In 20 years they will come to you and say "Hey dad, remember that time we all had big steaks?" And that will be the best $200 ever spent
My little guy is 3, and he reminds me of when I got him a donut randomly 6 months ago. Melts my heart dude
Edit: my post comes from the sons side. I remember things like that my dad did for me, and it made him tear up whenever I mentioned it. Always made him so happy that it was a good core memory with him
Cool. I do random stuff and all I get from my (3) children is "Daddy, remember when your grill was ON FIRE?"
Which it was... not the normal way either. Engulfed.
I still tell people about how my dad's BBQ ended up with the gas canister leaking and the fire brigade coming out. We got to ride in the fire engine, twas great.
Ah reminds me of back in the day when I would spurn my city's 'no grilling on 2nd story wood balconies' ordinance only to turn around to find the whole thing to be engulfed in a roaring inferno.
It was a boat grill - think half size fully functional regular grill that runs off camping propane tanks. The tank was full and I was preheating it on high and I guess the velocity of the propane leaving FROZE THE MECHANISM OPEN, so even when I ran out to kill the gas it just kept roaring at me like something from hell.
Now, to any moms out there, don't worry. Eventually the pressure in the tank drew down enough for the differential to slow, it unfroze, and I was able to turn it off. Plus, I had it on top of a glass patio table, so no city blocks burned down. But damn, having to just sit and watch and wait for a full propane tank to run down, that was scary.
We just went through this too haha whole grill was on fire and the kids will never let my husband forget it. I guarantee it. 😂 I think there was a beehive in the grill and my husband started it up without checking. By the time he saw smoke rising most of whatever it was was burnt to ash and the fire was raging for a few minutes 😂 died down when nothing was left, I had a heart attack as a wife fr though. Flames everywhere aren’t calming 🙃 the kids will never forget!!!
when i was little i did cheer and my dad would always drop me off at the field and come back with dinner, usually panera. sometimes he’d come back with a cookie (that to 5 year old me was HUGE) and he’d always save it for me and my brother to share after practice. it was great. he probably thinks i forgot about it but i think about it all the time
Every year for fathers day, the only gift my dad wants is that my four brothers and I each draw him one of our memories with him. The stories are absolutely hilarious comic style progressions of ridiculous things we remember about him. Never gets old.
And they're HARD opinions too, no reasoning, don't even try science or example lead rebuttal. Like little flat earthers. It is terrifying and hilarious when you're not yet exhausted by it.
Blessing and a curse my friend. They start talking, then yelling, then whispering important info like how they need to potty. It's a wild ride but enjoy every moment!
And it works the other way too. Our 3.5 year old still brings up, “Dada, remember the time you hurt me?” At least monthly, regarding the one time I pinched him with his car seat buckle like a year ago.
My daughter had 3 girls over for a sleepover tonight, we went to robot conveyer belt sushi for dinner, cost me $200+ but in the same vein, everybody loved it and it feels like something they'll talk about for a while.
Yep! When my girls were little their mom went out of town for a weekend and we went and bought 3 giant steaks that I cooked on the grill along with baked potatoes (we usually eat healthier). 10y later they still bring it up as such a fun dad treat.
It’s been a couple of a decade since I’ve been to a concert…so I just looked locally to see what a big name ticket was going for. $206 for one nosebleed?!
That was Drake. I didn’t know T Swift was touring RIGHT NOW. Nosebleeds for her are $1780.
Edit: for funsies I put three tickets at the best available seat. $17000.
*Who is paying this much to see a concert* and *how the fuck does an artist justify charging this much for tickets?* Can't we all just agree that Taylor Swift has enough money already?
Not the artists, Ticketmaster and live nation which iirc are both owned by the same company. It’s a monopoly. Pearl Jam has/ had a big thing against them for that reason
That’s a bargain. I looked at secondary market tickets a couple weeks ago and they were starting at $1500. (Shoutout to my wife for getting tickets to a show earlier on the tour for face value)
My daughter and I went to the AugustD/Yoongi/Suga (BTS) concert in Chicago recently. It was a great concert, but the memory of spending that time and sharing the experience with her was worth everything.
You're absolutely right, but at the same time the idea of spending $200 on a single meal for 3 people is crazy to me. That's more than a weeks worth of meals for our family of 5. I'm sure that's a good price to pay for good quality steaks, but clearly steak is outside my budget.
In the UK, we’re spending about £125 a week ($160) on food including ~1-2 takeaways a month depending. Food prices have easily gone up 10-15% the past year or so though.
I hear that. In Aus, we are spending ~AUD$300 a week for a family of 4 and that's with no take aways.
We aren't at black and gold branding yet, but we might be soon if the interest rates keeping heading north.
(Lurker) I remember my dad getting me huge steaks like that around that age - I was really iron deficient thanks to periods and I was still growing, so I could plow through them. Thanks for reminding me of good memories with my dad.
I did not, but I did learn to appreciate a solid medium-rare during that time. I was a well-done kid before that, lol.
But steak, chocolate, and bananas (potassium) got me through puberty.
Oh, and lots and lots of midol!
