how do you like your steak cooked?

[SlowwHand]

If we're eating tomorrow at noon, I'll put mine on the grill today at noon.

[germanos]

Originally posted by Spec
RARE!!

People that eat their steak well done dont deserve to eat steak.

QFT

Then there is the knife.
Smooth and razor sharp, not one of those crippling saws

[Lord Avalon]

Medium rare to medium.

Well done is a waste of steak.

[Starchild]

Lord Shiva's got it right. Lovely Mallard reaction crunchy bits on the outside, not yet realising its dead on the inside.

[Flubber]

Medium rare

Its 1 pm here and I just had a nice little sirloin for lunch. I was inspired by the threads from yesterday

[Alexander I]

Depends on the definition of who's cooking it. Usually medium, but if their medium is still red or bloody, then medium well. No e. Coli for me, thank you very much.

[Dis]

Originally posted by b etor


medium.
it grossed my sister out. she likes hers well done.

oh and after the dude showed us what we could choose from, i asked if i could hold the lobster that was sitting on the plate and he let me.
that also grossed my sister out since it was still alive.

well done

I don't like chewing on leather (sex games aside)

medium rare for me.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Alexander I
Depends on the definition of who's cooking it. Usually medium, but if their medium is still red or bloody, then medium well. No e. Coli for me, thank you very much.

That's actually not very likely provided it's steak (not hamburger) and the outside is somewhat grey. I'm pretty sure E. coli can only be found on the outside of the cut; it's a bacterium normally found in the gut, it wouldn't infect the inside of muscle tissue. It only infects the meat due to contamination of the equipment or something. So with a whole cut the inside can be blood red and as long as the outside is seared enough to kill any bacteria on it the steak is safe. With hamburger it's a different story, since the surface of the cut is all scrambled together with the insides. Hence restaurants (in America, at least) are required by the health dept. to cook burgers to at least medium. Can anyone on 'poly confirm this?

[Lord Avalon]

I think hamburger is supposed to be cooked to medium well.

I usually ask for medium, because I figure I'll get medium well. If I asked for medium well, it'd probably be well done.

[Japher]

hamburger - medium
rest - medium rare

your crispy on the outside, mooing on the inside is pittsburg style i believe

[Deity Dude]

The best way too cook a steak is too brush both sides with a little melted butter (flavored if u want). Get a grill that is about 600-800 degrees. Cook it with the lid open for about 1 min - do a 1/4 turn (that gets the checkerboard design ) for 30 secs - flip and do the same. If it is under 1" thick don't bother.

Well cooked, juicy and beautiful on the outside and EXTREMELY RARE on the inside. Butter is the key it actually sets the steak on fire if u do it right.

[b etor]

steaks soaked in butter = yummy

my sister is afraid of parasites in pink meat eating her, then she gets mad cow disease... so she gets it well done, with absolutely NO color besides brown.

[SlowwHand]

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by b etor

my sister is afraid of parasites in pink meat eating her, then she gets mad cow disease... so she gets it well done, with absolutely NO color besides brown.

Mad cow doesn't come from parasites, it comes from a prion, a misfolded protein.
Wiki

The scientific consensus is that infectious BSE prion material is not destroyed through normal cooking procedures, meaning that contaminated beef foodstuffs prepared "well done" may remain infectious.

Although it's the nervous system tissue you'd need to worry about, not muscle. Hamburger from infected cattle would be more of a worry than steak.

Parasites are more of a concern with undercooked pork.

[ZEE]

medium rare for me...