Who orders steaks well done?

[BornStar]

Depending on where I get my steak I'll order it rare or medium rare. If it's a chain they usually err on the side of overcooked and I don't care for medium steaks so I'll order it rare. At better steakhouses I'll order it medium rare although these days it's getting difficult to undercook a steak for me so I think I'll probably be switching to rare shortly.

For those that say the blood bothers them, I've got good news; it's not blood! You don't have to believe me, you can just read what the USDA has to say about it here. Scroll to the part called "Liquid in Package".

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Molondo
Don't lose sleep over this. How this got to 10 pages is beyond me.

What are you, on dialup or a fax modem or something???

It's really OK to increase your 'topics per page' to more than 20, lol.

 

[Q]

me

 

[ncage]

Yuck!!!! A dried out piece of shoe leather. Only medium rare for me!!!! My aunt will order steak EXTRA well done and it will come out looking like a brisket after you smoke it for 15 hours but as dry as the sahara...ewwwwwwwwww

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Sawyer
How are picky eaters annoying? I would say that people who care how others eat their own food have to be at least as annoying if not more. I seriously don't see how it matters how someone likes their food, it has no affect on me enjoying mine.

Except that you will ONLY encounter people who care about how others eat their food on the internet. Such people will NEVER actually make a public scene if someone gets their steak well done. However, picky eaters WILL make such a scene, complain to management, cost REAL people REAL money, get good food taken off of the menu and generally waste everyone's time while making their lives worse.

I've a great deal of tolerance for the petty complaints that are strewn liberally about the web, since the internet doesn't matter. But real life is different, and people who complain in real life suck hardcore.

ffffffffffff, i've seen this way too many times. they always do it in such a douchebag manner, making a loud commotion and saying retarded stuff "HOW CAN YOU SERVE STEAK LIKE THIS, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET SICK AND DIEEEEEEEE". i've seriously seen a crazy lady do that.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: growled
I've never seen a piece of steak worth $30+.

Originally posted by: growled
I have seen a $30+ dollar steak before. Many times. I've never seen one worth $30+...that is, worth that much to me. That word worth was in there for a reason.

$30 is an amount everyone on this forum is familiar with, except you. You wouldn't happen to be our former president would you?

he said worth 30.

Yes, i get it. Obv you don't either.

obviously i'm an idiot

No, JohnCU and I both get what growled is trying to say. I've never seen a steak worth 30 dollars to me either growled.

Seen plenty of steaks that COST 30 dollars. Eaten several steaks that COST 30 dollars. None worth it.

How was Bob Evans tonight? Too much salt?

Some of us have better things to buy than 30 dollar steaks. A 7 dollar cut from a local butcher with a home made twice baked potato is less than 1/2 the cost and much better.

You bake your potato twice?!? Dude, ANYBODY who bakes a potato more than once must have no tastebuds and is a borderline retard! Why ruin a perfectly delicious potato by baking away its carbohydrated goodness TWICE?!

See? I can be hypercritical about other peoples eating habits too. (not directed at the poster, just those who don't get it that the world doesn't share their specific tastes and take umbridge about it with those who don't for some reason)

 

[Atheus]

Generally people who have never tried it rare, or people with a fear of unfamiliar food, or poeple who don't really like steak but order it becasue they don't want people to say - wtf you don't like steak?!? Anyone who actually enjoys the texture and taste of beef likes it better when cooked properly.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
I'm late to this thread, but I've been ordering steaks rare for the last year and recently they've all seem too done to me. What is the accepted terminology for less than rare? Warm?

tartar. i used to have a chef neighbor that would try out new recipes on us all the time, he made steak tartar once and it was heavenly. its basically warmed up, but not cooked at all. not sure how it was prepared tho.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Generally people who have never tried it rare, or people with a fear of unfamiliar food, or poeple who don't really like steak but order it becasue they don't want people to say - wtf you don't like steak?!? Anyone who actually enjoys the texture and taste of beef likes it better when cooked properly.

Of course, everyone that likes beef can mutually agree on the perfect way to make it.
I mean, humans are very well known for being able to agree on things, right? That's why we only have one religion, one beer, etc.

 

[Kirby]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Atheus
Generally people who have never tried it rare, or people with a fear of unfamiliar food, or poeple who don't really like steak but order it becasue they don't want people to say - wtf you don't like steak?!? Anyone who actually enjoys the texture and taste of beef likes it better when cooked properly.

Of course, everyone that likes beef can mutually agree on the perfect way to make it.
I mean, humans are very well known for being able to agree on things, right? That's why we only have one religion, one beer, etc.

Everyone can have different opinions, but yours is always wrong.

 

[kstu]

Originally posted by: nkgreen

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Atheus
Generally people who have never tried it rare, or people with a fear of unfamiliar food, or poeple who don't really like steak but order it becasue they don't want people to say - wtf you don't like steak?!? Anyone who actually enjoys the texture and taste of beef likes it better when cooked properly.

Of course, everyone that likes beef can mutually agree on the perfect way to make it.
I mean, humans are very well known for being able to agree on things, right? That's why we only have one religion, one beer, etc.

Everyone can have different opinions, but yours is always wrong.

Your FACE is always wrong.

 

[Miramonti]

I *always* ordered steaks Medium until a couple years ago, even at some of the top steak houses in NY.

WHY? I didn't really know better. Until I started grilling them myself and learned how heavenly medium-rare is, I didn't think much about it. Live and learn, but its all good now.

 

[Martin]

My family.

