How Do You Like Your Steak?

[Parmandur]

Medium is my preference: I also feel ordering "Medium" is a way of signaling to the chef "I trust you, make me a good steak, please "

My parents prefer it Bleu, so I thought I just hated steak until one day my dad accidentally "burned the steak" and I had it well done for the first time in my life, and hence enjoyed steak for the first time. But I have learned Medium is a happy...medium...between those extremes.

 

[TiQuinn]

Medium rare though I’d say a bit rarer than the example presented in that pic.

 

[Deset Gled]

Rare <-> Medium Rare. If you go beyond that, its likely a sin.

This.

I'll generally go rare for thinner steaks and medium rare for thicker ones.

 

[CleverNickName]

How Celebrity Chefs Eat Their Steak
(according to the Internet)

Bleu - Andrew Zimmern

Rare - Mark Murphy, Gabriele Bertaccini, Wolfgang Puck, Julia Child, Steven Raichlen

Pittsburg Rare - Rocco DiSpirito and Nigella Lawson

Medium Rare - Geoffrey Zakarian, Michael Symon, Jet Tila, Marcus Samuelsson, Melvin Boots Johnson, Tom Colicchio, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay

Medium - Katie Lee, Alex Guarnaschelli, Antonia Lofaso, Scott Conant, Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay

Medium Well - Kardea Brown

Well Done - I couldn't find a single celebrity chef who said this was their favorite way to eat a steak.

Doesn't eat steak - there are too many vegetarian and vegan celebrity chefs to list, but I couldn't find a celebrity chef who ate meat but didn't eat steak.

 

[Richards]

I'll take it anywhere from medium rare to medium well. And - don't give me any guff for this - my favorite steak sauce is good old-fashioned ketchup.

Johnathan

 

[CleverNickName]

How U.S. Presidents Liked Their Steak
(according to the Internet)

Bleu - I couldn't find a single U.S. President who preferred their steaks cooked (or rather, not cooked?) this way.

Rare - the preferred steak of President Ronald Reagan

Pittsburg Rare - Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and George H.W. Bush enjoyed their steaks this way.

Medium Rare - the favorite of President Jimmy Carter.

Medium Well - the favorite of President Barack Obama.

Well Done - the favorite of Presidents Harry S. Truman, Ulysses S. Grant, and Donald J. Trump.

Didn't eat steak - President Thomas Jefferson didn't care for steak, and famously remarked that all meats were "condiments" for his vegetables. President Bill Clinton enjoyed rare steaks, but switched to a vegan diet after having quadruple bypass surgery.

 

[CleverNickName]

I'll take it anywhere from medium rare to medium well. And - don't give me any guff for this - my favorite steak sauce is good old-fashioned ketchup.

My philosophy pertaining to pretentious patrons: if you paid for it, you absolutely should eat it however you like.

 

[dragoner]

Rare, though Pittsburg Rare sounds good too.

 

[TiQuinn]

I’m fairly agnostic about sauces. Butter, chimichurri, bordelaise, bearnaise, peppercorn, mushroom. The only thing is it can’t come from a bottle. Why would I make or order a nice steak, and then ruin it with the stuff I get in aisle 6 at the grocery store?

 

[CleverNickName]

I worked as a waiter in a steak restaurant for a while, and the worst patrons by far were the ones who would insist on their steaks being "medium rare," then send them back over and over again to be cooked a little longer because they were "still too raw." I honestly believe they wanted their steaks well done, but couldn't bear to admit it.