How do you take your...meat?

CliffnDallas

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Thirty minutes ago I had a conversation with the fill in night cook about my dinner order. I ordered a Cheeseburger well done. I made a special point about it being done, not pink, not raw but WELL DONE!

I do not eat raw bloody meat. In my humble opinion anyone that does is a savage and should be on a leash in the public square. I take my steak medium well with just a hint of pink BUT NO BLOOD!

Anyway as a precaution I cut the cheeseburger in half. Blood literlly ran across the plate. I almost threw up. needless to say it went in the trash in front of the cook.


So, how do you like your meat? :)
 

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For a hamburger? I like medium well.

For a steak? I'll take anywhere from medium rare to medium well.
 

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The red juice in raw red meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don’t see blood in raw “white meat”. Only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store.

So what is that red liquid you are seeing in red meat? Red meats, such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water. This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid.

In fact, red meat is distinguished from white meat primarily based on the levels of myoglobin in the meat. The more myoglobin, the redder the meat. Thus most animals, such as mammals, with a high amount of myoglobin, are considered “red meat”, while animals with low levels of myoglobin, like most poultry, or no myoglobin, like some sea-life, are considered “white meat”.

Myoglobin is highly pigmented, specifically red; so the more myoglobin, the redder the meat will look and the darker it will get when you cook it.

So... you didn't throw away an undercooked hamburger. There is no such thing as "bloody meat". You simply threw away a juicy hamburger. And it was probably juicy because you pissed off the chef when you ordered it.

I'll take both my steaks and burgers medium, please. :)
 

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CowboyMike;3723154 said:
The red juice in raw red meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don’t see blood in raw “white meat”. Only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store.

So what is that red liquid you are seeing in red meat? Red meats, such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water. This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid.

In fact, red meat is distinguished from white meat primarily based on the levels of myoglobin in the meat. The more myoglobin, the redder the meat. Thus most animals, such as mammals, with a high amount of myoglobin, are considered “red meat”, while animals with low levels of myoglobin, like most poultry, or no myoglobin, like some sea-life, are considered “white meat”.

Myoglobin is highly pigmented, specifically red; so the more myoglobin, the redder the meat will look and the darker it will get when you cook it.

So... you didn't throw away an undercooked hamburger. There is no such thing as "bloody meat". You simply threw away a juicy hamburger. And it was probably juicy because you pissed off the chef when you ordered it.

I'll take both my steaks and burgers medium, please. :)

No. I threw away a raw uncooked bit of dead cow. It was more than "juice". The burger it's self was red and uncooked inside. As far as the chef go's he actually a nice guy. He however can not cook a burger. And you are a savage! ;)
 

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Burgers, medium/medium well

Steaks, medium rare - a true medium rare, where the inside is red and warm. It's difficult for me to go to a non-steakhouse type place and get a steak because they are almost always overcooked.

As long as it's not like shoe leather I'll eat it. I'm not big on sending food back unless it's inedible.
 

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didn't know you could get burgers any other way than cooked or not cooked.
as for steak it should be medium at the very very most. bought highland cattle sirloin steaks the other week, cooked red in the middle through pink into brown with a nice red run off when you cut into it. absolutely stunning!
 

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Depends on mood. With steaks, I've liked very rare to well done.

Hamburgers should be well done since they're made with ground meat, and there's a higher chance of being infected with something if it's less cooked.
 

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CliffnMesquite;3723144 said:
I do not eat raw bloody meat. In my humble opinion anyone that does is a savage and should be on a leash in the public square.

I guess I should be on a leash. :D
 

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Medium well. Well done is too dry, and raw taste to metallic.

I have a Mac / iPhone user comment here that has to do with meat and how they take it as the original post requested, but it might result in an infraction so I shall refrain. ;)

MAN-PURSE!
 

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I order rare. Rare steak, rare hamburger (if they won't serve it rare, and some won't, ask them why they don't trust their meat). There are some exceptions where medium rare is preferred (carne asada, for instance). Anything beyond medium is (IMHO) good for nothing except making shoes or playing hockey.
 

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jimnabby;3723312 said:
I order rare. Rare steak, rare hamburger (if they won't serve it rare, and some won't, ask them why they don't trust their meat). There are some exceptions where medium rare is preferred (carne asada, for instance). Anything beyond medium is (IMHO) good for nothing except making shoes or playing hockey.

Are these tastes once a month on a full moon? ;)
 

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For a burger, medium well is fine. If you eat your steak medium well or well done, it's a complete waste of money.
 

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i remember going for lunch a couple of years ago at a restaurant in the south of france, moules frite very tasty, the guy at the table next to me wad a pile of raw mince (ground beef i think you call it?) anyway he cracked a raw egg over it put on a ton of salt and pepper then mixed it through with a fork and sat and ate it with a side salad.
 
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