in today’s video we’re putting a food
myth to the test the idea that some
restaurants may give you a lower grade
of steak if you order it well-done
because you won’t be able to taste the
difference guys if you’ve watched a lot
of our videos you may have seen that
we’ve done a few videos with steak
that’s partly because there’s some
interesting things to test with it and
it’s partly because we really like the
steak and today I wanted to put a myth
to the test this is something that I’ve
heard for a long time I’ve never
investigated it carefully but I wanted
to test it out here’s the basic idea we
have a spread of steak quality and we’re
gonna cook them all the same way but
cook them well-done
we’ll then see if we can identify which
is which by taste alone to understand
what we’re gonna be looking at we first
need to talk a little bit about the
different quality levels of steak in the
United States steaks are usually graded
by the USDA at one of three different
levels
select choice or prime select is the
lower choices in between and prime is
the highest however there are some kinds
of steaks that even go beyond the prime
classification although they would be
classified prime they’re actually even
better in terms of quality and there are
some that are so low that they barely
seem fit for human consumption down at
this very disappointing end of our
spectrum we have two ribeye steaks I
guess that I bought at a local dollar
store and I gotta say I do not recommend
buying steak at a dollar store so each
of these pitiful thin little soft
squishy slabs of meat it was $1.00 which
is not how much you should be paying for
steak at least not if you want it to be
good at all so I’ve never had these
before and I think that they are going
to be very obviously lower quality
regardless of what else we do but I did
want to get them as sort of just a
baseline worst grade out there then we
have a couple of choice steaks I think
this one looks like it’s a little bit
better than this one and when I say
better mostly what I’m looking for is
the marbling and that’s these little
white bits in the middle of the red
steak and these little white bits these
are fat that are inside what used to be
a muscle on a cow
and so generally speaking the more of
those that the steak has the better the
steak quality we now here have a prime
and these ones are actually ribeye just
because that’s the only thing they had
the rest of these are New York strip
steaks and you can see there’s a bit of
a difference in the marbling there’s
quite a bit more of the fat and we’re
not talking about this fat cap here on
the side that just has to do with how
the animal is butchered but yeah this
fat that’s running through the red part
of meat this is what we’re looking at
you can see that there’s a decent amount
on here this is a pretty good-looking
steak then on top of that we have this
steak over here I’m sure this would be
rated USDA prime this is actually what
is called American Wagyu Wagyu is a
breed of cow from Japan this version of
it has been bred with American Angus
cows so it’s not quite the same stuff
you would get in Japan which is good
because that stuff can easily cost over
a hundred dollars a pound and this was
already quite expensive but this right
here is like truly a phenomenal looking
steak like getting something like this
served to you in a steakhouse you would
be lucky if you were paying less than
like 60 75 dollars something like that
so here’s the gradient we have now most
of the time most places that will serve
steak in the United States if you order
a steak they’re going to give you a
choice graded steak
this right here is choice this is what
most steak houses sell most of the time
getting prime some places will have it
like on special occasion days or for
like an extra larger amount of money
nicer restaurants will carry this a lot
of the time you have to go to a
specialty Steakhouse to make sure you’re
getting something that’s this quality
and then this the American Wagyu version
you’re gonna have to go to like a
specialty shop that you’ll probably be
advertising that they carry something
like this the myth is that if you go to
a restaurant that that says they carry
prime and you order your prime steak and
you say you want it well done the myth
is that some restaurants will actually
give you a lower cut a lower grade like
the choice steak instead of the prime
because once you’ve cooked it so much
that it’s well-done you’ve cooked all
the flavor out of it and you won’t be
able to tell the difference that’s what
we want to test out today so what we’re
going to do is very unfortunately we’re
going to cook all these steaks too
well-done and I save
unfortunately because that’s not my
personal preference of how a state
should be done I think it does start
losing flavor at that point it’s not as
tender it’s not as flavorful in my
opinion so we’re gonna test all of these
we’re gonna prepare them the same way
we’re going to cook them the same way
then we’re going to have a group of
people taste them and see if they can
tell the difference even after it’s all
been cooked well done will our super
Prime taste just the same as a choice
war prime tastes the same as a choice
where will there still be a clear
difference between all these steaks so
we’re gonna put a bunch of salt on these
and we’re gonna let them sit for about
40 minutes
while they’re sitting letting the salt
absorb into them we’re gonna start
firing up our charcoal grill and that’s
how we’re gonna be cooking these all
right we’ve got our steaks all salted
and now we’re just gonna let them sit
and what’s gonna happen while that sits
there is that salt it’s actually going
to pull a little bit of moisture out of
the surface of the meat the moisture
