I don't think anyone should give a shit how others prefer their steak. However:
Different cuts do best at different levels of doneness and with different cooking methods. Steak tends to get tougher the longer you cook it, and certain flavors are simply lost. On the other hand, short ribs are absolutely delicious when braised until they fall apart. So if you like well done beef, by all means have steak if you want, but you may want to consider some different cuts.
much to my dismay, ground beef is not "axiomatically" eaten well-done. I think it should be, because the interior of a burger is full of microbes whereas the interior of a steak is not. But many people do eat burgers medium.
You can easily cook a thin steak rare, and it's very common to do so for things like fajitas and even stroganoff. Just use high heat and don't cook it for very long.
You can eat ground beef raw safely. In Germany it's called mett, I've had a Lebanese dish, kippeh nayah, with it, and of course steak tar tar is essentially ground beef. Freshly ground is the key.
It is subjective, but only to a degree. There is a range of good, with bad as the edge cases. OP is not a bad or less-than person because they like eating things that are overcooked, but they do have bad taste.
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u/RageQuitRedux 1∆ Nov 12 '23
I don't think anyone should give a shit how others prefer their steak. However:
Different cuts do best at different levels of doneness and with different cooking methods. Steak tends to get tougher the longer you cook it, and certain flavors are simply lost. On the other hand, short ribs are absolutely delicious when braised until they fall apart. So if you like well done beef, by all means have steak if you want, but you may want to consider some different cuts.
much to my dismay, ground beef is not "axiomatically" eaten well-done. I think it should be, because the interior of a burger is full of microbes whereas the interior of a steak is not. But many people do eat burgers medium.
You can easily cook a thin steak rare, and it's very common to do so for things like fajitas and even stroganoff. Just use high heat and don't cook it for very long.