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Reply 20

amex
And I expect the gastronomic highlights of these people's lives is the weekly outting to McDonalds :rolleyes:

Tell a decent chef you like your steaks well done and they'd laugh at you.


Or perhaps they'd respect the fact that you don't have a taste for cow blood. Beef itself should be fine regardless of how much it's cooked it's just any other stuff that you find in there that might be dodgy.

Reply 21

amex
And I expect the gastronomic highlights of these people's lives is the weekly outting to McDonalds :rolleyes:

Tell a decent chef you like your steaks well done and they'd laugh at you.


lol

So Chef, how about it, I'd like a well done steak. :biggrin:

Reply 22

AndyT
Or perhaps they'd respect the fact that you don't have a taste for cow blood. Beef itself should be fine regardless of how much it's cooked it's just any other stuff that you find in there that might be dodgy.


By cow blood, I assume you mean the actual flavour!?

The longer a steak is cooked the tougher and drier the meat becomes. The juices are what gives a steak its flavour. If you prefer to be eating a dry, leathery piece of meat with no flavoury, go ahead and request "well done".

Reply 23

amex
By cow blood, I assume you mean the actual flavour!?

The longer a steak is cooked the tougher and drier the meat becomes. The juices are what gives a steak its flavour. If you prefer to be eating a dry, leathery piece of meat with no flavoury, go ahead and request "well done".


Sorry but I find little appealing about cutting into a steak and having blood red juices run out, I'd rather have a "dry leathery piece of meat" with a nice peppercorn sauce than be sick, perhaps that's just my upbringing though.

Reply 24

amex
By cow blood, I assume you mean the actual flavour!?

The longer a steak is cooked the tougher and drier the meat becomes. The juices are what gives a steak its flavour. If you prefer to be eating a dry, leathery piece of meat with no flavoury, go ahead and request "well done".


Or bacon.

Reply 25

This is getting a little stupid, so this will be my last post on the matter :biggrin:
Only philistines ask for steaks to be cooked "well done". Whether this is due to unfounded fears of food poisoning or that they're afraid of the sight of blood makes no difference.

Just please, please, never go to a michelin starred restaurant and pay £30 for a chateaubriand only to ask for it to be cooked "well done".

Reply 26

amex
This is getting a little stupid, so this will be my last post on the matter :biggrin:
Only philistines ask for steaks to be cooked "well done". Whether this is due to unfounded fears of food poisoning or that they're afraid of the sight of blood makes no difference.

Just please, please, never go to a michelin starred restaurant and pay £30 for a chateaubriand only to ask for it to be cooked "well done".


Each to their own, I have no fear of food poisoning from beef, I've just been brought up to recognise beef as being brown. I've eaten some delicious well done fillet minion (I really have no idea if that's spelt correctly) in some very posh places. I'll eat my meat as I like it and I'll leave others to do the same, since you say you'll not post anymore, we'll leave it at that :smile:

Reply 27

Surely if someone wants a well done bit of steak and are prepared to pay for it then they should just get it, just cos the stuck up chef wouldn't eat it like that doesn't mean the customer can't, i'd seriously walk out if i ordered somethign well done and got abuse back.

Reply 28

Vladek
Surely if someone wants a well done bit of steak and are prepared to pay for it then they should just get it, just cos the stuck up chef wouldn't eat it like that doesn't mean the customer can't, i'd seriously walk out if i ordered somethign well done and got abuse back.


I've ordered well done before and got a bloody piece of meat back, asked them to cook it again and got little difference, didn't end up paying for the "meal", remember kids, the customer is always right.

Reply 29

I always ask for medium well... and I get annoyed if it's bloody. :smile: Mmmm.. I want my meat now!

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