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[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\"." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces.", ">\n\nI hated steak growing up. My parents torched it. A friend of mine invited me for steak his parents were making and I tried to politely decline.\n\"What do you mean you don't like steak?\"\n\"How do you eat your steak?\"\n\"What do you mean you've never heard of medium rare?!?!\"\nNeedless to say I am thankful someone told me how to enjoy a steak" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces.", ">\n\nI hated steak growing up. My parents torched it. A friend of mine invited me for steak his parents were making and I tried to politely decline.\n\"What do you mean you don't like steak?\"\n\"How do you eat your steak?\"\n\"What do you mean you've never heard of medium rare?!?!\"\nNeedless to say I am thankful someone told me how to enjoy a steak", ">\n\nIt‘s either medium rare or war" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces.", ">\n\nI hated steak growing up. My parents torched it. A friend of mine invited me for steak his parents were making and I tried to politely decline.\n\"What do you mean you don't like steak?\"\n\"How do you eat your steak?\"\n\"What do you mean you've never heard of medium rare?!?!\"\nNeedless to say I am thankful someone told me how to enjoy a steak", ">\n\nIt‘s either medium rare or war", ">\n\nThat horribly cooked steak wouldn’t be well done, but more like congratulations" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces.", ">\n\nI hated steak growing up. My parents torched it. A friend of mine invited me for steak his parents were making and I tried to politely decline.\n\"What do you mean you don't like steak?\"\n\"How do you eat your steak?\"\n\"What do you mean you've never heard of medium rare?!?!\"\nNeedless to say I am thankful someone told me how to enjoy a steak", ">\n\nIt‘s either medium rare or war", ">\n\nThat horribly cooked steak wouldn’t be well done, but more like congratulations", ">\n\nWell, then I assume you’ll like even less being called a bloodsucking vampire for even eating meat to begin with." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces.", ">\n\nI hated steak growing up. My parents torched it. A friend of mine invited me for steak his parents were making and I tried to politely decline.\n\"What do you mean you don't like steak?\"\n\"How do you eat your steak?\"\n\"What do you mean you've never heard of medium rare?!?!\"\nNeedless to say I am thankful someone told me how to enjoy a steak", ">\n\nIt‘s either medium rare or war", ">\n\nThat horribly cooked steak wouldn’t be well done, but more like congratulations", ">\n\nWell, then I assume you’ll like even less being called a bloodsucking vampire for even eating meat to begin with.", ">\n\nStop burning them like a neanderthal who just discovered fire and we won't HAVE to tell you." ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces.", ">\n\nI hated steak growing up. My parents torched it. A friend of mine invited me for steak his parents were making and I tried to politely decline.\n\"What do you mean you don't like steak?\"\n\"How do you eat your steak?\"\n\"What do you mean you've never heard of medium rare?!?!\"\nNeedless to say I am thankful someone told me how to enjoy a steak", ">\n\nIt‘s either medium rare or war", ">\n\nThat horribly cooked steak wouldn’t be well done, but more like congratulations", ">\n\nWell, then I assume you’ll like even less being called a bloodsucking vampire for even eating meat to begin with.", ">\n\nStop burning them like a neanderthal who just discovered fire and we won't HAVE to tell you.", ">\n\nPost this in r/KitchenConfidential and see how that goes" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces.", ">\n\nI hated steak growing up. My parents torched it. A friend of mine invited me for steak his parents were making and I tried to politely decline.\n\"What do you mean you don't like steak?\"\n\"How do you eat your steak?\"\n\"What do you mean you've never heard of medium rare?!?!\"\nNeedless to say I am thankful someone told me how to enjoy a steak", ">\n\nIt‘s either medium rare or war", ">\n\nThat horribly cooked steak wouldn’t be well done, but more like congratulations", ">\n\nWell, then I assume you’ll like even less being called a bloodsucking vampire for even eating meat to begin with.", ">\n\nStop burning them like a neanderthal who just discovered fire and we won't HAVE to tell you.", ">\n\nPost this in r/KitchenConfidential and see how that goes", ">\n\nFeel free to share it" ]

[ "I used to hate steak. My parents always ordered theirs well or medium-well.\nThen I tried medium-rare.\nSteak has been one of my favorites ever since.", ">\n\nI personally prefer medium well. It's a balance of tenderness and toughness I enjoy. Plus I use steak sauce so taste is good either way to me. So my reason for preferring it is texture alone. Also medium well isn't dry if prepared correctly.", ">\n\nHey! I see you're getting downvoted. Probably because you prefer medium well and use streak sauce. Well, I actually prefer medium, but I use steak sauce too! Maybe I can take some of those downvotes off your hands.", ">\n\nSoliciting downvotes is the best way to get none at all.", ">\n\nI got his ass", ">\n\ngay", ">\n\nI agree. I love steak, and eating it medium-rare. Well-done steak just isn't nearly as good, but if it's what someone likes, that's their choice and I really don't care what others eat. It's not my business", ">\n\nIf they truly like it that way, then sure. \nHowever, I honestly think it is more common to THINK you like well-done steak than to actually like it.