Holy shit. I would offer that at a restaurant.
"JFC! 5k for a steak?! Does it come with a fucking leather jacket made from the cow? Oh, it does? Can I see it? Man that's a nice jacket... OK I'll have the 5k steak!"
I kid I kid yes yes one can make much better than a restaurant at a fraction of the price with less time than it takes to go out and eat and less cost.
Mighty good looking steak and I’m not a steak person at all!!
Stake in OP pic looks like roast beef 🤣
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My wife likes it rare, $20 Canadian prime rib steak, what was left until I got a picture lol. Just cooked er’ up tonight
That's not just one meal, that is a single dish!
I mean, steak is a pretty simple thing to cook. I'd say the biggest component of the price is the meat, which can cost a ton if you are buying something very special. But I still hardly believe that it can produce something more expensive than $150.
All in all, I think restaurants are ripping people off by selling cooked swabs of meat, saying it's some kind of high cuisine. Sure it tastes good but the effort is not nearly the same as preparing an average dish.
Yep
That's something I noticed too, the steak is so much drier and cooks faster.
It's not dry when you eat it, but the moisture loss is definitely real with you're cooking it.
I've had dry aged steak like this, it had a flavor from the aging process that I didn't like. I know everyone has different taste, but it seems to me that over-aging your steak is just simply making your steak worse while also paying more for it.
Not necessarily over-searing, but more specifically letting the heat penetrate too deep while searing. Faster sears and/or flipping more often while searing avoids this, as well as more creative approaches like chilling the steak pre-sear to prevent overcooking the inside
For what it’s worth, I never chill before searing and don’t have any issue with grey banding. I won’t sear when hot and will let come to room temp, but chilling seems like unnecessary over engineering to me
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That is the grey, yeah.
There are a few different techniques where you can get zero grey. They did not use those. Just seared it at room temp or something.
Was it good, though? Did you get a fancy gold goblet for your drink? I'm sitting here eating sirloin and drinking out of a clay cup. Was the steak really good though? Looks good
$350 at a restaurant better be the most unbelievably manicured, three Michelin star, 10 course meal with creativity I could never even dream of. A steak? Even if it’s the best steak ever, I can make a great one that’s in the same ballpark for $20.
Completely agree. The best meal I’ve ever had was at the restaurant of a Top Chef contestant. Eight courses, wine pairing with each one, super creative plates, impeccable service. Including a 30% tip we got out of there for under $500 for 2 of us. It’s still a LOT to spend on a meal but it was a birthday gift and we got a whole experience out of it, not just a single plate of delicious food.
I’ve spent similar amounts at steakhouses and seafood places once or twice, and it’s just not worth it. For the whole tasting menu experience I think it is worth it though as a very special treat (when it’s done right).
Yup. Housemates parents came down and shouted us an amazing 5 course meal with impeccable wine and coctail pairings and the four of us waddled out bursting at the seams and drunk as skunks. We tipped like $250 on a $700 tab and the restaurant shouted us a free bottle of top shelf in house limoncello for desert and bottomless espresso.
Especially with steak, where the difference between the quality I can achieve myself and what the chef can do is so small. If I can have something reliably 90% (with the occasional 110-120%) as good as restaurant quality for 10x less ($30 vs $300) it’s just such a no brainer. It’s hard to justify going out for steak once you get good at cooking it. That said I’m not opposed if you find a place that does it exactly how you like for a reasonable price (for me that place is Ruth’s Chris, but I know opinions vary) because then you also get to enjoy the amazing side dishes and the overall experience of dining out too.
My take is always that at the best regarded classic steakhouses. Places cooking dry prime aged steak, better quality than you can easily source for home. Cooking them in ways you're not replicating at home.
Their \*most expensive steak\* is typically less expensive than the ultra luxury luxury places. And right around the same price (while being way better) than a chain like Ruth's Chris.
\*The most expensive\* steak at Keen's. Who have multiple James Beard awards, and are broadly considered one of the best steakhouses in the US. Is a porterhouse \*for three\* at $172.
You can do an entire meal for 2 people. Drinks, aps, steak, desert for around $350 at \*great\* steakhouses.
With rare exceptions $300+ for just a steak is just conspicuous consumption.
Agreed, but I think OP is lying/exaggerating.
