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Hey guys, this is 2016!
The only way to cook great steak indoors is using a sous-vide unit at 55ºC for 2 hours, followed by a rapid browning of the outside using a blowtorch.
Is this a tech site, or did I stumble into a cave?
Welcome to my cave. My European cave. Full of antiquities, and Old World charm. Replete with copper and cast iron cookware, a Rangemaster cooker, organic food, an exceedingly well stocked cellar (you see, caves are good)…..French table cloths, some silver cutlery, cut crystal….
You stumbled into a thread where some of us are aficionados of the Slow Food Movement………I, for one, have eaten in the restaurant in Piedmont where it was founded.
Now, in the spirit of liberal tolerance, I will allow each their own. However, there are two things about your post I will dispute, or contend with.
The first is your rather arrogant sentence which argues that "the only way to cook steak…", as though such certainty banished alternatives. (Although, I will grant you your method for duck; for duck, a challenging bird to cook in a way that ensures both a crisp skin and moist flesh, the sous-vide method works exceedingly well).
Now, candidly, there are a great many ways to cook steak, and - how you choose to do so it is a matter of personal preference. Mine is to get a (copper, or cast iron, or stainless steel) pan really hot, add olive oil, and sear the steak on the outside while ensuring red tenderness within. But, others think differently.
And, the second is that tired, tedious, cliché 'this is 2016!' Really? And, is it possible that you think we did not notice this? I suppose that it is the judgemental and patronising tone in your post that I take issue with.
The thing about tech - and technological discoveries and advances - is that they may well have been invented, unveiled, made available in a given year (the year that will be forever associated with that product or invention, or technology, forever) - but it may take years, if not decades and centuries for the full effects of some inventions to be felt worldwide.
Alexander Graham Bell may have invented the modern telephone in 1876, but it was a over quarter of a century later before possession of a telephone became de rigueur in upper class circles, and the best part of a century later before automatic telephone exchanges had been rolled out to the more remote, rural parts of much of the
First World, let alone elsewhere.
And, the thing about using dates to define yourself (and I am a trained historian, so dates are My Thing), is that it is so constraining and limiting to confine yourself simply and solely to the advantages conferred by one date over others. Sometimes, the old ways are better, and sometimes, the new rocks. There are times where using both is what works best in the circumstances of your life.
Me, I use them side by side: Thus, my life a tribute to the joys of the possibilities conferred by an eclectic approach to such issues, one influenced by an intellectual delight in à la carte solutions, but governed by a magpie method in seeking them out.
So, I use Apple computers (and write with nothing but fountain pens); I prefer reading books between covers and printed on quality paper - for that matter, I prefer reading newspapers. Real ones, the kind you might have found in coffee houses all of three hundred years ago. But I read most of my daily news and get much of my daily current affairs fix online……such, are the compromises we make in our lives, as we marry different forms of technology for different tasks in our lives.
