How does GAF enjoy their steak?

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Way I see it, I wouldn't eat any other meat that's undercooked weather it be chicken, pork, lamb, heck even fish. Why is steak any different?

Yeah if I was to eat rare/blue steak, I probably wouldn't die. People eat it and are fine as this thread shows, but I just don't get why someone would think "Im going to not cook this piece of meat all the way through and enjoy eating it", when they would never dream of doing the same for another meat.

If you can change my view then go ahead, I genuinely would love to know what those who eat steaks rare and below see in eating it that way.

Sashimi is amazing. A good hunk of completely raw salmon or tuna is as good as anything. Steak doesn't need to be raw, but it loses pretty much everything that makes it great when it is well done, and it's not like you're taking a big risk when eating steak less than well-done as long as you cook the outside sufficiently. Pork and chicken aren't worth eating undercooked because A) they're far more likely to make you sick/contain pathogens and B) you don't gain as much in taste by not cooking them as thoroughly.
 
You got me. I'm scared tbh... teach me the ways and I'll be open minded.

I've converted most of my family to medium rare lovers. They used to be burnt to a crisp types.

Go slowly. It can even take years if you want. You don't have to rush it.

Start with medium well. Then try medium. Then try medium rare. Go to a good steakhouse you're not worried about the quality of the steak. They get the best grades.

Rare and blue rare if you're adventurous. But stick with what you like.

Also different cuts have different texture. Stick with ribeye or New York strips, though. Filets are overpriced and overrated.
 
There's a steakhouse chain in Canada (US too? Dunno.) called The Keg. They've got an option they call Chicago style where the outside is burnt and crispy, while the inside is still cooked to your liking.

Chicago style, with medium rare inside.

Forever.

I wish that was a normal way of cooking steaks so that it'd be offered at more restaurants. Or is it?
 
I've converted most of my family to medium rare lovers. They used to be burnt to a crisp types.

Go slowly. It can even take years if you want. You don't have to rush it.

Start with medium well. Then try medium. Then try medium rare. Go to a good steakhouse you're not worried about the quality of the steak. They get the best grades.

Rare and blue rare if you're adventurous. But stick with what you like.

Also different cuts have different texture. Stick with ribeye or New York strips, though. Filets are overpriced and overrated.

Alright thanks. I live in medium rare territory, so time to dip down into rare a bit. Yeah usually I don't trust my own cooking. So the way of steakhouses seems best. Cheers man.
 
I wonder if people who like well-done are people who like to swallow their food in whole chunks like a bird. I honestly don't understand how someone could sit there and thoroughly chew a chunk of well-done steak while trying to appreciate the flavor and then do the same for a chunk of medium-rare steak and honestly claim the the latter isn't superior.
 
I'm a medium sort of guy.

For all the hate well done gets, I can really enjoy a well done steak as long as it's straight off the grill. It all goes out the window after 2-3 minutes once it starts cooling, which makes it a no-go anywhere but at home. Just gets too dry and chewy.
 
Alright thanks. I live in medium rare territory, so time to dip down into rare a bit. Yeah usually I don't trust my own cooking. So the way of steakhouses seems best. Cheers man.

Medium rare is fine honestly. You don't need to go lower unless you just want experiment.

As long as you're avoiding well done, you're having a better experience.
 
I wonder if people who like well-done are people who like to swallow their food in whole chunks like a bird. I honestly don't understand how someone could sit there and thoroughly chew a chunk of well-done steak while trying to appreciate the flavor and then do the same for a chunk of medium-rare steak and honestly claim the the latter isn't superior.
If the cook knows what he's doing, it should taste very much alike.

'Well done' doesn't mean 'crisp'.
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If the cook knows what he's doing, it should taste very much alike.

'Well done' doesn't mean 'crisp'.

Man, that looks so dry. :/

I can taste it by memory since I used to eat steaks like that before converting to the Church of Medium Rare.
 
I usually get it well, because I can't chew otherwise. Steak's weird, I love it but I hate the texture. Just kinda chew a bit and then swallow whole. I'm probably doing it wrong.

I suck at food.
 
Medium rare. Just cooked some today, actually. Delicious.

When I was a kid my mom always had my steaks cooked well done. I had no idea how much flavor I was missing out on.
 
Medium. Because no one can usually cook a steak right anyway, so I figure I'll have a good mix of all the levels.

My mom makes steak well done because my family doesn't understand flavor...
 
It's just one of multiple ways I've hypothesized for why some people incorrectly prefer well-done steak :P

Well, it doesn't work as a catch-all.
And really, most any "reason" you come up with is not going to have universal application, and is just something you'll be telling yourself.

I don't know why it's so hard for some people to understand that other people have different tastes from them.
 
A thick rib eye, seared two minutes per side and finished rare in the oven in a cast iron skillet.

Someone has their home cooked steak method down to an art :)

I use a griddle pan (preheated to hot) to get the caramelisation but you're spot on about finishing a steak in the oven in the pan is the best method. Resting in tin foil is a must for me too.

I use this bad boy:
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Well, it doesn't work as a catch-all.
And really, most any "reason" you come up with is not going to have universal application, and is just something you'll be telling yourself.

I don't know why it's so hard for some people to understand that other people have different tastes from them.

Hey, I'm not being completely serious here, although a lot of people who don't like less than well-done haven't given lesser cooked steaks a fair try, kind of like people who don't like Chrono Cross after having played Chrono Trigger won't give CC a fair try ;)

Almost everyone I know who doesn't like sushi simply refuses to try it.
 
Hey, I'm not being completely serious here, although a lot of people who don't like less than well-done haven't given lesser cooked steaks a fair try, kind of like people who don't like Chrono Cross after having played Chrono Trigger won't give CC a fair try ;)

Almost everyone I know who doesn't like sushi simply refuses to try it.

Touché
 
rare or medium rare depending on how much I trust the place not to fuck it up

This. Although my wife and I ate at the restaurant of the retirement home her Grandmother lives in a few weeks ago. (It's a pretty upscale place) I ordered a steak, and ordered it rare, thinking the tendency of a retirement home's restaurant would be to overcook it. Nope, it came out mooing. I ate it, (I'm not picky,) but I was very surprised.
 
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As you can see, your attempts to stereotype and discredit people doesn't work.

don't work, terrisus

Attempts is plural. Actually should it have been didn't? Hmm





:P

Anyways this is getting too heated for my liking, and yes I also meant that as a pun....
 
This. Although my wife and I ate at the restaurant of the retirement home her Grandmother lives in a few weeks ago. (It's a pretty upscale place) I ordered a steak, and ordered it rare, thinking the tendency of a retirement home's restaurant would be to overcook it. Nope, it came out mooing. I ate it, (I'm not picky,) but I was very surprised.


Nobody. NOBODY complains like old people. You're lucky it wasn't pumping blood.
 
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