Poll: How do you like your steak?
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I used to be a chef. Don't order anything above medium.
Firstly, they can't cook it fast enough so that it comes out with the rest of the meals, thereby upsetting the customer, the waiter, the chef and the rest of the dining party. Secondly, over-cooking destroys good steak. At home, with low grade meat, fine. But good porterhouse, T-bone or other good cuts of steak just doesn't need to be cooked too long. It destroys the texture and the flavour.
Thirdly, steak done this way can be a little different to the palate - honestly though, do you go to a restaurant to have exactly the same kind of meat you can do for yourself at home? Be adventurous!
Firstly, they can't cook it fast enough so that it comes out with the rest of the meals, thereby upsetting the customer, the waiter, the chef and the rest of the dining party. Secondly, over-cooking destroys good steak. At home, with low grade meat, fine. But good porterhouse, T-bone or other good cuts of steak just doesn't need to be cooked too long. It destroys the texture and the flavour.
Thirdly, steak done this way can be a little different to the palate - honestly though, do you go to a restaurant to have exactly the same kind of meat you can do for yourself at home? Be adventurous!
Between rare and medium rare. Oh god, I want steak. I'm going to buy some steak, and some Montreal Steak Spice! Not right now, seeing as it's 3am, but when I get up!!
If I'll be honest with you, I've never been too picky. As long as it tastes good and I don't get food poisoning it's fine with me.
Loooovvveee a perfectly medium rare steak. In my opinion, steak/beef should be juicy. Can't stand it too much more well done than medium.
My Dad always used to have this saying: "If you order your steak 'well done' then the chef will try to kill you." I always order medium rare because there there is room for it to be a little underdone (leaning towards rare) and a little bit 'well done' without the fear of a homicidal chef.