who orders hamburgers rare?

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: nerp
More people die from bacteria in organic vegetables than meat.

Rare is tasty. People are way to freakishly worried about undercooked meat.

Carpaccio for lunch!

Carpaccio, steak, etc is not processed through a grinder like hamburger meat. That's where problems arise. the process exposes more of the meat to the air, and more bacteria. The bacteria that may have been on the surface of that meat is now spread throughout.

Typically, the types of bacteria one must worry about when it comes to beef can't penetrate far into an un-processed cut. (steak, for example). This is why a good searing on the surface is all one really needs to be safe when it comes to steak. This is also why the same does not apply to burgers.

 

[NuclearNed]

Back in 1999:
1. wife ate undercooked hamburger
2. wife got e-coli
3. wife spent 16 days in the hospital
3a. some of wife's major organs quit for a while
3b. wife nearly bought the farm
3c. wife was in extreme pain
3d. wife has related health problems that continue to this day

Moral of the story:
NuclearNed eats only hamburgers that resembles hockey pucks

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: sactoking
Hamburgers should never be well-done.*
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Hamburgers should never be ordered any way BUT well-done at a restaurant.
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You should never order a hamburger at a restaurant


*Disclaimer: Places that give you no choice (e.g. McDonalds, Burger King) don't really serve hamburgers, so they're ok.

This is what I go with. I'm not big into burgers, anyway, so I'll only order one if I can't find anything else on the menu.

If I'm grilling, burgers is the last thing on my mind when considering the types of meat I want to cook.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
I like all my meat very well done, from hamburgers to steaks. My favorite pit beef is the burnt ends. Not only is it tasty, they sell them super cheap, or give them away.

That's cancer you're tasting.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Medium is the least-cooked I will eat. It isnt a fucking steak, it is a burger.

...which is made out of steak.

/facepalm

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Anubis
FEAR OF GERMS FTL

Hi, My name is C. Darwin, nice to meet you.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: bobdole369
Hey - Lions don't cook their food. Neither do leopards, tigers, bears, or any of the meat eaters. They are fine.

This cooking of food thing is a human invention created out of necessity and a holdover from religion.

I like rare hamburgers just fine. I also like well hamburgers, and every cooking time in between. Except medium-well - If your going that far, why not burn the fucker?

Granted there is a decent amount of risk involved. But you weigh that risk against the benefits, and in my book as long as the place is decently clean I don't think that my burgers been kicking around the kitchen for a week so I think it'll be fine.

In the immortal words of George Carlin - joepesci - or the sun - rest his soul - "I've got a nice strong immune system - that gets a lot of practice!"

/facepalm x1,000

so ah, are you simply thinking that the bacterial culture in a lion/dog/tiger/bear/etc's stomach is the same bacterial culture in a human's?

 

[JohnCU]

CCCOMBO!

 

[skace]

I really don't understand how eating a burger rare would be considered a perk. But I'm part of the uncivilized masses.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Back in 1999:
1. wife ate undercooked hamburger
2. wife got e-coli
3. wife spent 16 days in the hospital
3a. some of wife's major organs quit for a while
3b. wife nearly bought the farm
3c. wife was in extreme pain
3d. wife has related health problems that continue to this day

Moral of the story:
NuclearNed eats only hamburgers that resembles hockey pucks

Could have been she wiped her eye with her dirty hand. Could have had a lowered immune system response at the time? Could have been many things OTHER THAN the raw hamburger. It also could have been the hamburger.

Point is, you're probably not sure, and even if you are, there is a very small chance this would repeat, yet you have made a drastic and... lol unsavory choice about how to live the remainder of your life.

Also, I have had a viscous intestinal microbe. It felt like a live raccoon trying to claw it's way out of my stomach. I know what birthing the alien feels like. I literally shit blood. That's when I went to the hospital. I could have died. The doc said it could have been something I ate, or the bug could have found any number of paths inside me. The point is that I didn't change any of my habits over it, because normally I do not get sick, so why change anything. I have never had anything like it since. I eat all kinds of raw food, I get all my meat including pork rare (chicken is hardly meat), and I don't bother with hepa filters, bottled water, or antibiotic gel. I drink from others glasses with no reservation, and I will eat food past the expiration with impunity. I don't even care usually if I drop something on the floor. The floor's clean!