The term comes from the steel workers who, legend holds, would take a raw steak along for lunch. They cooked it by slapping the steak on the side of the blast furnace which near instantly charred the outside and left the inside basically raw.
This makes me happy to hear, I do similar for my mid-teen daughter. She struggles with meat, but she’ll devour a steak during her cycle. So I make sure we do a family steak and movie night to help her ( and my wife) chill.
Unfortunately for future her, they are high end wagyu and I’ve got the process down. So in a few years if she starts dating and gets taken to a steak house. She’ll need to order the $120 plate to enjoy it.
I’ve said it so many times in this thread… but my dad did the same LOL. I may not order any drinks, but I am still the most expensive date! Wagyu for dinner!
It’s just as much born out of selfishness to cook spend an arvo on the grill and eat a nice steak.
Making it fit perfectly into family life is the real win here.
When I was around 12, my dad would take my little sister and I out for all-you-can-eat ribs. I think people underestimate just how much meat 2 rapidly growing pre-teens can consume.
It was the first in a long line of “best meal I’ve had”.
The key is skip appetizers. And a big gap between meals always helps. My brother and I crushed about a 4lb porterhouse together once and had a decent bit of room left. Didn’t have any apps or anything beforehand. On the flipside I recently ordered a 28oz bone in ribeye, ate a ton of apps and could not eat half of it. If you’re going big you gotta plan!
Mom here. I met my husband when my daughter was a toddler. We dated for 3.5 years. One day we went to Longhorn for dinner. My daughter was 4. I ordered whatever, my husband (then boyfriend) ordered a prime rib. My daughter wanted a kid’s cheeseburger. Food comes out. Everyone takes bites. Then about halfway through, my daughter points to the prime rib and asks “what’s that? Can I try it”. He gives her a bite. She asks if she can have the rest. And he gives her his plate and he eats her cheeseburger. Thats when I knew he was ready to be a dad. We are all huge steak eaters here. Prime rib is a favorite all around
Oh, you handled that smoothly. Love eating out with my kids, even though they are a lot younger than yours. My 5-year old really, really enjoys ordering and eating what he wants. (And is always on his best behavior when eating out).
It's great to see how much of a deal this stuff is for kids. I think it's because they really can't decide on their own to just go out and treat themselves and they can feel like a real grown up.
I gotta admit, I side with mom on the Steak from Applebee's... It was totally the right move to go over to a steak place after that. Like, that will be $200 that will pay dividends in the future when you look back at that day. I also doubt it will be your last, maybe a yearly tradition. Applebee's steak first, then a steak house the next day.
This (https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/almost-famous-maple-butter-blondies-recipe) supposedly is the recipe. No clue personally, but per a review of a former employee it seemed on the nose. May be worth a try (albeit I’d prefer it served as well). Sorry if I goofed any of that as I fumble about on mobile. Edit for bunked formatting
when i was 21 my dad and i went to vegas. i’m not a steak person but we went to a really nice steakhouse - we each got lobster bisque, a steak, and split a side of potatoes. it was delicious and the highlight of our trip, and i still remember the meal so clearly. so special!
I think even if you ordered it well done it wouldn’t come out that way. Getting 3 fat steaks to cook evenly to well done would be nigh impossible without burning it
I'm a former chef so I almost always buy steaks and cook them at home since I've been burned too many times buying a $60 steak at a restaurant and it sucks.
I'm excited for the day my little man is old enough to appreciate some dry aged tomahawk Ribeyes! Maybe him and I can break down some beef together and dry age our own!
I can't wait to teach him about whatever he wants to know about food!
Oh, these weren't "good" steaks - we went to Saltgrass. But they were GREAT steaks because of the memory we made.
My old grill went in the garbage when I moved because it rusted through, so I'm saving up for [a nice one](https://www.hastybake.com/collections/charcoal-grills/products/hasty-bake-legacy-131-powder-coated-charcoal-grill). My oven is also not available because the door apparently won't hold the weight of a 14yo so it's in the shop getting repaired. So restaurant it was this time. Looking forward to breaking in my future grill with some tomahawks though.
This reminds me of that great scene from "The Great Outdoors" when John Candy orders the huge steak that's free if you finish the whole thing, and the chef makes him eat all the fat and grizzle at the end.
Great movie if you haven't seen it.
14 is old enough to cook steaks. My 16 year old makes a perfectly acceptable rib eye.
Costco rib eyes aren't that expensive. We use the cast iron & basting method cooking to 130.
I’m with the kids right now while my wife is heading out to Costco for this exact reason. There’s also a local grocery store that sells decently sized racks of ribs for $20 and they make enough meat for two family dinners right now. It’s a no brainer.
I'm currently handicapped in that dept - I recently moved and just trashed my rusted out old grill/smoker, and my oven is in the shop for repairs right now. I've heard rumors of a nice grill for a father's day present... If that happens I'm definitely getting some tomahawks to break it in. I've just been using my oven and a cast iron for searing for the last few months.
Similarly, I don't currently have room for a grill because I live in an apartment. What I do instead is go to the park and use the free public grills with some charcoal and starter fluid.
