I'm tired of the anti-well done snobs

Fred19Flintstone · February 2016

buzzvol said:

NPHuskerFL said:no

FWIW I do like my beef rare to med rare. My wife prefers hers well, well done. As much as I'd like to convert her like a butch lesbo I don't try because she loves her steak the way she likes it. PS... Girl Scout Cookies Still Suck!

But how many of your steaks have you let over cook or get cold while cooking hers?
No, I'm not bitter.

No need to sweat the details. Wilma likes her steak a bit north of medium. I just put hers on a minute or two before mine.

Theophan · February 2016

theyolksonyou said:

Lunch, wasn't even "sashimi grade"

Um, I think "sashimi grade" isn't about quality, it's about having been frozen to a deep enough temperature that no parasites are viable. Raw tuna that hasn't been frozen that deeply can have parasites in it, that can very happily start growing inside YOU.

If I don't know for sure, I cook tuna medium-rare to medium.

Eggscuses · February 2016

Now this was interesting!

gerhardk · February 2016

My wife only eats well done and I understand the original posters concern about everyone feeling they need to comment on her preference. I won't eat hamburger that isn't well done either but someplaces the wait staff always discourage this preference by making a comment on that they can't guarantee that it won't be dried out, I just ask if they can guarantee my health if I order it medium rare.
A little off topic rant but from what I understand a lot of the large chain restaurant's "chefs" basically plate items pre-cooked in a factory and just re-heated in the kitchen, might as well go eat tv dinners. Apparently even hamburger comes frozen pre-cooked. Makes the fast food patty flippers seem like they are doing more cooking.

Gerhard

NPHuskerFL · February 2016

buzzvol said:

NPHuskerFL said:no

FWIW I do like my beef rare to med rare. My wife prefers hers well, well done. As much as I'd like to convert her like a butch lesbo I don't try because she loves her steak the way she likes it. PS... Girl Scout Cookies Still Suck!

But how many of your steaks have you let over cook or get cold while cooking hers?
No, I'm not bitter.

@buzzvol None. Easy obstacle. It allows me more time with the egg. It allows 1-2 more beers. And it keeps my bride happy. I'd say it's a pretty easy thing to do for her. Truthfully most people overcook a well done steak. I know. I know.

How is that possible? A well done steak should still be juicy and full of flavor. It shouldn't be a charred hockey puck or dried out piece of jerky. And as far as mine goes it's simple timing. I put mine on "approx" once hers is nearing med well. Bottom line each one of us likes different things.
I feel the same way @Hubwhen questioned w/ that..."you want it rare or med rare" followed by an ewe.

pgprescott · February 2016

gerhardk said:

My wife only eats well done and I understand the original posters concern about everyone feeling they need to comment on her preference. I won't eat hamburger that isn't well done either but someplaces the wait staff always discourage this preference by making a comment on that they can't guarantee that it won't be dried out, I just ask if they can guarantee my health if I order it medium rare.
A little off topic rant but from what I understand a lot of the large chain restaurant's "chefs" basically plate items pre-cooked in a factory and just re-heated in the kitchen, might as well go eat tv dinners. Apparently even hamburger comes frozen pre-cooked. Makes the fast food patty flippers seem like they are doing more cooking.

Gerhard

No one cares how you or anyone else likes to eat their food. However, when you say it's "bloody" you need to be corrected. It's not. That's all. I do feel many people don't eat beef mid rare because they are put off by the notion they are eating "bloody" meat. That is a shame IMO. I have a kid that doesn't want to eat much beef at all and not real rare, so I do understand the issue. I still feel it is at least partially rooted in ignorance of the process and just a visual hurdle of the mind. In the end, it's your choice, of course.

THEBuckeye · February 2016

As long as there are NO FORKS! in the pic I'm cool.

buzzvol · February 2016

@NPHuskerFL I was just being a smart ars. The egg and the thermo pen have both helped greatly in this department.

DoubleEgger · February 2016

I'll cook a steak until it looks like Mickeys Nap Wings if my guest wants it that way. I want all of my guests to enjoy their meal. No butthurt here.

JethroVA · February 2016

@Hub walked into this bar looking for a fight. By citing his resume' and service to our country, I'd say there was alcohol involved prior to taking to the keyboard. @Hub, you can have your steak any way that you like it!