will then dissolve the salt and some of
that will actually get pulled back in so
we’re gonna end up with a little bit of
sort of salty liquid inside layer the
meat has a lot of delicious flavor to it
while we’re waiting we’re gonna be
[Music]
we’re doing a reverse here we’re gonna
put it over on this side first it’s hot
inside according to the thermometer on
our barbecue about 350 so we don’t want
it quite that high we wanted at about
the 250 range we’re just gonna let it
sit on there until the inside of the
steaks gets up to about 150 degrees
Fahrenheit and at that point we’re gonna
put it over on the hot side of the grill
and sear those suckers get a nice crispy
coating on the edge and see how this
works out
okay I think our steaks are right about
where we want them we’re now going to
move them over onto the hot side of the
grill we’re gonna sear these suckers and
make sure they get well-done
that’s the test we got to see if it
really makes a difference here goes
[Music]
the question is how does it taste so we
are going to take these we’re going to
slice them up and we’re gonna put them
on plates I’ll know which plate is which
this can be for everyone else to see if
they can tell which is which just by
tasting it maybe this is the good one
who knows
if I had that in like a burrito I
wouldn’t be mad
all right guys everything is cut and
sliced and on secretly labelled plates
you’re never gonna be able to tell which
is the dollar store one but we’ll see
with the rest okay I’ve got my taste
testing crew here so guys each of these
plates they’re all labeled I actually
have lost track for sure which is which
but each plate is label so we can check
afterward so we just have to taste each
piece of steak and see if we can tell
which are the higher grades which the
lower grades you can also of course look
at them smell them feel them that’s
gonna help I mean let’s let’s get
started you can go kind of in whatever
order you want just make sure you taste
all of them and see what you think is
the best and which are the different
levels he’s making his decision all
right yeah okay Jase which one did you
take did you take that one was it good
Yeah right on a burrito I need to eat a
lot of it and not have anything else
without trying this year how is it yeah
like I’m surprised that something from
the dollar store is even that quality
seeing the before and the after I was
worried but I wouldn’t the same no it’s
got a really nice flavor you are you are
liking this already that was great
yes this middle one is a grocery store
grade is okay there is a little bit of
difference in like the visual too like
this seems a little like tighter grain
than some like eye and I honestly have
lost track I think I know but just
looking this one does seem a little
tighter grain than the others oh you
want something like the dollar store one
huh I think the more you season it the
better it would taste I mean it’s all
just got salt but it’s pretty it’s a
pretty bland flavor of meat where is
this meat and this meat the meat is
flavorful so you guys vote first cuz I
maybe know what things were but I did
mix it up and I wasn’t paying much
attention so I’ve probably gotten
confused
so we voted this is the dollar store one
that’s great this is the next grade oh
you think this is this is a second
you think this one’s third I had a hard
time telling the difference between
these two honestly so we had the plates
marked this is the fourth place one that
is in fact the one that had yeah we had
them all online we had one two three
four or five so far we’ve got five four
and then we’ve got this one here has
marked I see one that’s the middle one
okay did you know we then have our prime
grade and the one that we all thought
was the best was the why you so Wow we
were correct I actually had a little bit
of trouble with this one here I did
think that this was the prime mostly for
the visual like it’s got it just seems
the fibers are a little bit more
separated which happens when there’s
more fat in it I thought though the weiu
one was very clearly better we
agreed that was the favorite absently
cooking steaks well-done can you tell if
they’ve given you a lower grade steak
and our group came to the consensus that
yes you can tell it still makes a
difference even when you cooked it this
much this is overcooked all the way
through by pretty much every chef
standard in the world see how just brown
there’s like no pink to it anymore maybe
there are some people out there ordering
and they’re just like I want it not even
brown I want it cooked gray all the way
through and that can kind of happen
later if you cook it more and more and
if you turn this into I know it’s gonna
say if you turn it into jerky I feel
like even as beef jerky you’d be like
this is way better beef jerky or than
that beef jerky but these are all
definitely cooked well done and we can
tell the difference well I’m not gonna
say that no restaurant has ever done it
but I’m gonna say that it’s not a good
idea because you can still tell the
difference for years we’ve seen comments
on some of our build videos asking
whether or not people actually do the
projects well we want to make it easier
than ever for you to build things along
with us click the link in the
description to find out more guys that’s
not all you know we’ve always got more
for you to see the box up at the top is
gonna take you directly to our last
video should go check that out the other
box is gonna show you what YouTube
thinks you should be watching next this
bomb here in the middle you’ll be
subscribed to the channel that way
you’re never gonna set out a cool video
especially if you remember to ring the
bell so you get the notifications about
it I’ll see you the next one talk to you then
