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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate."
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I too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍"
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Yeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food"
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If you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste."
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Why? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut."
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The argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?"
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OK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it."
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I have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'.
However, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand."
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Exactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you"
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My mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.
I bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways"
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My mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is."
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Pork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours.
Some steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.
Source: I am a chef
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me."
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If you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef"
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Yeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145)."
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As a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!
The one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant."
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This is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy."
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I can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering."
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💯…btw nice username! 👌👍
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way."
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I don't think I will ever eat steak "The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten"
I mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast
just the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous
not to mention meat thats pink in the middle
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍"
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Honestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle"
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This applies to soooo many things
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc"
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People like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things"
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Tell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”"
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Hahahahah 😂
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks."
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totally get that
being told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.
I have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂"
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I'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol"
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I like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop"
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Well i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing."
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I couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.
(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste"
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)"
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Yeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️"
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yeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast."
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Of course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with "it must be rare to be good" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?"
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My girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively."
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I never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.
I only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak."
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According to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue."
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This post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy."
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Agreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - "Make it look like shoe leather " ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment."
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Yes, exactly my point!
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!"
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Slop ‘em up boys!
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!"
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!"
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
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I used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”"
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Honestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak.."
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Agreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are."
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Finally a good fucking opinion on this sub
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?"
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I agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub"
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I like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them."
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My dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa."
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Found the person who likes their steak well done 🤢
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten."
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I used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...
Well done.
Disgusting, mid-rare is the best.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢"
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best."
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Found the well done guy
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong"
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I like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy"
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Good point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare."
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If your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?"
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Jesus
It's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.
I agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.
I personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.
My father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook"
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Different cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast."
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Medium Well >>>> medium rare
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak."
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It's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare"
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Tell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot."
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You can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done"
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Exactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done."
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The down votes prove you are right.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting."
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Because steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare.
Any chef will tell you this.
Those that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right."
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Because paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly."
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That a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird."
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Steak is overrated anyway.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care"
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Dry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway."
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That's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that"
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i well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the "kids chicken tendies " i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done."
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing"
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no it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents."
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OP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time"
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If you eat steak well done, you’re wrong.
Cope.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing."
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we get it you eat bad overcooked steak
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope."
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Not if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak"
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Here’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck."
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Those of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone."
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'"
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I dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.
Asking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.
You do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one."
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I don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done."
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot."
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style"
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One of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal"
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It’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices."
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I don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about"
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It's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood.
Actual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away.
Of course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor"
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells."
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Bland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood"
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If you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell."
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It’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything.
Steak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol."
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Except it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going "EWWW BLOOD!"
Saying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.
In the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.",
">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol."
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I agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.",
">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.",
">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds."
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As a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.
However as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked.
That can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something.
Will I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.",
">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.",
">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.",
">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over"
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I have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.",
">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.",
">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.",
">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over",
">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you."
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.",
">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.",
">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.",
">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over",
">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.",
">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup."
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I don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.",
">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.",
">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.",
">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over",
">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.",
">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.",
">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!"
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Don't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.",
">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.",
">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.",
">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over",
">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.",
">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.",
">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!",
">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)"
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Lmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion
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"I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.",
">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.",
">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.",
">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.",
">\n\nI got his ass",
">\n\ngay",
">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business",
">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.",
">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?",
">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common",
">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL",
">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.",
">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)",
">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.",
">\n\nExactly!",
">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)",
">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer",
">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩",
">\n\nProbably with ketchup.",
">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup",
">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.",
">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave",
">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants",
">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.",
">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off",
">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare",
">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen",
">\n\nRare (°_°)",
">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.",
">\n\nTotally! 👍",
">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food",
">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.",
">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.",
">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?",
">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.",
">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.",
">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you",
">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways",
">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.",
">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.",
">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef",
">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).",
">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.",
">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.",
">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.",
">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.",
">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍",
">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle",
">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc",
">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things",
">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”",
">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.",
">\n\nHahahahah 😂",
">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol",
">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop",
">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.",
">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste",
">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)",
">\n\n❤️",
">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.",
">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?",
">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.",
">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.",
">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.",
">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.",
">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.",
">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!",
">\n\nYes, exactly my point!",
">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!",
">",
">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”",
">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..",
">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.",
">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?",
">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub",
">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.",
">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.",
">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.",
">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢",
">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.",
">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong",
">\n\nFound the well done guy",
">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.",
">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?",
">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook",
">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.",
">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.",
">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare",
">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.",
">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done",
">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.",
">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.",
">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.",
">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.",
">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.",
">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care",
">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.",
">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that",
">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.",
">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing",
">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.",
">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time",
">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.",
">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.",
">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak",
">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.",
">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.",
">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'",
">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.",
">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.",
">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.",
">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style",
">\n\nReal",
">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.",
">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about",
">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor",
">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.",
">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood",
">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.",
">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.",
">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.",
">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.",
">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over",
">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.",
">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.",
">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!",
">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)",
">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes."
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