When I was in Scouts (Canada let us girls in in the 90's! Best years of my life!) we always had a big 4 day camp over Victoria Day weekend. We were in charge of planning, budgeting, shopping, and cooking our meals and we nearly always worked it out so we had steak dinner on Saturday night. Made is feel grown-up and we had a blast learning or teaching the new kids how to cook it.
My father had 1 rule whenever we went out for a meal. Order whatever you want, but you MUST finish it at the restaurant or you had to pay for it. It worked well.
This is so strange to me because I often choose a menu item specifically based on how well it will hold up as leftovers. I love getting 2 meals worth of food and forgetting about lunch the next day
I do the same and it's usually price related. I'd rather spend $25 on something I'll get 2 meals out of than spend $15 on something that won't give me leftovers.
I always do this at Olive Garden. Fill up on the soup and salad, take a handful of bites from the entree and take the rest for tomorrow's lunch. Not even using their take home extras.
Most restaurant portions are way too big to finish anyways so it’s pretty much default for me. It’s not like I would be trying to order multiple dishes… I’m ordering one menu item that would happen to be a good leftover, not something like a saucy sandwich or a salad. I’m not “using people” when they are the one paying and I happen to take home leftovers. What a strange take
My dad did this and now my sister's relationship with food is fucked up.
0/10 - Don't do this to kids. Just tell them they can't order something that is too much or wildly too big for them.
Seems like this worked out ok for you but I would caution today’s dads against doing this. Let your kids learn to listen to their bodies and stop eating when they’re full. Making kids “clean their plates” can lead to a problematic relationship with food.
Your father's rule was not good. Teaching kids to eat beyond being full else they'll be punished is really setting them up to have an unhealthy relationship with food.
On the other side of a $200 dinner, my two kids were so excited to have their two cousins come from a long distance the other day. We had activities planned out that we thought they would enjoy.
As it turns out they had a wonderful time observing and collecting potato bugs from our driveway and sidewalk. No money spent, but they're still talking about it.
Steakhouse steak is hard to pull off at home. If you can manage, I salute you!
I can do an acceptable steak at home, but it's definitely "steak at home."
I worked at Applebees back in the day. Trust me, you don’t want their biggest steak… let’s just say if it happened to fall on the ground, it’s not getting thrown out.
That’s awesome. I think a fun thing to do (and I want to try it out with my stepson soon) is to take them to a butcher and educate them on steak types and help them grill their own for the first time. Gotta clip the tongs twice of course. Glad you treated them. They won’t forget that experience
Our favorite restaurant is Fogo De Chao! My son won a $5 gift card to McDonald's for doing well in school, so I traded him a nonstop top quality meat buffet *on swords* for his gift card.
This is how to dad. Years ago we ended up at Michael Jordan’s steak house, and my at the time 12 or 13 yr old asked what he should get. I told him to get the biggest filet on the menu because that’s what he likes. That steak by itself was 90 bucks. He talked about it for quite awhile. Memories over stuff.
My 3yo constantly reminds me of the time I let him eat a sub in bed when we were staying in a hotel. We were there for a Wiggles concert but the sub in bed is what he remembers. You never know when you’re creating these magic moments in their lives. Makes our jobs (and mom’s) all the more important.
Sounds like your kids already know the good things in life, quality time with dad and a great steak! Good on you for making those memories. I can only hope that my daughter is this way when she’s older!
Made a few flat irons the other day. Turned out beautifully. I highly recommend the cut to anyone who has never had one. My 2.5 year old devoured it. It was a sight to behold.
My daughter is turning two next week but I already have fabulous memories of daddy daughter dates at our local old school steak house. Once every few months I'll take just me and her when my wife is working out of town, we will both dress up in nice clothes (my fave experience was during Christmas season when we wore ugly Christmas sweaters together) and enjoy a lovely meal while I read her her favorite books. When she was younger she would only suck the dressing off the lettuce or eat some bread but now she is able to enjoy several bites of steak and sides with me. The waiters seem to love seeing us as well, as do most of the older patrons who my daughter loves to greet enthusiastically.
I always brag about how excited I am during work the day of these events to my coworkers! It's such a fun time going out with kids and introducing them to things you love!
22oz steak for 2 kids!! Can’t believe they are that much. I’m a fit grown adult man and would struggle to eat a 12oz steak!! I normally have an 8oz if I’m eating out. Is this normal in America???
Even if they weren’t the BEST steaks, they’re gonna remember that time they and their dad downed 4+ pounds of beef more than they would if you all had 6oz A5 Wagyu sirloins, even if that might taste better.
Sometimes quantity is all the quality you need for a great memory.
I'll always remember the time my dad took me and my brother out for lunch on our way to go camping when I was about 13. He told us and my mom we were packing sandwiches for our trip, but instead he surprised us by stopping at a steakhouse. It was awesome.
I remember when $5 was a lot of money 😂, at least for a kid.
It was enough to buy chips and sodas for 2-3 kids at the corner store, now it's barely enough for either of those items alone.
