How do you like your steak cooked?

How do you like your steak cooked?

When I was a teenager and into my 20's and 30's, it had to be well done; very well done.  Even roast beef I would only eat the very outside.  And I always put catsup on my steak and roast beef.

I gave up catsup at some point and really only have it on french fries now.

In the last 10 years or less, I've been actually asking for my steak to be less and less cooked. I started asking for medium well instead of well.  And over time I have been asking for medium rare.  In fact I CRAVE medium rare steaks and eat it at least once per week, sometimes twice.

The last time I went out for dinner I asked for medium rare, but more towards the rare side, and it was delicious!

They say when you crave ice or rare meat your hemaglobin is low, but mine is completely normal.  So I don't know why I crave rare meat like I have been.

Anyway, how do you all like your red meat cooked?  Here is a picture that gives you an idea of how each looks.

Rare – Cool red center

Medium Rare – Warm red center

Medium – Hot red center

Medium Well – Hot pink center

Well – No pink,


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Well done for sure!  I don't like the texture of rare meats.  DH is always worried about food born illnesses from things not being cooked enough too. He'd overcook meat to be sure that stuff is gone.  I just use a thermometer!

Well done!  I once went to a candle lit restaurant where you could barely see your hand in front of your face.  I ordered my steak well done, but the more I chewed it, the chewier it got.  I realized very quickly it wasn't well done.    I used to know a man who made Beef Wellington and cooked it well done.  Still can't figure out how he did that without burning the bread.

I'm medium to rare verging on the rare side Im the same with Lamb to.  There's only one place I've ever found that has actually got both steak and lamb right I even eat pork pinkish now, purely because Gordon Ramsey said you could.

My dad on the other hand will eat his blue his saying is knock its hoofs and horns off and wipe its backside and put it on my plate.  

one of my brothers likes his rare the other well done and my mother eats hers cremated and its not a steak in my eyes

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I'm medium to rare verging on the rare side Im the same with Lamb to.  There's

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For those that are concerned about food born bacteria and red meat, that really only applies to ground meat.  The thing with ground meat is that the outside gets ground up with the inside, so when you cook it less than well done, some of the ground outside where the bacteria live, is still present, resulting in illness.  So don't eat under cooked hamburgers.

We don't eat a lot of steaks and red meats but when we do, both myself and my hubby prefer them medium. My hubby sometimes will ask for medium rare. We are very careful if we grill burgers - ground beef. Gosh - haven't had a good burger in ages!!!!!!!

Feralvr said:

haven't had a good burger in ages!!!!!!!

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I voted med rare but lean towards the rarer side. It's just jucier, has more flavor, and is more tender, My DH likes his WELL done...he does not want to see anything but well done. He's not too picky except about that so he gets what he wants even though I think he would like it rarer if he tried it. Not gonna happen!
 

I prefer my beef not mooing when I cut into it.  VERY well done for me, please!

I have not a huge tolerance for eating meat. I want it to not look like a dead animal. So I don't really eat steak as a whole steak. I'll eat something with steak pieces in it, though. And yes, very well done only.

And, yeah, I really should just be vegetarian considering my low meat tolerance. But it's easier not to fuss about whether something has small pieces of meat in it or not.

Medium rare is perfect for me.
 

I used to eat my steaks very well done...  then I went to an award dinner that served the steaks medium. I didn't want to send it back like other people did, so I tried it. It was soooo tender! 

Please don't bring me anything that a good vet can still save!!      I take my steaks well done.

I crave red meat sometimes more than usual but my hemoglobin is great so I think it just a simple craving, probably because I saw a good steak on a commercial for a steak house or something

i don't it steak often but i like it well done

I used to prefer well, but medium to well is my preference now.

I once heard that the farther you get from the cow, the rarer you like your meat.  I know when I worked on a cattle ranch, well-done was the standard.  One person said it was because you saw too many injured cows, and rare steak looks just like a bad barbed wire cut.

That could be true.  I'm not that much of a meat eater, anyway.
 

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Try using 80/20 ground chuck. It has enough fat in it that they don't come out dry.

As one of my GFs says, "Make it moo!" Plop it on the hot, hot, hot grill, turn it over, take it off. Put it on my plate and I'm a happy camper. I put my fork in the steak and if there's no blood, I send it back. (I'm part vampire)

I don't eat a lot of red meats but when I have a steak, I like it rare.

Medium --- if it's too well done I find it to be too dry and not juicy enough.

As much as it drives a wedge between me and my dad (hyperbole), I like my steaks medium rare. As a kid, my parents wouldn't let me order anything less than medium well when we went out to eat. It really killed me when we grilled at home, because I was the one who grilled because I liked it so much. My dad's steaks always had to stay on the grill an extra five minutes, even though it killed me to cook good meat until it's almost unrecognizable.

The way I see it, if you're going to burn the steak until it's dead again, then you might as well be eating the cheapest, worst cut of the cow, or grilling up some opossum. It's all the same at that point.