You said rare right?

[KMCA]

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

[Reyneth]

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!

[Tito]

Then I discovered beef actually has FLAVOR when it's cooked medium.

That's why I, too, like mine medium. Well done meat to me have no flavor.

[EricKei]

but I do remember my whole Honors group avoided the burgers grill for the next week after that topic!

As if school meat actually contains anything even remotely bovine-related

[DGoddessChardonnay]

That's why I, too, like mine medium. Well done meat to me have no flavor.

Actually well done meat has a flavor . . .

Shoe Leather.

Give me a medium steak any day of the week . . .and I'm happy.

With extra fungi please.

[Pagan]

Yeah, 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.

Huh, that's funny. I thought everyone knew what medium-well was? Never take my beef that way, but I know what it is.

At 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.

I'm thinking lots and lots and lots of beer or some other alcoholic beverage.

I 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.

Medium-rare is where I like 'em, too. I do admit to a tendency to slightly overcook chicken, but I cannot stand the texture of raw chicken. And pork needs to be done all the way, too. My mind still can't get around the trichinosis angle and when was the last time you heard of someone in the US contracting it?

I've never tried sushi, I really need to. What I would like again, too, is carpaccio. Now that's some good eatin'!

[QASlave]

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.

Medium rare is the way to go. Hell, I've eaten a steak that tried to get up off the plate and run away when I stabbed it with the fork!

[Jay 2K Winger]

As if school meat actually contains anything even remotely bovine-related

No, but it may have actually come in contact with some cow-related product at some point. Probably leather.

[ShadowTiger]

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...)

[Taubin]

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

I love sushi and sushimi

[AccountingDrone]

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!

. Effective prion decontamination relies upon protein hydrolysis or reduction and/or destruction of protein tertiary structure. Examples include bleach, caustic soda, or strong acidic detergents such as LpH[37]. 134 degrees Celsius (274 degrees Fahrenheit) for 18 minutes in a pressurised steam autoclave may not be enough to deactivate the agent of disease.[38][39] Ozone sterilization is currently being studied as a potential method for prion denature and deactivation.[40] Renaturation of a completely denatured prion to infectious status has not yet been achieved, however partially denatured prions can be renatured to an infective status under certain artificial conditions.[41]


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.

[bean]

(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...)

This part does gross me out, a lot. I've gotten even well done pieces of meat that had tendons in them.... ugh!

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!

[Nohbody]

No, but it may have actually come in contact with some cow-related product at some point. Probably leather.

You sure it's not the hooves?

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.

[Pagan]

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!!!!!).

I hate you. The closest Ruby Tuesday to me is 225mi south of here in my home town of Las Cruces....which my parents take glee in reminding me of.

But I couldn't do the fried egg. Something about the texture of the yolk is....just....ick.

[Lace Neil Singer]

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!

Ha, I learned that little piece of information purely by reading The Lost World. That's why tho my steak must be mooing, my burgers must be cooked thru. ^^