restaurant rumpus

[Faeshard]

Me, I like my meat to be grazing on my side dish while I devour it

I'm the same. Walk the cow to the table, show it a picture of a fire, and give me a knife. ^_^

[Andara Bledin]

So you wouldn't want the goodness of a beef tartare?

*glances at picture*
*attempts not to *

^-.-^

[PatchO'Black]

This thread reminded me of a quote from Hank Hill, when asked what to do if a guest requests a steak be well-done, rather than medium-rare:

"We politely, yet firmly, ask them to leave."

Seriously, though, when one eats out, one should (a) know what such terms as "medium-rare" or "well-done" usually mean and (b) understand that there may be some difference in the exact meaning in different restaurants.

[blas]

Well like I said, I don't particularly care for steak at all, but if I go somewhere for a burger and they ask how I want it done, I just say "Done, no pink, not charred" and I've never had a problem.

[RayvenQ]

My particular quirk about steaks is...i love tough steaks, the kind that are tough enough that you have to wrestle with it with your hands and teeth just to get a chunk out, dunno why i like it so much but eh.

[KabeRinnaul]

I always like mine medium-well, which I take to mean actually cooked all the way through, but some pink may still be present.

My sister, though, considers anything short of a charred outside and solid-gray inside to be gross and practically raw. She even considers the gray meat in what I think is a well-done steak to be "still too pink".

[DeltaSierra]

I love a good medium rare steak. My Mom, however, is another one of those "One more second on the grill and there will be nothing but charcoal" people. In fact, in our hometown, the owners of my Mom's favorite restaurant actually added "charcoal" to the list of types of steak that could be ordered because she'd always want hers like that!

[Sheldonrs]

If my Mom, sisters and I had steak, the order would go as follows:


Mom -RAW!

Sis 1 - VERY Rare

Sis 2 - VERY Rare

Me - Cook it until the fire dept. stops by!

I HATE rare steaks. Same for all meats. (of the none-human male variety, anyway!)

hehehe

[Peppergirl]

How sad is it that I love medium-rare steak, but can't properly cook one to save my life.

[Shalom]

My dining hall doesn't ever serve regular steak without cooking all the flavor out. Grr.

My father told me a story once . . .

He went to a boarding school for 9th and 10th grades, back in the mid-fifties. This was a Yeshiva, so everything was kosher, and kosher meat, then as now, was rather expensive. The yeshiva decided, as a cost-saving measure, that rather than buy enough individual cuts of meat for 200 students from a local butcher, they'd buy a side of beef at a time and butcher it themselves.

Well, as they used the various roasts, ribs, etc., the steaks started accumulating in the refrigerator. After a few weeks, the rumor started going around the school: "We're having steak tonight!" All day long the guys were rubbing their hands together and anxiously waiting for dinner. Sure enough, that night, they all came rushing into the dining hall, and were served steaks.

.

.

.

Boiled.

They took two hundred steaks, my father told me, and they murdered them...

[AdamaGeist]

Good GOD! I thought something like that was just a joke from MASH!

That's... That's just...

Good god.

HOW DO YOU DO THAT?

[Ellain]

At one time, I thought medium well was the only way to eat steak. Then my jaw went all wonky, and it HURT to eat steak done past medium rare. I find I like the juicyness better.

For some reason, though, almost any time I order, I get incredulous looks from the waitstaff, asked if I'm sure, and described what the menu already told me. Then it comes out medium- medium well. Is it because I'm a girl??

Give it to me as rare as possible with it still being warm all the way through!

[42_42_42]

I pretty much never get steak at restaurants unless we're at a high-end restaurant that specializes in steak because we can buy a super-thick cut steak and hubby can cook it perfectly (which means, to us, on the rare side of medium rare). He seasons the steaks with salt and pepper only and we never use steak sauce, although we both love creamy horseradish sauce (which we also make ourselves). We like our meat to taste like meat.

[LadyAndreca]

I prefer my steaks medium well, but I'll eat both medium and well. I just don't want it cold, don't want it burned, and don't want blood on my plate.

You know, growing up, I can't remember Dad using any seasoning at all on steak. He just threw it on the grill. And we didn't have steak sauce with it either. And it was always done perfectly... *sighs nostalgically*

Now I want steak.

[Grumpy]

... whatever. Troll. (her, not you.) She should learn what she means and say what she wants. I refuse to speculate on her sex life.
(REFUSE!)

That made me laugh so hard I literally cried!

On a possibly related note, she and her husband were childless.