Am I being a snob?

[AccountingDrone]

http://www.bornrich.com/entry/5000-w...er-experience/

Yes, $5000 for a burger.

ROFLMAO ... made of ground kobe beef.

Dudes, the entire purpose of wagyu beef is the freaking *marbleing* of muscle with fat. Grinding it just thrashes the whole purpose. The marbleing effects the mouthfeel of the beef, it is not about the damned taste ... if you want taste get grass fed, air dried and cold aged beef from a reputable butcher and cook it properly.

Morons with more money than sense.

[earl colby pottinger]

Burger

if you want taste get grass fed, air dried and cold aged beef from a reputable butcher and cook it properly.

So what is the state of the art in burgers? And how much does it cost?

[TowelKing]

I spent $2500 on my 'SOTA' laptop, and even then it wasn't truly SOTA. He needs to pull his head out of his ass.

[AccountingDrone]

So what is the state of the art in burgers? And how much does it cost?

Hm, I prefer to chop my own meat instead of buying preground [better control over the surface microbe count, and grind texture] but I haven't bought any lately. Last batch of cheek meat I bought ran me about $11 per pound, and was a good 15% fat [going by appearance after grinding coarsly] and made quite excellent burgers. If you want to get really fancy you can add in other cuts to tweak the fat levels but I would recommend a coarse grind, add nothing to the meat, and form it into hocky puck sized patties with as little handling as possible, and make them sort of concave to allow the edges to shrink to the same thickness as the center [because of the different cooking rates inner area to outer area] and grill them gently with no poking of holes or squoshings down with the spatula. You can salt and pepper them when you flip it.

To be honest, with as much crap as most people dump on their poor burgers, and the rough handling that people use you can get the meat equivalent to 2 buck chuck and most people wouldn't be able to taste the difference. The only thing that tends to influence people's enjoyment of burgers is if they are dried out or succulent and juicy from the proper level of fat and meat juices remaining through the cooking process.

[tropicsgoddess]

Buying a $300 computer from Wally World isn't exactly state of the art....especially if it's a Dell. Asus and Toshiba are the best for laptops, second best is HP (IMO) ...the worst for any computer is Dell. Why Dell? Their parts are cheap and have shitty quality plus it's a fucking nightmare re-installing the drivers from their computer after re-installing Windows.

[ArcticChicken]

Dudes, the entire purpose of wagyu beef is the freaking *marbleing* of muscle with fat. Grinding it just thrashes the whole purpose.

Someone around here makes a kobe cheesesteak. Seriously, who in their right mind asks for high quality beef on a fucking cheesesteak?! The entire point of a cheesesteak is to make chipsteak edible.

[Andara Bledin]

$5000 for a glorified slider?

That burger better come with a stupendous #### of #### and a #### ###.

To be fair, the article states that it comes with some pretty fancy wine, and imported stemware that comes with it's own certificate of authenticity. So it's not the burger itself that costs so much.

Back on topic, there is nothing SoTA about a $300 computer. Even remotely.

Although I did just recommend to a coworker who wanted a machine for email and Internet that he'd do well to just get a pre-built on special from the local Fry's (I love living in sou Cali). I did some pricing lately, and if you don't need the video required for gaming, you can get pre-builts that are as good as piece-builts for a comparable price.

For a gaming rig, though, if you watch for specials, you can usually shave a couple hundred off the total to put it all together yourself. But you do lose a lot of warranty options that way.

^-.-^

[Sonoma]

My laptop was $600, not from Wally-World, and I know it's not state of the art. I bought a Toshiba from BB. It was an upgrade from it's predecessor, and I hope it lasts me several years. I don't need the latest & greatest, but I want something functional (heck, I only moved up to an HDTV last year....a year ago today, to be exact).

I don't think it was snobby at all, but if the computer does what he needs, for a price he was willing to pay, he doesn't need anything fancier. But that still doesn't make it SOTA. Adequate would be a better word for him to use.