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[GiantEnemyGoomba]

Medium rare is the sweet spot for me but I don't mind rare or medium.

Dammit now I want a steak.

 

[Bold One]

Yeah I'll have the "Instant Death" please

His wife is the superior human being

 

[Sesuadra]

I want the meat to cry and scream when I rip it apart with my teeth.

rare-medium rare with a creamy pepper sauce.

 

[Gibbo]

Well done with garlic butter and chili sauce. A recent episode of Top chef duels told me that well done basically destroys your piece of meat though.

 

[Lagamorph]

Medium Rare.
Anything else is a crime against steak.

 

[Sch1sm]

Some days I feel medium rare, other days I'm thinking well done. Mostly the latter, though.

 

[PatDH]

Just walk it through a warm room.

Spoiler

Medium rare as it should be.

 

[davepoobond]

well done or past that

 

[Regret Upon Approval]

Somewhere around the medium rare mark.

I'm also one of the people who complain about well done. Namely because I used to try steak well done and disliked it and couldn't see (taste) the appeal. After trying closer to the rare end of the spectrum on advice, I found steak to be more tasty.

 

[Hunter S.]

Medium rare for all who care to properly prepare.

 

[dr labson]

Well done.
Why would you undercook food?
I never understood the point of that.

 

[Gr1mLock]

I enjoy a nice medium rare.

 

[Helmholtz]

Typically medium well.
Was raised eating pretty much only well done meats and I just can't bring myself to enjoy something that's too red/uncooked at this point.
I do admit that well done to the point where the meat is completely grey/brown pretty much erases most of the flavor. So I like there to be a bit of pink, but not to the point where it's runny and super noticeable.

 

[marimorimo]

Medium rare. But only if it's good meat.

Also, steak is amazing in Japan. They know how to raise their cows.

 

[Superflat]

Well done.
Why would you undercook food?
I never understood the point of that.

Some foods provide significantly different (some would say better) textures and flavors that way. Eggs is another popular example.

Hell, I love steak tartare and sushi/sashimi.

 

[quesalupa]

Cooked just enough to where I won't get sick or die.

 

[jyoung188]

Medium rare or medium at most

 

[Mindlog]

I was raised on well done.
One day I decided to see what the meat tasted like. :brows:
On that day I decided it's best not to burn my food anymore. :RBH:

Medium Rare. Allow to rest. Use excess juice while grilling onions.

 

[patapuf]

rare, medium rare at most.

 

[hobblygobbly]

Well done. Medium rare has less taste to me and it doesn't matter where I've had them, at home or at some really fancy places.

A lot of people don't like the blood in it but that's not what bothers me because blood has been part of my tradition for a long time such as blood pancakes, blood sausage, etc but it's the taste of medium rare that just doesn't taste like anything. That's why I prefer well done.

Then again I'm not a huge red meat fan either, I like my pork, chicken and fish.

 

[RBK]

Does a Medium Rare steak tend to be chewy as hell? I really don't know because I hardly ever buy steak.

If that's the case, it's terrible.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Rare. Medium rare is still edible, but inferior. Anything more cooked than that and it's ruined.

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?

Because it's.... different? Different animal, different texture, different protein. Duh.

You would eat a raw carrot, but not a raw potato. You would eat raw red tuna (sushi), but not just any raw fish. And you can eat rare beef (and sometimes even raw, like tartare steak) safely, but undercooked poultry is dangerous. Different foods are prepared and cooked and eaten differently. I fail to see how that could be a mystery.

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.

Because it has infinitely superior taste and texture. Why else?

All of y'all that have been posting with your audacious admittance that you ruin your steaks with charring them have been driving me up the wall

UP. THE. FUCKING. WALL

;____;


I just think of all those wasted beautiful meat and my soul cries inside

;____;

HEATHENS.

Indeed. I just hope these heathens don't order filet mignon or the superior cuts in a restaurant, at least. Waste of good beef and they wouldn't even appreciate the difference in the cuts anyway.

A lot of people don't like the blood in it

It's not blood.

Does a Medium Rare steak tend to be chewy as hell? I really don't know because I hardly ever buy steak.

If that's the case, it's terrible.

Not if the meat is of decent quality, no. That said, supermarket steaks are almost invariably terrible. Either go to the butcher or order in a restaurant, really.

 

[Grug]

Medium rare if it's a proper steakhouse that knows what they're doing.

Otherwise medium.

That's just my subjective preference though, the chest-thumping know-it-allism on this issue by some people always baffles me.

 

[Lazyslob]

i bet most of you enjoy a1 steak sauce

 

[TatteredHat]

Medium rare, but too often I order that and end up with (Blue) rare instead. I need to find better steak houses.

 

[AxelFoley]

Medium rare is the way to go.

You might as well burn it if you want it well done

Let me co-sign on this.


Ha, my first post at GAF!

 

[ThatCrazyGuy]

Depends on the cut, but mostly medium rare. Sometimes medium.

 

[BashNasty]

I like my meat actually cooked because I am not a fucking animal. Well done all day every day.

An absurd contention. We're human beings, we're absolutely animals.

