How Do You Like Your Steak Cooked?

[olgaandcoda]

I have mine well done, but I always specify I don't want any blood oozing out. Had a lovely steak in Longhorns last trip, very tender and cooked just as I like it. The server said I could have it any way I wanted, I wasn't made to feel like a peasant for not having it rare! My money, my choice!

I rarely eat steak in England restaurants, it mostly turns up too rare for my taste.

[elmspenguin]

I have mine medium rare.

[Loopylooloo]

Medium rare of course! Anything more means the meat is tough and too chewy - a little rare and it cuts like butter, melts in the mouth. mmm...now am hungry!

[Tillyjcm]

Very well done in my case (hubby says incinerated), one glimpse of blood and it's game over for me.

I even struggled at Chip n Dale Garden Grill dinner when platter of meat, fish and turkey came out the meat was definitely on the juicy side eek.

[Mark1994]

I always ask for medium-rare, on a couple of occasions it has been rare, or what I would consider rare, and just asked them to cook it for a little bit longer, which was never a problem.
I would eat medium-rare or medium no problem, better to be under cooked and sent back for a bit more, than overcooked and ruined.

[mandco]

I always ask for medium/well I can live with a bit of pink as long as it isn't juicy but I do find most places struggle to get it right more often than not they come out under cooked so asking for a medium/well gets something more like a medium should be

[TC Devon]

Originally Posted by olgaandcoda

I have mine well done, but I always specify I don't want any blood oozing out. Had a lovely steak in Longhorns last trip, very tender and cooked just as I like it. The server said I could have it any way I wanted, I wasn't made to feel like a peasant for not having it rare! My money, my choice!

I rarely eat steak in England restaurants, it mostly turns up too rare for my taste.

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I'm exactly the same.
I always feel a bit embarrassed asking for it well done so I rarely order it although to be fair I never go out!

[Lisbon]

Medium for all of us, once saw someone have a T-bone steak at Mannys that looked raw
Rob

[sha9]

Originally Posted by TC Devon

I'm exactly the same.
I always feel a bit embarrassed asking for it well done so I rarely order it although to be fair I never go out!

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I never feel embarrassed asking for well done. It's my steak and I'll eat it how I want. Like others the thought of the pink juices turns my stomach so I don't care if that's how a steak "should" be cooked. As you can see this is a subject that really gets my goat .

[barryp1]

Originally Posted by sha9

I never feel embarrassed asking for well done. It's my steak and I'll eat it how I want. Like others the thought of the pink juices turns my stomach so I don't care if that's how a steak "should" be cooked. As you can see this is a subject that really gets my goat .

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Firstly, it's quite right that you eat what you want however it is cooked.

Second, if you have been served steak with a mess of juice on the plate then the meat has not been rested before serving. This is bad cooking/presentation and if it didn't happen then people might have a better understanding of how the meat should be cooked.

Thirdly, irrespective of personal opinion then the more a steak is cooked the more flavour it will lose.

Fourthly, and to your credit you didn't suggest it, there is no blood in a beef steak unless you try and cook it before the animal has been properly hung.

Why the subject gets your goat I don't understand.