Why in the world do people use steak sauce?

[Rubycon]

Makes me shudder to see so many folks utterly ruin a perfect filet with this stuff! Eeeeeeeck! :disgust:

 

[Rip the Jacker]

DIAF

 

[Howard]

Too unfortunate (or too lazy) to have tasted a great steak.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I only ever use the A1 steak sauce, and I can't imagine any steak without it! Never heard of hp brand...

 

[fishface313]

A1 is the greatest steak sauce ever invented!

 

[Baked]

Same reason people rub spices on their meat.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Baked
Same reason people rub spices on their meat.

Masochists. Unless they're planning to share, in which case they're sadists.

 

[KeithTalent]

I have never understood the desire to drown a perfectly good piece of meat in steak sauce...disgusting.

 

[Sketcher]

HP is yummers! As is A1, Dave's BBQ and the like.

I'm all for enjoying quality meat w/out drowning it in sauces; but there's a time and place for good sauce.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Baked
Same reason people rub spices on their meat.

Masochists. Unless they're planning to share, in which case they're sadists.

What's wrong with putting spices on a steak before grilling it?

Or did you mean something else?

<-- grilling n00b

 

[Descartes]

I love HP sauce. It's in pretty much every pub in the UK, and typically referred to as "brown sauce." I enjoy it.

A good filet doesn't need sauce though.

 

[sandorski]

A1 and HP are very similar, except HP has been endorsed by Her Majesty the Queen of England!

I like it, but if you don't, don't eat it. Do you eat oysters? If yes, why eat that nasty sea slime?

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Baked
Same reason people rub spices on their meat.

Masochists. Unless they're planning to share, in which case they're sadists.

What's wrong with putting spices on a steak before grilling it?

Or did you mean something else?

<-- grilling n00b

Don't ask, I had to look at it twice before I realized he wasn't talking about meat... he was talking about "meat" :disgust:

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: ariafrost

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Baked
Same reason people rub spices on their meat.

Masochists. Unless they're planning to share, in which case they're sadists.

What's wrong with putting spices on a steak before grilling it?

Or did you mean something else?

<-- grilling n00b

Don't ask, I had to look at it twice before I realized he wasn't talking about meat... he was talking about "meat" :disgust:

Don't give me that look. Baked set that up for us.

Anyway, to answer Special K's question, there isn't. Well, it's not a sin to enjoy your food, so you have to use the right spices in the right amounts, but some people prefer the beefy flavor of the steak to be unencumbered by anything else except salt and usually pepper.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: ariafrost

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Baked
Same reason people rub spices on their meat.

Masochists. Unless they're planning to share, in which case they're sadists.

What's wrong with putting spices on a steak before grilling it?

Or did you mean something else?

<-- grilling n00b

Don't ask, I had to look at it twice before I realized he wasn't talking about meat... he was talking about "meat" :disgust:

Don't give me that look. Baked set that up for us.

Anyway, to answer Special K's question, there isn't. Well, it's not a sin to enjoy your food, so you have to use the right spices in the right amounts, but some people prefer the beefy flavor of the steak to be unencumbered by anything else except salt and usually pepper.

The flavour of beef has changed a lot in the last 30 years. Mostly due to the removal of fat from it, which has turned most beef into a near flavourless mass. Occasionally I'll end up with a decent peice of beef on my plate, but most of the time I'd rather have pork or chicken. All those pail in comparison to Venison. Caribou, and other wild meats though.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Makes me shudder to see so many folks utterly ruin a perfect filet with this stuff! Eeeeeeeck! :disgust:

Most people are stupid and have no idea of what quality is. That's pretty much it.

Same reason people order their beef cooked above medium. They're dumb. They don't even know that they are dumb. That's how dumb they are.

 

[Pocatello]

A good steak, salt and pepper, I'm happy.

 

[doze]

If a steak is cooked right then it usually needs no sauce

 

[KeithTalent]

I hate steak sauce, but I do blacken a steak once in a while and it tastes fantastic, even though the spicing is very strong.

 

[everman]

The only steak sauce I'd consider using would be made from the the good stuff left on the cast iron pan after searing it.

 

[AmigaMan]

Heinz 57 FTW!

Actually if I'm eating an inferior piece of meat (which I usually am) the steak sauce goes a long way to making it taste better. If I'm in a high-end restaurant like The Steak Barn in Raleigh, I don't use steak sauce. There was one place near Princeton, NJ that was uber expensive but had the best steak my tongue has ever tasted. I can't remember it's name, but man that was a good piece of meat! I definitely didn't have any steak sauce on it. It was a nicely marbled ribeye with the edges kind of crispy with bleu-cheese on the top served with some local beer and a huge-ass potatoe...I'm gonna go fire me up a steak now

 

[hellokeith]

They buy cheap meat and then over cook it. "We're having steak!" Too bad it tastes like bark, but put some steak sauce on it.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: fishface313
A1 is the greatest steak sauce ever invented!

I'd love Heinz 57 if it wasn't so spicy.
Yes, I actually think the stuff is too spicy. Burns my tongue and makes me sweat a bit.


As you may guess, I seem to have rather bland tastes.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
DIAF

I'd convert to full vegetarian before eating the stuff.

Matter of fact, I bet Awlgrip tastes better. :laugh:

 

[Quasmo]

I usually marinate a london broil in a1 and a little bit of rib rub, and then pound the living crap out of it. It may not be the best cut, but for $10 for 2 lbs, I'm not complaining. I think it tastes so bad comparably to a fine filet that I've become a customed to this summer, that my pallet puts it in another catagory of ass meat (not literally) therefore I can consume it with sauce.