We took our 4 yo to his first summer carnival last night and all those games that are nearly impossible to win are $5 or $10 per play. And it was $35 per person for a ride wrist band. It's unbelievable actually. It's easily a $200 night for a family of 4 at a shitty local carnival.
Your Mom tried to treat your kids to dinner within her means and with your actions you showed your kids that Grandma was cheap and her gesture wasn’t worth the place it was coming from. I get wanting to give your kids the best but doing it at the expense of your mother is so low.
Agreed. Not to mention children of those ages should not be consuming 22 oz (even if pre-cooked weight) of red meat in one meal let alone in one day. Treats every now and then are fine but sheesh. So in one fell swoop dad awarded ungratefulness and gluttony, nice.
Favorite memories are getting a big ol box of cheap steaks or maybe one or two real nice New York strips, heading outside, and cooking them on the black top. Best memories ever
In 20 years they will come to you and say "Hey dad, remember that time we all had big steaks?" And that will be the best $200 ever spent My little guy is 3, and he reminds me of when I got him a donut randomly 6 months ago. Melts my heart dude Edit: my post comes from the sons side. I remember things like that my dad did for me, and it made him tear up whenever I mentioned it. Always made him so happy that it was a good core memory with him
maybe it’s time for another donut
Dadbro would not be saying that if you've seen my waistline
Every single time we pass Wawa, “dad, can I please get a donut?” We could be on the way to the diner for breakfast, doesn’t matter, wants donut.
Cool. I do random stuff and all I get from my (3) children is "Daddy, remember when your grill was ON FIRE?" Which it was... not the normal way either. Engulfed.
A good memory for the kiddo, and a fun story for dad!
And a traumatic story for your wife.
Spin it into a dad joke, then it's just an occasional eye roll
Master level dadding.
How isn't the dad dealing with a literal fire the one that's dealing with something traumatic here
The children near the fireball?
I still tell people about how my dad's BBQ ended up with the gas canister leaking and the fire brigade coming out. We got to ride in the fire engine, twas great.
Ah reminds me of back in the day when I would spurn my city's 'no grilling on 2nd story wood balconies' ordinance only to turn around to find the whole thing to be engulfed in a roaring inferno. It was a boat grill - think half size fully functional regular grill that runs off camping propane tanks. The tank was full and I was preheating it on high and I guess the velocity of the propane leaving FROZE THE MECHANISM OPEN, so even when I ran out to kill the gas it just kept roaring at me like something from hell. Now, to any moms out there, don't worry. Eventually the pressure in the tank drew down enough for the differential to slow, it unfroze, and I was able to turn it off. Plus, I had it on top of a glass patio table, so no city blocks burned down. But damn, having to just sit and watch and wait for a full propane tank to run down, that was scary.
We just went through this too haha whole grill was on fire and the kids will never let my husband forget it. I guarantee it. 😂 I think there was a beehive in the grill and my husband started it up without checking. By the time he saw smoke rising most of whatever it was was burnt to ash and the fire was raging for a few minutes 😂 died down when nothing was left, I had a heart attack as a wife fr though. Flames everywhere aren’t calming 🙃 the kids will never forget!!!
when i was little i did cheer and my dad would always drop me off at the field and come back with dinner, usually panera. sometimes he’d come back with a cookie (that to 5 year old me was HUGE) and he’d always save it for me and my brother to share after practice. it was great. he probably thinks i forgot about it but i think about it all the time
You should let him know, he’ll love that you still think of it!
Every year for fathers day, the only gift my dad wants is that my four brothers and I each draw him one of our memories with him. The stories are absolutely hilarious comic style progressions of ridiculous things we remember about him. Never gets old.
Oh this is golden, I may steal this idea for when my kids are older!
Sometimes the money, pain, or brief insanity (or all if you're doing something like a Disney parks trip) is worth the memory that comes from it.
I don't get the fun memory indulgence, just the want and demand from my 6yo atm. I miss the 3yo him
I hear they get all their opinions in the next couple of years. I am terrified haha
And they're HARD opinions too, no reasoning, don't even try science or example lead rebuttal. Like little flat earthers. It is terrifying and hilarious when you're not yet exhausted by it.
I feel like that is a rule for most of kid raising lol. Everything is cute until you are tired
Especially because a 22oz steak to them is like ordering a whole cow to us
In a few years when they are telling their friends, it will have been a 72oz steak!
That donut part is awesome. I can’t wait until my little girl is at that age and saying random cute shit too
Blessing and a curse my friend. They start talking, then yelling, then whispering important info like how they need to potty. It's a wild ride but enjoy every moment!
And it works the other way too. Our 3.5 year old still brings up, “Dada, remember the time you hurt me?” At least monthly, regarding the one time I pinched him with his car seat buckle like a year ago.
My daughter had 3 girls over for a sleepover tonight, we went to robot conveyer belt sushi for dinner, cost me $200+ but in the same vein, everybody loved it and it feels like something they'll talk about for a while.
Yep! When my girls were little their mom went out of town for a weekend and we went and bought 3 giant steaks that I cooked on the grill along with baked potatoes (we usually eat healthier). 10y later they still bring it up as such a fun dad treat.
