2020 Dec. Goat Daily Rant 05
8Daily rant: Steak rant.
Side theme: lazy goat.
Just a quick rant about not being able to get a steak cooked Medium. I ask for Medium and it always comes back Medium-Well. If I ask for Medium-Rare, it comes back all red and pink and Medium-Rare. Well done is easy, and for Neanderthals. Bloody rare is for psychopaths. But they can’t hit that middle, like they’re balancing a golf ball on a fence. Sometimes I ask for @ExtraMedium (don’t know why that came to mind recently), but they act confused and ask, “You mean Medium Well?” No. No, I do not.
So today is a participation rant; what can you not, for the life of you, get the way you asked for it, even though it isn’t all that hard for them to do?
Special thanks to @ExtraMedium who, due to his/her/their very existence, reminded me of the fun deer-in-the-headlights look I get from wait staff working their way through beauty school or until they make it in Hollywood, and all the fun that entails. Also the memory of eating out. Remember eating out?
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Ahhhhhhhh. This is the bane of my existence. Just the other day I ordered a medium steak and I specified pink in the middle. It came so freaking raw I managed to poke a hole in it with my fork before the server walked away. Of course when the steak came back it was medium well instead.
@RiotDemon This!
Sous vide FTW.
Eggs can be a challenge in some places also.
Scrambled eggs should NOT be rubbery, nor should they have ‘snot’ in them.
@chienfou
Sous Vide FTW!
Eggs: Omurice omelette
@chienfou Good luck getting an over-easy with a liquid yolk.
@chienfou The surest way to get snot in your eggs is to send them back.
@ThunderChicken
/giphy spit take
Ask for crispy bacon and it is likely to come either limp or burned. It should not be that hard for an experienced fry cook.
@macromeh oh God. Limp bacon is so disgusting. I sometimes tell them straight up that I want my bacon to shatter.
You’re welcome? Though you seem to have mistaken my name for food preparation when it is, in fact, a sizing option. We offer extra small and extra large so why not the most mediocre of options?
@ExtraMedium
No, it’s just that “Extra Medium” is something I say jokingly to the server when trying to convince them to bring me a steak actually cooked medium (gosh, been doing this for fifteen years now?). Seeing your name just reminded me that it was a good thing to rant about. I think we have similar intent, considering it is a redundant embellishment regardless.
Try to get “just a trim” on a modest beard. It is invariably cut to half its original length. I took to just getting haircuts and trimming my beard myself. Eventually I went all the way to giving myself the whole haircut.
@ThunderChicken I’m considering the trimmer-set-at-4 option for my hair. My last trip to the barber wasn’t satisfactory.
@PocketBrain @ThunderChicken
I do the “Clooney” and just buzz cut with a 9mm guard.