How do you like your steak cooked?

DrumSteve

On holidays recently I was having dinner with someone who ordered a steak well done. Being a medium rare man myself, I can't understand why someone would cook the bejasus out a steak.

Anyway, how do you have yours?

Dravokivich

Well Done

Links234

I'm gonna say well done just to annoy steak purists

Recon

Medium rare

Mr. Denton

Medium rare. I got one one in a restaurant done that way years ago and spent the whole time thinking "oh so THIS is how it's supposed to taste?". You see I'd been brought up thinking steak was meant to be cooked until it tasted like shoe leather thanks to my mothers efforts.

Contrary to popular belief some women should stay out of the kitchen.

NothingMan

I bet people who like a well done steak like burned toast too. Medium rare, rare if it's a quality piece of steak. Hell, I'd go bite a lump off a living cow if they didn't smell like shit!

bryaner

Medium rare nummy..

orourkeda

Cooked will do.

Naikon

Blue. Provided it's done properly.

Dravokivich

NothingMan wrote: »

I bet people who like a well done steak like burned toast too. Medium rare, rare if it's a quality piece of steak. Hell, I'd go bite a lump off a living cow if they didn't smell like shit!

I don't like burnt toast, I just like my food cooked through.

Malari

NothingMan wrote: »

I bet people who like a well done steak like burned toast too. Medium rare, rare if it's a quality piece of steak. Hell, I'd go bite a lump off a living cow if they didn't smell like shit!

Nope, like my toast burnt, my chips well done and my steak rare to blue.

Ghandee

The perfect way to cook a steak, get your pan really, really, REALLY, hot, put steak on pan with a light spray of oil.
One side, 3 mins, (dont touch steak at all during this time)
Turn steak, again don't touch it on new side, let sit for approx 2 and a half mins.
Take steak of pan and wrap in tin foil for a few mins (steak will absorb its own juices and cool slightly)
Never fails!

southsiderosie

Dravokivich wrote: »

I don't like burnt toast, I just like my food cooked through.

Not all food is meant to be 'cooked through' though. I don't understand the point of spending 30+ euros on a piece of meat, and then essentially telling the kitchen to ruin it.

Sanjuro

Medium rare. Myself and some friends ordered steak in Shannahan's on the green one time (after saving for a few weeks). They all ordered well-done to the chargrin of the waiter. I ordered medium rare and he said 'like it should be cooked.' But I think that was more to do with him being a snooty waiter.

Naikon

Yum-> http://www.colinmcnulty.com/blog/images/cooking-a-blue-steak1.jpg

abouttobebanned

I have to say I really enjoy the Food and Drink Forum on Boards, especially the Cooking & Recipes Section. Seems almost too good to be true. Almost.

jester77

Medium rare. Argentinian steakhouse beside me and they have an open kitchen. Great steak, when you order they take the meat from the cooler, cut off your steak and throw it on the charcoal grill, few mins each side. Great steak

giles lynchwood

The way i ask for it to be cooked,not the way the chef think´s it should be cooked.:mad:

Renn

Ghandee wrote: »

The perfect way to cook a steak, get your pan really, really, REALLY, hot, put steak on pan with a light spray of oil.
One side, 3 mins, (dont touch steak at all during this time)
Turn steak, again don't touch it on new side, let sit for approx 2 and a half mins.
Take steak of pan and wrap in tin foil for a few mins (steak will absorb its own juices and cool slightly)
Never fails!

I'd actually bet any person here a hundred euro that method is foolproof!(only the steals are too high:D)

3 mins is too much for me. I normally have the pan at the hottest and then throw it on for 1 min, flip it and keep it like that for another minute, and then I turn the temperature down a little for another couple of minutes.

Gandalph

How do you like your steak cooked?

By a woman

Kevo

Medium by Irish standard but in Spain I ask for very well done and it's still less cooked than medium at home.

Malari

Gandalph wrote: »

By a woman

As a woman, it's the only thing I don't cook in our house. Steak is my boyfriend's job to cook. :pac:

Oink

tartar
tar tar
tar-tar

Mooh.

bryaner

Gandalph wrote: »

By a woman

Burnt so..:D

WindSock

Rare or medium rare, anything more than that and I am in a bad mood for the rest of the evening. I don't like chewing gum meat.

Mr. Denton

bryaner wrote: »

Burnt so..:D

Amazing that the only two things in life that a man wants from a woman (a well cooked steak and a professionally done blow-job) many find impossible to perform to a satisfactory standard. Oh they'll give it a go but the results are usually disappointing.

