Well done steak12/18/2022 ![]() ![]() The reason is that the more you cook a steak (notice, we’re specifically talking about steak, not other tougher cuts of meat that require long cooking times, and cannot be pleasantly eaten medium-rare), not only are you tensing up the muscle fibers in the meat, making it more difficult to chew, but you’re also cooking/rendering more fat out of the meat, and fat is what helps give meat its flavor and juiciness. At worst, it would be more along the lines of a raised-eyebrow surprise: “huh… not what I thought it would taste like.” But more often than not, it would be closer to “oh damn! This is good!”, and I’d wind up converting people. In the cases where they actually would, I never got a reaction of “eew! This is gross!”, or “oh, that’s much worse!” or “yeah, the well-done shit is so much better!”. But I like to step out of my comfort zones as frequently as possible, and I actively encourage others to do the same I would always try to get people who’d been living that well-done life, to try a piece of medium-rare meat. I realize this was/is almost always due to the way it was cooked in the home in which they grew up, so that’s what was familiar to them, and it’s human nature to prefer what you know. This is a very valid question that has caused a lot of heated discussions, both in kitchens, and out of them, and I’d like to try to provide a little insight on the matter.įirst of all, I’ve met/worked with a lot of people (most of whom were young), who held the belief that overcooked steak tasted better, most of whom had never tried it cooked less than medium. ![]() ![]() Tags a man who cooks better dining experience breakfast food chef rant cooking at home cooking for a living cooking professionally cooking rant dining out egg tutorial fluffy rice home cook home cooking how not to burn pancakes how to cook a large piece of meat how to cook fish how to cook lamb how to cook professionally at home interviewing a chef Kitchen essentials knife skills lamb lamb chops living with a chef making tomato sauce meal prep meat perfect rice professional cooking at home professional kitchen rant restaurant life restaurant perfect rice salt and love scratch kitchen seasoning special dinner stocks sunday night meal sweet potato breakfast hash swordfish the process of cooking tips for cooking eggs tips on how to cook pancakes tomato sauce recipe top sirloin steak try it before you decide you don't like it unique dinner idea up your pancake game working in a professional kitchen Categories You’ll find my most recent post at the top, but if you scroll through the page and the site, you’ll find a number of different posts on a wide variety of topics related to both professional and home cooking. ![]()
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