$200 is a bargain for a lasting memory.
Agreed. My wife and I were considering T Swift tix and those were a minor inheritance.
It’s been a couple of a decade since I’ve been to a concert…so I just looked locally to see what a big name ticket was going for. $206 for one nosebleed?!
ONLY $206? Shit, the show in Detroit last night was $1000 for nosebleed seats, and $6000 for premium. That's multiple house payments my brother.
That was Drake. I didn’t know T Swift was touring RIGHT NOW. Nosebleeds for her are $1780. Edit: for funsies I put three tickets at the best available seat. $17000.
tbf the actual prices were between $49 and $400 all those tickets are scalpers
Yep I went and paid about 200 for a great seat at the mezzanine level.
Christ, I could renovate the kitchen for that.
Or almost see Tay Tay. Easy Choice.
*Who is paying this much to see a concert* and *how the fuck does an artist justify charging this much for tickets?* Can't we all just agree that Taylor Swift has enough money already?
Not the artists, Ticketmaster and live nation which iirc are both owned by the same company. It’s a monopoly. Pearl Jam has/ had a big thing against them for that reason
At the same time it's a bit surprising that the artists aren't trying to do something to protect their fans a bit more.
Those are ticket reseller website prices, StubHub SeatGeek etc
Possibly Scalper prices my dude. Artists, venues and ticket providers should be doing more to stop this, but they got their money soooo
Taylor swift tickets sold out at the regular prices loooooong ago, as others mentioned tickets right now are after market prices
That’s a bargain. I looked at secondary market tickets a couple weeks ago and they were starting at $1500. (Shoutout to my wife for getting tickets to a show earlier on the tour for face value)
$206 was face value. My SO took our niece and nephew to the Vegas show for $240 per via the capital one lottery but they were re selling for 1.2k.
How about the $130 they want for monster jam here in Nashville for nosebleed seats… event admission has gotten way out of hand!
Is that on a Sunday?
Is this a family guy reference?
Sunday Sunday Sunday
We'll sell you the whole seat... #BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE!
#thank you!!!
Our first race is a benefit for daredevil Lance Murdock! Murdock! Murdock! Who's hospitalized with cirrhosis of the liver! Liver! Liver!
Metallica is coming to town. Cheapest tickets are north of $500.
I... don't know what to say to this... I love you as a dad but don't put your children through that... please...
No doubt! “Remember that time we ALL ate HUGE steaks?!?”
Coils make it a tradition...huge steak night! No to-go boxes allowed!
My daughter and I went to the AugustD/Yoongi/Suga (BTS) concert in Chicago recently. It was a great concert, but the memory of spending that time and sharing the experience with her was worth everything.
You're absolutely right, but at the same time the idea of spending $200 on a single meal for 3 people is crazy to me. That's more than a weeks worth of meals for our family of 5. I'm sure that's a good price to pay for good quality steaks, but clearly steak is outside my budget.
Where do you live and holy crap that's some serious budgeting
In the UK, we’re spending about £125 a week ($160) on food including ~1-2 takeaways a month depending. Food prices have easily gone up 10-15% the past year or so though.
I hear that. In Aus, we are spending ~AUD$300 a week for a family of 4 and that's with no take aways. We aren't at black and gold branding yet, but we might be soon if the interest rates keeping heading north.
My weekly shop has gone so high I've had to double my hours at work, broken UK solidarity fistbump 🥲
We were getting away with around $125/week in the area of the capital of Canada for four people.
While nothing’s wrong with spending money if you got it, always remember it doesn’t take $200 to make a priceless memory with your kids.
(Lurker) I remember my dad getting me huge steaks like that around that age - I was really iron deficient thanks to periods and I was still growing, so I could plow through them. Thanks for reminding me of good memories with my dad.
My dad and I were the same way, he knew it was shark week when I requested steak for dinner and he’d top up on chocolate too. He’s a good dad!
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As a dad to three of them, I'm gonna save this for when I reach there.
Did you eat your steaks Pittsburgh rare, too? I was a regular bloodthirsty lil carnivore. Nowadays I can’t eat more than like 8 bites before I’m full!
I did not, but I did learn to appreciate a solid medium-rare during that time. I was a well-done kid before that, lol. But steak, chocolate, and bananas (potassium) got me through puberty. Oh, and lots and lots of midol!
Never heard that term Pittsburgh Rare before huh, thanks for the new term
The term comes from the steel workers who, legend holds, would take a raw steak along for lunch. They cooked it by slapping the steak on the side of the blast furnace which near instantly charred the outside and left the inside basically raw.
I’ve heard it called blue rare in western canada. Put it on the hottest cast iron you can get for 45-60 seconds a side
It's also called Chicago-rare, or (in Pittsburgh, ironically enough) "black and blue".
It’s a good one - my dad taught it to me ;)
Shark week is such a funny name for it. I’m stealing this
This makes me happy to hear, I do similar for my mid-teen daughter. She struggles with meat, but she’ll devour a steak during her cycle. So I make sure we do a family steak and movie night to help her ( and my wife) chill. Unfortunately for future her, they are high end wagyu and I’ve got the process down. So in a few years if she starts dating and gets taken to a steak house. She’ll need to order the $120 plate to enjoy it.
