# Steak can tear families apart **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2018, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steak-can-tear-families-apart/822550 "2018-10-06T04:47:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steak-can-tear-families-apart/822550/141 "2018-10-11T20:21:01Z")
Eye of round is good in pho’, but that’s about all I can think of where it’s a first choice. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steak-can-tear-families-apart/822550/142 "2018-10-11T22:12:17Z")
I grew up on sirloin or strip steak. Every now and then my dad would get a Delmonico. I like mine medium rare, nice and pink and juicy. (And screw the risk, I’ll eat my burger medium too.) > [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > At home, I prefer my porterhouse, grilled more rare than medium. > > Out to eat, a strip or ribeye, medium. > > On a budget at home, I’ll get a well marbled thicker cut sirloin, again more towards rare. > > ## Really on a budget, I’ll grill chicken! > > My brother likes more well than medium. The real problem is he puts steak sauce, A-1, or ketchup on it!!! Just don’t do what my aunt used to do. My grandmother liked a good steak, so when my mother and I went grocery shopping for her, we’d get her something like a porterhouse, or a t-bone. When my aunt would do her shopping, on the other hand, she’d pick up a _cube steak_. (And no, it wasn’t because she couldn’t afford better. She was just cheap. Seriously, it’s your 92-year-old mother, you can’t get her a decent cut of meat?) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steak-can-tear-families-apart/822550/143 "2018-10-11T22:50:16Z")
Cube steak makes a good chicken fried steak. My mom used to make cube steak with a really nasty brown gravy. I know people can make some wonderful dishes with cube steak, but my mom wasn’t one of them! Skirt steak is good for fajitas ---
**Author:** ![bb49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@bb49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bb49)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steak-can-tear-families-apart/822550/144 "2018-10-12T19:59:32Z")
Rib steak, dry aged. A restaurant in town dry ages them for up to 45 days. Absolutely to die for. New York used to be my go-to-steak, now it’s rib. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steak-can-tear-families-apart/822550.md?page=7)