I ahve a friend who is the opposite of me. He sends me articles about what happens when you flush a toilet. He takes a shower every time after he takes a shit, IRregardless of how inconvenient that is. He lives his entire life in paralyzed fear of microbes. He is one of the smartest people I know, but on this issue he is utterly retarded.

End this phobic madness for your own sanity.

 

[lokiju]

I order my steaks medium and my burgers medium well.

Man I want a burger or steak for dinner so bad after all these threads today...

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Could have been she wiped her eye with her dirty hand. Could have had a lowered immune system response at the time? Could have been many things OTHER THAN the raw hamburger. It also could have been the hamburger.

Point is, you're probably not sure, and even if you are, there is a very small chance this would repeat, yet you have made a drastic and... lol unsavory choice about how to live the remainder of your life.

And yet had your wife almost died you'd have a different opinion than you do today.

 

[Q]

Always well done for me

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: bobdole369
Hey - Lions don't cook their food. Neither do leopards, tigers, bears, or any of the meat eaters. They are fine.

This cooking of food thing is a human invention created out of necessity and a holdover from religion.

I like rare hamburgers just fine. I also like well hamburgers, and every cooking time in between. Except medium-well - If your going that far, why not burn the fucker?

Granted there is a decent amount of risk involved. But you weigh that risk against the benefits, and in my book as long as the place is decently clean I don't think that my burgers been kicking around the kitchen for a week so I think it'll be fine.

In the immortal words of George Carlin - joepesci - or the sun - rest his soul - "I've got a nice strong immune system - that gets a lot of practice!"

Wait, what?

You are implying that (1) cooking food is bad and (2) it's the fault of religion?

What? Seriously?

 

[JS80]

I only get rare burger at Father's Office.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
CCCOMBO!

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Could have been she wiped her eye with her dirty hand. Could have had a lowered immune system response at the time? Could have been many things OTHER THAN the raw hamburger. It also could have been the hamburger.

Point is, you're probably not sure, and even if you are, there is a very small chance this would repeat, yet you have made a drastic and... lol unsavory choice about how to live the remainder of your life.

And yet had your wife almost died you'd have a different opinion than you do today.

I edited my message. Take another look. You are helping make my point though, so thank you. Everyone knows someone...

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Back in 1999:
1. wife ate undercooked hamburger
2. wife got e-coli
3. wife spent 16 days in the hospital
3a. some of wife's major organs quit for a while
3b. wife nearly bought the farm
3c. wife was in extreme pain
3d. wife has related health problems that continue to this day

Moral of the story:
NuclearNed eats only hamburgers that resembles hockey pucks

Could have been she wiped her eye with her dirty hand. Could have had a lowered immune system response at the time? Could have been many things OTHER THAN the raw hamburger. It also could have been the hamburger.

Point is, you're probably not sure, and even if you are, there is a very small chance this would repeat, yet you have made a drastic and... lol unsavory choice about how to live the remainder of your life.

Also, I have had a viscous intestinal microbe. It felt like a live raccoon trying to claw it's way out of my stomach. I know what birthing the alien feels like. I literally shit blood. That's when I went to the hospital. I could have died. The doc said it could have been something I ate, or the bug could have found any number of paths inside me. The point is that I didn't change any of my habits over it, because normally I do not get sick, so why change anything. I have never had anything like it since. I eat all kinds of raw food, I get all my meat including pork rare (chicken is hardly meat), and I don't bother with hepa filters, bottled water, or antibiotic gel. I drink from others glasses with no reservation, and I will eat food past the expiration with impunity. I don't even care usually if I drop something on the floor. The floor's clean!

I ahve a friend who is the opposite of me. He sends me articles about what happens when you flush a toilet. He takes a shower every time after he takes a shit, IRregardless of how inconvenient that is. He lives his entire life in paralyzed fear of microbes. He is one of the smartest people I know, but on this issue he is utterly retarded.

End this phobic madness for your own sanity.

I think your both being retarded about this issue.

 

[oiprocs]

Well done for me. I like it cooked.

