Surprised.

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I had a two pack of thin steaks.  I used one... three days ago?  Four?  Then had another steak, but only ate half, finishing it the following day.  Did I go a day without food in there?  Maybe.  You'd be surprised how easy that is on the carnivore food plan.  Sometimes I literally just forget to eat.  It just never crosses my mind.  Or... I don't want to cook, or clean, or... anything.  So... I don't.  And it's no skin off my nose, if maybe some weight off the middle?  Sometimes.

Anyway, there was one left in the fridge.  I didn't even wrap open the packaging.  Just put it in the fridge.  If the other steak was further along into the opened package.  But, I didn't think it would be good.  Sniff test, looked it over for... ANYTHING.  Nope, look, touch, and smell told me it was still good.

The thing with those steaks?  They had been seemingly... almost greasy.  I had fried them in butter, and in coconut oil.  Always... greasy tasting.  I honestly suspect the butter was rancid.  Not... directly?  I mean, it didn't smell rancid.  But, at the plant?  They just use whatever cream they have, and cover it up with... whatever they use to mask rancidity.  It's... the new American (Chinese) way.  Having foreigners do what Americans wouldn't have dreamed of doing.  Oh, no fuss?  They do it to their own, too?  Shut up.  We need to fix things?  I just don't know how.

Anyway...  As to why the coconut oil made it taste wrong?  It... is rather old.  Maybe it just doesn't show rancidity?  Or, maybe, in that it lasts a long time, it is... sort of a rancid product?  I just can't say.  But, what I can say?  Duck fat was superior for this.  There was no after taste, no forward taste, no greasiness, no off, odd, or peculiar taste or odor.  It... tasted like perfect ribeye.

Ah, what a relief.  It wasn't my cooking.  It wasn't the pans.  It... was just the products I tried to use.  I may have to see about better butter.  The local dairy does produce butter.  What I had tried, they now have labeled as "bitter" or "sour" butter?  Cultured maybe?  But, they have (or now) a butter labeled as sweet.  Though, I really need to check the price on that.  If it's reasonable, I could go for it.  If not, I'll keep looking.  I think it was $9 a pound.  Compared to the Big Butter(tm) brands, of "higher quality" butter?  It's cheaper.  Those run $5 to $6 for a half pound.  Or less, have to watch the numbers as they often use metric units.

I don't use as much butter these days, just don't have as much need.  So, could afford better butter.  A stick will probably last me a couple of weeks.  Which means their block butter is tricky... would have to quarter it, wrap some, and freeze... I think butter freezes, not sure how well.  Still, would like to try some better butters, see if it really was the butter, or if butter just lends a greasy taste to steak.

Oh, I know.  People... have gotten to love some things.  Butter fried steak.  But, too, I used to?  However, if you go carnivore?  Or even keto?  Your taste buds change, boi-yeah.  Things I couldn't taste before are absolutely available to me.  Minor nuances, different spices and herbs, my taste buds have gone through a revival, and are still improving.

Anyway, that was one of the better steaks I have had in a fairly long time.  As was the last, fried the same way.  And, actually, even in the same, leftover, fat from the other steak.  Not even a teaspoon was used.  That duck fat will last... a while, too.  Has to be refrigerated, but... that's okay.

Oh, and kept having my pj's fall down!  These were mediums, too?  No, 2xl... but that is supposed to work for 36 to 42 waist.  Nope.  So?  I found an old pair of suspenders.  Now, they are cargo type pj's, thick too, heavy.  And I load it with keys, tools, a flashlight, phone, sometimes a wallet, and... all else.  So... even so, I tried to tie the ties as well as they would tie, and it didn't matter.  I'm losing my hips.  Never really had a butt.  So... yeah.  Problem solving... only took three days of tripping over these or others like them to sort it out.  Check.

Well, on back to gaming.  Good day, evening, night, morning, or whatever you yahoos are about.  Later or goodnight myself.