re: Does anyone on here actually order steak well done...

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i question your confidence in the wide-spread practice of deep-frying steaks to well-done.

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I understand your reluctance to accept that, but it's just the way it works. Unless you and your friends have time to kill and don't mind waiting on the guy at your table who ordered a well done 2" cut of meat to get to well done in an oven, then it has to be expedited in order to satisfy the time element as well as the other steaks that are sitting under a heat lamp increasing their temperature and doneness, or resting getting cold. Sure, you can also wait to cook the other steaks until last, but it's still going to take time to get that steak to well done. The only other way one can avoid that is have it predone and then warm it up. It still isn't preferrable to cooking a nice cut of meat right the way a steak is supposed to be cooked.

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I cook her the worst piece of meat I have, generally.

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That's always the rule. Whoever wants theirs cooked more gets the thinnest cut.

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maybe in crazy restaurants where theyd 1st cook medium rare steaks and sit them under heat lamps while they mess around with the well-done steak that's 'just the way it works'

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I'll leave you to it AreJay... Whatever you choose to believe is fine by me. All I know is roast beef tastes better.

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I'll leave you to it AreJay... Whatever you choose to believe is fine by me. All I know is roast beef tastes better.

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i'd never order a well-done steak. i choose medium-rare.

but keep in mind that there are pregnant people out there, old people out there, people with weak immune systems out there that are trying to protect themselves. maybe they want some beef.

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but keep in mind that there are pregnant people out there, old people out there, people with weak immune systems out there that are trying to protect themselves. maybe they want some beef.

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There are things that maybe people with weak immune systems and pregnant probably shouldn't eat at all, and whatever they want to do or feel like they need to do is fine by me. Most aren't ordering well done steaks for that reason however. I just think it's a travesty and waste of some beautiful meat to do that, but even still, just understand how it's done at most places that aren't doing arse loads of volume in steaks. I've just never seen any way to take a 2" thick cut of ribeye and cook it all the way through to well done without either taking a good bit of time to get done or by having to nuke it or throw it in the fryer which is what happens most often in kitchens. Cuts like that just aren't meant to be cooked all the way through until they are brown throughout. What someone could do with such a thing besides drown it in ketchup or A1 I guess is beyond me.

I'd imagine that if you butterfly the 2" steak, you can cook it a little faster, although I never cook past MR, so its just a guess really

I have a friend who when cooking a steak (or anything for that matter) at home, will burn that sucker to the point of complete char. Obviously enjoys his steaks that way for some reason though, because he grills a lot at home.

Anyway,

When he goes out to restaurants he always orders his steaks medium, steak comes out medium, cuts into and complains its not cooked properly. Usually sends the steak back a couple of times, everyone else is done eating at this point, he gets pissed and just doesn't eat.

Every time everyone at the table tells him, why dot you order it well done? " I don't like it well done, i like it medium"

This is worse than someone just ordering the damn thing well done at a restaurant imho

Guy does the same thing with Tuna, then complains about it being dry


:csb: / rant

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When he goes out to restaurants he always orders his steaks medium, steak comes out medium, cuts into and complains its not cooked properly. Usually sends the steak back a couple of times, everyone else is done eating at this point, he gets pissed and just doesn't eat.

Every time everyone at the table tells him, why dot you order it well done? " I don't like it well done, i like it medium"

This is worse than someone just ordering the damn thing well done at a restaurant imho

Guy does the same thing with Tuna, then complains about it being dry

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I think I would quit going out to eat with that person.

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when that person went to the besh steakhouse and ordered well-done--they deep fried it?

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I don't think so. I can ask my sis, but I think it was just a pan-seared ribeye.