Poll: Steak

How do you like your steak?

  • Blue (the manly way)

    Votes: 48 7.2%
  • Rare

    Votes: 103 15.4%
  • Medium rare

    Votes: 230 34.3%
  • Medium

    Votes: 125 18.6%
  • Medium Well-done

    Votes: 68 10.1%
  • Well done

    Votes: 77 11.5%
  • Cremated

    Votes: 20 3.0%

  • Total voters
    671
im still waiting on the raw option on the poll since blue implies that theres a cooker involved.....

while i like to open a pack of steak and eat big chunks raw and i have ate full steaks like that.

cmon theres a option catering to very over cooked steak but no raw steak :(

the blue option is to well done tbh...
 
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I like it cooked. I don't mind if there is a slight pink tinge to the middle, but I prefer it without. I don't like the thought of eating raw meat, plus the texture is disgusting.

So Medium-well done for me.
 
Well I got my steak from the farmers market, bought a couple of nice 300g ribeyes.

Cooked one of them tonight...

steak1.jpg


The pan was nice and hot :p

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And it was served with roasted new potatoes, tomatoes roasted with balsamic, onion rings (Tesco's, not homemade unfortunately) and tarragon butter - tastes like bearnaise sauce but less hassle to make

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Cooked just right!
It actually looks more well done than it was in this picture.
Lots of pink but, as it was a good quality piece of meat, not dripping with blood.

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whats in the butter?

Butter, chopped tarragon, diced shallots and a splash of tarragon vinegar.
Basically the ingredients of bearnaise without the egg yolks.

Just soften the butter, add the rest of the ingredients and mix together.
I put it in the freezer for a while before serving so I could cut the discs to put on the steak.
 
That does look good, over done for me, but I'd still no doubt enjoy that :)

I had a feeling you might say that :p
That part was actually the most well cooked. The butcher cut it on a slight diagonal and that bit was the thinnest.
The other side was actually a little under done for me, but it still tasted damn good!

Pretty unhealthy with everything that went with it, but good as an occasionaly treat :)

If anyone's in SW London and wants good meat then try here, where I bought this steak from: http://www.farmerscitymarket.com/
It's a shop that's open 7 days a week, but has all good quality foods sourced from local farms.
 
whats blue? i liek mine brown all the way through

Hey that rhymes! :D

Google it - it's been explained on here already. It's about the same as the difference between rare and medium, but rarer than rare and is "blue" because of the purple colour of a decent piece of meat, if you see what I mean.

It's basically just sealed, but not enough to heat the inside of the meat too much.
 
I suppose all the people who eat their steaks bloody also do a Bear Grylls and eat their Salmon meat steaks by biting a chunk from its wriggling back. Would that count as blue?
I voted well done by the way. lol
 
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