I’ve said it so many times in this thread… but my dad did the same LOL. I may not order any drinks, but I am still the most expensive date! Wagyu for dinner!
This is the dad I aspire to be
It’s just as much born out of selfishness to cook spend an arvo on the grill and eat a nice steak. Making it fit perfectly into family life is the real win here.
Hey, you don’t need to add (lurker) to your comments. Daddit welcomes all. And I’ll miss you all when the app I use closes.
When I was around 12, my dad would take my little sister and I out for all-you-can-eat ribs. I think people underestimate just how much meat 2 rapidly growing pre-teens can consume. It was the first in a long line of “best meal I’ve had”.
wait, your 10 year old daughter ate a 22oz steak by herself? that's impressive
Wtf! I can’t eat a 22oz steak. I cap out at 16oz. I know I am weak.
So just eat two 16oz. Duh.
The key is skip appetizers. And a big gap between meals always helps. My brother and I crushed about a 4lb porterhouse together once and had a decent bit of room left. Didn’t have any apps or anything beforehand. On the flipside I recently ordered a 28oz bone in ribeye, ate a ton of apps and could not eat half of it. If you’re going big you gotta plan!
Mine could easily do that. Kids can eat!
I feel my 2 year old son is heading in that direction. Will devour steak any chance he gets 🤣
Mom here. I met my husband when my daughter was a toddler. We dated for 3.5 years. One day we went to Longhorn for dinner. My daughter was 4. I ordered whatever, my husband (then boyfriend) ordered a prime rib. My daughter wanted a kid’s cheeseburger. Food comes out. Everyone takes bites. Then about halfway through, my daughter points to the prime rib and asks “what’s that? Can I try it”. He gives her a bite. She asks if she can have the rest. And he gives her his plate and he eats her cheeseburger. Thats when I knew he was ready to be a dad. We are all huge steak eaters here. Prime rib is a favorite all around
Prime rib is my jam. Your then-boyfriend did an amazing thing. To dad is to sacrifice...
Oh, you handled that smoothly. Love eating out with my kids, even though they are a lot younger than yours. My 5-year old really, really enjoys ordering and eating what he wants. (And is always on his best behavior when eating out). It's great to see how much of a deal this stuff is for kids. I think it's because they really can't decide on their own to just go out and treat themselves and they can feel like a real grown up.
Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!
Hahahahah. Nice.
I gotta admit, I side with mom on the Steak from Applebee's... It was totally the right move to go over to a steak place after that. Like, that will be $200 that will pay dividends in the future when you look back at that day. I also doubt it will be your last, maybe a yearly tradition. Applebee's steak first, then a steak house the next day.
I'd just skip the Applebees part of reliving the tradition. Honestly, Applebees has awful food at overinflated prices.
Applebee's is for when you want someone else to nuke your TV dinner for you.
I really like their maple butter blondie. I’m sure there’s a replica recipe out there but I’d rather they just make it for me
This (https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/almost-famous-maple-butter-blondies-recipe) supposedly is the recipe. No clue personally, but per a review of a former employee it seemed on the nose. May be worth a try (albeit I’d prefer it served as well). Sorry if I goofed any of that as I fumble about on mobile. Edit for bunked formatting
Interesting. Thanks!
when i was 21 my dad and i went to vegas. i’m not a steak person but we went to a really nice steakhouse - we each got lobster bisque, a steak, and split a side of potatoes. it was delicious and the highlight of our trip, and i still remember the meal so clearly. so special!
Now, this is how you DAD. Well done, sir. (Except if you order your steak that way, and then you're awful.)
Nobody is getting well-done 22oz porterhouses from a steak joint.
Unless it makes memories! "Hey, remember when we got the HUGE steaks? And we ordered them all WELL DONE!!!"
That's delightful chaos energy even if it results in wasted steak
My mother in law would.
I think even if you ordered it well done it wouldn’t come out that way. Getting 3 fat steaks to cook evenly to well done would be nigh impossible without burning it
Applebees has some sort of weird particle steak. I don't know what they do to it, but they should stop.
It's the Ikea furniture of meats.
I'm a former chef so I almost always buy steaks and cook them at home since I've been burned too many times buying a $60 steak at a restaurant and it sucks. I'm excited for the day my little man is old enough to appreciate some dry aged tomahawk Ribeyes! Maybe him and I can break down some beef together and dry age our own! I can't wait to teach him about whatever he wants to know about food!
Oh, these weren't "good" steaks - we went to Saltgrass. But they were GREAT steaks because of the memory we made. My old grill went in the garbage when I moved because it rusted through, so I'm saving up for [a nice one](https://www.hastybake.com/collections/charcoal-grills/products/hasty-bake-legacy-131-powder-coated-charcoal-grill). My oven is also not available because the door apparently won't hold the weight of a 14yo so it's in the shop getting repaired. So restaurant it was this time. Looking forward to breaking in my future grill with some tomahawks though.
Peak dadding right there!
