how do you like your beef?

How do you like your beef?

  • Rare

    Votes: 2 13.3%

  • Medium Rare

    Votes: 8 53.3%

  • Medium

    Votes: 3 20.0%

  • Medium Well

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Well

    Votes: 1 6.7%

  • Blackened

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • Total voters
    15
Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford

Formerly known as 1 bourbon 1 scotch & 1 beer
curious as to how people on here like their beef cooked, i myself, want the meat blackened! seals in the flavor, without drying the meat out. mmmmmmm. specially on marinated steak.
 
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chowhound

chowhound

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If we are talking a roast, done all the way through. No red. Slow cooked or pressure cooked (braising?) to retain its juiciness and so it falls apart.
If we are talking a burger, just a little pink, but I can eat them well done as well.
If we are talking a steak, as dark on the outside as I can get it and still have it pink on the inside, not red. With a cooked texture and not a barely cooked, smooth texture.
Something like this:
 

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chowhound

chowhound

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oops. I just saw this was a poll. I'm not sure how to answer. The pic above used to be called rare when I was a kid, at least at the restaurants/clubs I ate at. Now I think it's called med/rare or possibly even med.
 
joec

joec

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It really depends with me on the cut of beef. Steaks I like burnt on the outside and almost raw on the inside. Roasts like a brisket I like slow cooked in the oven or smoker. Other types of roast I like braised, slow cooked etc.
 
Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford

Formerly known as 1 bourbon 1 scotch & 1 beer
chowhound said:
Well it has to have a "crust" to it or I'll moan, too. That's why I don't like prime rib sliced off the roast unless it's an endcut. I find it too lacking of flavor.
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INDEED, lol. same with chicken, depending on the flavouring, i like the outside to be crispy, while the inside still tender and juicy
 
sattie

sattie

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Like others here, depends on the cut and application. But for most steaks, I prefer medium rare. Aint nothing worse than an over cooked steak!
 
joec

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PanchoHambre said:
I like my steak a bit bloody burgers too... roast beef if its going to be cold cuts a bit raw as well
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Funny Pancho I like my burgers rare too but with all the warning I know buy a chuck roast and grind my one beef. I do the same with ground pork both of which I never buy anymore pre ground.
 
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lilylove

lilylove

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I know it's wrong... but I like my meat really really DEAD! No pink allowed. Not Burnt on outside though.. just not pink. I'm picky I guess.
 
PanchoHambre

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1 bourbon 1 scotch 1 beer said:
of course not! but thats why i drink lmao
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that's my theory... the alcohol kills off the bad stuff

I also maintain that when liquor is not available a can of CocaCola will kill just about anything.... what could survive in that toxic brew?

JoeC.. I just got a meat grinder recently... it is definitely the way to go... I am lazy sometimes though.

I will admit to playing a bit fast and loose with food safety sometimes... I do have an iron stomach.

I have only had food poising once and that came from a university food court.... It was terrible I will admit that.
 
homecook

homecook

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Most beef I like well, roasts and such. Steaks I like medium/medium well. Just some pink. My ds will eat it while it's still mooing! lol

Barb
 
joec

joec

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I actually use an attachment for my Kitchen Aid. I've had the Kitchen Aid for years and though it is only 275 watts it does every thing I need from meat grinding, making sausage to mixing stuff and even pasta rollers.

As for food poisoning once also, fish and chips in London need I say more. I've traveled through 94 countries over a 3 year span from 1980 to 1983 and ate stuff that would make a billy goat puke. I will say though it taught me to taste and if I like it don't ask what is in it.
 
Maverick2272

Maverick2272

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Pretty much all meat I like medium rare from steaks to roasts to burgers:
 

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Maverick2272

Maverick2272

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Thanks Fred! But now I am making myself hungry... may need to buy another roast soon!!
Those juices on the first photo with out the green beans are what I love the most, spoon it back over the cuts after you serve them... yum!
 
TexasGirl

TexasGirl

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chowhound said:
If we are talking a roast, done all the way through. No red. Slow cooked or pressure cooked (braising?) to retain its juiciness and so it falls apart.
If we are talking a burger, just a little pink, but I can eat them well done as well.
If we are talking a steak, as dark on the outside as I can get it and still have it pink on the inside, not red. With a cooked texture and not a barely cooked, smooth texture.
Something like this:
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kindred food spirits:thumb:
 
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