Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

merphle wrote:
Prederick wrote:

I've never cooked a steak before, but I've got a nice cast ion skillet I got last year and the grocery store down the street has some amazing-looking New York Strip cuts for a decent price, and I found a really nice, easy-looking recipe.

I'm going to give it a shot!

The best part of cooking steak is that even if you totally screw it up, it's still delicious steak. Check out Adam Ragusea's guide to cooking steak in a pan 101 if you want a few additional tips.

(Also, I know it's a typo, but the amateur chemist in me is giggling )

Thanks for that! Bought a nice sirloin tonight and cooked my very first steak.

Honestly? 6/10! Not great (unsurprisingly), but perfectly edible and very tasty, especially once I added the butter, garlic and rosemary to the pan at the end.

I didn't get a good sear on the outside because A.) I put the steak in the pan too soon and B.) I didn't heat my skillet up enough, mostly because I'm super-skittish about starting a fire. If anything, I probably overcooked it a bit, although the insides were still nice and pink.

But, as you said, at the end of the day, I still had a steak, and that was pretty neat. I wish I ate them more often, I probably won't try again until my birthday in August.

Prederick wrote:
merphle wrote:
Prederick wrote:

I've never cooked a steak before, but I've got a nice cast ion skillet I got last year and the grocery store down the street has some amazing-looking New York Strip cuts for a decent price, and I found a really nice, easy-looking recipe.

I'm going to give it a shot!

The best part of cooking steak is that even if you totally screw it up, it's still delicious steak. Check out Adam Ragusea's guide to cooking steak in a pan 101 if you want a few additional tips.

(Also, I know it's a typo, but the amateur chemist in me is giggling )

Thanks for that! Bought a nice sirloin tonight and cooked my very first steak.

Honestly? 6/10! Not great (unsurprisingly), but perfectly edible and very tasty, especially once I added the butter, garlic and rosemary to the pan at the end.

I didn't get a good sear on the outside because A.) I put the steak in the pan too soon and B.) I didn't heat my skillet up enough, mostly because I'm super-skittish about starting a fire. If anything, I probably overcooked it a bit, although the insides were still nice and pink.

But, as you said, at the end of the day, I still had a steak, and that was pretty neat. I wish I ate them more often, I probably won't try again until my birthday in August.

Congrats! Pair that up with a nice oven-baked potato (super simple to make) and you've got an epic meal. Now you too will walk past the butcher periodically, hoping for those occasional good deals to pop.

I've tried sear before cooking and sear after cooking and I've decided I prefer before. I also marinade for a few hours in a steak marinade at room temperature. I'll set the oven to 275 degrees and heat the pan to 8/10. Liberally sear both sides (in a bit of bacon fat if you have it), then add some ground garlic & other seasonings and into the oven for 20 to 30 minutes depending on thickness.

merphle wrote:

The best part of cooking steak is that even if you totally screw it up, it's still delicious steak.

No, if you screw it up you get dried out shoe leather.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
merphle wrote:

The best part of cooking steak is that even if you totally screw it up, it's still delicious steak.

No, if you screw it up you get dried out shoe leather.

That’s why we have A1 sauce in the fridge at all times.

There's a lot of space between "perfect medium rare steak" and "dried out shoe leather." Like, I wouldn't cook a steak well done on purpose, but it's not totally inedible either.

hbi2k wrote:

There's a lot of space between "perfect medium rare steak" and "dried out shoe leather." Like, I wouldn't cook a steak well done on purpose, but it's not totally inedible either.

Shamefully, I must admit that when I was young, I preferred steak extra well done with ketchup. My tastes have since matured.

Clumber wrote:

Shamefully, I must admit that when I was young, I preferred steak extra well done with ketchup.

You monster.

Merphle wrote:

Quintin_Stone wrote:

merphle wrote:

The best part of cooking steak is that even if you totally screw it up, it's still delicious steak.

No, if you screw it up you get dried out shoe leather.

That’s why we have A1 sauce in the fridge at all times.

This is why I have a Sous Vide. No need for A1.

