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how do you like your steak cooked?
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:36 am
by Christopher_Dragon_Archive
with fire
how do you like your steak cooked?
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:42 am
by Chapter Two_Archive
Tom wrote:Chapter Two wrote: The chance of being poisoned or infested with disgusting maggots by an undercooked vegetable is not high. I have never cooked a steak. In fact, I have only ever eaten one steak in my life. I was scared of rare-cooked meat so I had it well done. However, I now live with a chef, who is horrified at my lack of experience in the steak department and has pledged to try me out on a medium-rare. I have also made him swear a blood-oath that I won't get intestinal maggots.
It's really very low with meat too. A steak, so long as the surface is cooked, you're pretty safe. Not 100%, but good. Unless the animal was diseased (which should be caught at a number of steps before it came to market), rotten (you will know this instantly), or has been sitting at room temp. for more than 1/2 hour, there won't be anything on the inside of the steak that will make you sick.
You run into problems with ground beef. I always have my burgers cooked well done. There is much more surface area and with the, uh...blending process, its much much easier for something nasty to get in on the inside.
Poultry is easy. Cook it 'til it ain't pink no more.
Cheers for this Tom; most helpful and mind-at-rest-putting.
My chef housemate last night made a stew with some steak and left it to cook while we went to the pub for a couple of hours. Jesus, did I eat last night! Like a King.
how do you like your steak cooked?
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:49 am
by Tom_Archive
Ch.2...
No problem. I would like to add this though. My outline is based on US standards of inspection and preparation. I assume that the UK's is similar if not stricter, but I don't know.
I gotta say. I'm a little shocked that you are eating meat. Weren't you the one who Hitler's the Pitbull extinction thread?
how do you like your steak cooked?
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:51 am
by Chapter Two_Archive
If I thought I was joining in a mission to make cows extinct, I wouldn't be eating them. There seems to be plenty to go round though.
how do you like your steak cooked?
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:47 am
by warmowski_Archive
Tom wrote:
On a related note,
I'm going to be smoking a lambs leg this weekend.
Even with the wool, that's going to be hard to keep lit.
Zing.
Bonus: the euphemism count for "joint" increments by one.
-r
P.S. Steak medium well. As far as rare goes, if I want pink gooshy slop in my mouth, I'll buy some bubble gum.
how do you like your steak cooked?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:08 am
by matthew_Archive
A nice ribeye steak was consumed by me this e'en. 'Twas rare. USDA Choice. I did not tenderize it with a vegan rub and marinade as I usually do. It was still nice and tender though.
how do you like your steak cooked?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:57 am
by connor_Archive
If I'm at a mediocre or crappy joint (Steak & Ale, Sizzler), then medium.
If I'm at a fucking stellar steak house that's gonna pick out a perfect slab of flesh (Del Frisco's), then rare or medium-rare.
Basically: mediocre to low-quality beef should be cooked more than high-quality beef. I feel very strongly about this.
how do you like your steak cooked?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:59 am
by Flaneur_Archive
hench wrote:peppercorn encrusted with a whiskey sauce. exquisite...
This is it, this is the one.