Undercooked Meat

Look at it this way:

Worst thing that can happen with overcooked meat is it tastes bad.

Worst thing that can happen with undercooked meat is it can kill you.

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Any one else struggle with this shite?

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Yes. People are convinced that raw meat is a guarantee for food poisoning. And the really funny thing is that a lot of them get pissed when you tell them that you're willing to accept the tiny risks involved with eating a medium rare hamburger.

Fortunately the culinary world still understands the need for undercooked/uncooked meat and seafood.

Respectfully disagree, if ANY meat is undercooked you dont want it to be hamburger meat.

I do medium rare on everything except hamburger meat.

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Mom is all paranoid about undercooked meat.

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It's quite evident that she has had bad experiences with meat.

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Completely wrong. No difference b/w hamburger meat and steak.

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So when you're cooking a steak, for example, the goal is to kill all the bacteria on the outside of the food. When you pasteurize an egg, you are heating up the outside of thelight shell to kill the salmonella, you aren't doing anything to the egg inside. That sort of thing.

When you make a hamburger, though, you are using ground meat. This means that you're taking all the inside meat and turning it into outside meat, while simultaneously touching all of that previously inside meat on the outside meat.

So if you go to a store or a restaurant where meat has been pre-ground and stored in potentially questionable conditions, you need to ensure that any bacteria that may have had a chance to replicate will be killed, and they way to do that is, for beef, to cook it to medium-well. If you bought a steak at a butcher, brought the steak home, ground it yourself, and cooked the hamburgers right then, you would be safe to eat them at medium rare.

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that's a poor people problem

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Any one else struggle with this shite?

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.....yes

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Lady overcooked it. Mom is all paranoid about undercooked meat. I mean wtf!

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Is your mom black?! No lie the first time I ordered my steak medium well my dad damn near disowned me.

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Completely wrong. No difference b/w hamburger meat and steak.

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you're wrong

the issue with ground beef is that the surface area is all over the place, and has been during production

bacteria on steak is isolated solely to the outside, which is what is cooked, so the risk is low. the "outside" of ground beef can easily end up inside of your burger, which is dangerous to the eater if the internal temp doesn't rise enough to kill that bacteria

glued meat (which is often used with steaks) is the new big issue, b/c it presents the possibility of having bacteria-infested meat inside a steak, which is not the normal scenario

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Completely wrong. No difference b/w hamburger meat and steak.

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Huge difference my friend. With steak any potential bacteria is on the outside and is easily killed off by the sear. With hamburger everything is mixed together so you don't get the benefit of the sear.