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Sometimes, you just want a steak and you don't want to go through a whole process to get it. Who wants to light the grill just so you can have one measly steak? Why make a whole production out of it? What you need, my friend, is a steak toaster.
OK, so it's not called the steak toaster, it's called the Ariete SteakHouse Indoor Grill, but that's pretty much what it is. It holds your hunk of meat vertically, keeping the heating elements on the side so all the fatty, greasy juices drip down to a tray and don't smoke. Sure, for $220 you could just fire up the grill, go to a steak house or get a cheap George Foreman grill to get similar results, but then you wouldn't be able to brag to your friends that you have a steak toaster. [Product Page via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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Wasn't this on "American Inventor" last year? Guess someone saw the show and wanted to put it together. But it took like 45 minutes to cook the steak when he showed it to the judges...
Or just get a George Forman grill..20 bucks and probably just as effective.
I could just call my foreman grill a steak toaster...
By its vertical orientation - it'll be a dry feef gerky when all said and cooked. Next
@daftrok:
I really have to start reading the last sentence of articles...
If only it had the sponsorship of a former heavyweight boxer.
Now THIS could have saved The Sharper Image's ass!
If it isn't touched by flame, it isn't a fscking steak! Sorry, that's fried meat, and it just doesn't taste anywhere near the same.
@daftrok:
Yeah, that's normally the kicker. Ahaha.
@CafeRacer1200:
Ahahahahaha. Thanks for the laugh.
Warning: Turn off smoke detector before using steak toaster.
What Sharper Image needs now is a food on a stick maker. Really, outside of a Ren Faire or State Fair, there just are not enough foods served on sticks.
@zarchitect: ...and no one likes feef gerky!
@daftrok:
Yep, got a foreman grill and it is fine (not the base model). This is just a foreman grill, turned on it's end.
Plus, vaporized fat/juices are part of the flavoring of a steak...
As an Amish person (Mennonite, actually), I've seen the same thing in very old grills. This is like a gadget version of an old world design. As legend has it, the first place in America to serve hamburgers actually grilled them in a vintage vertical grill.
The best steak to be had is cooked in a $10 iron skillet. That's right, I said it.
I'm not sure flipping a steak over once at the stove is really that much more work than jamming steak into a toaster..
@FRIGG
As an Amish person...why are you on Gizmodo? :P
@frigg: somehow, it does my heart very glad to have a frigg'n mennonite browsing and commenting on a blog that covers the newest and most sophisticated gadgets.
@Blackti3: hahahhaha simultaneous post!
Uh. This is quite different from a foreman grill, since the steak is being held apart from the heating element.
George Foreman grills are just double-sided hotplates. This is more like a miniature broiler.
And broilers, for the record, can produce very good steaks.
People love that flame grilling, but the best steaks I've had are made under a broiler.
My thing is that steak needs to cook in its fat and shit so if can be savory. But howshould we know, most of thereaders are red meat eating americans. nothing against others especially the AMISH!!!
and here i thought it was ok to bash the amish on the tubes, since they presumeably aren't on here.
what you dont know is that his comments are posted via hand carried courier, and he checks out the posts via a sketch artist. those videos are a bitch, though, having to make a flipbook everytime...
@nutbastard: THAT ISTHE MOST FUCKING HILARIOUS THING IN THE WORLD,I TIP MY HAT TO YOU!!
Ill just stick to my 20 dollar walmart george foreman / panini maker grill LMAO
FYI Men,
If you like the George Foreman Grill... you know Zero about steaks and you have no taste whatsoever.
Go boil a hot dog... it'll taste better.
@SecretAsianMan:
I agree as a quick fix... but it would come in 5th. place for steaks.
1st Place goes to grilling with true Mesquite charcoal.
2nd Place goes to charcoal briquettes.
3rd Place goes to Infrared BBQ Grills
4th Place goes to regular BBQ grills.
I had a GF grill. A piece of JUNK I tell you. It ruined a perfect $10 Ribeye steak. Just boiled it off!.
And if the above takes 45 minutes to cook, might as well eat a piece of leather...
Do not taunt Steak Toaster...
