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I've been more willing over the past year or two to eat undercooked steaks, but my preference is still for very well done.
I like the texture and taste of nice, crisp char on the outside of my steaks, and I like a consistent color throughout--it makes it more appealing to me. Seeing bright pink in the middle or worse, seeing red spurt out all over my plate when I cut into a steak is less-than-appetizing. I'd rather not live with the fear that it'll sit up on the plate and moo when I slice it.... (as I accuse steaks of doing when cooked to my dad's preference of medium rare)
Gotta be pink for me to eat it. We're talking about steak, right?
I have a buddy who orders prime rib, both the cut and the grade, medium well to well. I've asked him why he doesn't save the money and ruin a cheap cut, but it works for him.
For the same reason that they eat refrigerated chocolate, room-temperature fruit (with the exception of bananas) from a stupid bowl on the counter, or vegetables cooked to the point of being mush.
Well done. If it's oozing or even trickling blood, it's going back.
I always laugh at those who say they can't cook a good well-done steak. They just plain don't know how to cook. A well-done steak, cooked correctly (and tenderized correctly) will be just as flavorful as can be. I tenderize beef in vinegar.
^^^^^This. I don't even like to look at partially raw meat with blood oozing out of it. I think of biology class with the little worms in the raw meat. Dogs and tapeworms, all of that stuff.
Anyway, steak can taste really good if it is medium well done. I do not like it burned on the outside, I just like it cooked through, some juices, but not red. It has to be a quality cut of meat, I think, but it will be really good cooked the right way--well done/medium well done. No blood.
Personally, I don't like blood oozing out, or even seeing pink. If it is well-done, less chance of e-coli. And under-done is gross to me. I know its more tender when pink or bloody, but I still can't eat it that way. I like all my beef well-done, my chicken, my pork, my fish, etc. To each their own.
I like it warmed over to body temperatre. One thing I like about where I live is they understand the term 'blood rare'. I usually get high quality steaks and cut them into small pieces. One smaller portion cooked right and seasoned perfectly is so satisfying you don't need a lot.
It helps I buy from a butcher shop where the meat does not come from a huge facory farm and has no injected additives.
The most wonderful thing I bought this holiday was my George Forman Grill. A nice char on the outside, nice and juicy and warm inside. I like flat iron steakes which are fairly thin with the grill.
I like it warmed over to body temperatre. One thing I like about where I live is they understand the term 'blood rare'. I usually get high quality steaks and cut them into small pieces. One smaller portion cooked right and seasoned perfectly is so satisfying you don't need a lot.
It helps I buy from a butcher shop where the meat does not come from a huge facory farm and has no injected additives.
The most wonderful thing I bought this holiday was my George Forman Grill. A nice char on the outside, nice and juicy and warm inside. I like flat iron steakes which are fairly thin with the grill.
lol.
You have no idea where your beef comes from.
Nor do people who buy veggies from farmer's markets have the vaguest idea where their veggies/fruits come from.
The only way to know is to raise and butcher yourself.
Not a big steak eater but I prefer my beef well-done and I am usually the only person in my groups of friends who prefers it that way. The cook at the hibachi grill always has jokes and was very polite when he served everyone else's but set mine on my plate and called it beef jerky I wasn't mad at him though!
My preference is to not have blood at all. Probably more psychological than taste but just my preference. If the meat is seasoned and cooked correctly it can be just as amazing as one that is cooked um ... a little less.
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Dogs and tapeworms, all of that stuff.
I wasn't mad at him though!