re: Restaurants that won't cook burgers medium rare

im assuming it has more to do with and upscale place might make a few burgers in one night and pay a lot more for the cooks doing it. While the fast food, fast casual burger places make a few hundred and are just trying to get people in and out. The people cooking them are making minimum wage. Much simpler to cook them all the same and you dont risk the chance of getting anyone sick. I know places like backyard burger and jack in the box had e coli outbreaks years ago. Im sure other places have as well.


Believe it or not, a lot of people are scared of the faintest hint of pink. You can cook a burger at 160 and still have some pink.

Many of us like a medium rare burger. Having said that, Medium rare hamburger is like a strange romantic encounter - it may get you in all kinds of trouble.

E coli infections, especially in those with weakened or compromised immune systems (anyone at the end of a nasty flu infection, asthma sufferers, Children, Old folks, smokers, drug users and so on) can be very nasty and difficult or impossible to bring under control, since there are E coli strains out there now that are very resistant to antibiotics.

In other words, like the stranger you take home, you may get an E coli infection that kills you or does all sorts of bad things to you that are about as bad as death.

Having said that, I will tell you to eat your burger as close to medium as you can stand and I will probably order mine medium rare as I watch my wife roll her eyes. It's OK though. I am ten feet tall and bulletproof.

that was they're version of steak tartare. I never tried it, but I've had other versions before and it was really good. But, you have to like the taste of raw, irony meat which some people don't

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It's all the same. You could be at Chimes or a 5 star restaurant a burger is a burger.

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I learned that yesterday on this very board. You're never too old to learn.

I don't even like the taste of rare ground beef so it's not a problem for me.

And people saying that you're losing juiciness and flavor by
"overcooking" it are just flat wrong. There might be a little more loss of grease, but it's hardly noticeable. I don't like a soggy bun anyway.

Ground beef is exponentially more dangerous than a steak which a lot of people don't understand. Sure the risk is pretty low in general, but much more likely in ground beef.

I don't know why I don't like rare ground beef, I love a blood red steak

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don't know why I don't like rare ground beef, I love a blood red steak

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Nothing better than a rare steak. You should try rare ground beef made from rib eye and short rib meat. I made some of that the other day and ground it just once, best burgers ever.

I am not a fan of a hamburger with a cool center. Too much fat content. I would only eat a med-rare to medium burger that I ground.

I eat steaks med-rare to rare.

Well medium rare should be warm on a hamburger or a steak. Rare would be cool and I don't like cool.

He knows a thing or two about blood.

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I understand it's not actual blood if that's what you mean. Or only a very small amount is. But that red shite that pours out an under cooked burger, that soaks into your bread and turns it red and mushy, that ain't my cup of tea. Plus it can maim your innards.

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Alright, that's fair