What is the proper etiquette when sharing a steak with someone else, especially if one of you is a bit of a picky eater? Let our charming Never Cook Naked columnists, Bruce and Mark, help you out.
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Savvily Sharing Steak
Dear Never Cook Naked Guys: My husband and I love a proper rib eye. He does the cooking; I do the plating. I tend to carve for myself the tender, pot-roast-y, ridiculously fatty fat fat outer portion, leaving him everything else. Is this behavior okay? He’s not a picky eater, whereas–let’s be honest–I am.–Ms. Jack Spratt
Dear Ms. Spratt: Is it okay?
Is it okay to offer the tender, succulent round eye of steak to your husband?
Is it okay to sit there and watch him slice his perfectly cooked, relatively lean, medium-rare steak while you eat the charred crust, the fat sticky and glistening on your lips?
But there’s a bigger, far more important question here: who gets to gnaw away in bliss on the juicy bone? That will tell just how okay the situation is—and how viable your relationship. Whatever the answer, we don’t think it’s going to pose a problem. We have a similar arrangement in our house—he who gets the fat also gets the bone—and we’ve lasted for 15 years of rib eyes.
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Originally published May 22, 2012.
