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afaict it's not even a low-carb diet (fruit, pastry), it's a regular diet + nightly steaks. Which tbf sounds very enjoyable, just likely to require vein drano
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kaworu posted:Sorry, didn’t mean to indicate that I’m eating an “ALL-BEEF” diet. I cook a steak and split it with my roommate like 5 nights a week, which seems to be healthy for us and isn’t even close to some extreme or unhealthy diet. I still eat fruit and berries and veggies and eggs and occasionally fish. But most days my major protein fix comes from eating about a 6-8 ounce serving of ribeye, which is actually the most nutrient-dense cut of steak, and full of really good stuff. It may well be that your new diet has some health benefits that you are seeing. But there are also likely drawbacks to that much red meat, some of which will only show up in a blood panel. Yearly physicals are a good idea, and if you're making health changes, now is a good time to start if you don't already. You could driving your cholesterol up, and may not realize it until it's too late.
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 17:07 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LltZ8gXd-Xc
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 17:10 |
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Beef is very bad for the planet OP, please eat less. Even switching 3 of your dinners to other animal steaks / chops would make a big difference, and you may find something you like better.
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 17:43 |
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I can't recommend anything until I run my hands through OPs hair for several minutes
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 17:52 |
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After I learned how to make a really great pork chop, I didn’t miss steak at all any more. I do steak like once per year now. It doesn’t hurt that even the fancy top of the line pork is like half the price of mid grade steaks.
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 19:27 |
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Pork is my favorite meat
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 19:43 |
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Doom Rooster posted:After I learned how to make a really great pork chop, I didn’t miss steak at all any more. I do steak like once per year now. Amen, a well-seasoned thick juicy pork chop with an excellent crust can be put up against most steaks any day of the week.
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 19:48 |
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The Midniter posted:Amen, a well-seasoned thick juicy pork chop with an excellent crust can be put up against most steaks any day of the week. Absolutely. Heck, a bonus for pork IMO is its flexibility for seasoning profiles. With a beef steak, I don’t actually want anything other than salt and pepper (maybe a mushroom salt for finishing). With pork, salt and pepper only is great, but some Aleppo + Szechuan pepper powder completely changes it in a great way. Or lime and chipotle, or garlic and smoked paprika, or a thousand other combos.
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 20:23 |
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Doom Rooster posted:Heck, a bonus for pork IMO is its flexibility for seasoning profiles. With a beef steak, I don’t actually want anything other than salt and pepper (maybe a mushroom salt for finishing). These days I only do a standard meat and three type thing with a slab of protein like maybe a couple times a month. Also, yeah pork is great if you eat pork, although I think the pork I've been using the most lately is ground pork, which is more or less a meat seasoning in a lot of mostly-veg dishes. I think my all-around favourite source of animal protein is duck: use the breast meat either as main by itself (s-v, seared & sauced or w/e) or something else (what I've done the most lately, sliced thin and served in duck ramen—duck and dashi stock, blanched bok choy, egg, onion greens/scapes, sautéd shiitakes, handmade noodles); dark meat goes in cassoulet (best in the cold months) or stir fry or whatever; bits and bobs can be used for something fancy like forcemeats or just going into making a exceedingly rich stock.
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 21:42 |
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The steak every night diet sounds completely bananas to me and I’m glad this time around it’s being mentioned by other posters. Stay safe, steak goon. It’s good that you’re cooking for yourself and enjoying your food, but red meat is for most people better suited as a sometimes food. It also has an insane cost to the environment even if the price you’re paying at checkout is affordable to you.
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 21:53 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrcbyNIJKGk
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SubG posted:Yeah, although you don't strictly speaking have to serve steaks as steaks. During the early/middle pandemic I started getting bulk meat from a meat CSA and ended up doing poo poo like making upscale cheesesteak or using steak in stir fry (a steak done s-v, sliced, and then finished with something like passing through/走油, wildly nontraditional but comes out well). We’ve switched to buying half/whole animals from a few ranchers we personally know around us, and this is basically what 99% of our beef steak cuts turn into now. And wildly non traditional but delicious has slowly taken up 80% of all our cooking excepting basics like “oatmeal” or “pot of beans”.
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# ? Aug 25, 2022 22:54 |
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It's insane to me that in just a few short years we've gone from "if you don't eat steak all day you're gay" to 90% of the thread dogpiling on someone for scarfing beef. I'm glad for the progress though! If anyone wants an easy source for a ton of beef-free recipes, both the vegan thread and the Indian thread are great resources.
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 04:39 |
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There are totally different posters responding in different threads and forums so yeah. YLLS still has a low-carb thread that will be happy to talk about their shiny coats and strong teeth. I would quote but it's probably not fair to drag people in here just for snorting dehydrated broth or whatever they're doing now.
Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Aug 26, 2022 |
# ? Aug 26, 2022 04:49 |
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An asymmetrically footed glass so you can drink and smoke with one hand https://www.htfw.com/smoke-joe-colombo-acqua-water-glass-twin-pack-28cl $200 for a pair
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 05:43 |
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I've successfully stopped eating beef but I have really struggled to excise pork from my diet. Lots of great dim sum/Chinese places around, that's where it's hardest for me. edit: I'm fully pescatarian at home nowadays though that doesn't mean much when I'm working so much I'm constantly eating out :/
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 06:31 |
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Steve Yun posted:
Which is a lot for a snooty alternative to the beer hat.
