Steak - How do you like yours?

[Craig1981]

The more welldone the better,the thought of eating steak with the blood dripping out makes me gag.

Im with you really. I dont want it burned black, but I want all the blood to be gone.

 

[SeraphX]

Medium/Rare personally, love a nice juicy middle

 

[Belmit]

Little bit of oil and seasoning then just about sealed in the pan is fine with me. So, pretty much as rare as can be without it being flat-out raw.

 

[boxman2000]

If it's a thin weedy steak then I'll go for medium-well but if it's like the one in Acid's pic then I'd go the same, medium-rare.

Popping to butchers tonight after this thread! nom

 

[[Olly]]

Medium Rare

 

[imb4tman]

The more welldone the better,the thought of eating steak with the blood dripping out makes me gag.

It's not blood. It's mostly water mixed with a little Myoglobin.

In a restaurant I go for rare but I can never get it quite right at home so I cook to medium.

 

[HeadlessChicken]

Im with you really. I dont want it burned black, but I want all the blood to be gone.

It's not blood. Mostly water & fat. It's red because of myogoblin (or something along those lines, I think ). Any decently butchered & hung meat will be blood free

As to OP, I'm a rare steak eater.

*edit* Too slow

 

[dekez]

Medium-rare for me, just a thin strip of uncooked meat running through the middle.

 

[krooton]

Med-rare, with a nicely charred outer layer.

 

[Davepen]

knob (hehe) of butter in a searingly hot pan, bit of garlic with the butter, steak charred nicely each side, OM

Ive actually been swaying to more medium recently, Im not sure why? Unless its fillet in which case its gotta be rare!

 

[lookitsjonno]

medium well with lots of pepper sauce mmm

 

[Razor-BladE]

Medium to well done.

 

[oli356]

Medium rare.

 

[Haircut]

It completely depends on the steak for me.
I prefer ribeye to be medium-rare to medium, but I wouldn't want a fillet anything more than rare.

 

[james.miller]

depends on the cut but medium rare mostly. from a butchers too!

 

[Tonyator]

Rare.

 

[J-FRO]

Medium rare.

 

[PapaLazaru]

Medium rare.

If it is good, then bleu.

Like it raw as well sometimes.

 

[[Death]]

medium rare, anything over it looses too much taste

 

[Liampope]

Well since we're adding further important factors...

I prefer ribeye and very very mature. I have a great local butcher who normally has some pretty old looking stuff whenever I go in, or if I want to gaurantee a certain cut/amount at a certain time I can order ahead and he'll hang a piece for 6 weeks for me .

Hmmm thanks to this thread and the raw fish one, I'm totally torn now. How am I gonna decide what to have for dinner??