Hey everyone, I know most of you would know all this already, and probably live by it too - but I'm writing this to some of you that might balk at meat prices. Also, I write it to remind myself too.
It's easy to go into your local grocery store or butcher shop and gulp when you see the price for a quality hunk of meat. But think about it for a second - when I take my family of four out for dinner, even at a fast food place where we'll be eating crappy food, it costs around thirty bucks often. If we go to a decent, order off the menu kind of place it's getting closer to fifty buck. Then, anywhere nice and the sky's the limit.
When you take that into account,
buy the freakin' piece of quality meat and slap it on the Weber! 1. You'll be eating whole food, not processed, who knows what crap is in it type stuff.
2. You control the sodium levels and even when I season up a steak liberally I'll bet it doesn't even come close to the levels of sodium I would get at an Applebee's type restaurant.
3. When you drive to the restaurant, wait for your seat, wait to order, yada, yada, yada - You ain't saving that much time. And if you're like me, you're adding to your whole frustration level too.
4. A good quality meal on the Weber doesn't have to be that fancy and involved. A steak or piece of chicken, a baked potato or some made in a CI skillet, a Veg on the Weber or not, and/or a salad and you're set. I like to grill a simple bagette on the Weber too. Yum.
5. Dude, you're grilling on a Weber. That should be numbers five through 100. We should form a special detail that would do like that office linebacker guy on the commercials. When we see one of us going into a restaurant we should tackle that guy and yell in his face, "Buy the freakin' piece meat!! It just makes sense!!!"
So add your thoughts on why it just makes sense to grill at home.
P.S. For full disclosure, I've still never been able to pull the trigger on a really pricey raw steak or prime rib type of meat. I'm working my way up to it though.