"How would you like your steak?"
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-americans-order-their-steak/?ex_cid=story-twitter
"Longhorn Steakhouse hooked us up here, agreeing to share aggregated data about how Americans prefer their steak. Longhorn shared a year’s worth of steak orders1 from all of its 491 U.S. locations, revealing how Americans ordered all different cuts of steak. It turns out that Americans claim to like their steak a lot rarer than they actually do!"
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Depends on the cut and the restaurant.
I also think there has been a shift... A medium looks a lot like what a medium rare looked like 25 years ago...
The Brad
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Depends on the cut and the restaurant.
I also think there has been a shift... A medium looks a lot like what a medium rare looked like 25 years ago...
@lufins-dad said in "How would you like your steak?":
Depends on the cut and the restaurant.
I also think there has been a shift... A medium looks a lot like what a medium rare looked like 25 years ago...
Good point.
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At our school's cafeteria, one learned that you had to order your burger one level up from whatever you wanted (e.g. a medium burger would be rare). So, after a while you just heard "well done" with an occasional "medium" called out to the grill chef. Of course, one day I'm standing in line when someone asks for a burger "rare" and the entire line yelled, "NO!!! Don't do that! He won't even put it on the grill!"
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In the US I ask for rare knowing it will be medium rare
In Europe I ask for medium rare knowing it well trend rare.
And when I want tartare, I want to see the damn thing still breathing. And I love tartare.
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Well, that's Longhorn. I suspect if you put in some higher end steak places you'd find it different.
I loved Longhorn's chili, but they took it off the menu.
@mik said in "How would you like your steak?":
Well, that's Longhorn. I suspect if you put in some higher end steak places you'd find it different.
That was thought. Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat. Ruinous and uncalled for actually.
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@mik said in "How would you like your steak?":
Well, that's Longhorn. I suspect if you put in some higher end steak places you'd find it different.
That was thought. Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat. Ruinous and uncalled for actually.
@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat.
Mrs. George "I want it like a hockey puck" would disagree. I've tried, believe me, I've tried!
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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In the US I ask for rare knowing it will be medium rare
In Europe I ask for medium rare knowing it well trend rare.
And when I want tartare, I want to see the damn thing still breathing. And I love tartare.
@bachophile said in "How would you like your steak?":
In the US I ask for rare knowing it will be medium rare
In Europe I ask for medium rare knowing it well trend rare.
Got a friend visiting from France who said similar thing. His steak experience at Longhorn completely ruined his view on American steakhouse.
And when I want tartare, I want to see the damn thing still breathing. And I love tartare.
Some places I can just use the term "blue" to mean rarer than rare. Some other places I emphasize to the server "make it as rare as you are legally allowed to serve it."
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@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat.
Mrs. George "I want it like a hockey puck" would disagree. I've tried, believe me, I've tried!
@george-k said in "How would you like your steak?":
@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat.
Mrs. George "I want it like a hockey puck" would disagree. I've tried, believe me, I've tried!
Believe me when I say the struggle is real here as well. Like throwing coke into a great bourbon.
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@mik said in "How would you like your steak?":
Well, that's Longhorn. I suspect if you put in some higher end steak places you'd find it different.
That was thought. Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat. Ruinous and uncalled for actually.
@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
@mik said in "How would you like your steak?":
Well, that's Longhorn. I suspect if you put in some higher end steak places you'd find it different.
That was thought. Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat. Ruinous and uncalled for actually.
Yeap. At higher end places I feel more comfortable ordering rare. Also depends on the meat. I have come to prefer medium rare rather than rare for meat with lots of marbling because getting the intramuscular fat heated up a bit more makes the thing more tasty.
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@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
@mik said in "How would you like your steak?":
Well, that's Longhorn. I suspect if you put in some higher end steak places you'd find it different.
That was thought. Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat. Ruinous and uncalled for actually.
Yeap. At higher end places I feel more comfortable ordering rare. Also depends on the meat. I have come to prefer medium rare rather than rare for meat with lots of marbling because getting the intramuscular fat heated up a bit more makes the thing more tasty.
@axtremus said in "How would you like your steak?":
@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
@mik said in "How would you like your steak?":
Well, that's Longhorn. I suspect if you put in some higher end steak places you'd find it different.
That was thought. Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat. Ruinous and uncalled for actually.
Yeap. At higher end places I feel more comfortable ordering rare. Also depends on the meat. I have come to prefer medium rare rather than rare for meat with lots of marbling because getting the intramuscular fat heated up a bit more makes the thing more tasty.
I call the intramuscular fat flavor crystals. Many medium and up people like to cut that away too, more shame.
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@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat.
Mrs. George "I want it like a hockey puck" would disagree. I've tried, believe me, I've tried!
@george-k said in "How would you like your steak?":
@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat.
Mrs. George "I want it like a hockey puck" would disagree. I've tried, believe me, I've tried!
She is correct.
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@george-k said in "How would you like your steak?":
@loki said in "How would you like your steak?":
Anything more than medium rare is a total waste of good meat.
Mrs. George "I want it like a hockey puck" would disagree. I've tried, believe me, I've tried!
She is correct.
Medium rare for steak. Medium for burgers
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Rare. Just rare.
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