How do you like your steak cooked?

Preferred steak doneness? 🥩


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I'd also like to add that you need to let your steaks come up to room temp before you cook them, if you take them straight from the fridge to the grill they will often burn on the outside before the inside warms up. A properly prepared steak can just breeze past the grill in just a few minutes, even the thicker cuts.
This is the most important advice. Letting the steak come up to room temp, salted, reverse sear, completely changed steak for me. It's like a different ingredient in terms of the flavour and juice, and it's the only way to get a steak to medium or medium well without it getting dry or tough.
 
Nice to see the Medium Rare bros winning. I'll accept Medium too, but anything after that, you're all dead to me!
 
Some people like rare but they are impressed by the bloody look.

The look is almost as important as the taste for many.

Also, if you ask for rare and the chef is terrible, you get an animal that still move on your plate.
 
Some people like rare but they are impressed by the bloody look.

The look is almost as important as the taste for many.

Also, if you ask for rare and the chef is terrible, you get an animal that still move on your plate.

I work grill at a steak house in vegas on the strip. Most places want rare around 90 - 105. (It carry's over and eventually gets to 105). Anyone that's serves you blue (45 - 80 temp) has no idea how to cook.
 
I'd also like to add that you need to let your steaks come up to room temp before you cook them, if you take them straight from the fridge to the grill they will often burn on the outside before the inside warms up. A properly prepared steak can just breeze past the grill in just a few minutes, even the thicker cuts.

I find it easier to just use thinner steaks for those "well done, please" heathens than try to appease them with a proper inch thick slab they will probably just massacre anyway, cutting away all the fatty bits and anything that has a hint of pink to it. The message sent when they get a little skirt steak while the true friends get a ribeye is clear as day :P


Low heat is your best friend when cooking a thick cut that is straight out of the cooler. High heat is used when you need a good sear / grill marks on a steak but are dealing with a piece of meat that is skinny (skirt , flat iron, caps, ribeyes etc). It takes time but the results are awesome.
 
This reminds me: Independence Day weekend is coming up, so...
  • What's the best place to get a good steak?
  • Which cuts work best on the grill?
  • What kind of rub do you do? Or just salt and pepper?
  • Do you dry age it? Use a wet marinade?
Let's talk steak before the big cook out!
I don't trust restaurants to cook my steak the way I like.
I don't have experience cooking steak on a grill, sorry. Stainless steel pan is the (only) way.
Just salt and pepper, rubs are good when I'm looking for something different, but usually they overpower the steak. So salt and pepper are king IMHO. I do, however, baste it with rosemary and garlic infused butter.
I don't do anything to my steak, just salt it, rub avocado oil all over straight out of the fridge, cook, then pepper after it's done.
 
I usually cut mine into thin strips and fry them, cuz I can't cook. Idk what that counts as
I don't know if you flour the steak before frying, but where I'm from, we call it 'chicken fried steak'.
 
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love em nice & well done the flesh should be grey when cut theres no need for pink inside as it gets a nice dollop of heinz ketchup on top.
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I always worry that rare or medium rare I might catch worms or something

So medium well->well done
 
I always worry that rare or medium rare I might catch worms or something

So medium well->well done
The risk is relatively low with whole cuts like steaks, especially if cooked to at least rare, because tapeworm larvae are typically found on the surface of the meat, which is cooked off.
 
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