The food thread

It is a covering that strippers use over their nipples. Generally decorative.
Those kind usually have tassels and other things attached. Just enough covering so they aren't arrested for exposure.
The more common type is for women who wish to go braless in a dress and not show signs that it's cold out. Not decorative, but effective.

It's the only definition I knew until this thread. In this case the a is a long vowel. 'Pay-stee.'
 
I've been using variations on this method for steaks or chops:

How to Cook Frozen Steak - Nathan Myhrvold Frozen Steak Recipe

Basically, meat straight from the fridge or freezer, sear both sides in a *HOT* skillet, then finish in a low oven. Nice medium rare right through, no 'grey band', with a nice sear outside. Simple and reasonably forgiving.

I also tried the opposite with a boneless leg of lamb - a couple of hours roasting at 275 to hit about 128 degrees, a half-hour rest to get the meat to a nice pink all the way through (135 final temp in the middle), while resting the roast crank the oven to 500, then pop the roast back in for 10 - 15 min to brown up the outside and render out the fat cap. Yum.

Didn't try frozen but did try searing with the blow torch. Now I really do prefer the cast iron method, with butter, garlic and summer savoury (or thyme) basting at the end. For me and everyone who tried it it beats the bbq.

One thing I haven't tried is sous vide. Got a pid, pump, then gave up... just no place to put everything. I can only imagine what a sous vide steak splashed in high temp butter with a bit of garlic and herbs would be like.
 
Didn't try frozen but did try searing with the blow torch. Now I really do prefer the cast iron method, with butter, garlic and summer savoury (or thyme) basting at the end. For me and everyone who tried it it beats the bbq.

My problem is I don't cook steaks worth the trouble for less than 6 or 8 folks so the barbie it is for me. I don't have enough hands and I also typically do sides to order at the same time.
 
AKA "nipple guards" (Karl Lagerfeld no less). I feel like there might be some other synonyms. Do they wear them differently in Cornwall?

Not really.
 

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Well the traditional method of cooking steaks around here is simple. You slap it against the side of the dull red hot steel making furnace for a few seconds until it is completely black, peel it off, flip it over and in just about a minute your steak is "Pittsburgh Rare." That is black on the outside and cool red inside.

Now for those of you who do not know the temperature scale it goes from dull red to red to orange to yellow to white hot.

So the cliche about red hot is wrong, that is actually one of the coldest steel heats.

So the outside of the furnace could be dull read while the stuff inside would be yellow or white hot.

Then we could talk about a "boilermaker" drink. That is whiskey with a beer chaser. Traditionally how guys who worked in the plants started and ended their days. (Just might have been a bit hot working around the furnaces.)

Back to caviar. There is now sold "Russian Imperial Caviar." Looks like the real stuff, fairly large as in the good stuff, tastes somewhat like it, but as far as I can tell contains ingredients like beef! Completely fake but at modest prices will fool many. It is actually better than many of the real and equally priced bad stuff.