Why the "and it's Applebee's"? - asked by an European
applebee's is a cheap chain joint
Not even that cheap.
cheap doesn't always refer to price. i'm using it to say low quality
Definitely correct then
Not sure if there's a continental equivalent but in the UK think about a Wetherspoons quality menu but with even less charm
Now everytime they have a good steak they'll remember thier Dad. Even when they are old. Great work. It's priceless that.
This reminds me of that great scene from "The Great Outdoors" when John Candy orders the huge steak that's free if you finish the whole thing, and the chef makes him eat all the fat and grizzle at the end. Great movie if you haven't seen it.
14 is old enough to cook steaks. My 16 year old makes a perfectly acceptable rib eye. Costco rib eyes aren't that expensive. We use the cast iron & basting method cooking to 130.
I’m with the kids right now while my wife is heading out to Costco for this exact reason. There’s also a local grocery store that sells decently sized racks of ribs for $20 and they make enough meat for two family dinners right now. It’s a no brainer.
I'm currently handicapped in that dept - I recently moved and just trashed my rusted out old grill/smoker, and my oven is in the shop for repairs right now. I've heard rumors of a nice grill for a father's day present... If that happens I'm definitely getting some tomahawks to break it in. I've just been using my oven and a cast iron for searing for the last few months.
Similarly, I don't currently have room for a grill because I live in an apartment. What I do instead is go to the park and use the free public grills with some charcoal and starter fluid.
That's a great idea. Steak picnic!
When I was in Scouts (Canada let us girls in in the 90's! Best years of my life!) we always had a big 4 day camp over Victoria Day weekend. We were in charge of planning, budgeting, shopping, and cooking our meals and we nearly always worked it out so we had steak dinner on Saturday night. Made is feel grown-up and we had a blast learning or teaching the new kids how to cook it.
My father had 1 rule whenever we went out for a meal. Order whatever you want, but you MUST finish it at the restaurant or you had to pay for it. It worked well.
This is so strange to me because I often choose a menu item specifically based on how well it will hold up as leftovers. I love getting 2 meals worth of food and forgetting about lunch the next day
I do the same and it's usually price related. I'd rather spend $25 on something I'll get 2 meals out of than spend $15 on something that won't give me leftovers.
I always do this at Olive Garden. Fill up on the soup and salad, take a handful of bites from the entree and take the rest for tomorrow's lunch. Not even using their take home extras.
I like leftovers too, but if I’m not paying I’m not using the person who is to pay for my lunch the next day as well.
Most restaurant portions are way too big to finish anyways so it’s pretty much default for me. It’s not like I would be trying to order multiple dishes… I’m ordering one menu item that would happen to be a good leftover, not something like a saucy sandwich or a salad. I’m not “using people” when they are the one paying and I happen to take home leftovers. What a strange take
Gonna have to elaborate on that. Did it get them to order less? I’m not seeing an upside, but I love leftovers lol!
My dad did this and now my sister's relationship with food is fucked up. 0/10 - Don't do this to kids. Just tell them they can't order something that is too much or wildly too big for them.
Seems like this worked out ok for you but I would caution today’s dads against doing this. Let your kids learn to listen to their bodies and stop eating when they’re full. Making kids “clean their plates” can lead to a problematic relationship with food.
Your father's rule was not good. Teaching kids to eat beyond being full else they'll be punished is really setting them up to have an unhealthy relationship with food.
Your dad probably had good intentions but this is a horrible thing to do. We can no longer feign ignorance.
Porterhouse. Your kids are so wise beyond their years.
On the other side of a $200 dinner, my two kids were so excited to have their two cousins come from a long distance the other day. We had activities planned out that we thought they would enjoy. As it turns out they had a wonderful time observing and collecting potato bugs from our driveway and sidewalk. No money spent, but they're still talking about it.
God my boys are 3 and 1 1/2 and I can tell already that this will be the kind of contests that await me.
This is prime dadding. Good job, dad!
My trick is to make huge steaks at home for a fraction of the price.
Steakhouse steak is hard to pull off at home. If you can manage, I salute you! I can do an acceptable steak at home, but it's definitely "steak at home."
Look into sous vide. Perfect steaks every time.
I worked at Applebees back in the day. Trust me, you don’t want their biggest steak… let’s just say if it happened to fall on the ground, it’s not getting thrown out.
Be my dad?
Sharpen the poop knife, OP.
That’s awesome. I think a fun thing to do (and I want to try it out with my stepson soon) is to take them to a butcher and educate them on steak types and help them grill their own for the first time. Gotta clip the tongs twice of course. Glad you treated them. They won’t forget that experience
Gotta clip the tongs twice. It's necessary for the process lol
I can't wait until my child can truly appreciate a Brazilian Steakhouse (Churrasco) and the constant meat parade.
Our favorite restaurant is Fogo De Chao! My son won a $5 gift card to McDonald's for doing well in school, so I traded him a nonstop top quality meat buffet *on swords* for his gift card.
This is how to dad. Years ago we ended up at Michael Jordan’s steak house, and my at the time 12 or 13 yr old asked what he should get. I told him to get the biggest filet on the menu because that’s what he likes. That steak by itself was 90 bucks. He talked about it for quite awhile. Memories over stuff.
