Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[RooFlyer]

Never go the beef @RooFlyer
CX yes, QF

Or Oman Air. As I noted here, their angus beef short rib that I had the flight before was falling-apart tender. A different cut - maybe there is a lesson there.

 

[jase05]

When they let a contract paying peanuts for the beef - they get what they pay for. They could buy it at Aldi and do better ! It cannot be a coincidence that QF beef is like shoe leather, when other airlines can do it much better. The answer is choose an airline that does not treat the pax as only a necessary evil, that their product reflects. CX beef is always good in my experience.

Agree. A few backs back the beef on the QF flight over was once again a disaster to the point I had one bite and gave up as the knife couldn’t even cut it. Staff were actually embarrassed about it.
MH flight on the way home was like chalk and cheese in comparison, lovely tender beef fillet that required minimal effort to cut and beef just melted in my mouth.
A decent steak is as Aussie as it gets, surely our national carrier can at least get that bit right

 

[downgraded]

When they let a contract paying peanuts for the beef - they get what they pay for. They could buy it at Aldi and do better ! It cannot be a coincidence that QF beef is like shoe leather, when other airlines can do it much better. The answer is choose an airline that does not treat the pax as only a necessary evil, that their product reflects. CX beef is always good in my experience.

I feel the need to point out it isn't always boot leather. A reminder of my steak on QF37 in March. I was told they are loaded blue, what happens beyond that is up to the designated "cook" on board. This was melt in your mouth tender.

Today's steak on QF 37. In no way overcooked. Very good actually. Sorry it's half eaten...View attachment 500765

 

[Larko1]

what happens beyond that is up to the designated "cook" on board.

I think you "hit the nail on the head"

 

[TheRealTMA]

I feel the need to point out it isn't always boot leather. A reminder of my steak on QF37 in March. I was told they are loaded blue, what happens beyond that is up to the designated "cook" on board. This was melt in your mouth tender.

They are unfortunately trained to be part of the “if it’s mooin’, I ain’t chewin’” group.

Beyond me. Had several arguments with cabin staff in J and F and their response is that’s what they are trained to do.

 

[markis10]

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PS the lamb last week on QR was inedible, I am sure it was diverted from the RM Williams boot line

 

[DrJ]

Beef fillet

It was the absolutely toughest bit of meat I’ve had in a long long time.

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That steak certainly fits Pulp Fiction's description of "burnt to a crisp"
I realize I have been very lucky with the couple of steaks I've had on QF in the last two years, might be more circumspect in choosing them going forward. Slow cooked cuts seem a far safer prospect!