My father and mother and grandparents grew up with boiled, pan-fried and roasted meat, and it was always well-done. Even the occasional times we had a charcoal grill to play with, my Dad and Uncle would just cook it all the way through. Ketchup and A1 were necessities, if only to wet the meat so it could be chewed easily. (And this was from our family farm - it makes me sad now to think of it).

The first time I had a Medium steak I pretty much went bananas.

I saw a video on Instagram of a beaver making a dam at the end of the hallway out of Christmas decorations and cushions. The caption underneath read, ‘Beavers gotta beave.’

That's a young rescue beaver being rehabbed, and reacting to the presence of a new beaver in the house. He was trying to construct a safe space to keep the new guy out lol.

Has anyone ever done work on the financial side of a non-profit? Looking at the books, balances, accounts, etc.? I have a few general Q's for you if you have the time/interest.

Both in my job and various tech news media I ingest, I often encounter the phrase “matte black.”

The funny bit is that I know a Matt Black. I can’t help but chuckle every time I hear his “name.”

I once worked on a project caled the JLA Headquarters and would laugh everytime it came up. It was for a local foundation with those acronyms. Apparently i was the only comic reader there.

Prederick wrote:

Has anyone ever done work on the financial side of a non-profit? Looking at the books, balances, accounts, etc.? I have a few general Q's for you if you have the time/interest.

Sent you a PM. I might be able to help.

There were two tasks on my to-do list I have been postponing for weeks. I finally decided that today was going to be the day, and I got them both done in under an hour.

Turns out I spent more time dreading them than actually doing them. And doing them wasn't that bad.

I wanted to (and did) make a post in the random loathe thread, but could not remember the term for a word cloud. My google search was word blob map thingie which worked perfectly. It appears a search for word blob thingie would have been just as sufficient but word thingie not so much.

I'm in the office today, and there was a story today about a shooting in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

That (sadly) is not remarkable. One person died, two others were injured.

However, later on in the evening, it was revealed that there was a fourth victim, who had sought treatment for gunshot wounds to the arm and buttocks...

...in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

For those of you unfamiliar with the NY-Metro area, that is "merely" a 20-mile distance, but between all the metropolitan sprawl, water, bridges, etc., it's a 45-minute drive.

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It's all I've been able to think of all night. If I have been shot in the ass, there is no way on God's Green Earth I am going to drive 45 minutes on New York City streets to seek treatment.

I need to know so much more about this person. I need to know the route they took, what speed they traveled, and how long it took. I need nothing but information.

Every morning before I leave for work I talk to my dog… “I’ve got to go, but I’ll be back. Until then be a good girl and watch the house.”

This morning Alexa spoke up and said “ok, here you go “ and brought up House MD on my TV.

I rarely ever use voice command for any devices I have, so it always creeps me out when every few weeks something decides I was talking to it and tries to reply.

My Alexa app's shopping list still has an entry for "an entire bag of dicks," which I instructed it to eat once when it was being stubborn about understanding what I was telling it to do.

hbi2k wrote:

My Alexa app's shopping list still has an entry for "an entire bag of dicks," which I instructed it to eat once when it was being stubborn about understanding what I was telling it to do.

Are you waiting for a sell to buy them?

Well I'm not buying her more until she finishes what's on her plate!

Remember when movies filled the whole tv screen with no need to mess with the settings?

Stealthpizza wrote:

Remember when movies filled the whole tv screen with no need to mess with the settings?

some things are best left forgotten

Chairman_Mao wrote:
Stealthpizza wrote:

Remember when movies filled the whole tv screen with no need to mess with the settings?

some things are best left forgotten

Remember when you could see what the f*ck was going on in movies and TV shows without having to set your screen's brightness to "Supernova"?

Remember when you could hear what the f*ck people were saying in movies and didn't have to turn the subtitles on?

hbi2k wrote:

Remember when you could hear what the f*ck people were saying in movies and didn't have to turn the subtitles on?

There's a reason for that:

That was really interesting - thanks for sharing!

Remember when changing contrast and brightness and color was done with 5 easily accessible analog knobs?

Remember when only daytime soap operas looked like soap operas, instead of everything because of a setting that shouldn't even exist being enabled by default on every TV and going by 18 different names and the option to disable it being hidden in a different submenu on every model?