\nMany people either have just always had it like that, have some neuroses about the color, etc, but would probably fail a blind taste test.", ">\n\nNo, I don't THINK I like my steak well done - I like it well done. Ffs, why is it so hard to believe people don't want to eat raw, bloody meat?", ">\n\nYou very well might. It's just not the more common of the 2 scenarios imo.\nIt's a fact of chemistry that meat loses flavor and becomes less tender if you overcook it. \nSo people who have to prefer less steak flavor and prefer it more chewy, for one reason or another.\nThat just can't be that common", ">\n\nwell done does not equal overcooked LOL", ">\n\nFine, replace overcooked with well-done if you need that.\nIt's a fact of chemistry is meat has less steak flavor and is less tender when it is \"well-done\" as opposed to medium or medium-rare.\nIt's theoretically possible to prefer less flavor and less tender, but it can't be common.", ">\n\nLol, I will never understand why people are so invested in how someone likes their steak. \nI've eaten medium rare, medium, and well-done steak, and well-done has plenty of flavour and it's neither tough nor chewy, if it's actually well done and not \"congratulations\" level.\nIn any case, people like what they like, and there may be more people liking well-done steaks than you think :)", ">\n\nI don't eat steak very often (maybe once every few years) and I will only eat it well done. \nI don't order it in a restaurant and usually eat it at someone's home where that is on the menu for the meal. \nAlways tasted fine to me.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nMy general philosophy is, let people do whatever the fuck they wanna do unless it is tangibly harming me. Lots of things bother me, lots of things make me uncomfortable, but guess what, that’s my own damn problem and I keep it to myself. Too many people think it’s their job to care about other people’s business and make a fuss over every stupid little thing. And frankly, that’s so much more annoying than some trivial personal choice or preference, like enjoying your steak well done. Just worry about yourself ffs.\n^(Disclaimer: I like my steak rare)", ">\n\nPreach. This is the only answer", ">\n\nSpoken like someone who eats well done steak 🥩", ">\n\nProbably with ketchup.", ">\n\nMmmm mmm nothin sets off the flavor of a steak like some ketchup", ">\n\nWell hell, get a diet coke. It's our anniversary.", ">\n\nBut dad, what If someone wants their well done?\nWe politely, yet firmly, ask them leave", ">\n\n\nsub-human pretending to be a waiter, to go fuck themselves\n\nThis is why you get bad service in restaurants", ">\n\nI generally dislike when people comment on food on other people plates. Listen, I went through a process when selecting my food, let me enjoy my meal. I don’t need your (often very detailed) opinion on what you like and don’t like. I am an not making you eat it. Enjoy the food you selected and leave mine alone.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others how to enjoy their food in general, need to fuck off", ">\n\nunless they enjoy their chicken medium rare", ">\n\nIt's rare for that to happen", ">\n\nRare (°_°)", ">\n\n'elitism' about steak or any food is moronic and childish anyway. I agree, let people enjoy their food the way they like it. I don't cry about you not liking a specific veggie or only eating chicken breasts.\nLook at your own plate.", ">\n\nTotally! 👍", ">\n\nI too, am not fond of those who are snotty with how others eat their food", ">\n\nYeah. But I admit that if I'd gone out and picked up some $50 a pound prime dry aged rib eyes to cook for guests, I'd have a hard time cooking one well done for someone. It'd be like opening a bottle of Chateau Latour and watching a guest pour it over ice and Sprite. He may like it that way, but what a fucking waste.", ">\n\nIf you are serving ribeye rare, a fatty cut with the fat completely unrendered, you need to stop serving ribeye and instead serve filet mignon or other lean cut.", ">\n\nWhy? Nothing wrong with a nice filet, love those. But a bone in dry aged ribeye is one of the most decadent steaks you can buy. Why would I not want to make those?", ">\n\nThe argument is that if you're going to cook a steak rare, you might as well make it a filet instead of a ribeye since filet doesn't have much fat to render down unlike ribeye which has a lot. Cooking a steak rare doesn't allow a lot of time for the fat to render so a rare ribeye may have a lot of uncooked fat on it.", ">\n\nOK, I cook it to medium rare, not rare. A truly rare ribeye would be a little jell-like. But medium rare is just dandy, thank you very much. No thank you on the medium. But yes, a rare filet would be grand.", ">\n\nI have a rule where I don't tell anyone what they should enjoy or not like. Why is it my business'. \nHowever, I'm not giving you some prime cut I just paid top dollar for if you want it well done, bring your own or its discount sirloin from the freezer for you", ">\n\nExactly. You can burn it if you want but don't waste a good steak. Just get a cheapo because you're ruining it anyways", ">\n\nMy mom used to make well done steaks when I was growing up because she was very paranoid of getting sick from the meat. While I do prefer medium rare to rare these days, those well done steaks were definitely nowhere close to dry. Still very good. The hate is overblown because people think well done steaks all look and taste like the Sahara because they have never tried it and have just been conditioned to hate it by social media and dads.