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 08:59 |
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So I think I figured out a weird trick for roasting wetter veg. I was roasting some zucchini slices tonight, and somehow forgot to toss them in any kind of fat before chucking them in the oven. They were in about 10-15 min before I'd noticed and realized they weren't coming along as hoped, so I popped them out, gave them a quick toss in olive oil, and threw them back in, and goddamn if those weren't the best zucchinis I've ever had in my life. I'm wondering if the prefat roast allowed more water to evaporate before the browning kicked in after the oil toss? More testing is clearly necessary. I still have one in the fridge, so maybe a control/test batch again tomorrow.
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Guildenstern Mother posted:So I think I figured out a weird trick for roasting wetter veg. I was roasting some zucchini slices tonight, and somehow forgot to toss them in any kind of fat before chucking them in the oven. They were in about 10-15 min before I'd noticed and realized they weren't coming along as hoped, so I popped them out, gave them a quick toss in olive oil, and threw them back in, and goddamn if those weren't the best zucchinis I've ever had in my life. I'm wondering if the prefat roast allowed more water to evaporate before the browning kicked in after the oil toss? More testing is clearly necessary. I still have one in the fridge, so maybe a control/test batch again tomorrow. I think you might also get a little dry skin, sort of like a pellicle, with more surface area that the oil just clings to really well. Potatoes get really nice when you par cook them, toss them in oil and the cut surfaces get all craggly and rough
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 12:09 |
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Most of my friends are vegetarian, and a longtime roommate doesn’t eat red meat, which has cut a huge amount of meat from my life. Helped me break the rural “always have to have a meat” mentality. Cooking with them opened up a ton of new flavors and foods I thought were too challenging or something. When its just me and my wife, we still eat a lot of poultry, then pork because it’s hard to pass up $.99/lb when it shows ip at Costco.
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 14:48 |
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Always have to have meat https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1563140264373276673?s=21&t=uJm5ehXPDsBX2pGp3v5VhA
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 14:52 |
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ThePopeOfFun posted:the rural “always have to have a meat” mentality I don’t think this is limited to rural locations/people?
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 18:29 |
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Scientastic posted:I don’t think this is limited to rural locations/people? Of course not exclusively. I grew up rural and experience far more shock/awe to meatless meals among my rural compatriots. Difficult to imagine giving up beef when you personally raise and slaughter show cows, or are on a 6th generation ranch.
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 20:27 |
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I'll admit that I probably have meat (or eggs) in 70% of my meals. I was raised in a suburb and live in a different one now. Never been really inner city and never been even close to rural. I'd like to get away from eating this much meat but also I'm not having any kids so I've done my part around climate destruction!
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 22:30 |
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I'm not completely meatless. Never wanted to be really. I just woke up one day and most meat tasted like crap. I never liked pork and I've been tired of chicken all my life, but now I don't even like sausages or seafood anymore. I can still eat the occasional burger or taco if I'm really in the mood, and I can eat chicken I just find it boring. I mostly eat black beans or chickpeas with rice and have an egg or two every day. Food tastes good and that's all that matters.
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 23:02 |
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Wait, there were Fine Fairs in Canada?
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# ? Aug 26, 2022 23:04 |
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SubG posted:Wait, there were Fine Fairs in Canada? I'm Canadian, no idea what you're talking about. That's from No Name brand. The ones famous for their cooking spray looking identical to their insect repellent.
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 03:59 |
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Fine Fare was a British grocery that had similar yellow generic products Yellows are for subjects of the queen. America has white generics Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Aug 27, 2022 |
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VelociBacon posted:I'm Canadian, no idea what you're talking about. That's from No Name brand. The ones famous for their cooking spray looking identical to their insect repellent.
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# ? Aug 27, 2022 06:04 |
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Holy GRAP I want this, badly. Ex-pat Canuck in Oz, I miss that NO NAME goodness.
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# ? Aug 28, 2022 10:17 |
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Steve Yun posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GPGcP7-FfQ
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 02:37 |
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I don’t think I’ve seen a white generic package in the US since the 90s.
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 04:00 |
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ExecuDork posted:Holy GRAP I want this, badly. Ex-pat Canuck in Oz, I miss that NO NAME goodness. How badly? ( I don't think they'll ship to Australia, but one Dorkroom absentee to another, I can probably figure something out to proxy it to you. )
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 05:02 |
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veni veni veni posted:I don’t think I’ve seen a white generic package in the US since the 90s. The Walmart house label looks vaguely like that up here.
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 05:36 |
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White generics were a trademark of Ralphs, a grocery in California which got bought by Kroger in 1998 They phased out the white generics before that because they were mocked for being so bland looking I can't find photo evidence of it now but I remember when they sold a hat that said hat and a shirt that said shirt It would be pretty hilarious to own now
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 06:07 |
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I vaguely remember seeing white generics, or something very close to it when I was a kid a lot but not really in my adult life. I have no evidence to back this up but my guess is that it was originally done as an easy way to spot the cheapest thing and probably to save money on print for the package, and then was eventually walked back because of the stigma generic products had around them. Probably in no small part because of the packaging being so loud. Although I'm not even sure I remember that correctly. The whole white packaging thing might have been something I just saw in movies as a kid. Nowadays it's crazy. Most chains have multiple tiers of their own generic brands and some of them cost more than basic name brand stuff. Like, Kroger, target etc have premium generic brands like "private select" that are meant to be cheaper versions of luxury products.
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 09:01 |
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While most places have figured out that having several house brands helps sell, Target has no less than 50 house brands, from 1-7 in each department, it’s nuts
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Cassius Belli posted:How badly? Thanks for the offer, but I have friends and family in Canada I can probably blackmail/extort into sending me one. So, I guess not quite THAT badly.
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