How do you like your steak prepared?

[Templeton580]

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[Tinker Gnome]

I usually sont eat steak, but I do eat beef perpared in different ways such as Meatloaf or hamburgers. I think I like me meat on the medium-rare to rare side of things. I like it to be tender. The only thing that sucks is that when I do eat meat at my house it has to be well done because that is they way my family eats it. What sucks is that if my dad and brother find it to be too rare they will take mine awaytoo cook some more even if I find it fine.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

In most restaurants in my area your steak will be overcooked

Up here, you should order your steak/burger a degree or two more cooked than you want it in most places. They seriously undercook.

I like my steak to be somewhere between medium-rare and medium-well. As a general rule, I order it medium well in restaurants.

I like a little pink, just so long as it isn't mooing.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

Very well done.

 

[Hellefire]

Of course my bear steak I like vey fresh and with lots of onion.

Aaron

 

[Desdichado]

No pink... no black.

Generally that's "medium" or "medium well" around here.

Yup. I've never understood the fetish with undercooked meat.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I'm with Diaglo.

Also, I'm horribly jealous of The_Universe.

 

[D-rock]

Rare or maybe medium rare

I like the seasoning and blood to run out of it so I can mix it with other things.

 

[Zander]

Here in the UK, waiters don't ask you how well cooked you'd like your steak. They ask you how mad you'd like it.

Seriously, to find out how cooked a steak is without cutting it open, pinch it. How does it work? The more you cook steak, the tougher it gets. As a guide, touch the thumb of one hand (we'll say the left) to the end of each of the fingers of the same hand. Use your other hand (i.e. the right) to gently pinch the fleshy part between your thumb and index (of the left hand). When your thumb (of your left hand) is touching your pinky, the flesh between your thumb and index (of that hand) will feel like a rare steak. As you move your thumb over to the ends of the ring, middle and index fingers (of the left hand) the pinch will get 'tougher'. If your steak reaches the 'index' degree of toughness, it's well done. It really works. Try it.

Obviously, when you pinch the steak, take care not to burn yourself.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Medium-rare or rare. Any longer than that, and IMO it's overdone.