\nI bet those same people don't freak out when their steak in burritos is well done, which it almost always is.", ">\n\nMy mom made well done steaks and pork chops just because I think she didn’t really know how to cook them. She’s great at poultry, soups, sides, etc but she cannot do pork chops or steak. I didn’t really like pork chops or steak growing up because they were always so try and chewy. I’ve personally never had a good well done steak. They’re never as good as medium rare. But that could also be my personal preference. Most people just over cook and dry out steaks to get well done ones. Which is where the hate comes from. But I’d never shit on someone for wanting a well done steak or pork chop because hey they’re eating it, not me.", ">\n\nPork, like chicken, should be fully cooked to prevent illnesses. Beef can be blue because the same bacteria doesn't exist within the meat, and as long as its fully seared on the outside it is fine to eat. There is a specific word for this, but it's late, I've been drinking, and I won't remember for at least 4 hours. \nSome steaks, like a rump steak, are OK to cook to well done if you know what you're doing, but some steaks are better eating when they are less well done. For example, if you want a well done fillet, just order the chicken.\nSource: I am a chef", ">\n\nIf you're a chef you should know you can cook pork to medium (145).", ">\n\nYeah, if this guy is a chef and cooking his pork to 165, I hope I never end up in that restaurant.", ">\n\nAs a chef people who say well done is “well fucked” are just lazy. You can cook a nice well done steak it’s just most chefs just burn the fuck out of it. Get yourself a meat thermometer people!!\nThe one that does it for me is people ordering cuts like a rump blue, and then complain it’s chewy.", ">\n\nThis is such an important point that is lost on so many people. It’s all about the cut, I don’t understand why people decide to build their entire persona around “I WANT IT STILL MOOING” regardless of what they are ordering.", ">\n\nI can't believe this is unpopular but it is. If I want to roast my food into oblivion, let me. People have done worse things and I'm literally not harming you in any way.", ">\n\n💯…btw nice username! 👌👍", ">\n\nI don't think I will ever eat steak \"The Way Its Meant To Be Eaten\"\nI mean, I've puked because I've made toast and it was more bread than toast\njust the thought and/or looks of something not cooked completely will make me nauseous\nnot to mention meat thats pink in the middle", ">\n\nHonestly this goes for every food take, if someone likes pineapple on pizza let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different salad dressing to you let them enjoy it, if someone likes a different type of sauce on wings let them enjoy it, etc", ">\n\nThis applies to soooo many things", ">\n\nPeople like to get more and more elitist. Right now you get shunned for using A1, in a couple years they’ll be saying “real steak enthusiasts don’t use salt and pepper on their steaks”", ">\n\nTell me you’re a freak that destroys steaks without telling me you’re a freak that destroys steaks.", ">\n\nHahahahah 😂", ">\n\ntotally get that\nbeing told what to eat is just.. I can't explain it, but it's especially more insidious than other criticisms, even though I take the steak debate as light-hearted ribbing.\nI have issues with eating due to near starvation in my early life, had a roommate who made fun of me having to eat fruit with sugar and whipped cream. couldn't stand heavier things in my stomach but always desperate for calories/energy so it was really the only way to get vitamins in me. too shy at that point to tell her to fuck off but for some reason I've been thinking about it lately. unsaid words fucking torture me lol", ">\n\nI'm definitely that one person that says that if your steak was any rarer, the cow would kick you in the mouth. I think i should stop", ">\n\nI like my steak blue-rare. Any less cooked and it'd still be mooing.", ">\n\nWell i like steak well cooked, any more cooked and it turns into a paste", ">\n\nI couldn't agree more. Fuck people who tell others how to fucking enjoy their food.\n(I made a similar post a few days ago and was removed by the moderators. Good luck while it lasts!)", ">\n\n❤️", ">\n\nYeah, this is another thing that is specific only in 'merica, the land of the free, where if you don't like your meat still half alive you must be an outcast.", ">\n\nyeah not an ‘american’ thing, nerd. ever hear of beef tartare?", ">\n\nOf course I have, but you're comparing two completely different things. Wanna know why ? Because Tartare is a delicacy that you might or might not try, while the whole shit with \"it must be rare to be good\" is imposed on everyone, aggressively.", ">\n\nMy girlfriend always orders a fattier steak and gets it well done. We eat out all the time and frequent steak houses. Half the time the steak comes out medium. She simply doesn’t eat it and just eats the sides. I don’t know why cooks are so offended that they won’t serve the steak as ordered. If it’s such a problem, don’t make it an option, simple as that. As the op said, grow up, it just a fucking steak.", ">\n\nI never order steak anymore at restaurants. I've had that problem in the past and sent it back until they cooked it to my specifications. I am the one paying for and eating it.