I like my meat cooked through... Medium well. Too bad that medium well in most restaurants means rare. I'd rather well done then rare and I'm not a big enough ass to send it back
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For steaks I used to be in the WD category. Now I'm in the Medium Well to sometimes a Medium.
However for burgers, I learned a little too much about prions in college to get anything less than "no pink" which usually ends up being between Medium Well and Well Done depending on who you talk to.
Prions are these strange protein things that are responsible for Mad Cow disease and Scrapie in sheep or Krusfelt-Jacob's disease in humans. They infect the brain and create these little deposit areas that essentially eat your brain away, bit by bit. If there are any parts of the central nervous system in your meat (a much higher possibility with ground meats than anything else), they can be in there if the animal was infected. I want to make sure things are cooked to the point of no possible issues of contamination. At least this is what I remember from 10 years ago, but I do remember my whole Honors group avoided the burgers grill for the next week after that topic!
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Quoth Reyneth View Postbut I do remember my whole Honors group avoided the burgers grill for the next week after that topic!"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth Tito View PostThat's why I, too, like mine medium. Well done meat to me have no flavor.
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Give me a medium steak any day of the week . . .and I'm happy.
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Quoth Stormraven View PostYeah, but just try getting a medium well in California. Not one place - even steak houses specifically, have understood what medium well is. As far as they seem to be concerned, you've got Medium, then you've got charcoal.
Quoth mattm04 View PostAt a summer cookout one guest wanted the burger well done. Fine. I cook it to what most people consider well done. Guest comes up and gets it. A minute later back. Cook it more. When it is finally "well done" it is literally hard as a rock and compleatley black. Actually ate it. How I don't know.
Quoth bean View PostI can't do medium rare though, at least not in burgers. I can do medium rare in a really good steak seasoned with only salt and pepper. I've tried "blue" (a bit below rare) and rare before and couldn't eat it.
On the other hand, I used to love sushi. Now raw fish grosses me out.
I've never tried sushi, I really need to. What I would like again, too, is carpaccio. Now that's some good eatin'!It's floating wicker propelled by fire!
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I used to always insist any beef/buffalo I ate was well done. Then I discovered beef actually has FLAVOR when it's cooked medium.If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Quoth EricKei View PostAs if school meat actually contains anything even remotely bovine-relatedPWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
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I can understand that he wanted his meat well done. I like my meat cremated. I've never tasted a more delicious rock.
(Actually, it's primarily to avoid having the texture of a tendon or gristle in my mouth. I don't want to be chewing on rubber bands, yuh...)SC: "Are you new or something?"
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I always ask for my stuff well done, unless I'm at a nice restaurant that knows what medium well is, and it's a nice cut of steak.
Burger on the other hand? If there is ANY pink AT ALL, I won't eat it. Maybe I'm weird like that but, just... no... Pink + Ground meat = BAD
As for sushi, it's not actually always raw fish, sushi, and sushimi is the way the food is prepared
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Quoth Reyneth View Post
Prions are these strange protein things that are responsible for Mad Cow disease and Scrapie in sheep or Krusfelt-Jacob's disease in humans. They infect the brain and create these little deposit areas that essentially eat your brain away, bit by bit. If there are any parts of the central nervous system in your meat (a much higher possibility with ground meats than anything else), they can be in there if the animal was infected. I want to make sure things are cooked to the point of no possible issues of contamination. At least this is what I remember from 10 years ago, but I do remember my whole Honors group avoided the burgers grill for the next week after that topic!
Enjoy it rare so it has some flavor ... heat at the levels required to do well done probably is not going to denature the prions.EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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Quoth ShadowTiger View Post(Actually, it's primarily to avoid having the texture of a tendon or gristle in my mouth. I don't want to be chewing on rubber bands, yuh...)
Outside of that... some pink in a burger is fine, but not a lot. Ruby Tuesday's actually asks "some pink or dry?" when you order, I always say "some pink" (and they even throw a fried egg on top of their specialty burgers, holy shit it's AWESOME!!!!!). Also you've never had a burger until you've had one with a fried egg on top of it. Preferably with avocado, cheese, and lots of other stuff (as long as it's not bacon, I don't eat pork).
In a good steak I want medium or medium rare. I don't want to hear it going MOOOO on my plate, but I want it to bleed a little when I stab it with my knife and fork. Yummmmmmmmy!
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Quoth Jay 2K Winger View PostNo, but it may have actually come in contact with some cow-related product at some point. Probably leather.
In grade school I know of at least 4 kids, one day, who got chipped teeth from the school lunch... on spaghetti day.
From that day on I never was bothered by being ragged on for bringing a bag lunch, ever again.No matter how low my opinion of humanity as a whole gets, there are always over-achievers who seek to surpass my expectations.
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Quoth bean View PostRuby Tuesday's actually asks "some pink or dry?" when you order, I always say "some pink" (and they even throw a fried egg on top of their specialty burgers, holy shit it's AWESOME!!!!!).
But I couldn't do the fried egg. Something about the texture of the yolk is....just....ick.It's floating wicker propelled by fire!
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Quoth Reyneth View PostPrions are these strange protein things that are responsible for Mad Cow disease and Scrapie in sheep or Krusfelt-Jacob's disease in humans. They infect the brain and create these little deposit areas that essentially eat your brain away, bit by bit. If there are any parts of the central nervous system in your meat (a much higher possibility with ground meats than anything else), they can be in there if the animal was infected. I want to make sure things are cooked to the point of no possible issues of contamination. At least this is what I remember from 10 years ago, but I do remember my whole Honors group avoided the burgers grill for the next week after that topic!
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