Why so much hate towards people who want their meat well done?

[Zenfoldor]

Meat's meat. Who gives a fuck. I order it like that just because c**ks don't like it.

Edited: As a side note, only games with RPG elements can be good. Sure you can enjoy your depthless time sink and call it playing a "game," but in reality you have no taste.

Edited 2: Wine tasting isn't REAL!

[breadisfunny]

Meat isn't meant to be "chewy". Like, chemically.

well i know what i like and no one is going to tell me how to eat what i eat.

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Oh noes, people like a different flavor than I do, the horror! Well done vs rare is as asinine as Coke vs Pepsi.

woah woah woah...let's not get too hasty here...

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Yes, and a fast sear is all that is required to kill of surface bacteria.

I always joke that if I opened a steak house, that if you wanted to order a well done steak you would have to ask for it to be ruined.

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By who's standard? Any food expert will tell you well done is wrong.

and i would tell them to stfu and let me eat in peace.

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I find the idea of eating any meat that's still pink nausea inducing... It's just a disgusting idea to me.

same here. i find blood or any hint of it nauseating. as i'm quite squeamish.

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Do you also eat your pizza with a fork?

does it matter?

[Odintdk]

1) I like my meat well done.
2) I don't give a fuck what YOU think i should eat and how, i'm a free man.
3) You don't pay for my steaks, i do.
4) If you really are that emotional about how someone else eat their meet, you need stop everything you're doing and rethink life, you're doing it wrong m8.
Edit : And if you're a chef at a restaurant and refuse to cook/serve people what they ordered based on personal opinion, then you need to get fired and or shot.

[breadisfunny]

I'd say eat what you want, but at least taste the different versions to see if you truly like "well done" more than "medium" or any other type (except raw )

i had rare steak once....i got sick from it and spent the next day throwing up from food poisoning...NEVER AGAIN.

[Steve French]

same here. i find blood or any hint of it nauseating. as i'm quite squeamish.

It's actually not blood, it's myoglobin.

[breadisfunny]

Well done steaks are chewier and lost a lot of their taste. That is why many people, who decide to get their steak well done, afterwards drown it in a sauce of their chosing. You can easily test that yourself. Get a common cut from a bovine and prepare it well done. Just salt and pepper. Then prepare meat with a strong gamey note, like boar. prepare it the same way, well done, salt and pepper. If prepared the same way, you will not be able to taste the difference. Both will have a seared, crispy skin, both will be chewy and both will taste like salt and pepper.

Now, obviously you can eat whatever you want. But if you are presented several options and you pick the one offering you the least I will look down on you.

On the other side, once they are able to produce artificial, grey, chewy "meat", you will have a cheap alternative to real meat.

the only sauce i ever add is if it's something like alfredo sauce or some kind of spicy curry.

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It's actually not blood, it's myoglobin.

i still find it to be disgusting.

[Steve French]

I still find it to be disgusting.

It's just a little meat juice.

[breadisfunny]

I enjoy it just fine.

I usually do medium-well knowing they'll overcook it.

my brother ordered a medium rare steak once...they had to send it back three times until finally the head chef there cooked it for him and it finally came out acceptable. (first one was too rare next one was well done which i ate tasted pretty good to me. third one was burnt to a crisp. my dad had that one he LOVES burnt steaks.)

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It's just a little meat juice.

it's like you can't get over my preferences or something. i like well done rib-eye. steak snobs need to seriously get over themselves.

[the game]

1) I like my meat well done.
2) I don't give a fuck what YOU think i should eat and how, i'm a free man.
3) You don't pay for my steaks, i do.
4) If you really are that emotional about how someone else eat their meet, you need stop everything you're doing and rethink life, you're doing it wrong m8.
Edit : And if you're a chef at a restaurant and refuse to cook/serve people what they ordered based on personal opinion, then you need to get fired and or shot.

Someone should get shot because they won't cook you a well done steak... That is so rational.

[dvaz]

There is special place in hell reserved for bronies, slow drivers in the left lane and well done steak eaters.

[Steve French]

It's like you can't get over my preferences or something. i like well done rib-eye. steak snobs need to seriously get over themselves.

It's like you cant take a joke.