\nI only eat it if invited to someone's home where the cooking has never been an issue.", ">\n\nAccording to Masterchef, it’s much more difficult to pull off a good well done steak than a rare one, so I have a theory that one day all the chefs in the world had a conference call and decided to tell everybody that if you want your steak well done it means you have a little willy.", ">\n\nThis post sure made a lot of people angry. Reddit moment.", ">\n\nAgreed! I like a well done steak, and when we are at a restaurant, someone always has to chime in the waiter - \"Make it look like shoe leather \" ect. I like it well done, not burnt to a crisp, with a good steak even well done is tender and delicious!", ">\n\nYes, exactly my point!", ">\n\nSlop ‘em up boys!", ">", ">\n\n“They'd say, 'No sloppy steaks,' but they can't stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!”", ">\n\nI used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, live for New Year’s Eve, judge people for their preferred method of eating steak..", ">\n\nHonestly I rarely eat beef anymore. And when I do, it’s a minor part of a bigger dish. I’ll never understand the culture surrounding steak. That said as long as it’s tender and not dry, it really comes down to taste. It’s wild that this is unpopular but here we are.", ">\n\nAgreed. Why judge preferences if no one is getting hurt? If someone wants to order a $50 filet mignon butterflied, cooked well, and served with a side of ketchup, why do I care?", ">\n\nFinally a good fucking opinion on this sub", ">\n\nI agree. I eat my steak medium rare, but I don't give a French fried titty fuck if someone wants it rare or wants it cremated. I just want someone to enjoy the meal I prepared them.", ">\n\nI like my steak wrapped up in a tortilla with chilis and salsa.", ">\n\nMy dad told me about a time when he and some workmates went for a night out at an expensive Argentinian restaurant in London, paid for by the company. He ordered his steak well done and the chef came out and told him he refused to cook such an incredible piece of meat well done, and that he would cook it how he recommended and if my dad didn't enjoy it the whole party would eat for free. He said it was the most incredible steak he's ever eaten.", ">\n\nFound the person who likes their steak well done 🤢", ">\n\nI used to hate steak because I always had it like my father had it...\nWell done.\nDisgusting, mid-rare is the best.", ">\n\nIf you're not bitting directly into a cow, you're doing it wrong", ">\n\nFound the well done guy", ">\n\nI like my steak well done and it is so annoying when people give me crap for it, especially if it's the waiter recommending not to get well done. What? Can't the chef do it properly? I can confirm that some can not. It takes some skill to get it right but it can be done. Also, I don't like tapeworm or food poisoning so well done it is. I don't trust our meat enough to eat it rare.", ">\n\nGood point, but who the fuck voluntarily eats rubber?", ">\n\nIf your well done steak is rubbery then you don't know how to cook", ">\n\nJesus\nIt's like EVERYBODY here has read the post about that guy that flipped his shit because one of his guests wanted a well done Wagyu. Literally every other comment is describing a situation almost identical to that post.\nI agree with OP. If you get irrationally upset or shun people for eating food the way they want to eat it, you are part of a weird food cult.\nI personally think if you've never had a well done steak you enjoyed, you've never had a well done steak cooked by a chef who knows what they're doing.\nMy father is a fucking drug addicted engineer who freelances car maintenance for a living. The few times he has cooked steak for me, he always cooks it well done, and its fucking delicious. Yes it is hard. Yes it is chewy. But it is also delicious. The last time he cooked steak for me, it wasn't even a proper steak. It was some random bits of meat he fucking cut from a beef roast.", ">\n\nDifferent cuts of meat do “better” at different temperatures. What determines “better” is fairly subjective, but there is a range that —if missed— results in a bad steak.", ">\n\nMedium Well >>>> medium rare", ">\n\nIt's okay if you like it overcooked, but if I'm going to spend my money on a relatively expensive cut, I'm not turning it into the consistency of a boot.", ">\n\nTell me you like your steak well done without telling me you like your steak well done", ">\n\nYou can eat your steak how you want, I’m still gonna make fun of you for eating the equivalent to a leather shoe if you want it well done.", ">\n\nExactly, people cannot handle a bit of banter these days. Everything is seen as a personal attack when it’s just a bit of gentle ball busting.", ">\n\nThe down votes prove you are right.", ">\n\nBecause steak is juciest and tastiest when cooked rare/medium rare. \nAny chef will tell you this. \nThose that eat well done steak are wrong and have been eating it incorrectly.", ">\n\nBecause paying $200 to eat a hockey puck with ketchup is just weird.", ">\n\nThat a bad chef not a bad meal also are you paying for it or eating it. Of not why do you care", ">\n\nSteak is overrated anyway.", ">\n\nDry aged ribeye. I cook it medium rare. If you want well done I’ve got some cheaper steak for that", ">\n\nThat's not a rare opinion. I'm no medium, but I think most people only say harsh things about this in jest. Otherwise they're not well. Done.", ">\n\ni well it can be shocking for some people. if we went out to dinner together and i whipped out a bib and put it around my neck and asked for the \"kids chicken tendies \" i would hope you would make a comment to me about that. same thing", ">\n\nNo one actually cares. They just want to help and are giving you a hard time.\nNo one blames you for turning out the way you did. We blame your parents.", ">\n\nno it’s actually funny cause my friend will shake the table trying to cut through her well done hockey puck and i make fun of her for it every time", ">\n\nOP is probably annoyed because his jaw hurts so much from all that much chewing.", ">\n\nIf you eat steak well done, you’re wrong. \nCope.", ">\n\nwe get it you eat bad overcooked steak", ">\n\nNot if you come to my house for dinner and you ask me to cook it well-done. I’m not gonna turn a fifteen dollar prime ribeye steak into a goddamn hockey puck.", ">\n\nHere’s my unpopular opinion, I refuse to buy an expensive cut a meat just to turn around and burn it for someone.", ">\n\nThose of us who call only just about medium rare 'overcooked' get this as well, I feel your pain. Sadly I don't trust many places to cook it bleu near where i live, so I just have to say 'very rare.'", ">\n\nThis is a 'well-done' take if I have ever seen one.", ">\n\nI dont care for the most part, but if you're ordering a really good cut of steak and asking for it well done? That's a waste of your money and the steak.