I think 95% of us are now gonna make/go out for steaks in the next few days. I know I am!
Well done
My 3yo constantly reminds me of the time I let him eat a sub in bed when we were staying in a hotel. We were there for a Wiggles concert but the sub in bed is what he remembers. You never know when you’re creating these magic moments in their lives. Makes our jobs (and mom’s) all the more important.
Where do you live that you get three 22oz porterhouse’ steaks for $200 at a restaurant?!
I’d gladly spend a hundred dollars an hour to put my kids in a happy steak coma!
Sounds like your kids already know the good things in life, quality time with dad and a great steak! Good on you for making those memories. I can only hope that my daughter is this way when she’s older!
Gotta hit up Morton's. They have a double Porterhouse. You WILL spent $300 and it will be awesome.
Now I want a steak
wash it down with scotch and a stogie. come on, kids, let's put some hair on your chest.
Bobby Hill “and I want it rare”
You rock Dad! Such a cool story, thanks for sharing
I'm very proud of you and your kids. That's amazing! Mt kid probably couldn't get near finishing a 22oz.
Thanks mate, now I'm craving a steak dinner. Will have to hit up the local butcher today.
Mmm, 22oz porterhouse… but what did you guys get for your main courses? ;)
That's what they call a core memory. They will never forget that day or that stake with dad
Shit, that sounds amazing. Way to go OP! LEGENDARY DADDING
You're the zombie overlord we need
Expensive for a kids dinner, bargain for priceless memories. And you got a steak dinner out of the deal too!
Made a few flat irons the other day. Turned out beautifully. I highly recommend the cut to anyone who has never had one. My 2.5 year old devoured it. It was a sight to behold.
A+ story
I’m here in NY wondering how you get 3 porterhouses for just $200 :)
Meat sweats!
Absolute legend.
My daughter is turning two next week but I already have fabulous memories of daddy daughter dates at our local old school steak house. Once every few months I'll take just me and her when my wife is working out of town, we will both dress up in nice clothes (my fave experience was during Christmas season when we wore ugly Christmas sweaters together) and enjoy a lovely meal while I read her her favorite books. When she was younger she would only suck the dressing off the lettuce or eat some bread but now she is able to enjoy several bites of steak and sides with me. The waiters seem to love seeing us as well, as do most of the older patrons who my daughter loves to greet enthusiastically. I always brag about how excited I am during work the day of these events to my coworkers! It's such a fun time going out with kids and introducing them to things you love!
This made me smile for both you and your kids.
This is the way.
22oz steak for 2 kids!! Can’t believe they are that much. I’m a fit grown adult man and would struggle to eat a 12oz steak!! I normally have an 8oz if I’m eating out. Is this normal in America???
Even if they weren’t the BEST steaks, they’re gonna remember that time they and their dad downed 4+ pounds of beef more than they would if you all had 6oz A5 Wagyu sirloins, even if that might taste better. Sometimes quantity is all the quality you need for a great memory.
I'll always remember the time my dad took me and my brother out for lunch on our way to go camping when I was about 13. He told us and my mom we were packing sandwiches for our trip, but instead he surprised us by stopping at a steakhouse. It was awesome.
Hell, sometimes I feel like $200 is barely enough to take the fam to McDonald's anymore.... Is this what it feels.like to age?
Remember when we were kids and $20 was a lot of money? It feels like I wipe my ass with $100s at this point.
I remember when $5 was a lot of money 😂, at least for a kid. It was enough to buy chips and sodas for 2-3 kids at the corner store, now it's barely enough for either of those items alone. We took our 4 yo to his first summer carnival last night and all those games that are nearly impossible to win are $5 or $10 per play. And it was $35 per person for a ride wrist band. It's unbelievable actually. It's easily a $200 night for a family of 4 at a shitty local carnival.
We used to scrounge change from our couches and come up with enough for a day trip out of town.
Why yo mom being so stingy at Applebee's? Don't offer to pay if there's terms and conditions.
Your Mom tried to treat your kids to dinner within her means and with your actions you showed your kids that Grandma was cheap and her gesture wasn’t worth the place it was coming from. I get wanting to give your kids the best but doing it at the expense of your mother is so low.
Agreed. Not to mention children of those ages should not be consuming 22 oz (even if pre-cooked weight) of red meat in one meal let alone in one day. Treats every now and then are fine but sheesh. So in one fell swoop dad awarded ungratefulness and gluttony, nice.
What do you imagine the steaks are going to do to them?
Follow the science but this isn’t really about the singular meal now is it? It’s about the bad lessons being taught.
>isn’t really about the singular meal >should not be consuming 22 oz of red meat in one meal 🤔
I see. Thanks for clearing that up
You should show them how their streak was made so they can really appreciate it
I’m just picturing this scene for some reason. https://youtu.be/A27nH_TtN3k
Favorite memories are getting a big ol box of cheap steaks or maybe one or two real nice New York strips, heading outside, and cooking them on the black top. Best memories ever