Grill levels

[Suicune Rider]

I like my meat medium-well, not rare but not totally burned either.

 

[jackatlasred]

I like it medium rare, cause it's just way better that way

 

[xXMelanie_HimeXx]

Generally I like it well done, but depending on what it is I may prefer medium-well.

 

[PaulTheProtist]

I like it medium rare, tender and juicy but not raw.

 

[Felly]

Well done here. It's what I was raised on. xD

 

[Zkat]

I like my meat medium-rare. :drool: The only exception to that is burgers, which I prefer well done.

 

[Alolan Ninetales]

I love Medium-well or Medium-rare for steaks, but everything else has to be well done.

 

[Olive]

Well done to the point of being burnt.

I just can't deal with the taste of blood, and I've sent back many a steak for that reason.

 

[xXMelanie_HimeXx]

Well done to the point of being burnt.

I just can't deal with the taste of blood, and I've sent back many a steak for that reason.

Once ordered a well done steak and the waiter thought that I was crazy.

I don't understand why it's considered so weird for us to like our meat well done!

 

[Hector]

Rare / Medium rare (although I certainly will not be talked out of a good steak tartare either)

To answer the above poster's question, it's because... and I'm trying to find a way to say this delicately... ordering a steak well-done is almost like an insult to the chef. Specifically the quality of the meat that they're providing. Because cooking a steak that long removes so much of the juice / flavor / texture from the meat, ordering a steak anywhere above medium rare in a decent restaurant is like going into the kitchen and slapping the chef across the face. Basically it's saying that you don't trust the chef to cook the beef properly and you don't trust the quality of the product.

Now I'm not saying you can't like your steak well done (hey you like what you like), but that's why anyone who's ever worked in a kitchen will look at you like you have three heads if you order a steak well done (and if you're at a place where you are ordering it well done so you don't get food poisoning because it's a sketchy place... well you shouldn't order a steak from that place!)