\nAsking for things like a Fillet Mignon or a nice Wagyu steak to be cooked Well Done is not only destroying the integrity of the steak, but also the flavor and is an overall waste of money.\nYou do you, but I'll 1000% judge you if you're ordering really nice cuts anything between medium well to Well Done.", ">\n\nI don’t tell people how to enjoy their steak. I will however judge you for it. An animal dies so you can taste it and you’ve just made it take like a leather boot.", ">\n\nOP likes their steak cut up for them and then flown towards their open mouth, here comes the airplane style", ">\n\nReal", ">\n\nOne of the nastiest things I ate was medium steak. It tasted like blood, which every bite there was more of it pouring out and basically my whole plate was covered in nasty juices.", ">\n\nIt’s not blood you dummy. It’s called flavor. All the blood is drained at slaughter. You clearly don’t know what your talking about", ">\n\nI don't know, so they add something to my steak ? This flavor", ">\n\nIt's myoglobin. It contains iron which gives the meat the color even if it's drained of blood. \nActual straight up blood tastes coppery. You would be able to tell right away. \nOf course, some people could also be especially sensitive to particular flavors and smells.", ">\n\nI’ve tasted blood. It’s bland you would not know your having blood unlees you see it or ar told its blood", ">\n\nBland, what the hell are you talking about? Blood has a very strong and distinct flavor and smell.", ">\n\nIf you're this bothered by people voicing opinions on food then you must have really thin skin. Eat your food however you want, but most people would agree that well done steaks absolutely suck lol.", ">\n\nIt’s not about having thin skin, it’s about people not minding their own and sticking their nose in everything. \nSteak aside, life in general would be way more peaceful and all around better for many individuals if people would just stick to themselves and mind their own business lol.", ">\n\nExcept it's the well done people who start a lot of it by going \"EWWW BLOOD!\"\nSaying things like that invites a response. Can't whine about the response when it's invited. I have no issue with people who just say they prefer well done because medium rare is too undercooked for their tastes.\nIn the same vein, commenting on someone's steak and calling it overcooked shoe leather without being asked also will prompt a response. It's about who started it. If they start it, they shouldn't whine when the other side responds.", ">\n\nI agree. As someone with sensory issues with food texture... medium well or medium is fine for me. I like pink just not raw. The texture of anything cooked less than medium is too soft and almost jelly like to me. Ive always been that way. Texture is a hard thing to get over", ">\n\nAs a chef, I can give you multiple reasons why it kills the steak. But as a human being I'm all for people having different palette's and enjoyment in food. So I will cook a Beef steak well done if it is requested.\nHowever as a human chef,I can neither abide or condone the cooking of a venison steak well done. No matter what your preference is, a venison steak cooked anything past medium rare will make it dry and tough like rubber. You not gonna have a good time,you gonna hate it and I have told this to many people and cooked it to that request and got the comment back as I explained it will happen. So now I don't, won't and cannot cook venison steak like that anymore. You want it like that,you buy it in the shop and cook It at home. I recommend chicken if that is how you want venison cooked. \nThat can actually be applied to many game meats too,your best bet if you don't like medium rare or below game meats is to then just stew it or something. \nWill I make a comment about how stupid your being no. You do you. But if I'm the one cooking then I will recommend something else, and refuse to cook that for you.", ">\n\nI have a feeling OP eats his steaks well done with ketchup.", ">\n\nEd Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup…I like to keep it fancy at least!", ">\n\nI don’t think this is unpopular (I hope lol)", ">\n\nDon't look at this comment section if you want to keep your blissful ignorance. Most of these comments are just straight-up attacking OP for not sharing their exact tastes.", ">\n\nLmfaooooo, that’s crazy. I know people are passionate about how they eat their meat but that’s wild… guess I share the same unpopular opinion", ">\n\nI think the only unforgivable sin of eating steak is using Ketchup.", ">\n\nNah. Medium rare is king and you need to grow up if you disagree😤", ">\n\nCan’t argue with someone who eats well done steaks, they’re to busy chewing.", ">\n\nYou know who got the well done steak cause they’re shaking the whole table trying to cut it.", ">\n\nIt’s just such a waste of a piece of meat. Might as well go buy beef jerky…", ">\n\nI don’t mind people eating well done beef\nBut if you like your beef well done then you’re wasting a piece of meat that was not meant to be eaten that way\nThere are other cuts of beef that are meant to be eaten well done", ">\n\nI finally got my elderly mother to try steak rare. She'd broken an ankle, and after two years it had still not healed. She never eats steak because she orders it ultra well well well done. Therefore, she never liked it. Welp, she loves my rare steak. And her ankle healed. She needed the protein and amino acids to heal. She's able to walk again (with a walker) currently", ">\n\nI've always found there to be a correlation between people who aren't big fans of steak and people who prefer their steak cooked well-done.", ">\n\nThat is a very well done, shake the whole table tryong to cut it and chew a piece for 5 minutes opinion of you", ">\n\nTrump liked his steak well done and look at what happened to the turd.", ">\n\nThat and McDonald’s lol.", ">\n\nMost people who like well done steak just don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to steak. That’s why waiters at high end restaurants may even question your choice to have a well done steak.", ">\n\nAbsolutely correct.