There it is, my $16.50 USD porterhouse steak
I hope it was as delicious as you say. that seems like a lot to me but then again I live in Vietnam so everything seems expensive to me :)
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It's pretty expensive yeah. Especially when you consider you are paying for the bone too. Part of the reason I haven't had a porterhouse in probably 10 years. Usually I get a pack of New York strips from Costco and they come out to about $10 per pound, so $50 for four or five steaks.
I suppose the reason why I don't pay that much for steaks is because we don't really have access to high quality beef over here and if you do find it you kind of have to take their word in its origin and i've been told they frequently lie and say a steak is from USA when it was actually from Russia. Another issue is that very few people have grills because most people live in condos and grills are banned unless you want to lug it all the way down to the street and use it there. Hell, gas stoves aren't even allowed here and all we have is induction, which seems nice because you can't burn yourself but it absolutely sucks for carefully controlling temperature.
I stay away from "stakes" unless I am dining out for the most part and even then it is a bit of a gamble.
That makes sense. I would worry about that too I think. I just got some beef from my cousin who raises cows a couple months ago. It's amazing the difference in freshness even between that and the stuff you get in the store. I've been reading a lot about how Costco blade tenderize their meat (which apparently allows for the introduction of more bacteria), so I've been trying to hold off on buying my steaks from them as much.