First time to eat steak is recommended to directly order set meal, so that you can not have to bother with their own matching.

If you order by yourself, it's usually steak + side dishes. Side dishes are usually two dishes and one soup. Some of the more common sides are mashed potatoes, cauliflower, beet soup, asparagus, macaroni, pasta, mushrooms, creamed spinach, salads, etc. You can see what's on the restaurant's menu.

In addition to the side dishes, the general steakhouse will have fruit, drinks and ice cream, etc., according to their own needs to pick up Oh, generally these are free, but also some stores will charge, the specific circumstances to go to the restaurant.

Steak ordering process:

1, the first step to look at the menu on the line, such as sirloin (affordable, because this meat is chewy male eating habits), Philip (lean meat more fat teenage girls, children and the elderly love to eat), red wine (beauty), the original flavor classic. Or others, you just have to report the name.

2, the second step to report maturity. General waiter will then ask you to a few mature, as long as the report of their own favorite maturity is good, generally is the odd maturity and fully cooked.

3, the third step, choose pasta. The steakhouse package usually comes with macaroni, mashed potatoes and spaghetti. If you don't tell them, they will add macaroni by default.

4, after ordering, you can find a place to sit and wait for the steak.

The first time you eat a steak a few minutes cooked

The first time you eat a steak it is best to eat well-done Oh, and then slowly reduce the degree of cooked, after all, the Chinese people's normal eating habits is to eat well-done food, and suddenly ate not cooked enough to eat may be a little guilty of nausea.

How to cut a steak for the first time

With a fork in your left hand and a knife in your right hand, use the fork to hold the meat, and then use the knife to cut it into small pieces.

When cutting food, tilt the dinner knife and fork slightly toward the plate instead of using them vertically.

The handles of the knife and fork should be held in the palm of your hand.

There are two ways of using a fork:

According to British custom, the fork is always held in the left hand and the knife in the right, with the concave side of the fork not facing upwards, and whatever is eaten, the knife is used to put the food under the convex side of the fork before it is eaten.

Now the American custom is to use the right hand to hold the knife and the left hand to hold the fork only when cutting meat. After cutting, put the knife on the plate and switch the fork to the right hand to eat, or use the fork with the concave side up when holding soft food.

Steak, or porterhouse steak, is chunks of beef and is one of the most common foods in Western cuisine. Steaks are cooked by frying and grilling.

During the Middle Ages in Europe, pork and lamb were the meats consumed by the common people, while beef was the high-class meat for the royals and nobles, and the noble beef was cooked by them with peppercorns and spices, which also enjoyed a prestigious status at that time, and was served on special occasions to show the owner's noble status.

The names of Western dishes such as "steak" and "pork chop" appeared in novels of the late Qing Dynasty, probably because they resembled Shanghai's "dai chai" (diced pork bones), hence the name "chai". In Shanghainese, "steak" is pronounced [ba], and is also known as "steak" in Cantonese.

Steak doneness:

One-point cooked steak (rare): steak is blood-red inside and maintains a certain temperature in all parts of the interior, while there is a raw and cooked part.

Three-quarter cooked steak (medium rare): most of the meat to receive heat penetration to the center, but has not yet produced a large 5 changes, after cutting the upper and lower sides of the cooked meat brown, to the center of the center of the pink and then the center of the color of the fresh meat, accompanied by the knife cuts blood oozing out. (Fresh beef and thicker steak this level will be obvious, it is difficult to achieve this effect on frozen beef and thin cuts)

Five-minute cooked steak (medium): steak inside the area of pink visible and mixed with cooked meat light gray and brown, the whole steak temperature taste balanced.

Seven-percent cooked steak (medium well): steak internal mainly light gray and brown, mixed with a small amount of pink, heavy texture, chewy.

Fully cooked steak (well done): the steak body is cooked meat brown, the beef has been cooked, the taste is heavy.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Steak