myth to the test the idea that some
restaurants may give you a lower grade
of steak if you order it well-done
because you won’t be able to taste the
difference guys if you’ve watched a lot
of our videos you may have seen that
we’ve done a few videos with steak
that’s partly because there’s some
interesting things to test with it and
it’s partly because we really like the
steak and today I wanted to put a myth
to the test this is something that I’ve
heard for a long time I’ve never
investigated it carefully but I wanted
to test it out here’s the basic idea we
have a spread of steak quality and we’re
gonna cook them all the same way but
cook them well-done
we’ll then see if we can identify which
is which by taste alone to understand
what we’re gonna be looking at we first
need to talk a little bit about the
different quality levels of steak in the
United States steaks are usually graded
by the USDA at one of three different
levels
select choice or prime select is the
lower choices in between and prime is
the highest however there are some kinds
of steaks that even go beyond the prime
classification although they would be
classified prime they’re actually even
better in terms of quality and there are
some that are so low that they barely
seem fit for human consumption down at
this very disappointing end of our
spectrum we have two ribeye steaks I
guess that I bought at a local dollar
store and I gotta say I do not recommend
buying steak at a dollar store so each
of these pitiful thin little soft
squishy slabs of meat it was $1.00 which
is not how much you should be paying for
steak at least not if you want it to be
good at all so I’ve never had these
before and I think that they are going
to be very obviously lower quality
regardless of what else we do but I did
want to get them as sort of just a
baseline worst grade out there then we
have a couple of choice steaks I think
this one looks like it’s a little bit
better than this one and when I say
better mostly what I’m looking for is
the marbling and that’s these little
white bits in the middle of the red
steak and these little white bits these
are fat that are inside what used to be
a muscle on a cow
and so generally speaking the more of
those that the steak has the better the
steak quality we now here have a prime
and these ones are actually ribeye just
because that’s the only thing they had
the rest of these are New York strip
steaks and you can see there’s a bit of
a difference in the marbling there’s
quite a bit more of the fat and we’re
not talking about this fat cap here on
the side that just has to do with how
the animal is butchered but yeah this
fat that’s running through the red part
of meat this is what we’re looking at
you can see that there’s a decent amount
on here this is a pretty good-looking
steak then on top of that we have this
steak over here I’m sure this would be
rated USDA prime this is actually what
is called American Wagyu Wagyu is a
breed of cow from Japan this version of
it has been bred with American Angus
cows so it’s not quite the same stuff
you would get in Japan which is good
because that stuff can easily cost over
a hundred dollars a pound and this was
already quite expensive but this right
here is like truly a phenomenal looking
steak like getting something like this
served to you in a steakhouse you would
be lucky if you were paying less than
like 60 75 dollars something like that
so here’s the gradient we have now most
of the time most places that will serve
steak in the United States if you order
a steak they’re going to give you a
choice graded steak
this right here is choice this is what
most steak houses sell most of the time
getting prime some places will have it
like on special occasion days or for
like an extra larger amount of money
nicer restaurants will carry this a lot
of the time you have to go to a
specialty Steakhouse to make sure you’re
getting something that’s this quality
and then this the American Wagyu version
you’re gonna have to go to like a
specialty shop that you’ll probably be
advertising that they carry something
like this the myth is that if you go to
a restaurant that that says they carry
prime and you order your prime steak and
you say you want it well done the myth
is that some restaurants will actually
give you a lower cut a lower grade like
the choice steak instead of the prime
because once you’ve cooked it so much
that it’s well-done you’ve cooked all
the flavor out of it and you won’t be
able to tell the difference that’s what
we want to test out today so what we’re
going to do is very unfortunately we’re
going to cook all these steaks too
well-done and I save
unfortunately because that’s not my
personal preference of how a state
should be done I think it does start
losing flavor at that point it’s not as
tender it’s not as flavorful in my
opinion so we’re gonna test all of these
we’re gonna prepare them the same way
we’re going to cook them the same way
then we’re going to have a group of
people taste them and see if they can
tell the difference even after it’s all
been cooked well done will our super
Prime taste just the same as a choice
war prime tastes the same as a choice
where will there still be a clear
difference between all these steaks so
we’re gonna put a bunch of salt on these
and we’re gonna let them sit for about
40 minutes
while they’re sitting letting the salt
absorb into them we’re gonna start
firing up our charcoal grill and that’s
how we’re gonna be cooking these all
right we’ve got our steaks all salted
and now we’re just gonna let them sit
and what’s gonna happen while that sits
there is that salt it’s actually going
to pull a little bit of moisture out of
the surface of the meat the moisture
will then dissolve the salt and some of
