Steak etiquette


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Incorrect again, the fat duck won 'the worlds best restaurant' award for 2 years running and has three Michelin stars, it is one of the finest if not the finest place to eat on the planet and to say that it is nothing to do with the taste is naive as fuck, stick to curries.

It also got shut down in a food poisoning scare. As the Toastie lad says, it's all very subjective - each to their own.
 
Incorrect again, the fat duck won 'the worlds best restaurant' award for 2 years running and has three Michelin stars, it is one of the finest if not the finest place to eat on the planet and to say that it is nothing to do with the taste is naive as fuck, stick to curries.

I'm not denying his calibre, or his restaurants. I've already stated he's something of a culinary genius, but if you watch his programmes, the stuff he gets upto in the 'laboratory' is more to do with the 'spectacle' of the dish which provides the visual 'wow factor'. You musn't have seen his programme?
 
I'm not denying his calibre, or his restaurants. I've already stated he's something of a culinary genius, but if you watch his programmes, the stuff he gets upto in the 'laboratory' is more to do with the 'spectacle' of the dish which provides the visual 'wow factor'. You musn't have seen his programme?

I've eaten in a couple of his places in Bray and I think it's fair to say that the presentation was certainly good but no great spectacle or wow factor, but the taste was definitely what it was all about.
 
It also got shut down in a food poisoning scare. As the Toastie lad says, it's all very subjective - each to their own.

Not sure like once you get to the level lads like him are at you would be hard pressed to find someone who would slag food off cooked by him.

I'm not denying his calibre, or his restaurants. I've already stated he's something of a culinary genius, but if you watch his programmes, the stuff he gets upto in the 'laboratory' is more to do with the 'spectacle' of the dish which provides the visual 'wow factor'. You musn't have seen his programme?

You are getting to bogged down with his feast programs which were indeed about that.

As a chef he does not serve a chocolate river for desert or Sausages falling from the slit stomach of an animal :lol:
 
Not sure like once you get to the level lads like him are at you would be hard pressed to find someone who would slag food off cooked by him.



You are getting to bogged down with his feast programs which were indeed about that.

As a chef he does not serve a chocolate river for desert or Sausages falling from the slit stomach of an animal :lol:

He's flavour of the month and surrounded by simpering sycophants, though. (Which sounds like a dish he might serve, actually).
 
Yeah, but, who really cares? It's just purely personal preference, food is an art to be enjoyed or criticised subjectively, not a science to be scrutinised objectively.

I'm not bothered what people eat but I would raise an eyebrow if someone had a decent malt and put some coke in it. Jack Daniels and Coke is fine a decent scotch would be sacrilege.

I think that's Greedy's point about the steak. I am not that bothered about top end food that I would pay big money for a meal, so I have no idea if he is right or not.

I'd rather buy a decent steak and cook it myself.
 
You are getting to bogged down with his feast programs which were indeed about that.

As a chef he does not serve a chocolate river for desert or Sausages falling from the slit stomach of an animal :lol:

Never been to any of his restaurants so I wouldn't know.

Anyway, I was just replying to jedi toaster's comment that 'Heston would kill you' when I said that food was an art and not a science.

With your and Flicks' knowledge of what his restaurant experience is like you've sort of proved my point though, so thanks.
 
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Not sure like once you get to the level lads like him are at you would be hard pressed to find someone who would slag food off cooked by him.

As someone who raved about a jacket tatie with beans and cheese we knocked up in our microwave in France at the weekend, I'm probably not the best one to judge at the highest level like :lol:
 
As someone who raved about a jacket tatie with beans and cheese we knocked up in our microwave in France at the weekend, I'm probably not the best one to judge at the highest level like :lol:

Nowt wrang with that mate, I am having sausage, chips, beans and fried egg for tea, :lol:
 
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As someone who raved about a jacket tatie with beans and cheese we knocked up in our microwave in France at the weekend, I'm probably not the best one to judge at the highest level like :lol:

That's the point though, ain't it Flick. As I said, a great meal is one that you enjoyed eating. There's more to eating than simply the food on the plate. I've eaten in michelin starred restaurants (cos I've worked in them, not because I could afford to) and still, the best steak (possibly best meal as well) I've ever had was in the tumbledown chateau of a campsite we took the kids to in the Dordogne.
 
I'm not bothered what people eat but I would raise an eyebrow if someone had a decent malt and put some coke in it. Jack Daniels and Coke is fine a decent scotch would be sacrilege.

I think that's Greedy's point about the steak. I am not that bothered about top end food that I would pay big money for a meal, so I have no idea if he is right or not.

I'd rather buy a decent steak and cook it myself.

I rarely buy steaks in Restaurants as I'd rather have something I couldn't make myself. The exception is when I've been to places like Argentina where the steaks are superior to the ones I get at home.
 
Never been to any of his restaurants so I wouldn't know.

Anyway, I was just replying to jedi toaster's comment that 'Heston would kill you' when I said that food was an art and not a science.

With your and Flicks' knowledge of what his restaurant experience is like you've sort of proved my point though, so thanks.

Ah the old "I had a secret point and I shall be keeping it to myself" routine :lol:
 
That's the point though, ain't it Flick. As I said, a great meal is one that you enjoyed eating. There's more to eating than simply the food on the plate. I've eaten in michelin starred restaurants (cos I've worked in them, not because I could afford to) and still, the best steak (possibly best meal as well) I've ever had was in the tumbledown chateau of a campsite we took the kids to in the Dordogne.

Couldn't agree more. We'd had a cracking day out in the garden, and still had a double bed to make, ie literally make. So a quick break to bop the taties in the microwave, heat the beans up and sit looking out at our efforts in the garden, skies blue, birds singing, and all was well with the world. :cool:
 
Couldn't agree more. We'd had a cracking day out in the garden, and still had a double bed to make, ie literally make. So a quick break to bop the taties in the microwave, heat the beans up and sit looking out at our efforts in the garden, skies blue, birds singing, and all was well with the world. :cool:

Bourgeois twat.
 
As someone who raved about a jacket tatie with beans and cheese we knocked up in our microwave in France at the weekend, I'm probably not the best one to judge at the highest level like :lol:

I had Cadbury's Smash, beans and white bread on a campsite in the Lakes after I had cycled over from Sunderland.

It was the best meal I have ever had and I hate Cadbury's Smash:lol:

We were teenagers and wanted to keep every penny for drink
 
I had Cadbury's Smash, beans and white bread on a campsite in the Lakes after I had cycled over from Sunderland.

It was the best meal I have ever had and I hate Cadbury's Smash:lol:

We were teenagers and wanted to keep every penny for drink

:lol: Like when we were travelling europe on interrail as kids - scrounge whatever food you could. I think we had dry Ryvitas with one of them little pots of jam you get for breakfast in hotels that we'd nabbed off the train buffet in Copenhagen.

We drank well though

Fuck off flaunting your wealth on here you posh bassa.:roll:

in my defence, I did buy the taties half price from the co-op and got 2.5kg for less than it would have cost to buy 4 individual baking taties.

After all, we're all in this together :eek:
 
Seriously, might as well have a spam sandwich if you're eating your steak neat.

Seriously mate, your wrong. :lol:

Try a proper £45 fillet steak that just melts in your mouth. Mmm

I will add though that I once had a nice steak in a gorgonzola sauce and it was very good. I normally like my steak naked however.
 
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