How do you like your steak cooked?

[netstrider]

More important is that it is seasoned with salt and pepper only.

 

[neoprema]

Medium-Well or Well Done.

If i wanted the animal raw i'd take a bite of it when it runs past...

 

[dadecoza]

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

It's ok, you can call out Spur here

jirre, at Spur I always order medium, it's like a coin toss whether it arrives over or under cooked so medium is just me playing the safest odds, I don't want medium, but I know I won't get medium anyway

It can even be well done as long as it's juicy.

it won't be ... unless it is swimming in sauce poured over after the fact, which also ruins any decent steak for me

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Medium well - well done. Dead.

Don't care what meat snobs think.

LOL @ meat snobs. Most get their knowledge from clowns on Youtube or TikTok.
Yes medium rare can be good if you use some excellent quality steak. Not really available in SA.
But here in SA the clowns all chew their medium rare Karan feedlot cheap steaks till their jaws go into spasm.
Its a lack of IQ. They feel like some primitive Neanderthal eating a bloody steak and beg for attention of people(mostly women) looking at you eating that bloody steak.
Medium to medium well is the best way to eat normal steak we all buy.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

use some excellent quality steak. Not really available in SA

sweet jesus, which parallel universe did you just teleport in from?!?

SA has some of the very best steaks, who the hell do you rate higher? ... and let's leave out the overhyped, overpriced wagyu nonsense, regular steak, who beats us?

USA, maybe, who else?

PS: I buy certified black angus, 100% grass-fed only, hormone free ... from a farm 10 minutes away ... not available in SA you say?

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

sweet jesus, which parallel universe did you just teleport in from?!?

SA has some of the very best steaks, who the hell do you rate higher? ... and let's leave out the overhyped, overpriced wagyu nonsense, regular steak, who beats us?

USA, maybe, who else?

PS: I buy certified black angus, 100% grass-fed only, hormone free ... from a farm 10 minutes away ... not available in SA you say?

No need to tell me the sales pitch you fell for.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

No need to tell me the sales pitch you fell for.

still waiting on your answer: which countries do you reckon produce these mythical quality steaks that put ours to shame?

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

I think you confusing steak for a woman

same thing ....

Point tho, is that a good steak at well done taste just as good as the same steak done medium.
Been there, done that, burned the t-shirt

 

[wizardofid]

still waiting on your answer: which countries do you reckon produce these mythical quality steaks that put ours to shame?

Lol seriously ?

These are just some of the top countries for steaks.
Argentina
Spain
Italy
Brazil
The Aussies
Even the UK have some breeds that would put our beef to shame here.
Canada

We generally have much hardier breeds here for the climate, and while we do have some of the more classy breeds, it isn't our major stock that services the supply chain in general.

Even with the more fancier breeds here, the overall quality is still worse than the countries mentioned above. Brazil and aussies don't have the highest quality overall, but they would still put our beef to shame.

 

[RedViking]

is that a good steak at well done taste just as good as the same steak done medium.

 

[RedViking]

Lol seriously ?

These are just some of the top countries for steaks.
Argentina
Spain
Italy
Brazil
The Aussies
Even the UK have some breeds that would put our beef to shame here.
Canada

We generally have much hardier breeds here for the climate, and while we do have some of the more classy breeds, it isn't our major stock that services the supply chain in general.

Even with the more fancier breeds here, the overall quality is still worse than the countries mentioned above. Brazil and aussies don't have the highest quality overall, but they would still put our beef to shame.

Which ones have you been to?

 

[wbot]

Heathen!

You shall no longer be allowed to eat any meat.

Not that I would want your undercooked meat, good sir! I only eat well cooked. No pulling out early for me thanks!

 

[Herr der Verboten]

How do you like your steak cooked?

Jesus. Philistines cooking stakes?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Lol seriously ?

yes seriously

These are just some of the top countries for steaks.
Argentina
Spain
Italy
Brazil
The Aussies
Even the UK have some breeds that would put our beef to shame here.
Canada

and have you tried all of those? I've had plenty of Argentina, Brazilian and Spanish steak, the stuff exported to Europe is sure as hell below ZA quality, perhaps one must travel all the way there to find better stuff. Spain I've had the good stuff in its home country: 100% NOT at our level, it's decent

let's not even talk about the complete trash UK tends to serve, Scotland is the only exception and goodness knows where to even find it, what's typically served in London is not that

Even with the more fancier breeds here, the overall quality is still worse than the countries mentioned above.

our locally produced Wagyu or Black Angus is below say Spain? don't be ridiculous!

Brazil and aussies don't have the highest quality overall, but they would still put our beef to shame.

Brazil definitely not, I have more than enough direct experience. Australia I'd highly doubt as well, similar climate at best and big damn desert at worst.

 

[wizardofid]

Which ones have you been to?

Why does it matter ?. It is general food theory and a bit of food history. The quality of the beef, is impacted by climate and diet.
Afrikaner the majority stock breed you will find here, is also the majority breed used for cross breeding.

While we have bonsmara, hereford, darkensberg, brahman, angus it isn't nearly as popular as the afrikaner there are one or two others as well, that is excluding milk cows.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

It is general food theory and a bit of food history

right, so all theory and no actual experience

it matters because that means your knowledge is frozen in time and can be readily discarded in the year 2026

you might as well say the Wright Brothers build the best plane nowadays

 

[Craig_]

Thread 'How do you take your steak?'

Nov 26, 2020

How do you like your steak done? Are you the rare type who like's it very "blue" or do you prefer a little more time on the grill? Or one step from the crematorium?

• bwana
• Replies: 208
• Forum: Food, Cooking and Recipes

I voted medium, but the medium in that photo is overdone. I also don't like a steak that was braai'd, it almost always too dry.

Sies! I don't eat other animals!

Some of us are more enlightened

Geez, this explains why you're always so fckng miserable Shaun, you need a lekker juice steak and a bacon and cheese burger. You will be a much better person for it as well. No one can survive on animal feed for his whole life.

More important is that it is seasoned with salt and pepper only.

Yes, and maybe a few pieces of whole garlic.

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

There have been hundreds of these Beef quality ratings done over the years, never seen SA beef feature there.
Yet all these ratings means nothing as our very own distinguished steak connoisseur knows everything and only his palate counts.

 

[wizardofid]

yes seriously


and have you tried all of those? I've had plenty of Argentina, Brazilian and Spanish steak, the stuff exported to Europe is sure as hell below ZA quality, perhaps one must travel all the way there to find better stuff. Spain I've had the good stuff in its home country: 100% NOT at our level, it's decent

Rubia Gallega... Exit thread.....really you going to moan about spain. lol. It is generally consider the best steak in world, and most prefer it over wagyu, and even consider it better than wagyu.

let's not even talk about the complete trash UK tends to serve, Scotland is the only exception and goodness knows where to even find it, what's typically served in London is not that


our locally produced Wagyu or Black Angus is below say Spain? don't be ridiculous!

Sigh, not all wagyu is created equal, we have different classificastion of wagyu raised in SA, while some are fullblood they are ranked according with F1, F2, F3 scales pending on crossing breeding. It is wagyu but it isn't even close to japanese wagyu or kobe.
There is countries outside of japan the produces way better wagyu in general than SA ever could.

Brazil definitely not, I have more than enough direct experience. Australia I'd highly doubt as well, similar climate at best and big damn desert at worst.

Australia wagyu outside of japan is pretty much the gold standard for wagyu.

Please keep talking out your ass.