how do you like your steak cooked

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b0mbrman

Lifer
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I always ask for medium rare in restaurants. Most of the time it arrives medium...both work for me.
 

Sluggo

Lifer
Jun 12, 2000
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Hot and black on the outside, warm and pink on the inside and willing to cook me breakfast.

Oh wait, you asked about steak.....

Hot and black on the outside, warm and pink on the inside.
 

pyonir

Lifer
Dec 18, 2001
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depends on how good the steak is and where i'm getting it. Something like Applebee's = medium well. A GOOD steakhouse, medium.
 

kindest

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Originally posted by: pyonir
depends on how good the steak is and where i'm getting it. Something like Applebee's = medium well. A GOOD steakhouse, medium.

heh same here.
 

yukichigai

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Medium rare keeps me happy in general. Not too bloody, not too tough. The outside absorbs just enough of whatever you decide to put on it, if you decide to put anything on it.

This is assuming it's at some decent restaurant, like a non-chain italian restaurant or something. (Or a Basque restaurant in Elko... mmmmmm) If it's a breakfast steak from the Casino I go Well Done. (Like they give me a choice) In general the better the quality of the steak, the closer to Rare I go.

Of course I'll eat cuts of beef mildly seared -- like beyond Very Rare -- or raw with the right seasoning. Gored Gored: Ethiopian dish with tasty spicy sauce goodness and seared beef. Very tasty.
 

acemcmac

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wow, have you guys not heard of "save for well done?"

you're wasting really good meat if you let anything steak or better go past medium rare!