Lets fucking act like it.

 

[Tobinishi]

Medium Rare. Well done is just a waste of the great meat.

 

[Nelo Ice]

Medium Rare.

 

[Deleted member 125677]

Bloody!

 

[Rich!]

I had beef wellington at our boxing day meal, my uncle is a damn good cook

Medium rare prime steak with a layer of seasoning and mushroom/truffle pate wrapped in homemade pastry and served with red wine gravy

It was amazing. Best steak I have ever had.

 

[Symphonia]

Well done.

Fight me.

 

[kingwingin]

How many people here who eat well done steaks, actually tried medium rare? I've never met someone who's tried both and stuck with well done.

 

[hydragonwarrior]

Well done.
Why would you undercook food?
I never understood the point of that.

I was like you for a looooong while (always had it well done and ate it... it tasted OK). Then I tried my first medium rare.

Good lord the texture, the flavour, the right seasoning - all of it combined is light years beyond what you'll ever experience with overcooked cardboard. You won't ever look back.

 

[Goodlife]

Blue.

 

[KiwiLannister]

Medium rare is generally what I go with but if I'm dining at a particularly nice restaurant I might go with rare. Not afraid to try even rarer but I don't think many places here serve that.

If you are having well done steak you are a sadist or you inherited incorrect habits from your family/friends. Sorry.

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Not Sorry

My parents both grew up on farms, I think my Dad would kill me if I liked eating

Spoiler

rubber

well done steak. Such a waste of perfectly good meat.

 

[Rich!]

How many people here who eat well done steaks, actually tried medium rare? I've never met someone who's tried both and stuck with well done.

I only ever stuck with well done until my uncle refused to cook anything other than rare-medium well when he cooked the meal I mentioned above. I saw the light.

Medium rare is goood

 

[shiherlis21]

Remove the horns and wipe the arse.

 

[True Savior]

Im not a Lion (yet) , nor do i live in a savana.

I like my food cooked.

I like the meat done. People who say its a waste is mostly people who have no idea how to cook meat.

 

[Asmodai48]

I want it dead

 

[Giolon]

How many people here who eat well done steaks, actually tried medium rare? I've never met someone who's tried both and stuck with well done.

I've tried it on multiple occasions and hate it. It's disgusting to me. I hate the way it tastes like blood, and I hate the soft mushy texture. I do not enjoy it at all.

Well done all the way. Medium well if I trust the restaurant to not undercook it.

It's a myth that well done has to be burnt to a dry charcoal husk. When properly prepared with a good piece of meat, it's actually quite juicy, delicious, and tender, though I do love a good seared outer layer.

I also don't understand why the rare/medium rare people are such assholes about other people's food.

And no, I don't use steak sauce either.

 

[True Savior]

How many people here who eat well done steaks, actually tried medium rare? I've never met someone who's tried both and stuck with well done.

I did. Many times . It's disgusting. Well done doesnt mean overcooked.

I let that exclusively to movie villains

 

[Maledict]

Blue if at a decent restaurant, otherwise rare if I can't trust the quality.

And it's not blood that comes out of steaks when barely cooked - its coloured muscle fluid and water. Blood has an *incredibly* strong taste and the red juices don't have that at all (it's all you could taste if they did).

 

[Vaco6121]

Medium rare, closer to rare than medium, is what I say when i order a steak. A well done is steak is tasteless to me, but if you are gonna waste money on a good steak cook it however you what, it is your lost.

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

Medium Well in most instances. Perhaps Medium at a good steakhouse. I wouldn't go any lower than that though. Don't like the texture of undercooked meat. Probably gag on it.

I used to get Well Done when I was younger, but found it to be overcooked too often. If you get it Medium Well and it's overcooked, it'll still at least be edible.

 

[Madness]

Medium to medium-well. I'm sorry, I've had it rare and medium-rare before, but I just don't appreciate it as much, psychologically feel like I'm eating uncooked meat. Only snobs care how others eat their food unless there is some hygienic or health reason to eat a certain way.

The people who eat hamburger rare are crazy though. Unlike steak where the bacteria and germs are on the outside and destroyed when seared slightly, hamburger and ground beef, it's all mashed together (inside/outside), and unless you cook through to the middle and it's 75 degrees Celsius in the middle, you are risking e coli, salmonella and a ton of other bacteria.

 

[True Savior]

I don't think these people know what blood in food actually tastes like. Half the shit I'm reading in this thread makes those posters sound like they mostly eat Hungry Man dinners.

There's a guy saying people who prefer steak cooked properly "don't know how to cook meat". I mean... come on. You can't expect these people to have ever eaten a blood sausage. They think the greatest cuisines and the best chefs on earth are mistaken on how a steak should be cooked.

I have eaten blood sausage all my life.

It's not a matter of how it should be cooked. It's a matter of people having no idea how to cook a well done meat. Well done is not overcooked.

 

[Vivalaraza]

It feels like we have this thread every few months.

Anyway, medium rare.

 

[tri_willy]

medium rare, medium is barely acceptable. anything more, you're just nuking the fuck out of it