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to ask how you have your steak?

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/02/2011 20:09

I went out for supper with friends, and the Mrs friend ordered her steak "super well done, without an inch of blood or redness", Mr Friend ordered it "blue, just a flash in the pan". I ordered it "medium rare".

How do you eat your steak? I can't understand why you would order it well done...?

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LetThereBeRock · 10/02/2011 22:18

Salad with a steak is just wrong.

StarlightPrincess · 10/02/2011 22:18

X post starlight!

Aha! We agree on something! Grin

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/02/2011 22:19

Hoorah! Grin

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CilantroLarry · 10/02/2011 22:19

Well done.

I have absolutely no opinion on people who have it blue/rare/medium/whatever and am very amused that people are so sniffy about how I like my food. I like the taste, it's my mouth, I'm paying for it. Why are people so bothered about how I have my food?

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/02/2011 22:20

letthere seriously? Eurgh my sickening dh drinks raw egg to "help him build muscles" Hmm

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Bellagio · 10/02/2011 22:20

For me fillet is the god of steak.
It has to be as tall as it is wide (v important)
Served rare but piping hot all the way through, not too much blood but a wee bit just to trickle into the blue cheese/bernaise/pepper sauce and chips.
Done correctly 'tis heaven on a plate!

[quite hard to please in the steak dept emoticon]

LetThereBeRock · 10/02/2011 22:21

I don't get it either Larry. I may think that steak is best when it's medium rare,but if I'm cooking for friends then I really don't care if they want their steak well done.

Crispmonster · 10/02/2011 22:21

I like mine rare. I ordered a fillet the other week and it came out blue. I will now order my fillets blue as it was gorgeous. I could have ate it with a spoon. I go for medium if I have rump though ( which is rare)

LetThereBeRock · 10/02/2011 22:21

'letthere seriously? Eurgh my sickening dh drinks raw egg to "help him build muscles"'

And now it's my turn to feel queasy.[green]

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/02/2011 22:21

bellagio I'm glad you don't eat here regularly, I'm not that precise!

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hogshead · 10/02/2011 22:22

i like my steak cremated (?sp)aka cooked.

DH likes it blue.

mine goes on the grill a good 20 minutes before his.

CilantroLarry · 10/02/2011 22:22

Thank God for you LetThereBeRock. I just don't understand how it's a 'waste'. I'm eating the damn thing and enjoying it, what more do you want?

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LadyOfTheManor · 10/02/2011 22:22

letthere yes I know. Makes me sick. filthy sod.

crisp- rare as in occasional or rare as in undercooked as it's rump? Grin

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TitsalinaBumSquash · 10/02/2011 22:23

I don't understand people who have it well done, it is madness and not very nice.
I went to dinner with a friend and her other friend, I didn't know her friend was a veggie and I ordered rare fillet steak, she started freaking out while I happily sat and nom nom nom down went the yummy steak.

StarlightPrincess · 10/02/2011 22:24

i like my steak cremated (?sp)aka cooked.

Me too! I like all my food really well done.

faverolles · 10/02/2011 22:24

I like it blue. With chips and little bits of raw onion and spotty mustard.
Mmmmmmmmm.

Bellagio · 10/02/2011 22:25

Ladyofthemanor Grin
I confess I've never managed it like that by cooking it myself either!
We have holidayed a lot in the U.S, they just do it do well there I got hooked!

piprabbit · 10/02/2011 22:25

When life is getting to me and I can't face another cheese sandwich for lunch, I hunt for all the coins down the side of the sofa and buy myself a little piece of fillet steak.

Chargrilled rare, with a peppery green salad.

Life is worth living again.

muggglewump · 10/02/2011 22:25

Steak tartare is drool worthy and best with a raw duck egg, as it's so rich.
I make this myself as no way could I afford it otherwise.

I am sensitive to other people's food preferences though, I admit, as I am quite the opposite, and my ex is very fussy and a bit Mummy's boy with food.

hogshead · 10/02/2011 22:25

personally i dont like the blood juices seeping into my chips hence being well done.

I like what I like and thats that. If DH can live with it so can everyone else Grin

StarlightPrincess · 10/02/2011 22:26

personally i dont like the blood juices seeping into my chips hence being well done

That is so gross! Ewwwwww!

CilantroLarry · 10/02/2011 22:27

Titsalina, you don't understand people who have it well done? What don't you understand? That people have different likes/dislikes? Prefer certain foods cooked certain ways. It's not what you like and it's looked down upon in a snobby way but there seems to be an implication that I should have my dinner cooked in a way that I don't particularly like or want because that's what somebody else likes. Isn't that a bit weird?

But I don't like the ways some people eat gingerbread men so I can hardly talk. Why would you eat the head first fgs? Cruel.

hogshead · 10/02/2011 22:28

Starlight Princess I even ask for it to be cremated even when out for dinner. It always raises a smile!

LetThereBeRock · 10/02/2011 22:28

Thank God for you LetThereBeRock. I just don't understand how it's a 'waste'. I'm eating the damn thing and enjoying it, what more do you want?

Exactly.So long as you enjoy it I don't care if you want me to put it in a tutu,and smother it in ketchup.

LetThereBeRock · 10/02/2011 22:29

'But I don't like the ways some people eat gingerbread men so I can hardly talk. Why would you eat the head first fgs? Cruel.'

So that it doesn't have to watch as you amputate its limbs?

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