Steaks - Steak sauce, Ketchup, Rubs or none of the above?

[reveal]

Following up on my How do you like your steak prepared thread, here's another question: What do you put on your steak?

Personally, I prefer a steak as is, steak. No steak sauce, no ketchup. Now, mind you, I'm not one to turn down a good rub.

My wife, OTOH, has to have steak sauce rub or no rub. Personally, I think it ruins the steak. I want to taste the beef not the sauce.

My son likes ketchup, but he's 3 so what does he know?

 

[AIM-54]

Depends on the steak. If I'm at an Applebees type restaurant, then steak sauce is practically mandatory, because their best steak just isn't flavorful enough to stand alone. If it's a good cut of meat done on the grill cooked just right (possibly with some Montreal steak spices), then it doesn't need steak sauce, though I might have a bit, just because I like steak sauce.

 

[Turanil]

Mustard all the way.

 

[HellHound]

Pepper.

A little salt.

Mushrooms are also approved for contact with my extra-rare beef.

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For a good tuna steak (also as rare as I can get it), then I like it with a wasabi rub, just enough to make the outer edge REALLY spicy and the inside nice and cool to wash it down.

 

[reveal]

For a good tuna steak (also as rare as I can get it), then I like it with a wasabi rub, just enough to make the outer edge REALLY spicy and the inside nice and cool to wash it down.

Mmmmmmmm....

 

[Jesus_marley]

Gah! Ketchup! what kind of heathen would desecrate a piece of meat with Ketchup??!? Even a bad steak is better plain than slathered in the evil red sauce.

now that that is outr of my system, I prefer to let my steak stew over night in a homemade marinade. After that they require nothing else but a butter knife with which to cut them. No other suaces or spices are required.

[/backpatting]

 

[Kanegrundar]

I like my steak either with a nice rub (Gates is nice), or simply with salt and pepper. IMO, the only time you need stuff like ketchup or A-1 is when you screwed up and ended up cooking it to the point of shoe leather.

Kane

 

[Lhorgrim]

I don't season my steak until after I have had the chance to taste it. I prefer to eat my steak without any sauces if the steak is good enough, but sometimes it takes a bit of sauce to bring some flavor to a cheap steak.

I generally like a steak that has been prepared with a rub, but I have had some that were over flavored to the point that I couldn't taste the meat.

 

[freebfrost]

At a cheap steak place (Lonestar, Texas Roadhouse, etc), I'll always get A1 steak sauce.

For a good steak (Ruth's Chris and the like), I'll take it plain.

 

[IronWolf]

Just salt and pepper for me...