Eating out - am I expecting too much?

[dennishoddy]

Restaurant prices are bad for sure. But I spent over $12 getting a pound of crappy hamburger meat and a dozen eggs at the store.

What is hamburger meat currently? We eat ground venison at home. It’s been years since buying any at the store.
Wow! Just looked. Almost $7 a lb for 80/20 ground beef at wallyworld.
Chuck roast is $5.50 a lb. Seems like a home grinder and some chuck would be the way to go.

 

[Bixby Sooner53]

All I can say (as far as the prices are concerned) is thank ( or insert another word of choice here) you Joe Biden.

 

[montesa]

Beef is basically unaffordable for average families. A tiny thin steak is 16 dollars at dollar general fresh market. It's incredible. A pound of stew meat is 12 dollars.

 

[John6185]

The sad thing is that not only are prices a lot higher in the restaurants but there is little effort by some3 of the help in keeping things clean. A few months ago we went to Boomrang and the server spilled coffee on the floor and the wife told the gal about the spillage and she aid she'd take care of it but when we left it was still on the floor. They want their tip but they put out very little effort sometimes.

 

[SoonerP226]

Do thus and they might load ya up.

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Oh, they’ll load you up, alright. It’ll be into the back of a paddywagon, but they’ll definitely load you up.

 

[SoonerP226]

I’ve eaten at Oklahoma Joe’s a couple of times, and I’ve been underwhelmed both times. The quality of the food is ok (not great, just ok), but they were overpriced even before the Rona Times. Plus they follow the trend of this Yankeefied part of the state and only carry Pepsi products instead of potable drinks.

 

[KOPBET]

...over $12 getting a pound of crappy hamburger meat.

What is crappy hamburger meat?

 

[red dirt shootist]

What is hamburger meat currently? We eat ground venison at home. It’s been years since buying any at the store.
Wow! Just looked. Almost $7 a lb for 80/20 ground beef at wallyworld.
Chuck roast is $5.50 a lb. Seems like a home grinder and some chuck would be the way to go.

I was thinking about Chuck also, so I picked one up that looked like a ribeye, and I thought "how bad could it be?" I got it in the pellet grill and brought the internal temp up to about 130, then threw it on the searing grill, everything went well, and my question about "how bad can it be" was answered, imagine eating a vibram sole of an old army boot. So I got on youtube and researched. Couple guys came up with some good ideas, one was cook it in a slow cooker, then sear it, and I'll try that, the other guy used this thing that circulates hot water. You put the Chuck in a bag and put it in a plastic tub and run it for 12 hours or so, then sear it. It's worth a try, beef is getting expensive.

 

[dennishoddy]

I was thinking about Chuck also, so I picked one up that looked like a ribeye, and I thought "how bad could it be?" I got it in the pellet grill and brought the internal temp up to about 130, then threw it on the searing grill, everything went well, and my question about "how bad can it be" was answered, imagine eating a vibram sole of an old army boot. So I got on youtube and researched. Couple guys came up with some good ideas, one was cook it in a slow cooker, then sear it, and I'll try that, the other guy used this thing that circulates hot water. You put the Chuck in a bag and put it in a plastic tub and run it for 12 hours or so, then sear it. It's worth a try, beef is getting expensive.

Back in the day when a chuck steak was the most expensive we could afford, yes, it was like eating shoe leather but very beefy tasting.
I guess that’s why ground chuck is more expensive?

The chuck in a bag is called Sous Vide. We use the redneck version on real steaks that really tenderizes them and gives them the perfect internal temp.

 

[rickm]

Wife use to buy a package of these strips of beef maybe 1/8 thick and the first time she fried it up it was like taking my leather belt and trying to eat it and i told her the next time i would show her how to cook it and i got the largest/deepest skillet we had, put meat and seasoning in and filled with water, turn heat up as normal and walked away til the water had cooked out and flipped the meat to sear both sides it was so tender could hardly pick it up with a fork and keep it from falling apart.