@TYPOINK is right. The best steak houses () broil to sear the outside, then bake at a lower temp to maintain tenderness while reaching medium rare. If this think can get hot enough (big IF), then it could produce some really good steak. This thing can handle up to 3cm thick steak, which is about how thick you want it when using this technique.
@secretasionman -Also on the money. Cast iron is the way to seer if your broiler is not up to par. Then throw the whole thing in the oven.
@aec007:
I'm willing to bet people using a GF grill or a steak dryer/toaster are willing to trade convenience and health for taste. I love all things beef and fried and grilled but I usually eat a dry chicken breast. Damn my tortoisial metabolism.
PS: Yes, I make up words.
Doesn't frig start about 90% of his posts with "As an Amish person (Mennonite, actually)"? It's really become his trademark. He should be billed as "The Techno-nite".
I'd rather use my grill in a snow storm to be honest, Steak Toaster. No offense.
It's a gas grill, but I generally use a lot of mesquite in a smoker box.
Who needs a steak toaster? All I need is for you to walk the cow past the grill a few times then cut me off a piece.
@zarchitect: well just turn it 90 degrees :)
Great, this will make the boring half of Steak & BJ day easier! :D
Hope it does Medium Well.
Cooked meat is for pussies.
How about this you could just build a stand for your george foreman grill and stand it up vertically.
You'll get the same results and you get to help out george foreman rake in more money from his grill line.
@Blackti3:
Maybe because I just saw "Jumper," that's kind of how I would describe it. Within the Community there's a stealth brethren of tech savvy individuals whose tech savvy is often unknown to each other and even their own families. Either that, or I'm the only one. :(
Actually, technology among the Amish (and Mennonites) is often misunderstand, but understandably since it's pretty weird. For example, you can put up a website for a family farm, but the website has to be simple HTML, no flash!
why do i need to know your relgion? say your peace and shoosh already. as for the steak toaster... I wanna see a cage macth between Him and the brave lil toaster
and on the under card should be Johnny 5 vs Wall-e
@frigg: What few people realize about us mennonites is our insatiable love for food, well... specifically red meat. The whole reason I read giz is for the kitchen gadgets, nothing like finding new ways to toast your steak or broil your sausages.
Oh also some daily mennonite education for giz readers, what separates us modern ones from our ancient Amish brethren is the fact that we are among the most tech-savvy culture on earth, except where it comes to weapons of war.
"It holds your hunk of meat vertically"
errr..umm.....nevermind.
@Nintenboy01: I caught that too, though checking his history it appears it isn't as frequent as we think. Anyway cheers to Frigg for breakign into modern times!
Mmmm Steak...
I don't like the idea of the fat dripping off though! THATS THE BEST PART!!!
Just don't tell my old lady my meat drips fatty, greasy juices.
Everybody's thinking it:
"We been spending most our lives
Living in an Amish paradise
We're all crazy Mennonites
Living in an Amish paradise
There's no cops or traffic lights
Living in an Amish paradise
But you'd probably think it bites
Living in an Amish paradise"
@frigg: @Fierock:
May the Force (of capitalism) be with you!
HTML only!... No Flash? WOW!
So... do the elders view gadget blogs as internet porn?
"I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since, I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So … most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then, I wake up, to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day. Today, I got up, I stepped onto the grill, and it clamped down on my foot, that's it. I don't see what's so hard to believe about that."
@frigg: And that place still cooks their hamburgers in a vertical toaster like device that uses fire instead of electricity. They also do not serve burgers with ketchup or cheese. Just mustard and bread.
@bradc2755: great reference Michael Scott, except since watching that for the first time I've come to the realization that a standard sized foreman grill can only fit up to 5 strips of bacon (unless there is some kind of skinnier bacon I'm not aware of)
@frigg: I thought the Amish weren't allowed to use electricity?!
Wow, there are a LOT of meat snobs here. And BTW, boiled hotdogs suck.
@Fierock: true that, my tech savvy meno-friend.
@smcallah: Good call! (although I think their rule is no ketchup or mustard, but cheese on request).
@Zlevee: Thanks, alth