I was once told that chefs hate cooking steak because their definition of doneness often doesn't match the customers. For example What they call medium, one customer will complain it's rare while another will say it's well done.
Here is a picture of a steak from the internet. How would YOU say it was cooked.
Blue
Rare
Medium rare
Medium
Medium well
Well done
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Not going to "like" answers in case it influences the poll. But some of you shouldn't be allowed near a pan. Answer in a few days
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Answer. The photograph is claimed to be medium rare. Over half of you disagree.
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This is medium rare. There's a band of cooked meat on the outside that Gradually goes into a nice bright pink but you can still see the texture of the meat has had some amount of heat.
If it was rare the middle would look almost jelly like.
Medium the middle would be a lighter pink.
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Anonymous
(45 Plus)
2 mo
Medium well and well done.. by the way gordon ramsay can't cook for shit. He's overrated and really sucks at cooking..
He burns his grill cheese (the bread or bun part) and his cheese is to thick it doesn't melt, he burns his pizzas, he doesn't know how to stack condiments on a hamburger and uses way to much ketchup & mayo mix where it drenches the cheeseburger where it spills everywhere, his eggs are watery and soggy, his cabbage is soggy and watery, his steaks are ALWAYS raw never cooked inside and ALWAYS burnt on the outside, he boils his hotdogs which are nasty, he overcomplicates making scrambled eggs with his on off burner method and uses cream for no reason, he can't make thai pei he makes some weird concotion that real thai pei chefs yell at him and get angry at him. The list goes on
Curtis stone his recipes flat out suck
Rachael ray not a chef but a cook her food is flat out lousy and a lot of the time it's her big fat overweight dark haired tall assistant that makes her recipes she airs
Yeah, I've seen Ramsay's shows and I'm amazed that anyone can actually think he's a good cook.
And there was one episode where he was in Africa and the chief wanted his meat well done and Ramsay insisted they cook it medium-well. Yet, if someone did that on Hell's Kitchen he would curse them out. Ramsay is a joke.
Medium is probably a balanced amount of cooked and uncooked and with rare or blue whatever you are really just searing the meat, trying to get a little bit of colour onto it without cooking the inside at all, or as little as possible.
You can clearly see a band of cooked meat here where the heat has been allowed to penetrate so it could obviously have been cooked less than this.
The poll says that some people are calling this medium and I can see why they would say that, its not far away from half and half, though I am not sure that is how it is actually defined that's just how i think about it but I think that is leaning towards rare.
Yeah, I don't know why they even bother asking customers how they want their steak cooked, if they think they know better😂 A lot of places, especially abroad, have stopped asking and simply cook it as they deem fit.
Waiters in French restaurants in Paris and other places on France raise their eyebrows disdainfully if you ask for steak to be cooked medium rare or medium - I once saw the maitre d' come over to an American couple at a nearby table (in a restaurant in Paris, in the left bank/Blvd St Michel) to tell them the chef could not cook their steaks 'well done' and suggested they order something else ! They then chose coq au vin and everyone seemed happy !
I would say rare, the cooked rim is typically about 5-10% of the steak's cooked depth on both sides. Typically Medium rare is 15 to 20% cooked depth around the rim and Medium 30% cooked rim.
I like mine medium well which is about 80% (40% from either side) cooked from either side with a tiny bit of read (20%) depth in the middle.
The best way to approximate this without cutting the steak is both a combination of timing and finger testing your meat on the bbq.
It’s medium rare by the looks of it. I’m only saying cause you’ll never get me to eat that. My fear of worms will always win. I need to see it look 80% to be happy and this is looking extremely 17% 🤣
Hard to tell. Some types of steaks look different when cooked to the same consistency. I go by temperature to cook to a certain level. Never wrong that way.
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Anonymous
(18-24)
2 mo
Looks medium rare. Don't really like steak but know how to cook it
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