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How do you like your steak cooked?

  • 28-06-2011 10:48AM
    #1
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭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?

    How do you eat yours? 528 votes

    Shave it's arse, cut off it's horns & put it on a plate.
    0% 0 votes
    Blue
    2% 12 votes
    Rare
    3% 17 votes
    Medium Rare
    15% 80 votes
    Medium
    36% 192 votes
    Well Done
    23% 124 votes
    Chargrilled
    14% 75 votes
    To a crisp
    2% 15 votes
    With Sauce
    2% 12 votes
    Jaguar (but well done)
    0% 1 vote


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Comments

  • #2
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Well Done


  • #3
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


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


  • #4
    Recon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭Recon


    Medium rare


  • #5
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭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!


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  • #7
    bryaner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭bryaner


    Medium rare nummy..


  • #8
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Cooked will do.


  • #9
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Blue. Provided it's done properly.


  • #10
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Malari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭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!


  • #13
    southsiderosie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


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


  • #16
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭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 :)


  • #18
    giles lynchwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭giles lynchwood


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


  • #19
    Renn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    Gandalph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    How do you like your steak cooked?

    By a woman


  • #21
    Kevo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Kevo


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


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  • #22
    Malari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #23
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    tartar
    tar tar
    tar-tar

    Mooh.


  • #24
    bryaner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭bryaner


    Gandalph wrote: »
    By a woman

    Burnt so..:D


  • #25
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    endabob1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #30
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    gonedrinking
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭gonedrinking


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


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