Beef isn't really eaten where we're from (main meat's pork, chicken and lamb) and so the concept eating non-well-done meat is completely foreign and unaccepted, regardless whether its beef or fish, and so this carried over. I'm pretty open-minded towards new food, so when I first had proper steak I had it prepared the way they recommend (med-rare) and loved it. The rest of my family isn't so open-minded, so the concept of meat that's even a little red on the inside freaks them out.

Last weekend I took them to a steakhouse (The Keg, decent, but not very upscale or anything) and told them to get nothing more than medium. Well, my grandma tried medium, but my sister and mom went for med-well (having never had anything but well-done before). My grandma liked her medium and my mom and sister both regretted their choices after sampling the medium / medium-rare cooked ones. So it took them a while, but they now know better

 

[Molondo]

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Molondo
Don't lose sleep over this. How this got to 10 pages is beyond me.

What are you, on dialup or a fax modem or something???

It's really OK to increase your 'topics per page' to more than 20, lol.

I guess that is how you become a lifer, by arguing over the littlest things.

 

[DarrelSPowers]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe

Originally posted by: DarrelSPowers
I work part time as a waiter at an "upscale casual" steakhouse in Boston. We've got amazing cuts of meat... 14 oz rib eye for like... thirtysomething dollars. During the training period you get to eat anything on the menu every shift for free. I ate like a king for a week... filets, ny strips, and ribeyes every night.

Now, every time I take an order for a med-well or well done steak, I die a little inside.

I mean seriously, what kind of jerk wants to spend $30+ to waste a perfectly tasty piece of meat? Do they really think that dried out, charred husk of a steak tastes any good?

Once you've become ill from eating under cooked meat your perspective changes. The sight of blood on my dinner plate makes my stomach turn. A good steak house understand what medium well means, it means meat that's cooked, not dripping blood but not charcoal either.

Hey, I hear ya.

One time I was in ireland and got food poisoning from some fried shrimp... to this day I cannot eat fried shrimp.

People who get sick from eating some meat that was too rare, are usually victims of poorly stored and cared for meat. Quality really does matter.

I found out recently that you can even cook pork to a medium-ish center, and it doesn't HAVE to be cooked all they way through or else you die of salmonella.

 

[DarrelSPowers]

Originally posted by: Redfraggle

Originally posted by: DarrelSPowers

Originally posted by: dbk
women

by and large, this is mostly true.

Guess I'm wasting my time posting this on OT.

Female, and I think of Smeagol/Golem (sp?) when I eat steak: "Give it to me raw and wriggling!" Ribeye is my favorite, and I cook a nice thick Ribeye maybe two minutes per side. I eat my steak practically raw, and none of my male friends eat it the way I do.

A/L/single?

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Molondo

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Molondo
Don't lose sleep over this. How this got to 10 pages is beyond me.

What are you, on dialup or a fax modem or something???

It's really OK to increase your 'topics per page' to more than 20, lol.

I guess that is how you become a lifer, by arguing over the littlest things.

First you condescend the thread topic, then all the replies, now my post which is actually disguised as a tip. You may not post enough over the years to make lifer, but loser status is well within reach.

 

[xeemzor]

Does anyone know know where I can order some bulk beef? Preferably steaks.

 

[DarrelSPowers]

Originally posted by: xeemzor
Does anyone know know where I can order some bulk beef? Preferably steaks.

I think my restaurant buys from somewhere called Nieman ranch?

maybe google that?

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: growled
I've never seen a piece of steak worth $30+.

Originally posted by: growled
I have seen a $30+ dollar steak before. Many times. I've never seen one worth $30+...that is, worth that much to me. That word worth was in there for a reason.

$30 is an amount everyone on this forum is familiar with, except you. You wouldn't happen to be our former president would you?

he said worth 30.

Yes, i get it. Obv you don't either.

obviously i'm an idiot

No, JohnCU and I both get what growled is trying to say. I've never seen a steak worth 30 dollars to me either growled.

Seen plenty of steaks that COST 30 dollars. Eaten several steaks that COST 30 dollars. None worth it.

How was Bob Evans tonight? Too much salt?

Some of us have better things to buy than 30 dollar steaks. A 7 dollar cut from a local butcher with a home made twice baked potato is less than 1/2 the cost and much better.

You bake your potato twice?!? Dude, ANYBODY who bakes a potato more than once must have no tastebuds and is a borderline retard! Why ruin a perfectly delicious potato by baking away its carbohydrated goodness TWICE?!

See? I can be hypercritical about other peoples eating habits too. (not directed at the poster, just those who don't get it that the world doesn't share their specific tastes and take umbridge about it with those who don't for some reason)

Do you even know what twiced baked potato is?

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: DarrelSPowers

Originally posted by: xeemzor
Does anyone know know where I can order some bulk beef? Preferably steaks.

I think my restaurant buys from somewhere called Nieman ranch?

maybe google that?

WHOOOOSSHHH!!!

 

[Jules]

Not everyone likes it the way you like it. Get over it.

 

[Molondo]

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Molondo

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Molondo
Don't lose sleep over this. How this got to 10 pages is beyond me.

What are you, on dialup or a fax modem or something???

It's really OK to increase your 'topics per page' to more than 20, lol.

I guess that is how you become a lifer, by arguing over the littlest things.

First you condescend the thread topic, then all the replies, now my post which is actually disguised as a tip. You may not post enough over the years to make lifer, but loser status is well within reach.

Sure, whatever makes you feel better.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Jules
Not everyone likes it the way you like it. Get over it.

What, with flavor? Rare all the way. I went to a fancy steakhouse and my porterhouse was almost medium. I seriously could barely eat it, and when the brought out the replacement purple hunk of deliciousness I devoured it.

 

[wiredspider]

My parents eat their food well done, so I thought that must be the way you are suppose to eat. Finally I braved it at a steak house and order medium and wow, what a difference!