Why does steak snobs hate well done?

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[Jonathan Sensei]

Escrito originalmente por Red Monk:

Escrito originalmente por Coffinmaw:

It's the most thoroughly cooked way of having steak. Where as rare is the least thoroughly cooked way of having steak. The problem people have with well done steaks is because the meat is often very tough to chew and very dry. It also has a lack of flavor too.

The joke was lost on you.

I'm a simple forum user. I see a question, I answer it.

[psychotron666]

Because it ruins the steak and turns it into a dried tasteless piece of meat instead of a juicy bloody piece of meat with lots of flavour.

[Ves]

I like a little bit of pink inside

[Radene]

As a steak snob, I will say there is no "well done steak", only "oh my god what have you done to that steak".

But I still hang out with steak non-snobs and if I get an "oh my god" steak I will still eat it without complaints.

I'm a medium rare steaker in general tho.

[KarasuDesu]

Because the rarer the steak the tastier it is.
Then again there are people that prefer it well done, so I dunno

[Lusus Symphonia]

Escrito originalmente por Radene:

As a steak snob, I will say there is no "well done steak", only "oh my god what have you done to that steak".

But I still hang out with steak non-snobs and if I get an "oh my god" steak I will still eat it without complaints.

I'm a medium rare steaker in general tho.

I see you're a man of sophisticated taste like myself, although if my steak turned up looking like a leather wallet, I will ask for another, I do not eat peasant food.

On a serious note, I have heard waiters over cook steaks on purpose because if you refuse to eat it, they can eat it in the kitchen whereas if your steak was under cooked, they can easily put it back on the grill.

[birdbird]

It’s not just steak snobs, nobody likes a well done steak. It just becomes a tough, rubbery, tasteless slab of meat that has no right to call itself food.

[Y_u_no_come]

Because you can burn steak and buy it at a cheap place for $6. Why spend $50 on burnt steak? You can't really judge the meat on burnt steak because literally all burnt well done steak literally tastes the same. If you try medium rare at 2 different restaraunts one cheap one expensive, you can taste the difference in quality especially how the chef prepares with either too much salt or any spices at all.

To be on the very far spectrum to look at this, you should look at fish in a similar light. Grilled fish at any establishment tastes similar if not the same unless the spices are different, but even so the meat on the inside all tastes the same. Then take sashimi and try it at both a cheap place and an expensive one. Hint: you'll taste freezer burn from the cheap place, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have tasted the freezer burn on grilled fish.

[Radene]

Escrito originalmente por Y_u_no_come:

Because you can burn steak and buy it at a cheap place for $6. Why spend $50 on burnt steak? You can't really judge the meat on burnt steak because literally all burnt well done steak literally tastes the same. If you try medium rare at 2 different restaraunts one cheap one expensive, you can taste the difference in quality especially how the chef prepares with either too much salt or any spices at all.

To be on the very far spectrum to look at this, you should look at fish in a similar light. Grilled fish at any establishment tastes similar if not the same unless the spices are different, but even so the meat on the inside all tastes the same. Then take sashimi and try it at both a cheap place and an expensive one. Hint: you'll taste freezer burn from the cheap place, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have tasted the freezer burn on grilled fish.

Hey hey hey now, 50 bucks for a steak? That's usury.

[laff]

Most people can't do well done right, a well done steak should still be juicy and flavorful.

[John The Butcher]

Well done is fine if the steak is ♥♥♥♥, but if it isn't ♥♥♥♥ then it's a waste to cook it well done

[Chuuya Nakahara]

Depends on the place.
Some places well done steaks are still juicy while others are dry and burnt.

I could care less if they gave me a rare steak when I asked for well done. It's not like they charge me on how it is cooked.

[:Radithol]

Escrito originalmente por laff:

Most people can't do well done right, a well done steak should still be juicy and flavorful.

There may be a little truth in that if you start with a really good cut. But, you have likely turned what could have been a 9 or 10 into a 3 or 4.

[saranacX]

I don't know what a restaurant gets for a well done filet, but it should be 5 to 10 years. =)

[laff]

Escrito originalmente por :Radithol:

Escrito originalmente por laff:

Most people can't do well done right, a well done steak should still be juicy and flavorful.

There may be a little truth in that if you start with a really good cut. But, you have likely turned what could have been a 9 or 10 into a 3 or 4.

Learn to cook.