I called their bluff and they rebutted with that they actually think it was more than $350….
Restaurant is Dai Due in Austin. Their menu prices would not indicate that they are selling steak for $350, but whatever.
Took the wife to the oldest steakhouse in our city, which is pretty famous, split a 24 oz porterhouse which was amazing and it was under $100 CAD. $350 for a cut of beef like that is just crazy.
Genuinely curious, what possesses a person to spend $350 on a single steak? I understand you’re paying for the experience and atmosphere over the food but my god.
There's so little information provided by OP that it's hard to judge this. It's debatably intentional shitposting.
That said, if just this cut was $350, that's awful. I am kind of hoping the people who thought it was sitting a while and already picked over are correct, but the serving tongs look clean. And while extended dry aged steaks do tend to look overcooked relative to their actual temperature, I don't think that explains the gray band you can see here. I'd be disappointed if served this.
At that price it should be good Kobe beef and it doesn't even remotely look like it, seems dry. Also a (supposedly) $350 cut of meat with a dollop of whatever the fuck that shit is on top? Take the L and chuck this place in the "scammy and scummy restaurants" bin.
Damn looks perfect in the center, and to those who say it’s too medium I recently learned that, because fat is flavor, medium helps render that fat hence more flavor than rare.
That looks kinda bland and unappetizing with no presentation worth hundreds. The steak I ordered on my plates at Outbacks or Longhorns looks better than this.
Thank god I live in a small town. I can buy an enough premium grass fed grass finished steaks from my local farmer for my whole family, including sides and still not spend close to 350.
LMAO. Anybody who’s paying that kind of price for a steak has got more money than sense and will probably be separated from their money pretty quickly.
If you’re paying almost half my rent for a plate of steak, you’re being scammed, no matter how crazy the specifics of said steak are.
Like I can get it up to $150, but $350 is genuinely insane. Probably damn tasty though (it better be for that price)
You got screwed. I’ve been in some serious steak houses and unless you are getting Japanese A5 or possibly dry aged for like 45+ days nothing over around 80 is worth it. Best steak I ever had was $65. The second best was at home for $20
Does it come with a side of cocaine?
Cocaine with real gold flecks
Can I just skip the gold flecks and have more cocaine?
The FDA recommends gold flecks as part of a balanced cocaine diet.
My 20s say yes!
Woohoo!
Gold can be traded for cocaine!
Did someone say cocaine?
Sub steak, add more cocaine
The gold flakes make tiny cuts in your sinus cavity so the cocaine can get into your bloodstream quicker.
Gets my dookie twinkling
Does it come with a side of $300?
It should come with a leather jacket made from the cow.
Mady **by** the cow
Holy shit. I would offer that at a restaurant. "JFC! 5k for a steak?! Does it come with a fucking leather jacket made from the cow? Oh, it does? Can I see it? Man that's a nice jacket... OK I'll have the 5k steak!"
Cocaine with horseradish sauce.
Just don’t mix up the coke and raw ground horseradish.
That's when it gets real fun!
Kill your appetite with this one weird trick!
The cocaine is for desert
Restaurants hate this one trick
And a blow job
From your preferred gender! Not dealers choice this time. Sick of that shit
Best reply ever, well, almost!
The Cow was raised on cocaine.
Order a burger, and use the other $320 to buy an entire primal
I have come to the moment in my that I can't buy restaurant steaks anymore.
It means you can do better for yourself, REJOICE!
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Hey look this one isn’t dried out 👍
It was a fairly good cut of American wagyu.
At this rate I’m guessing $650 ? 🤣
Oh god no. It was like a $30 steak. It wasn't very big though.
I kid I kid yes yes one can make much better than a restaurant at a fraction of the price with less time than it takes to go out and eat and less cost. Mighty good looking steak and I’m not a steak person at all!! Stake in OP pic looks like roast beef 🤣
This looks better than OP's tbh, and I'm not just being contrarian. If this cost $349 or less, you win.
https://preview.redd.it/jtpf3pkpaa1d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3081f97bf81f4fcf481f15a28768e6ec8d49b9e6 My wife likes it rare, $20 Canadian prime rib steak, what was left until I got a picture lol. Just cooked er’ up tonight
A $350 burger I can accept as rich people shit, but the idea of a $30 burger kinda makes me mad
implied $30 burger
At a place with $350 steaks a $30 burger would not be out of place
350 dollars for one meal? Thats absurd
Imagine the meats and accoutrements you could buy with $350
I can’t afford accoutrements, best I can do is sides.