Acn · February 2016

gerhardk said:

My wife only eats well done and I understand the original posters concern about everyone feeling they need to comment on her preference. I won't eat hamburger that isn't well done either but someplaces the wait staff always discourage this preference by making a comment on that they can't guarantee that it won't be dried out, I just ask if they can guarantee my health if I order it medium rare.
A little off topic rant but from what I understand a lot of the large chain restaurant's "chefs" basically plate items pre-cooked in a factory and just re-heated in the kitchen, might as well go eat tv dinners. Apparently even hamburger comes frozen pre-cooked. Makes the fast food patty flippers seem like they are doing more cooking.

Gerhard

The server also has to cover themselves so you can't then try and return the plate to the kitchen saying it was dry and cooked incorrectly.

I had friends who worked at DIstrict Chophouse when I was in grad school, and they said the kitchen loved people to order steaks well done, the policy of "Save for Well-Done" that Bourdain describes in Kitchen Confidential was definitely in place; ordering it well done lets the kitchen charge you $30 for a steak that they'd have to toss otherwise.

dougcrann · February 2016

Was raised eating "one step this side of mooing"....as my Dad used to call it. Ernestina won't touch anything like that. Started out everything had to be shoe leather. 141* is about as low as I can go on Tri Tips before either one of us is bitching. That's not to say I won't eat something on the rarer side. Trip to AZ my buddy made steaks. He doesn't use a thermometer. My steak was a bit on the cold side of rare....was drunk enough I didn't care....

HeavyG · February 2016

JethroVA said:

@Hub walked into this bar looking for a fight. By citing his resume' and service to our country, I'd say there was alcohol involved prior to taking to the keyboard. @Hub, you can have your steak any way that you like it!

I just hope the drunk lawyer is nursing his hangover ok today.

He's probably having a well done steak and eggs breakfast. And a Bloody Mary.

1move · February 2016

@Hub is getting his money's worth on comments this weekend!!!! Well I sure know how piss off everyone now if I ever need to! Just barge in and call your meat names!

My wife only wanted her steak well done. I am always in charge of making it and eventually got to a point where I slowly started making it less well done. She kept an open mind as I showed her research that it was not "blood" and that it actually tastes much better. Eventually she worked her way to medium rare and she said she has been missing out all her life! Now she gets into arguments with people and tries to convert them.

gerhardk · February 2016

1move said:

Now she gets into arguments with people and tries to convert them.

This is the part that is what bothers people, they want to be converted to your taste in meat about as much as your taste in God.

Gerhard

henapple · February 2016

JohnInCarolina · February 2016

This would have been better five pages ago, but what the heck:

Phatchris · February 2016

I have no beef with the way anyone likes their beef.... Unless I serve you some Prime and ya nuke it... Then we fightin'

1move · February 2016

gerhardk said:

1move said:

Now she gets into arguments with people and tries to convert them.

This is the part that is what bothers people, they want to be converted to your taste in meat about as much as your taste in God.

Gerhard

@gerhardk I agree however it's only brought up when others say that their steak is too dry when they cook it and at our house it isn't. Well then we go down the pay of this thread and it always ends up being that it's because I have a BGE and that's why it tastes better.

Thatgrimguy · February 2016

Thin mints and Samoas are AWESOME. If you disagree you are as crazy as the angry op who like his beef burnt because he thinks it's bloody.

Thatgrimguy · February 2016

Focker said:

Hopefully if they criticized, they at least posted a pic of the steak they grilled, and not a steakhouse chain. A lot of Monday mornin' armchair quarterbackin' goin' on around here.

Cry me a river. Will a Chop do for now? since you didn't like my Ruth's Chris steak. Still way better than lines.

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lousubcap · February 2016

Do-si-dos and Trefoils for the win. Given my accumulated laps of the sun, I limit myself to a box a day til I run out. Fortunately I don't buy too many boxes, but when I do...

henapple · February 2016

henapple · February 2016

Zmokin · February 2016

I went to a steak house (bar & grill) in the mountains a couple of decades ago that had a sign on the wall (near the menu) that said something like " We can't guarantee the tenderness of your steak if you insist on ordering it well-done".