That's YOUR personal opinion. Geez, I'm glad we aren't friends I would have I expect some shitty pasta every time I visit you lol. My family and I wouldn't be worthy of a tbone because you're too cheap and I would have to get it prepared to your satisfaction and not mine.

Trust me, we were friends and I bought you and your wife a top choice steak I'm going to prepare it how you guys like it. If your wife wants it well done that's how I'll make it and I won't hold it against her.

Or brisket that only takes 13 hours, or a nice roast chicken, or coq au vin that takes hours slaving over a stove, or a lasagna that generally runs me $100+ every time I make it. I didn't say just pasta.

I do way more work and generally spend more when I do something other than steak. So the point you're making just isn't true.

And my personal opinion on how steak should be prepared is the expert opinion on how something like a t-bone SHOULD be prepared. It's not coming from me, though I do agree with it.

I would do the same. Just saying, next time we're probably not having steak. But that doesn't mean it would try any less than I would have otherwise. I'd try my damnedest to make something you'd love, without desiccating a steak.

These do look good, by the way. Better than my last t-bone, for sure.

So the expert is ALWAYS right? I'm sorry dude, but you're being very over the top on this. A steak should be prepared to the consumers liking.

The experts are accounting for the preparation that best enhances flavor and texture. Could they be wrong? Sure.

Then why don't you prepare a steak they way your friends like it instead of some expert who could be wrong?

Are thousands of experts wrong? Unlikely.

And for the third time, I believe, I would. Just not more than once if we're talking prime cuts. It's not like I'm ridiculing them and refusing to cook it. I'd grind my teeth and do it. But next time, we're having something equally delicious (if not more so) that doesn't involve a prime cut of meat.

Now, to change the subject because I like you and hope you didn't mean you saying you're glad we're not friends... I bought stuff for pesto tonight for some chicken. Thanks to you. Care to share a recipe? I like it, but have never actually made it.

I wasn't being serious. I just pretty much threw it together tasting it several times over and over lol. I used 2 bushels of basil, extra virgin olive oil, 4 cloves of garlic (if you haven't figured it out I'm a huge fan of garlic) Rosemary, roasted pine nuts, Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper. I really like the Rosemary as most recipes don't call for it.

I didn't grab any rosemary, never heard of that before. I do have some in the back yard though.

Yeah I had to use it up before it went bad. I haven't found one recipe that calls for it. I like to experiment and this was a fairly good addition.

I'll give it a shot sometime. Probably not tonight because the wife has never had pesto, but maybe next time.

My wife likes steaks well done like a weirdo too so if I buy Ribeye and Sirloin at the same time, I'll freezer bag one of each together, so when I cook steak one night she gets her hockey puck sirloin and I get my medium rare Ribeye.

WINNING.