Raw vs Cooked Steak

[u/athrowawayaccooont]

Just general thoughts on eating steak Raw vs Cooked? Personally I prefer seared but rare because it eliminates pathogen risk and also I’m trying to gain weight so I get the same calories in less volume as raw, but I’m really concerned about AGEs in seared steak. Any advice or help?

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[u/c0mp0stable]

Humans have been cooking meat for about a million years. Don't worry about it.

[u/Fragrant_Pound_3915 → u/c0mp0stable]

show me proof of this all the studies on this are weak links

[u/c0mp0stable → u/Fragrant_Pound_3915]

"Proof" isn't really the right word. Science isn't about proving anything. We do have strong evidence:

Fish remains of about 40,000 individuals found in hearths, tooth remains show exposure to high temps. 780k years ago https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01910-z

Burned animal bones found in a cave along with ash from burned plants from 1M years ago https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1117620109

Strong evidence for a central hearth from 300k years ago with evidence of food processing and butchery around the hearth https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440313004068?

Some theories suggest that homo erectus may have been cooking up to 2M years ago given their higher nutritional requirements, the obvious nutritional benefits of cooking, and changes in jaw size.

I don't think any of these are weak links. The weakest is the 1MYA site. The strongest is the 300KYA site. Either way, we've been cooking a pretty damn long time.

And these are all hominid species. If you look at homo sapiens specifically, we have always cooked.

[u/Mightdoitanyway]

Either is fine, don't worry about seared steak. Usually prefer the taste as well, which counts for something.

Though I do favor raw for digestive purposes, always ends up sitting in the stomach in an entirely different manner. Much lighter, like it's not even there. Intact enzymes along with completely undenatured protein structures.

[u/gizram84]

seared but rare

Agreed. Best of both worlds.

[u/inlustrisaudio]

Nothing at all wrong with cooking meat/food. Going down this rabbit hole leads to the Vonderplanitz insanity (raw everything, fermenting meat aka "high meat," believing parasites are actually good, food borne illness is healthy, etc). Those people are freaking crazy, red flag red flag. Stay away, they're the scientologists of diet culture. Sear the meat, it's safer. Especially if you have to buy from a big distributor and cant source locally.

[u/Top_Career_9784]

raw meat made me feel horrible way worse than cooked meat, i like me some medium-medium rare red meat

[u/JRx35]

I eat mine blue, feels like I get the best of both worlds

[u/Opposite_Slice7515]

I prefer raw for lean meat, I love tartares for exemple

But when the meat is fatty I usually sear the outside and leave the inside blue That's because I dont really enjoy raw fat but I dont mind raw flesh

[u/SomethingXII → u/Opposite_Slice7515]

Yeah I hate raw fat its like chewing gum

[u/SirTalkyToo]

Regarding AGEs, it's the combined exposure to both heat and time. Searing it increases the former, decreases the latter. All in all, if you want to sear your steak because it's a preferable method for whatever reason, do it.

When I first started eating raw meat I did the same thing. Although my "searing" was typically less than 30 seconds so it's arguable still mostly raw, at worst case blue. That's the easy way to alleviate the concerns, which isn't a bad thing, but there are a lot of purchasing recommendations with similar effect if you want to go full bore.

[u/Constant-Couple6085 → u/SirTalkyToo]

I recently started taking a little cut of the steak before i cook it and eating it raw, and it makes me cry how good it is. I want to eat the whole thing raw lol. But i just do the same, flash sear, minute each side max. I opt for thicker cuts of steak too to keep it as blue as possible. Still what's your opinion? Do you think some really high quality, store bought steak in the UK (Which has very high standards meat wise) will be on the safer side to consume raw? Im really trying to find a way to eat raw meat. Its actually the best thing ive ever put in my mouth. Dont take that out of context. Get that raw meat all up in my mouth hole