They really should teach young ladies how to do these things in school.

endabob1

I always order rare & the Mrs is always a well done, it's an odd combination
Have had blue in the past which only works with a really good piece of meat but generally fillet is rare, everything else medium rare.

Pherekydes

southsiderosie wrote: »

Not all food is meant to be 'cooked through' though. I don't understand the point of spending 30+ euros on a piece of meat, and then essentially telling the kitchen to ruin it.

If one eats it it isn't ruined.

I prefer steak cooked through, also. Not charred on the outside and pumping blood on the inside. But somewhere between medium and medium rare. Closer to medium.

Pherekydes

Mr. Denton wrote: »

Amazing that the only two things in life that a man wants from a woman (a well cooked steak and a professionally done blow-job) many find impossible to perform to a satisfactory standard. Oh they'll give it a go but the results are usually disappointing.

They really should teach young ladies how to do these things in school.

A pity the only competent teachers would be gay males. :pac:

Sinfonia

According to Gordon Ramsay (I think), restaurants will often use lower grade meat for steaks that are ordered well done, simply because you can't taste the difference between high-quality and lower-quality meat when it's cooked that strongly.

gonedrinking

I hate steak nazis, if you want to eat waterlogged meat go ahead but stop looking down on others who prefer it cooked

Medium, but I wouldn't mind trying medium-rare sometime

VW 1

Rare for me. I had steak tartar in France last year, to this day I havent tasted anything as delicious

Naikon

gonedrinking wrote: »

I hate steak nazis, if you want to eat waterlogged meat go ahead but stop looking down on others who prefer it cooked

I hate people that take a perfectly nice piece of steak and turn it into a hockey puck. If you won't eat steak as intended, eat a burger instead.

Malari

Naikon wrote: »

I hate people that take a perfectly nice piece of steak and turn it into a hockey puck. If you won't eat steak as intended, eat a burger instead.

Can't see why that would bother anyone unless they were being asked to eat it?

Naikon

Malari wrote: »

Can't see why that would bother anyone unless they were being asked to eat it?

Only when I am cooking for people:) I will do a well done steak, but not without a sigh.

stovelid

Medium rare.

I'm not sad enough to get precious about other people eat cow carcass though.

Oranage2

rare, when i cook it at home i take a bite or two out of it raw.

gonedrinking

Naikon wrote: »

If you won't eat steak as intended

As intended by who?

endabob1

Sinfonia wrote: »

According to Gordon Ramsay (I think), restaurants will often use lower grade meat for steaks that are ordered well done, simply because you can't taste the difference between high-quality and lower-quality meat when it's cooked that strongly.

Most high end places will simply not cook a steak beyond medium & rightly so

Glenster

Depends what kind of steak it is, anything below striploin isnt worth tasting. So char the **** out of it!

If it's nice, I'd go for rare.

Naikon

gonedrinking wrote: »

As intended by who?

The steak Nazi's

Malari

Naikon wrote: »

Only when I am cooking for people:) I will do a well done steak, but not without a sigh.

OK, yeah. I've a friend who likes to cook the steak till it's well-done. Then treat that as if it's raw and cook it for as long again. Yuck. But if she eats it, fine. If it's cooked it any less for her, she's not gonna eat it and that's a waste.

OutlawPete

Recon wrote: »

Medium rare

Ahh, an aristocrat.

Badgermonkey

Anyone tried Aldi's Irish Angus steaks?

They're relatively pricey but there's a lot of flavour to them.

Medium rare for me and well seasoned.

GavRedKing

Medium rare if I know the place has a good reputation for quality steaks.

leviathon

I was in france once with a few mates - one of the lads ordered steak well done. The chef himself arrived out 2 minutes later to see who had ordered it, gave out mad to him n all. He outright refused to cook it well done. so he either had to have it medium at most or order something else. He wasn't impressed but the rest of us found it hilarious. Ah the french,oh so mental.

stovelid

Naikon wrote: »

The steak Nazi's

Put three people in a room with only cow excrement to live on and within two weeks, one will have smugly ostracized the other two because only a moron would fail to understand that it really needs a smidgen of piss - just so.

greenybaby

now i know what i am having for dinner, a nice medium steak, oh god yes

Gandalph

steak nazis hahaha

Naikon

Gandalph wrote: »

steak nazis hahaha

No steak for you!