mine medium, DH well done. He sometimes gets it right or not but I can't get upset as I can never manage to be consistent either when I cook steak.

Swedish chef Magnus Nilson had a tip on how to cook steaks to perfection which I now follow religiously, even though it involves a bit of extra faff.

First cook steak briefly on high heat in lost of butter, make sure you swirl the steak around so butter gets all over sides. It should sear the steak so it's dark brown and firsm on outside but still very, very rare.

Pop under warm, not hot, grill, to rest for a bit whilst it continues to very gently cook for a while.

Then pop it back in high heat cast iron frying pan in even more butter to finish for a minute or two. Perfectly almost caramelised steak which is still rare in middle. Can't stand a grey steak!

Well done totally ruins it. An ex of mine once cremated the steaks after I asked for Med-rare, he wouldn't let me cook Then got the hump I said Miller & Carter's steaks were better

Sit him down and put a YouTube video of Gordon Ramsey how to cook a steak

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles, calling a magnum a choc ice on a stick might be absolute, peak Mumsnet 😂

I hate this. You look forward to a big juicy steak as a treat and you get dried up old shoe leather. My ExP not only used to do them very well done, he would use a spatula to flatten and squeeze every last bit of moisture out of them as they cooked as that was how he liked them.