On a side note, I've noticed that at In N Out, you always get a well done burger, and most people like their burgers. I'm willing to bet that many of those people also order their burgers rare from places that ask how you want it cooked.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Back in 1999:
1. wife ate undercooked hamburger
2. wife got e-coli
3. wife spent 16 days in the hospital
3a. some of wife's major organs quit for a while
3b. wife nearly bought the farm
3c. wife was in extreme pain
3d. wife has related health problems that continue to this day

Moral of the story:
NuclearNed eats only hamburgers that resembles hockey pucks

Could have been she wiped her eye with her dirty hand. Could have had a lowered immune system response at the time? Could have been many things OTHER THAN the raw hamburger. It also could have been the hamburger.

Point is, you're probably not sure, and even if you are, there is a very small chance this would repeat, yet you have made a drastic and... lol unsavory choice about how to live the remainder of your life.

Also, I have had a viscous intestinal microbe. It felt like a live raccoon trying to claw it's way out of my stomach. I know what birthing the alien feels like. I literally shit blood. That's when I went to the hospital. I could have died. The doc said it could have been something I ate, or the bug could have found any number of paths inside me. The point is that I didn't change any of my habits over it, because normally I do not get sick, so why change anything. I have never had anything like it since. I eat all kinds of raw food, I get all my meat including pork rare (chicken is hardly meat), and I don't bother with hepa filters, bottled water, or antibiotic gel. I drink from others glasses with no reservation, and I will eat food past the expiration with impunity. I don't even care usually if I drop something on the floor. The floor's clean!

I ahve a friend who is the opposite of me. He sends me articles about what happens when you flush a toilet. He takes a shower every time after he takes a shit, IRregardless of how inconvenient that is. He lives his entire life in paralyzed fear of microbes. He is one of the smartest people I know, but on this issue he is utterly retarded.

End this phobic madness for your own sanity.

you eat raw pork?? :Q

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: obscenethistle
Well done for me. I like it cooked.

On a side note, I've noticed that at In N Out, you always get a well done burger, and most people like their burgers. I'm willing to bet that many of those people also order their burgers rare from places that ask how you want it cooked.

It's rare you can get a true medium burger where it is mostly pink through out. Even more rare if you get it a nice medium-rare, but that's what your grill is for.

A place around here makes good burgers and if you get the bison burger they will cook it medium or medium rare for you!

 

[blurredvision]

If I'm asked, I'll get medium. If not, I'll take it however they cook it.

 

[Kanalua]

Depends on the place...if it's a nice place that I can trust gets good meat and treats it well, then I'll go with rare. If it's a not so nice place, then I'll go medium rare.

Really, a nice burger cooked to perfection rare...there are few sandwiches better...

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Also, I have had a viscous intestinal microbe. It felt like a live raccoon trying to claw it's way out of my stomach. I know what birthing the alien feels like. I literally shit blood. That's when I went to the hospital. I could have died. The doc said it could have been something I ate, or the bug could have found any number of paths inside me. The point is that I didn't change any of my habits over it, because normally I do not get sick, so why change anything. I have never had anything like it since. I eat all kinds of raw food, I get all my meat including pork rare (chicken is hardly meat), and I don't bother with hepa filters, bottled water, or antibiotic gel. I drink from others glasses with no reservation, and I will eat food past the expiration with impunity. I don't even care usually if I drop something on the floor. The floor's clean!

Wow. Finally, someone who has the correct attitude about life. The beauty of this approach is that people like you and me have powerful immune systems that will ward off common bugs that will cripple the germaphone who spends his/her life constantly sterilizing and disenfecting everything. My children will not have allergies, asthma or other ailments because I'll throw them in the yard, naked, to eat dirt and worms.

The main thing that boggles my mind is the total lack of awareness on the issue. People wash their hands, but fail to realize that simply BREATHING will negate any efforts to ward off germs because guess what, you're SUCKING THEM IN constantly. Smell someone fart in line at the bank? That's right, you're inhaling/ingesting ANAL PARTICLES. Ever go swimming? Eat? Sit in a car? Bite your nails? Kiss someone? Pet a dog?

I've known people who are total germaphobes. . . except they let their dog lick thier lips. "aww, he's saying hellow." Yeah, you'll let your dog lick your mouth but you won't eat a medium rare steak? Ridiculous.

I'd make out with you even if you didn't brush your teeth.

 

[jagec]

There's a place around here that serves a large medium-rare lamb burger with fries for $6 at happy hour, and it's DELICIOUS.