Culinary Poll: How do you like your beef?

[simongr]

Oops - didnt realise that - many messages now deleted.

 

[Hvr]

Seems quite a lot of us like the medium-rare, just a little bit of blood to show it once lived.

 

[drewbles]

Your comment produced an Ikea ad. Anyone for meatballs?

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And as Nigella says "Whack it on the head and drag it on the door". That's how I like mine!

 

[Major]

I also try and stay away from grainfed beef because of the chemicals used

Grass or Grain Finished Beef?

I buy our beef from a specialist butcher which is clearly marked with grade and type

 

[simonpenny408]

Or to put it another way "just wipe the animal's a$$ and bring it to the table". Unbelievably I've actually heard that line used in the LOTFAP

 

[Limewood]

Medium to well, not into consuminhg beast blood or half raw meat just doesn't seem healthy for some reason.

 

[blackcat20]

If it's still mooing, I'm not interested. I don't mind pink but if there is blood flowing I don't want anything to do with it.

 

[drewbles]

Medium to well, not into consuminhg beast blood or half raw meat just doesn't seem healthy for some reason.

For some reason your comment made me think of "Meat is Murder. Tasty, Tasty Murder!".

A common misconception is that it's blood that comes from the steak when it's rare/medium rare. Not so:

The red juice that comes out of rare steak is not blood – it is myoglobin a close relative of blood. Almost all the blood has been removed from a steak by the time it hits the market.

(taken from 15 Science Factlets You Don't Know - Listverse with a particularly delicious picture!).

Myoglobin is a protein from the muscle.

 

[NM]

If it's still mooing, I'm not interested. I don't mind pink but if there is blood flowing I don't want anything to do with it.

At a recent BBQ, I asked "How do you like your lamb cutlets cooked?". Answer from a blonde friend of my daughter "Just so long as its not mooing". My response "I guarantee they won't be mooing ... or oinking or clucking - but baaaaaaaing that, I make not promises". She didn't understand why everyone was laughing :shock:

 

[medhead]

I seriously don't get these people who claim only rare/medium rare is tender. Must be doing something wrong on the cooking.

And as Nigella says "Whack it on the head and drag it on the door". That's how I like mine!

I recall her also saying "nothing a good vet couldn't fix"

 

[AVC]

Medium. And yes, I also go to Hog's Breath.

And, as I like to say to any vegetarians out there;

"If God did not want us to partake in his bounty, then why did he make them so damn tasty, and easy to catch?"

 

[Shano]

Another vote for medium rare but draw the line at blue.

I saw this outside a steakhouse in Melbourne:

Vegetarian: old Indian name meaning lousy hunter

 

[tuapekastar]

I always order steak rare, but if it is a good piece of meat then can handle it up to medium-rare. As for roast beef, rare is also the way to go.

 

[tuapekastar]

Can't vote because my choice is not an option.......blue.

Ahh, the time-honoured way the French like it!

 

[Simo]

I like Medium Rare but closer to rare than Med.

 

[drron]

Another medium rare guy.And I am a proud meatatarian.

 

[JohnK]

I prefer to have my meat well cooked unless I know it has been marinated properly in oil/salt/lemon/onions/garlic etc for ~24 hours or more.

On rare occassions medium or medium to well done is also acceptable but I do not like seeing any blood in my meat.

 

[drewbles]

I prefer to have my meat well cooked unless I know it has been marinated properly in oil/salt/lemon/onions/garlic etc for ~24 hours or more.

On rare occassions medium or medium to well done is also acceptable but I do not like seeing any blood in my meat.

You won't ever see blood in your meat (See my previous comments). It's not blood that comes out, it's juice

 

[Keith009]

Me - rare or medium rare (depending on the meat). Lots of bloody juiciness.

OH - medium well or well done

 

[TonyHancock]

Ahh, the time-honoured way the French like it!

That's fighting talk where I come from!!