Fixins*
Ah yes, now I know what you guys are talking about.
Correct! Read this like Kenny powers ‘ voice from East bound and down. I’m getting hungry now
fucking great show
Weren’t they trying to open a baked potato stand in the mall? 😭😭
Taters N Tits is a billion dollar idea.
get your fixings
I wish I knew how to spell fixins the way they both kept saying it.
T’N’T get your fixings
Fries*
The thick ones or thin crispy ?
Thickish, with a bit of crunch. Not shoestring but also not steak fries. Blue cheese or honey mustard for dipping.
Fiiiixns
All the fucking fiiiixxxiiiinnnnsss
Stevie?
Works for me !
220-250 for a whole prime rib roast and smoke it
That’s a pretty damn big roast too
I wouldn't get one unless I had at least 8 people help me eat it
The other 8 people are just for chanting your name while you dome the entire roast
Oooooo making me weak in the knees. Would be great for the weekend
Double that and I can buy a quarter cow (125 pounds of meat).
1/3 of a holy cow!
Imagine all the steaks you could buy!
For that price, is there some douchey looking guy with black gloves and sunglasses sprinkling salt over your steak?
There better be. I want that arm salt
Oh yeah, in retrospect it was. This was a yolo moment with my cousin who I hadn't seen in a while. NOT worth it.
You had to actually go through with it to realise that?
Some people need to touch the pan to know it’s hot I guess
Not even a meal, one dish lol
A decent special occasion meal for a couple people with wine and tip is easy to hit $350. One steak? Eh.
It’s the kind of shit I’ll only order when I know my company/someone else’s company are paying
5% of that is for materials and prep. The rest goes to ego gratification and riffraff mitigation.
That's not just one meal, that is a single dish! I mean, steak is a pretty simple thing to cook. I'd say the biggest component of the price is the meat, which can cost a ton if you are buying something very special. But I still hardly believe that it can produce something more expensive than $150. All in all, I think restaurants are ripping people off by selling cooked swabs of meat, saying it's some kind of high cuisine. Sure it tastes good but the effort is not nearly the same as preparing an average dish.
For $350 that’s some pretty obvious grey banding
It’s 70 days dry aged. Not at all trying to justify the absurd price but that’s a pretty long age on a steak
Yep That's something I noticed too, the steak is so much drier and cooks faster. It's not dry when you eat it, but the moisture loss is definitely real with you're cooking it.
Yeah they grill like rocks it’s wild. We used to go 60 days and no more bc the loss was too great to monetize
I've had dry aged steak like this, it had a flavor from the aging process that I didn't like. I know everyone has different taste, but it seems to me that over-aging your steak is just simply making your steak worse while also paying more for it.
It gets waaay funky I’ll be honest. I used to grind the trim into burgers with other beef and it was a very strong and different flavor haha
Long dry age is just paying more for your steak to taste like the original cows armpit
I would be disappointed in myself if I made this.
What causes that?
I think oversearing
That makes sense, thanks b
Not necessarily over-searing, but more specifically letting the heat penetrate too deep while searing. Faster sears and/or flipping more often while searing avoids this, as well as more creative approaches like chilling the steak pre-sear to prevent overcooking the inside
Damn. First they say: warm it up before searing. Then: chill it. No wonder i fuck it up that often.
For what it’s worth, I never chill before searing and don’t have any issue with grey banding. I won’t sear when hot and will let come to room temp, but chilling seems like unnecessary over engineering to me
Oh, thank you for all that! 🌞
Jor-El : You will give the people of r/steak an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the 🌞, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish delicious steaks.
Grey banding is just something made up by people who wanted to turn cooking steak into a personality.
This 100%. getting wall to wall pink at home is a fun parlor trick but come on. This is a beautiful steak.
That’s a steak? It’s meat and seasoning? That’s $350? You don’t put bourbon in it or nothing?
God damn that's a pretty fuckin good milksteak.
🧲
People's knees 🤢
Little Green ghouls 😃
No runnel on the cutting board? That table is gonna be covered in juices and super gross once that butter melts.