\nRefusing to eat a steak because it's not cooked to your exact specifications is the adult version of, \"white bread, in triangles, with the crusts cut off.\" Get over yourself. If anyone cooks you a steak, say thank you and eat it, even if it's not your super-duper favoritest way.", ">\n\nWhat if I paid a lot for it, do I still have to thank them\nAlso \n\nsay thank you and eat it\n\nIn that case this'll be me at the next family bbq", ">\n\nI believe they are talking about home cooked meals. If it's at a restaurant and you asked for medium rare and it comes back well done, definitely send it back. \nAlso if you bought some steak for a family gathering or something, complaining about your steak isn't going to accomplish anything. They can't uncook your steak. Cook it yourself next time if you want it a certain way.", ">\n\nYeah ngl i assumed that and was just being facetious, but in a stunning twist it turns out that no, they actually believe you should thank a restaurant for fucking up your order", ">\n\nAgreed.\nDon't see why people can't just silently think someone's a weirdo and then not share that thought with the person. *shrug*", ">\n\nI love steak, it is one of my favorite foods ever. I prefer it rare or medium rare. Well done lacks flavor compared to rare/medium rare and is harder to chew. I've had well done steak before(not burnt, as that isn't what well done is) and I definitely do not prefer it. Cooking steak where people want theirs rare/medium rare and somebody wants it well done is a pain in the ass.\n​\nBut that said, I really don't care if people eat well done. Some people are huge assholes about it and it's cringe, IMO. Like, one AITA post the OP and some commentators actually thought it was perfectly acceptable for the chef to cook their beef medium rare and ask their guests who want it well done to use the microwave. This was at thanksgiving dinner! Yikes!\n​\nUltimately, just let people enjoy whatever doneness they want. My mom's uncle used to eat his steaks cooked under super high heat for 5 seconds a side. I would never eat it that way, but I don't actually care that he eats something in a way I wouldn't.", ">\n\nOvercooked may be annoying, but under seasoned? Unacceptable. A steer gave its life for your dinner. Under salting is adding insult to injury.", ">\n\nEat it as you will.\nJust don’t put ketchup on it.", ">\n\nRed steak is more disgusting than well done.", ">\n\nFunnily enough, I've only ever had the reverse happen to me. I prefer my steak rare or medium rare, good quality steak of course. Cheaper cuts gets slathered in marinade and used for stir fry. \nThe amount of people who groan and make a fuss, telling me \"it's still mooing!\" \"Put it back on for a few more minutes!\" \"You must like the taste of blood\" or just straight up saying \"that's disgusting\" to my face when I order it. \nPeople get weirdly sensitive about steak, it's weird af and I'll never understand. Personally I think people ordering fancy steaks well done are fucking idiots who are wasting their money, but hey it's their money, go for it. \nThough, I will say, steak is one of those food items I'll never cook for a group of people. I'm not willing to waste money cooking a well done steak for a dinner guest.", ">\n\nI only eat well done steak, and I'm proud of it. Eating raw meat makes me think of wild animals. I'm no caveman, so well done only for me. Keep your judgement to yourself.", ">\n\nI agree, I LOVE a super well done steak, has to be all brown inside, preferably with some crisp on the edges. Salt and pepper to season. So many people judge but that's the way I enjoy it. Its the texture for me, hate the texture of anything under well done.", ">\n\nDude, just bring a ziploc of beefjerky to the restaurant if you're going to ruin a perfectly good steak like that.", ">\n\nStudies have shown people who prefer steak cooked well-done display sociopathic tendencies 90% more than people who prefer medium rare. \"Well-doners,\" as they are known, also have a higher rate of bed wetting, being a crybaby, and read on a remedial level. They are just awful people who belong behind bars.", ">\n\nPeople who tell others to grow the fuck up should eat a steak!", ">\n\nRare is the only way to eat a steak anything else I’ll just assume you’re a child with infant taste buds", ">\n\nI always assume people that eat their steak rare are Neanderthals recently escaped from their time frozen in ice…their time frozen starting before the invention of fire", ">\n\nFire scary", ">\n\npeople that cook their steak above medium should grow up. if you’re just going to burn it then why eat it at all?", ">\n\nI am guessing you are the type of person that goes to a sushi restaurant and orders a fried crab roll.", ">\n\nWho goes to a sushi restaurant for a crab roll? They are way cheaper at 7-11.", ">\n\nPeople who tell people who tell others how to enjoy their steak to grow the fuck up should grow the fuck up!", ">\n\nYou can over cook a lot of food, you wouldn’t eat anything else so over cooked it now inedible, why would you do it with your