Is a steak cooked well done any healthier?

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4homer

I just love steak. I don't care if it rare or cooked well done. I just want that meat in my mouth

ahamm002

Actually, well done steak has more calories than medium rare steak. Anytime you cook food it becomes easier to digest and the calories become more bio-available.

Supposedly cooking over fire was a major step in the evolution of cavemen because it allowed them to get a lot more energy out of their food. But I doubt even cavemen where stupid enough to cook steak to well done! Medium rare please with a crispy exterior!

KANGOOJUMPS

steak for me every weekend.

ahamm002

cs2thecox wrote: »

**total overgeneralisation alert**

Given basically everything seems to increase the risk of cancer these days, I reckon the best kind of steak is the kind that makes you happiest.

The best way to cook steak does depend on the cut though... a lean cut like fillet can be served very rare, but a fattier cut needs to be more like medium to render the fat and make it tasty, otherwise the fat is just gross and raw and stringy, and no-one wants that.

(I also consider burnt crispy bits to be an important food group, but that's another story )

Sorry but that's just not true! Lean cuts like Filet are often stringy at rare temps (eg 125). They're by far more tender at medium rare (130-135) at which point most of those strings melt down. In my experience a lot of restaurants can't seem to get medium rare right, and often serve you rare steak if you order medium rare and then it's stringy. But that's just the restaurant being incompetent. Really almost all cuts of steak are most tender at medium rare, especially the most marbled ones like ribeye.

If you're referring to tough and fatty cuts like ribs, then yes they need to be taken slowly to a higher temperature (eg 200 deg), way beyond well done (155). That's because you have to melt down the tendons that would make the meat almost impossible to chew otherwise.

delaclos99

cs2thecox wrote: »

(I also consider burnt crispy bits to be an important food group, but that's another story )

Any relation to Sam Vimes?

Tried30UserNames

I don't think it's any healthier well done, but the flavor, texture and appearance are so much improved I can't fathom why anyone would eat a steak that wasn't well done.

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ritzvin

GemstoneofHeart wrote: »

Growing up my mom always ate raw hamburger meat. She would pick off bites before my dad would cook up burgers or whatever. She did it her whole life and she’s fine. It’s absolutely disgusting, but she’s fine.

My mother (and myself) too, usually with a bit of salt and pepper. (And yes, we knew/know it's a food poisoning risk, but so yummy.)

On steak, I order medium or medium-rare. Currently in an upper flat with no area for a grill, so haven't bought steak in a while (I wouldn't be able to do it justice on the stove). Haven't checked in a while, but Aldi's used to have pretty cheap 4-packs of sirloin steaks that were pretty decent if you marinated them for a few hours beforehand then tossed on the grill for a few minutes. I used to get them for dinner parties... we did have to leave one on always until shoe leather for one particular recurring guest. (I winced whenever I poked at that poor steak).

Alatariel75

delaclos99 wrote: »

cs2thecox wrote: »

(I also consider burnt crispy bits to be an important food group, but that's another story )

Any relation to Sam Vimes?

I *puffy heart* you so much right now.

Wynterbourne

Tried30UserNames wrote: »

I don't think it's any healthier well done, but the flavor, texture and appearance are so much improved I can't fathom why anyone would eat a steak that wasn't well done.

Yeah, because the experience of gnawing for an hour on dry shoe leather is so much more pleasant than gently biting through a buttery, moist, tender medium-rare steak. /s

I can't even...

Alatariel75

Wynterbourne wrote: »

Tried30UserNames wrote: »

I don't think it's any healthier well done, but the flavor, texture and appearance are so much improved I can't fathom why anyone would eat a steak that wasn't well done.

Yeah, because the experience of gnawing for an hour on dry shoe leather is so much more pleasant than gently biting through a buttery, moist, tender medium-rare steak. /s

I can't even...

Right? I thought I hated steak until I was in my late teens and working at a hotel, and at the end of the function the meals leftover for us to eat were all steak. I grabbed one because I was starved, and found out that lo and behold - I like steak, I just can't stand the way my family always cooked it well done. Well done steak is awful, so dry and chewy.

Tracie_Lord

definitely not good for anyones' head to make me a well done steak grrrrrrr

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TavistockToad

SAD STORY ALERT...

i ordered steak the other weekend, medium rare, when it came it was well done so went straight back to the kitchen... then the manager came over and told me it was the last piece of steak they had....