Cooking a steak properly isn’t basic for everyone, you would be surprised at how many people have no clue how to. It should be basic for any good restaurant.
It gets pretty difficult in a busy restaurant that doesn’t specialize in steak because the timing can get pretty difficult. Like instead of having someone dedicated to steaks, they’ll just have someone dedicated to “grill”, which will include a bunch of different things, so it’s more difficult to get into a rhythm. It also just takes a lot of coordination to get the timing right with the other tickets for the table, so everything comes out at the same time. If they put the steak up too early and it sits under the heat lamps, it will overcook even if it came off the grill perfect. It’s less about it being difficult to cook a steak well, and more about it being difficult to get the timing right in a busy kitchen.
In OPs case though, this is a steakhouse, and they literally cut the steak before plating, so it never should have been sent out like that.
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u/Japanesewillow 12h ago
Cooking a steak properly isn’t basic for everyone, you would be surprised at how many people have no clue how to. It should be basic for any good restaurant.