The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

When it just doesn't fit anywhere else.

How do you like your steak?

Rare
1
5%
Medium rare
7
37%
Medium
5
26%
Medium-well
3
16%
Well done
3
16%
Kill it a second time!
0
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Total votes: 19

steve-in-kville

The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

Post by steve-in-kville »

Old joke about Mennonites and their cars... black on the outside with a red interior 8-)

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.
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RZehr

Re: The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

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Maybe so rare that it tries to eat the salad? :)
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Grace
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Re: The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

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steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:28 am Old joke about Mennonites and their cars... black on the outside with a red interior 8-)

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
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steve-in-kville

Re: The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

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Grace wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:37 am
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 8-)
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Re: The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

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

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ohio jones

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Grace wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:37 am 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.

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steve-in-kville

Re: The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

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The best steak I ever had was grilled over a wood fire.
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Ken
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Re: The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

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steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:35 am 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.
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MaxPC

Re: The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

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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. :lol:
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RZehr

Re: The Mennonite beef steak: black with a red interior!

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Grace wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:37 am
steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:28 am Old joke about Mennonites and their cars... black on the outside with a red interior 8-)

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.
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