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How do you like your sirloin streak cooked?

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DonkeyyDoo · 01/09/2024 22:30

and WHY?

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CustardySergeant · 02/09/2024 13:16

Medium rare, so that it is succulent, soft and delicious.

Didimum · 02/09/2024 13:15

I'm a vegetarian, but miss steak so much. Very rare!

LostFuse · 02/09/2024 12:02

Pipecleanerrevival · 01/09/2024 22:34

Crispy and Cremated. Because eating blood is disgusting.

Even the rarest and reddest of steaks is actually bloodless. Instead, what you're looking at is a combination of water, which makes up about 75 per cent of meat, and a protein found in muscle tissue called myoglobin.

BobbyBiscuits · 02/09/2024 11:55

Med rare. Rare is too bloody and more cooked is pointless. I can't eat much steak though. Only usually half a piece.

GasPanic · 02/09/2024 11:44

There's always some sort of competition as to how rare people want to eat their steak and some people clearly see it as an achievement in their life.

I object to well done, because it does make the meat really tough and difficult to eat.

Good aged steak used to be quite hard to get in the UK, but now at most places the steak will be pretty decent.

MakeMeATea · 02/09/2024 11:44

Medium to medium rare so long as it's pink all the way through.

Willoo · 02/09/2024 11:37

Medium rare or rare. Absolutely not well done in any circumstance

lovelysunshine22 · 02/09/2024 11:18

Medium rare

AdaColeman · 02/09/2024 11:03

I'm not keen on sirloin, I prefer fillet steak, and I like it cooked à point.

I think the more fatty steak cuts develop more flavour if cooked to one step higher than you would usually eat fillet steak, but for cooking steak the choice is very individual!
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worryworrysuperscurry · 02/09/2024 11:00

Blue, but only after a period of living in France in my early twenties. Prior to that I'd only ever had medium or well done, and rarer cooked meat was a revelation to me.

OctoblocksAssemble · 02/09/2024 10:36

Well done, it's how I was brought up. I have tried medium, and it's less nice imo.
For a while I actually wouldn't order steak in a restaurant, because there's such a culture of well done meat being some sort of travesty rather than a perfectly reasonable preference.

Borninabarn32 · 02/09/2024 10:27

Rare, I hate tough overcooked Beef.

caringcarer · 02/09/2024 10:25

Grilled with a knob of butter on it. Medium rare.

BabaYetu · 02/09/2024 10:20

The vegetarians are on a go-slow this week.

Where are my fellow meat-swervers?
It’s a Monday, shouldn’t we be lecturing the OP that we prefer our steak still attached to a happy cow living its best life? Mentioning carbon footprint and animal welfare?

Mumsnet is usually po-faced on a Monday morning.

BashfulClam · 02/09/2024 10:12

Medium, I like it pink in the middle but not too red. If it’s well done it’s like an old shoe. MIL always eats it like that and last time we’re out for a meal her plate was sliding all over the table as she tried to cut through something a tough as a fire engine tyre. I changed DH from well done to medium. I have a friend who eats it blue but that’s a bit too raw for me.

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 02/09/2024 10:10

Blue

KreedKafer · 02/09/2024 10:07

Rare/blue, because that's how I personally like it.

I find it weird that some people get so worked up about how other people like their steak, though. I wouldn't ever want my steak well-done, but it's no skin off my nose if that's how someone else likes it.

Newhere5 · 02/09/2024 10:04

FatFilledTrottyPuss · 01/09/2024 22:37

The way my husband cooks it, medium rare but with so much garlic and pepper in such a hot pan it’s almost charcoaled on the outside and juicy red in the inside. With his peppercorn sauce, chips and tender stem broccoli 😋

That sounds amazing

Rory17384949 · 02/09/2024 09:56

Rare

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 02/09/2024 08:51

ObliviousCoalmine · 02/09/2024 08:44

Just walk it through a warm kitchen.

That takes me back.

My dad used to say "wipe its arse and walk it through a warm kitchen."

ObliviousCoalmine · 02/09/2024 08:44

Just walk it through a warm kitchen.

herecomesthesondodedoodoo · 02/09/2024 08:16

Blue. Because I like it that way.

IBegYourBiggestPardon · 02/09/2024 08:15

Medium rare

spamandeggs · 02/09/2024 07:59

Absolutely love rare steak . I didn't think I would until my stepson introduced me to it in Spanish restaurant a few years back.Haven't looked back lol

HelenWheels · 02/09/2024 07:30

with garlic mushrooms most importantly.