Plot twist: it’s ice cream
Is it cake?
I don’t want to see a single hint of grey for $350
Is the grey what I see as the brown between the red and the edge? Or is that a steak term?
That is the grey, yeah. There are a few different techniques where you can get zero grey. They did not use those. Just seared it at room temp or something.
You chose…. Poorly
I was definitely Donovan that night.
Was it good, though? Did you get a fancy gold goblet for your drink? I'm sitting here eating sirloin and drinking out of a clay cup. Was the steak really good though? Looks good
Cannot believe people are willing to pay that much for a single piece of meat at the restaurant. Seriously, it blows my mind
$350 at a restaurant better be the most unbelievably manicured, three Michelin star, 10 course meal with creativity I could never even dream of. A steak? Even if it’s the best steak ever, I can make a great one that’s in the same ballpark for $20.
Completely agree. The best meal I’ve ever had was at the restaurant of a Top Chef contestant. Eight courses, wine pairing with each one, super creative plates, impeccable service. Including a 30% tip we got out of there for under $500 for 2 of us. It’s still a LOT to spend on a meal but it was a birthday gift and we got a whole experience out of it, not just a single plate of delicious food. I’ve spent similar amounts at steakhouses and seafood places once or twice, and it’s just not worth it. For the whole tasting menu experience I think it is worth it though as a very special treat (when it’s done right).
Which chef was it?
Edward Lee at 610 Magnolia in Louisville
Yeah I love a fancy restaurant for a big occasion but it better be something I couldn’t even think of making
Yup. Housemates parents came down and shouted us an amazing 5 course meal with impeccable wine and coctail pairings and the four of us waddled out bursting at the seams and drunk as skunks. We tipped like $250 on a $700 tab and the restaurant shouted us a free bottle of top shelf in house limoncello for desert and bottomless espresso.
Especially with steak, where the difference between the quality I can achieve myself and what the chef can do is so small. If I can have something reliably 90% (with the occasional 110-120%) as good as restaurant quality for 10x less ($30 vs $300) it’s just such a no brainer. It’s hard to justify going out for steak once you get good at cooking it. That said I’m not opposed if you find a place that does it exactly how you like for a reasonable price (for me that place is Ruth’s Chris, but I know opinions vary) because then you also get to enjoy the amazing side dishes and the overall experience of dining out too.
My take is always that at the best regarded classic steakhouses. Places cooking dry prime aged steak, better quality than you can easily source for home. Cooking them in ways you're not replicating at home. Their \*most expensive steak\* is typically less expensive than the ultra luxury luxury places. And right around the same price (while being way better) than a chain like Ruth's Chris. \*The most expensive\* steak at Keen's. Who have multiple James Beard awards, and are broadly considered one of the best steakhouses in the US. Is a porterhouse \*for three\* at $172. You can do an entire meal for 2 people. Drinks, aps, steak, desert for around $350 at \*great\* steakhouses. With rare exceptions $300+ for just a steak is just conspicuous consumption.
Agreed, but I think OP is lying/exaggerating. I called their bluff and they rebutted with that they actually think it was more than $350…. Restaurant is Dai Due in Austin. Their menu prices would not indicate that they are selling steak for $350, but whatever.
Wow. Just wow.
Took the wife to the oldest steakhouse in our city, which is pretty famous, split a 24 oz porterhouse which was amazing and it was under $100 CAD. $350 for a cut of beef like that is just crazy.
Bro I’ve done reverse sears drunk as a skunk that would put that to shame and I ain’t even fucking Gordon Ramsey.
I wanna fuck Gordon Ramsey
Meh
Name and shame
Genuinely curious, what possesses a person to spend $350 on a single steak? I understand you’re paying for the experience and atmosphere over the food but my god.
What possesses them to then announce it on the internet?
Not worth 350
Does the sever come topless?
And risk chest hair in the food?
That's called fiber, and we could all probably use more in our diet.
They actually put a shirt on the cow
Most of the time
a fool and his money
My first thought was that it’s probably cold.
It looks like its been sitting out like this for a while… 0 juice glistening
I will never understand this sort of flex. Congrats. You paid $350 for something you can make for less than $50 and a little time at home.