steak.", ">\n\nBecause tasty", ">\n\nThat's like saying, \"I like my chicken extra dry\".", ">\n\nI had some sort of beef dish at a friend's last week and it was practically mooing. Couldn't eat more than one slice. Thank God he also had chicken and fish", ">\n\nBecause it’s expensive and not great for you except on occasion, so why would you ruin it by burning out all that juicy goodness? Why would you wanna sit there and have to chew and chew forever until it’s a tasteless pulp just to get it down? \nLol I joke tho, I don’t really care that much.", ">\n\nEww who tf eats well done steak?", ">\n\nThis is something only someone who eats their steak well done would say. Indeed an unpopular opinion! (Also, OP, you should try rare steak, it’s great!)", ">\n\nI think people get upset with waste. If you take a nice cut of meat, and cook it well done, it becomes no different to a much more common and cheap cut of meat.\nIt's like buying a rare and expensive car, and deliberately destroying it.\nObviously it's yours, and you have the right to destroy your own property. But you can understand why someone might get upset by destroying something valuable.", ">\n\nYeah sure sure, but if you ask me to cook your steak well done I'll cook it on your head.", ">\n\nFound the person whose still chewing their dry leather shoe", ">\n\nI think it stems from the fact most of us when kids go \"ewww blood\" and want a well done steak always but as you grow and develop some nuts and relaise it aint blood you start to realise what you were missing out on. I ASSUME that others just havent tried it as a grown up yet. Juicy meat objectively tastes better than dry over cooked meat", ">\n\n\"Objectively tastes\" is an oxymoron.", ">\n\nI just work somewhere that refuses. We don't agree with making food poorly, so you're just not allowed it. If you want well done, you'll get the chicken or you'll leave. Enjoy your shit food elsewhere.", ">\n\nI agree, for home cooking. I’ve worked in restaurants for many years, and many high quality cuts of meat deteriorate in quality at well done to the point where even the most skilled chefs can’t completely eliminate any trace of pink while serving something palatable. I’ve worked with several chefs who will refuse a well-done request for a filet, because if it gets sent back, it’s like a $40 loss minimum for the restaurant.", ">\n\nTo be fair, well done steak is an abomination", ">\n\nBecause if you eat well done steak you’re fucking insane", ">\n\nYou're entitled to your wrong opinion", ">\n\nI mean if your into grey dry steak than you probably like your steak with ketchup on it and that’s okay we saved you a seat at the kids table.", ">\n\nNah bro who the fuck eats their steak well done?", ">\n\nEh, it's food etiquette. No different than the thousands of others etiquette/manners we have in society. \nLike when someone says \"thank you,\" you say \"you're welcome.\" \nIMO, it's one thing if you're cooking the steak for yourself in the company of your own home. \nBut it's kind of insulting to whoever is cooking it for you if you want it well done or with ketchup or with some other abomination. \nIt also makes me think less of you as a person.... I think people should experiment and expand beyond their comfort zones. Try new foods. Experience different cultures and ways of eating. \nThe same applies to Steak. And I have to wonder how many people who get their steak well done are simply picky eaters who are afraid to go out of their comfort zone.", ">\n\nNope.", ">\n\nRead it, and I was correct, lmfao.", ">\n\nEither eat your steak medium rare like a man or go eat grass like a bitch!", ">\n\nThe best steaks are cooked medium rare.\nThen, when cooled to room temperature, microwaved in 10 second increments until medium well, before the juices start boiling. A generous slice of butter on top will tell you when to hit the CANCEL button. If it starts to bubble, CANCEL, then another 10 seconds. Repeat until butter has melted completely\nServe with sour cream and a huge slice of cheddar cheese.\nEnjoy\nPar cooking is the way to go. Steak is better after it rests or sits. Cold or Tepid steak at a steakhouse is meh. I usually eat the potato and bring the steak home. Microwaves can reheat without overcooking. My penis has never grown from rare steak. I agree with OP.", ">\n\nBecause overcooking a steak reduces its flavor drastically.\nIt is like putting ice in beer or wine.\nOr watching a tv show by skipping around and viewing the episodes out of order\nOr playing a video game with a walkthrough guide.\nOr only traveling to other countries when you can stay at a resort then never leaving.\nYou aren’t experiencing the entire depth of the thing and that is a shame.", ">\n\nAll of those things you mentioned is a subjective interpretation of how to have fun or how to enjoy experiences. \nThe beer is Miller Lite and it tastes better cold then warm. \nIt’s a sketch show and every episode is it’s own story. \nI don’t want to spend 5 hours wandering around and over leveling thereby making the rest of the encounters way too easy. \nI just want to get away from the cold and I want to relax by the pool and just read my book. \nIn all of these, I enjoy what I’m doing to the depth that I want.", ">\n\nOne inch thick ‘berta beef top sirloin. Salt and pepper heavily. Grill at 400. Four minutes total. Flip each minute for the good grill marks. Let it rest for two minutes. Down the hatch.\nAnything more and yer just over handlin’ it and gonna get c-sucking socked good buddy.", ">\n\nBet you love that ‘Berta beef eh brah!? 