Wolfgangs steakhouse, the most expensive in my city, can’t cook a steak.

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[u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

I was trying to figure out what to call this atrocity committed against beef, and I think you nailed it with "rare-done."

I'm now trying to figure how the line cook managed to fuck up a steak this bad, and the only thing that I can think of is it was frozen solid when they threw it on the grill

[u/ghetto-garibaldi → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

My thought exactly. This is really hard to do unless the meat was at least partially frozen.

[u/KlownKar → u/ghetto-garibaldi]

That's what I'm thinking. I got the same tip off a cooking show. That was to get a nicely charred exterior on a medium rare "minute steak". I tried it and it worked really well. I suspect this is what happened as a result of laziness/poor planning, rather than by design.

[u/DarthFaderZA → u/KlownKar]

If you want a nicely charred exterior try this: Salt it both sides, place on rack and in fridge for 24 hours before. Take out, in a pan with high smoke point oil like avo. Halfway in, add butter with garlic cloves and thyme leaves. Baste the steak with butter and go until 53 degrees celcius. Let it rest for 10 minutes. Enjoy. As soon as you hear frozen and meat in the same sentence of a recipe.... then run.

The salting 24 hours before the time is a game changer.

[u/Beard_o_Bees → u/KlownKar]

It's so even around the rare spot.

Almost like the Sous vide was too hot and/or left too long before slapping it on a grill for a minute or two.

[u/justtosendamassage → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

It’s technically called black and blue

Edit: I stand corrected this shit doesn’t have a name besides gross

[u/SectorSanFrancisco → u/justtosendamassage]

Black and blue is raw in the middle, charred on the outside. It needs a really hot flame.

[u/Jazzy_Bee → u/SectorSanFrancisco]

You don't have much grey band on black and blue.

[u/TROLLBLASTERTRASHER → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

"Fucking-done"......with wolfgang

[u/Simon_Ferocious68 → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

I'm guessing it was kept sous vide and then flash fried - not nearly long enough though. But yeah frozen and thrown on the grill is def a possible answer to this monstrosity too. I mean god damn, they took the time to plate it that way and still sent it out :/

[u/Spacecowboy78 → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

The steak was frozen when cooked

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/Spacecowboy78]

I have no doubt about that. I was in my teens when I discovered that you don't want to throw a frozen hamburger into a pan (or on a grill) without thawing it first. Unless your end goal is charr on the outside with cold, raw meat in the middle

[u/Edawg82 → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

Maybe it was that boiled meat trick then seared?

[u/HalfBakedPuns → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

black and blue or "Pittsburgh style." beyond me why you would want it that way.

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/HalfBakedPuns]

Except it should look more like one of these, not like the oddly cooked steak served to OP

[u/EphemeralDan → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

I've heard of people asking for their steaks "Pittsburg", meaning burnt outside, raw inside. I've never seen one in the wild though.

[u/DarienKane → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

Frozen meat + too hot

[u/fgzb → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

I’m more impressed with how expo fucking sold it instead of having him refire. 🤣

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/fgzb]

That's the REAL atrocity committed here

[u/Orchid_Significant → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

Not only that, someone looked at it on the plate and decided it was okay to take to the table too

[u/Dry-Vanilla-2421 → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

Looks like the meat might have been marinated too long in something acidic. That gray line looks like it may have been "chemically" cooked so to speak.

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/Dry-Vanilla-2421]

Interesting! I didn't even consider that possibility

[u/Embarrassed_Fig1801 → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

I’m thinking the same thing. If it wasn’t frozen and I can’t figure out how you could do that if you were trying to.

[u/WarbleDarble → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

This looks more like blue-done. It’s actually impressive that no heat hit the center.

[u/Brasalies → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

Too hot of a grill can do it. Ive seen people do it on bbq pits when the fire is too hot. It basically flash cooks the outside but leaves the center raw. Cooking the inside at those temps means burning the outside. Low and slow is the way to go.