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By Oli on Thursday, 22nd March 2007. More information. Comments.

I've just cooked myself a steak and in the finishing bites, I thought I'd ask the question: how do you like your steak? [image] I would call this, the final part of the steak, a medium, although most of the steak was a much deeper red in the very middle and I'd venture that as rare.

I've just cooked myself a steak and in the finishing bites, I thought I'd ask the question: how do you like your steak?

Mmmm cows

I would call this, the final part of the steak, a medium, although most of the steak was a much deeper red in the very middle and I'd venture that as rare.

Most English people would probably call that picture rare — something that makes me cry a little inside. It's still almost impossible to order a (real) rare steak at a random place and get that instead of "British-rare", aka medium.

So yeah... What do you think* you prefer?

  1. Chernobyl: Carbonised and ready for Jabba the Hutt
  2. Well-done: grey all the way through, like a burger
  3. Medium-well: grey at the edges with the tiniest hint that it was once alive
  4. Medium: a pink tinge throughout the meat
  5. Medium-rare: pink with a deeper red in the centre
  6. Rare: a deep pink throughout and red in the centre
  7. Alive: wipe its arse and walk it past the fire

* everybody likes rare... they just don't know it yet.

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Written by Oli on Thursday, 22 March 2007. Tagged with meat, personal. Read 2338 times. If you liked it, please give it a digg.

#1 /* 17 months, 14 days ago */
I have to say that I'm a fan of rare too. Sometimes I'll order medium-rare when out at restaurants because as far as I'm concerned - a bad cut done rare is really rather bad... You don't want a fatty, gristly steak done rare. More often than not though, I'm a rare boy. A boy who is jelous of the entire cow you cooked for your dinner it seems.
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#2 /* 17 months, 14 days ago */
I'm always for medium rare, however you're correct in that most restaurants don't know how to accomplish this. It's not just the UK that has the problem either. It's a crap shoot as to whether I get a medium-rare, medium-well, or well done steak when I make my order. Luckily it seems places in the States have taken to "making sure" by saying things like "Oh, well the way we cook that is to have a warm pink center, is that alright?" I wish it would catch on more quickly though... Yesterday I had an excellent flat-iron cut cooked to where it was barely pink in the centre :(
#3 /* 17 months, 14 days ago */
I'm a medium well guy. I don't know if I would like rare. My steak as a child growing up was ordered for me medium well and well now I just get what I'm use to.
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