re: People who like their steak well done?

Nothing better than chewing your steak like a stick of gum

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For some reason the poors and rednecks love them some well done steaks with Heinz 57 or ketchup


And the president.

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well he is redneck trash.

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Anything above rare is for idiots.

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I can get down with some rare steak, but I like medium-rare to medium on fattier cuts just because it breaks it down a little bit more.

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I like my Steak like I like my women......

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Fatty and cut up before I eat it.

The number of you who care what someone likes to eat is astonishing. If it’s how someone likes it then let them be.

That's my favorite way but unfortunately I have to do at least medium rare. A perfectly chard ribeye cooked rare = toilet time for me.

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The number of you who care what someone likes to eat is astonishing. If it’s how someone likes it then let them be.

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While I generally don't care how people take their food, I think steak tends to be a sticking point for people because we flat out don't believe that people prefer the taste/texture of a well done steak over a medium steak. If you don't get into the texture of rare or medium rare, that I can buy. But if you're taking your steak over medium, you're just ruining a piece of meat because your ignorant arse thinks water mixed with a trace of myoglobin is blood and that thought makes you squeamish.

I was reverse searing steak for a group at the beach once and it got pretty late before we were actually going to sit down to eat, but everyone still wanted to eat out on the balcony. Several people asked for well done, but knowing the low light, I snuck them in right on the cooler end of medium-well. To a person, they said it was the juiciest steak they had ever eaten and wouldn't stop talking about it.

I firmly believe that if you blindfolded people who claim to prefer well done steak and did a taste test, a staggeringly small number of them would in fact prefer well done.

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It's an undeniable fact that a leathery, dry arse steak is fricking gross.

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I agree with this. But do you eat beef jerky?

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For some reason the poors and rednecks love them some well done steaks with Heinz 57 or ketchup

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It's actually been the the opposite in my experience. I think you are right on the Heinz part, but at a steakhouse I've observed it's the educated, organic buying, health conscious who would rather have their steak cooked medium well. Poors would never lose an opportunity to try to seem sophisticated. RARE! usually shouting it out.