The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

[steve-in-kville]

Old joke about Mennonites and their cars... black on the outside with a red interior

But seriously, we haven't had a steak thread/poll in a great while. So how do you like your steaks? Vote and discuss.

Personally, I've taken to doing beef steak and pork chops in cast iron. Like it just as much as grilled. I've even experimented with reverse sear on random occassions.

[RZehr]

Maybe so rare that it tries to eat the salad?

[Grace]

Old joke about Mennonites and their cars... black on the outside with a red interior

But seriously, we haven't had a steak thread/poll in a great while. So how do you like your steaks? Vote and discuss.

Personally, I've taken to doing beef steak and pork chops in cast iron. Like it just as much as grilled. I've even experimented with reverse sear on random occassions.

If people want to eat raw meat, be brave and go the whole way and eat "steak tartare", a fancy schmancy name for raw meat. Steak Tartare is raw hamburger with some spices added. You could always add a raw egg to the steak Tartare. Sounds delicious..right? (actually... yuk)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare

[steve-in-kville]

If people want to eat raw meat, be brave and go the whole way and eat "steak tartare", a fancy schmancy name for raw meat. Steak Tartare is raw hamburger with some spices added. You could always add a raw egg to the steak Tartare. Sounds delicious..right? (actually... yuk)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare

I had raw fish sushi one time. Wasn't bad, would try again if I had the chance.

Yeah, I heard about the tartare. I'll try anything once. Twice if I'm paid

[Ken]

I like my beefsteaks to look like this with a nice juicy red interior:

[ohio jones]

If people want to eat raw meat, be brave and go the whole way and eat "steak tartare", a fancy schmancy name for raw meat. Steak Tartare is raw hamburger with some spices added. You could always add a raw egg to the steak Tartare. Sounds delicious..right? (actually... yuk)

Mr. Bean agrees.

[steve-in-kville]

The best steak I ever had was grilled over a wood fire.

[Ken]

The best steak I ever had was grilled over a wood fire.

The best steak I have ever had was also grilled on an open charcoal fire in southern Chile (Patagonia).

I'm convinced that with steaks, the quality of the meat is actually more important than the method of preparation. And that most of the commercially-produced meat in this country is done so to maximize profit and minimize costs, not to maximize flavor and quality. In other words, the average steak that you buy on a shrink-wrapped Styrofoam tray in the meat section is more or less the meat equivalent of the tasteless beefsteak or Roma tomato you buy in the produce section.

If you want the best steaks, just like the best tomatoes, you either have to grow it and butcher it yourself, or find alternative suppliers that do everything right from beginning to end.

[MaxPC]

Medium rare can still be chewed. Even medium if it is a good piece of meat can be tender. Well done though, the only thing to do is to chop it up into small bites and whack on great gobs of HP sauce.

[RZehr]

Old joke about Mennonites and their cars... black on the outside with a red interior

But seriously, we haven't had a steak thread/poll in a great while. So how do you like your steaks? Vote and discuss.

Personally, I've taken to doing beef steak and pork chops in cast iron. Like it just as much as grilled. I've even experimented with reverse sear on random occassions.

If people want to eat raw meat, be brave and go the whole way and eat "steak tartare", a fancy schmancy name for raw meat. Steak Tartare is raw hamburger with some spices added. You could always add a raw egg to the steak Tartare. Sounds delicious..right? (actually... yuk)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare

I've had steak tartare a couple times, raw egg yolk included. I didn't see blood. But maybe eating it isn't "refraining from eating blood".
The knowledge of what your eating, raw beef, kinda wrecks the experience. If someone didn't know what it was, and just closed their eyes and ate a bit on toasted rye bread, it is kinda good.

I like my steaks done medium.