😉😅 jk jk lol", ">\n\nOnly ‘berta beef!", ">\n\nBest province in the world buds!", ">\n\nBecause there’s a point where you need to give up and order chicken.", ">\n\nMy opinion is, if there’s no pink you’re a dink", ">\n\nBecause steak is a highly delicious meal that can be cooked wrong. And with wrong I mean anything but medium rare.", ">\n\nThen start eating your steak properly and you won't hear shit.", ">\n\nI can like A1 and the taste of the steak and want to combine them", ">\n\nAnyone gotta link to the bestof where the grillmaster describes how to do a great steak at any temperature?", ">\n\nOK then, the two dozen head of steer I am looking at on a grassy knoll above my home in CA plead with you: eat us pink and juicy, PLEASE don't ruin our succulent loins by burning them to a dead grey.\nI assume you like well done steak and you're doing some angries?\nBut honestly, the key here is recipe and quality of beef. Flap meat for tacos? Put a good sear/crust on it and I cook it 2x as long as a steak, and then wreck it with a cleaver and some lime juice.\nChoice steak: medium rare on the rare side.\nPrime: Rare.\nA5+ Wagyu: Blue or rare.", ">\n\nOP sounds like someone who microwaves their steak well-done and covers it in ketchup.", ">\n\nI used to eat mine well done until I decided to do medium it was great", ">\n\nOP likes steak well done, doused in ketchup or A1.", ">\n\nYou like your steak well done don’t you?", ">\n\nI’m not going to criticize you for eating a well done steak, although I wonder why you’re eating steak instead of another dish. It seems to me that you’re getting the downsides of cooking at high heat without the benefits. \nI will make comments if you insinuate that the standard isn’t rare or medium rare, or that those levels of doneness are “raw”.", ">\n\nIf you like your steak well done, just accept that you’re wrong and order chicken instead.", ">\n\nThere are two ways to eat a steak. Rare and wrong.", ">\n\nWe have found the ketchup on steak enjoyer.", ">\n\nIt's annoying that's true but very often people who only eat well done have never actually tried medium ,or even rare, but if they did try it and didn't like it then it's absolutely okay", ">\n\nI prefer my steaks sloppy", ">\n\nIt’s not the well done steak, it’s the A1 that makes the thing look like a murder scene that makes me judge you.", ">\n\nYes. That’s is all. No further Critiques.", ">\n\nAgreed, but with one exception: people who put ketchup on their steaks. \nMy sister does it and it drives me insane.", ">\n\nEat it how ever you want but we’ll done is like eating tree bark. Make sure you use motor oil to wash it down.", ">\n\nIf you like it well done then eat it well done. Whatever. If you cover it in ketchup or steak sauce I'm definitely judging you.", ">\n\nIt’s not that I care how one eats a steak, it basically disrespects the product. And honestly is it a waste of beef", ">\n\nI just read through a bunch of comments from Westerners telling a dude in Yakutia not to eat raw meat. \nLol go back to your Big Macs. Very much safer.", ">\n\nMy parents went to a really good restaurant once without knowing they’re famous for their steak. My mom ordered a well-done steak. The waiter asked her 2 times if she was sure and she said yes. \nThe chef ended up leaving the kitchen to meet this crazy person who wanted their steak well done lol and it turned into a whole thing", ">\n\nIt's a joke. Nobody actually cares.", ">\n\nI generally agree that people like what they like and should be able to eat it the way they like. Doesn’t mean it isn’t objectively wrong.\nI’m not gonna rag on you for eating it well done, but as I told my dad, once you hit medium, it just goes downhill from there. I eat mine medium to medium-rare. It depends on who’s cooking it. To me, when it’s undercooked, the fat hasn’t rendered and the meat hasn’t started breaking down. It also hasn’t tightened enough to be able to take a good bite and it’s chewy like bubblegum. As an example, if you need to dice up bacon for a recipe it’s super hard if it warms up. However, you can put it in the freezer for 15min and it’s firm enough to easily cut.\nOn the other side of that, as you continue to cook the meat, the flavor doesn’t change, but the consistency does. You’re loosing liquid. The theory of searing to seal in juice is crap. You get a solid crust, but it’s not a liquid impervious. The longer you cook it, the more liquid evaporates and the more the meat fibers tighten. Making it tougher.\nSo to get a proper steak, you have to firstly have a very good crust as that’s where the flavor comes from. After that, it’s about finding your ideal balance between cooked enough to loose the metallic taste and firmed up enough to bite as well as not over cooking and making it dry and tough. Sous vide and a serezall can really help with that.\nSo while you’re allowed to do whatever you want with your food, your wasting your money by doing certain things. A quality steak is an expensive piece of meat. If you want to well done and want to dump things like ketchup on top, your better off getting something like a hamburger steak as it’ll still be tender as it’s ground beef and it won’t have much flavor on its own, so it needs sauces.", ">\n\nI hated steak growing up. My parents torched it. A friend of mine invited me for steak his parents were making and I tried to politely decline.\n\"What do you mean you don't like steak?\"\n\"How do you eat your steak?\"\n\"What do you mean you've never heard of medium rare?!?!\"\nNeedless to say I am thankful someone told me how to enjoy a steak", ">\n\nIt‘s either medium rare or war", ">\n\nThat horribly cooked steak wouldn’t be well done, but more like congratulations", ">\n\nWell, then I assume you’ll like even less being called a bloodsucking vampire for even eating meat to begin with.", ">\n\nStop burning them like a neanderthal who just discovered fire and we won't HAVE to tell you.", ">\n\nPost this in r/KitchenConfidential and see how that goes", ">\n\nFeel free to share it", ">\n\nDone" ]