[Deleted]

As the guy in the kitchen grilling the steaks, I wouldn't say I hate people ordering well done, but there is a collective groan from everyone when one is ordered. Not so much because they're "ruining" the meat. It's their food and they paid for it like everyone else. It's more that people who order well done, where I work at least (North East England), tend to be a bit fussier about it. The difference between a Medium Rare and a Medium Well is significant to some, but the average guy either won't notice, or won't care enough to send it back if it's a little bit pinker than they asked for. People who order it Well Done are more likely to be concerned about food poisoning, and I've seen a few large cuts of meat being sent back for not being cooked enough, even if feels like a giant piece of jerky.

That said, people on the other end of the spectrum who want it Rare can be just as bad. They're more likely to be show-offs who would eat it raw if we served it like that, just to prove they could. Those are both just observations from my own workplace of course. Honestly, chefs will always find some reason to complain about people who order food, but we're a bit more content to cook your meat Medium :P.

[Tulune]

Frankly I'm more confused by the obsession everyone has with having it rare as shit. Medium-medium well is love. SOMETIMES medium rare depending on the cut and if you can get the whole thing that way rather than partially rare still. Ansd no, sauce is not okay. If you need sauce on your steak you're either doing it wrong or eating shit grade 'steak' that has gone off.

Dunno, I like it raw in the middle. Always have.

[Halyon]

As long as you don't cook your meat until its greyish brown, that's just gross.

Jeebus no...that's just...wrong.

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Dunno, I like it raw in the middle. Always have.

Never liked that. Just makes me feel gross and triggers my gag reflex like crazy.

[TITAN308]

I cook my steaks medium-rare (ideally just sear the outside) then put a bunch of bleu cheese crumbles ontop and put it under broiler for a minute or two to "crustify" them.

Another acceptable substitute is freshly grated parm instead of bleu.

Before cooking I marinate them in a little bit of Worcestershire sauce and this:

[Mormolyce]

It's not really different from blood. duh.

we are not talking about some vague fluids. we are talking about very specific fluid.
Nice try at moving goalposts though.

There are a number of fluids that leak out of a steak when it's cooking or cooling. Some of it contains myoglobin, which I believe gives it that pinkish colour (occasionally - if you've seen a lot of steaks you'll know that sometimes the fluid is clear and sometimes it's pink). I'm no expert on this so I can't tell you exactly what all those fluids are, I suspect a lot of it is interstitial fluid though.

And no, myoglobin is not blood. You may think it's similar to a component of blood, but really, what point are you trying to make there? It's not dangerous in any way, and it's not a sign of an undercooked steak. That's just determined by the internal temperature reached in the cooking process.

I'm not, it's the arm-chair wikipedia experts who barge in here and claim "it's not blood - it's myoglobin and water." Well guess what blood is? hemoglobin and water. And the difference between hemoglobin and myoglobin is: one is hemo- and the other is myo- which mean blood and muscle, respectively. The main part "globin" is what makes it blood. Not the prefix- that denotes the whereabouts of it.

Um, you might want to lay off the armchair wikipedia thing if you're going to start making up etymology. Hemo- means blood, it's derived from Greek. The -globin part means "globule".

Also blood is not just hemoglobin and water. Blood is a fluid consisting of red and white blood cells (and platelets) suspended in plasma (and probably many other things, organic chem is complex). The cytoplasm of the red blood cells specifically contains the hemoglobin, which is what gives them their red colour. And yes, a lot of water too.

[HeyGuysHello]

It's a sign of something wrong with you. Not kidding. Human taste naturally veers towards juiciness and fat, both of which well-done rids the meat of. To want leathery meat is a sign of bad genes. Those with autism typically throw up with steak (or meats in general) that aren't dry due to the texture. I'm not saying you shouldn't breed, but it'd be a favor to our species.

[Musta]

You are ruining good meat!!!!!!! *shaking*

[breadisfunny]

You are ruining good meat!!!!!!! *shaking*

*glove slap* i'll duel you. pistols at sundown.

[Musta]

*glove slap* i'll duel you. pistols at sundown.

Wait, wasnt this about meat?

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Well I want my pistols rare. >___<