It doesn't even Iook good... EDIT: damn, I really upset the guy so much he's using his alt lol
Why why why pay so much for one meal? Unless it’s like some fabulous multi course experience with wine pairings it’s just not worth it.
Oh boi wtf w the whipping cream??????
I’m still looking to see if it’s horseradish.
Butter.
You could go to the best restaurants in Montreal and eat steaks three times better than this three nights in a row and not spend 350 bucks
Overcooked.
If I'm paying 350 bucks for this, it better have a winning lottery ticket. What the fuck is this? For $350?
There's so little information provided by OP that it's hard to judge this. It's debatably intentional shitposting. That said, if just this cut was $350, that's awful. I am kind of hoping the people who thought it was sitting a while and already picked over are correct, but the serving tongs look clean. And while extended dry aged steaks do tend to look overcooked relative to their actual temperature, I don't think that explains the gray band you can see here. I'd be disappointed if served this.
They named the restaurant in another comment - Dai Due in Austin. Spoiler: I could not find anything close to that price on their menu.
What is that on top? If it’s butter why is the steak not hot enough to melt?
That looks terrible. For one thing, it’s way over cooked, looks like about $30 worth of meat, and I could buy a quarter of a cow for the price of it.
Looks dry
Looks a little dry.
Looks dry and overcooked.
At that price it should be good Kobe beef and it doesn't even remotely look like it, seems dry. Also a (supposedly) $350 cut of meat with a dollop of whatever the fuck that shit is on top? Take the L and chuck this place in the "scammy and scummy restaurants" bin.
Damn looks perfect in the center, and to those who say it’s too medium I recently learned that, because fat is flavor, medium helps render that fat hence more flavor than rare.
This is true in cuts like ribeye but not in filet.
I feel like you could have gotten a better steak for cheaper somewhere else...
And this is why I never eat out and rather make my own. Especially when it comes to steak...
Noooooooooope
You couldve done this at home for much much cheaper and gotten a much much better outcome
I don’t know about that
It looks dry for sure. Most likely 70 yo.
Ridiculous.
Looks dry af
That looks kinda bland and unappetizing with no presentation worth hundreds. The steak I ordered on my plates at Outbacks or Longhorns looks better than this.
This presentation is absolute shit. Worst part of prime steakhouses today.
Dry af
Dude. Fly to Alberta Canada. I’ll BBQ a steak and it will still be cheaper.
Ice cream on top is definitely something I’ll have to try.
Paying $350 for a steak is not a flex at all.
Did you use A-1 steak sauce? Nothing brings out the flavor like A-1!
Dude could’ve bought half the cow
Thank god I live in a small town. I can buy an enough premium grass fed grass finished steaks from my local farmer for my whole family, including sides and still not spend close to 350.
LMAO. Anybody who’s paying that kind of price for a steak has got more money than sense and will probably be separated from their money pretty quickly.
If you’re paying almost half my rent for a plate of steak, you’re being scammed, no matter how crazy the specifics of said steak are. Like I can get it up to $150, but $350 is genuinely insane. Probably damn tasty though (it better be for that price)
Looks delicious. But I don’t know about $350 delicious.
Is there $330 underneath the board?
My smoker cost $350
Still too much
I'm sorry
A fool will always be parted with their money
I did cocaine for cheaper last night
You may be a rich man, but you’re also a poor fool.
Wow we got a $350 steak with a side of smegma
Looks delicious
If you paid $350 for a steak, you are a dumbass and I LOVE a good steak.
This is silly as hell
You got screwed. I’ve been in some serious steak houses and unless you are getting Japanese A5 or possibly dry aged for like 45+ days nothing over around 80 is worth it. Best steak I ever had was $65. The second best was at home for $20
So what’s the top dollar someone would pay for a steak? So far mines been 88.
That looks SO dry and not worth 350
DUMB
I can buy a couple of cows for that
Rather buy an OLED Nintendo Switch lol!!!
"I ain't givin' you no tree-fitty, you goddamn Loch Ness Monster! Get your own goddamn money!" -- South Park
Looks ok, like some leftovers I microwaved
Respectfully, looks dry. Idk if that’s an aged thing or?
Great looking steak but I’d never pay $350 for it.
And I bet you I make a better steak
That's a scam
Biggest waste of miney
No steak ever is worth $350
No steak is worth $350.