that will actually get pulled back in so
we’re gonna end up with a little bit of
sort of salty liquid inside layer the
meat has a lot of delicious flavor to it
while we’re waiting we’re gonna be
[Music]
we’re doing a reverse here we’re gonna
put it over on this side first it’s hot
inside according to the thermometer on
our barbecue about 350 so we don’t want
it quite that high we wanted at about
the 250 range we’re just gonna let it
sit on there until the inside of the
steaks gets up to about 150 degrees
Fahrenheit and at that point we’re gonna
put it over on the hot side of the grill
and sear those suckers get a nice crispy
coating on the edge and see how this
works out
okay I think our steaks are right about
where we want them we’re now going to
move them over onto the hot side of the
grill we’re gonna sear these suckers and
make sure they get well-done
that’s the test we got to see if it
really makes a difference here goes
[Music]
the question is how does it taste so we
are going to take these we’re going to
slice them up and we’re gonna put them
on plates I’ll know which plate is which
this can be for everyone else to see if
they can tell which is which just by
tasting it maybe this is the good one
who knows
if I had that in like a burrito I
wouldn’t be mad
all right guys everything is cut and
sliced and on secretly labelled plates
you’re never gonna be able to tell which
is the dollar store one but we’ll see
with the rest okay I’ve got my taste
testing crew here so guys each of these
plates they’re all labeled I actually
have lost track for sure which is which
but each plate is label so we can check
afterward so we just have to taste each
piece of steak and see if we can tell
which are the higher grades which the
lower grades you can also of course look
at them smell them feel them that’s
gonna help I mean let’s let’s get
started you can go kind of in whatever
order you want just make sure you taste
all of them and see what you think is
the best and which are the different
levels he’s making his decision all
right yeah okay Jase which one did you
take did you take that one was it good
Yeah right on a burrito I need to eat a
lot of it and not have anything else
without trying this year how is it yeah
like I’m surprised that something from
the dollar store is even that quality
seeing the before and the after I was
worried but I wouldn’t the same no it’s
got a really nice flavor you are you are
liking this already that was great
yes this middle one is a grocery store
grade is okay there is a little bit of
difference in like the visual too like
this seems a little like tighter grain
than some like eye and I honestly have
lost track I think I know but just
looking this one does seem a little
tighter grain than the others oh you
want something like the dollar store one
huh I think the more you season it the
better it would taste I mean it’s all
just got salt but it’s pretty it’s a
pretty bland flavor of meat where is
this meat and this meat the meat is
flavorful so you guys vote first cuz I
maybe know what things were but I did
mix it up and I wasn’t paying much
attention so I’ve probably gotten
confused
so we voted this is the dollar store one
that’s great this is the next grade oh
you think this is this is a second
you think this one’s third I had a hard
time telling the difference between
these two honestly so we had the plates
marked this is the fourth place one that
is in fact the one that had yeah we had
them all online we had one two three
four or five so far we’ve got five four
and then we’ve got this one here has
marked I see one that’s the middle one
okay did you know we then have our prime
grade and the one that we all thought
was the best was the why you so Wow we
were correct I actually had a little bit
of trouble with this one here I did
think that this was the prime mostly for
the visual like it’s got it just seems
the fibers are a little bit more
separated which happens when there’s
more fat in it I thought though the weiu
one was very clearly better we
agreed that was the favorite absently
cooking steaks well-done can you tell if
they’ve given you a lower grade steak
and our group came to the consensus that
yes you can tell it still makes a
difference even when you cooked it this
much this is overcooked all the way
through by pretty much every chef
standard in the world see how just brown
there’s like no pink to it anymore maybe
there are some people out there ordering
and they’re just like I want it not even
brown I want it cooked gray all the way
through and that can kind of happen
later if you cook it more and more and
if you turn this into I know it’s gonna
say if you turn it into jerky I feel
like even as beef jerky you’d be like
this is way better beef jerky or than
that beef jerky but these are all
definitely cooked well done and we can
tell the difference well I’m not gonna
say that no restaurant has ever done it
but I’m gonna say that it’s not a good
idea because you can still tell the
difference for years we’ve seen comments
on some of our build videos asking
whether or not people actually do the
projects well we want to make it easier
than ever for you to build things along
with us click the link in the
description to find out more guys that’s
not all you know we’ve always got more
for you to see the box up at the top is
gonna take you directly to our last
video should go check that out the other
box is gonna show you what YouTube
thinks you should be watching next this
bomb here in the middle you’ll be
subscribed to the channel that way
you’re never gonna set out a cool video
especially if you remember to ring the
bell so you get the notifications about
it I’ll see you the next one talk to you then
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