The majority of people surveyed like their steak cooked to THIS temperature...

[FireMan]

You pull out a thermapen in a restaurant………..
I think you need to get together with scottranda

[Old Glory]

I would love to do that lol.

[WillTravelForFood]

I envy your confidence.
I would be frisked before leaving the house to ensure that the Thermapen was NOT in my pocket if even attempted to try this once.


(that's why they make the ThermaPen keychain size, though. Shhhhhhhhh)

[bbqLuv]

Pittsburgh Rare, OK
When I order a steak at a restaurant I order by internal temperature. When I am served, I whip out my ThermaPen and sink it into the middle of the meat. At the same time, I inform the server that if it is off by more and 2 degrees I'm sending it back.
On another note, Have you ever been escorted out of a restaurant? That is one way to get free soup, salad, and a beverage.

[WillTravelForFood]

I ordered medium at a local Mexican restaurant since I didn't know exactly how they did it. It came out Pittsburgh Rare with a hint of rare in some parts. My dad said it looked like they cooked it about 1-2 seconds on each side. ZERO juice on the plate.

Thank you for saying "juice".

Watching one of the recent episodes of (Masterchef?) in the last week, I cringed when the judges complained about all the blood on the plate from a rare steak when they were expecting a medium rare temperature. Obviously, the judges are not familiar with Meathead's work

[Murdy]

Restaurants tend to undercook meat because you can always cook it some more if the customer says its not done enough, but you can't uncook it.

That said, I'm firmly in the rare camp, and if it comes out more towards Pittsburgh, as a Steeler fan, I am absolutely fine with that too.

[synodog]

This. I’ve had places run the gamut on medium which always makes me wonder. Even higher end places seem to vary, though not with as wide of degree.

[tbob4]

I have been ordering mine medium lately (at restaurants that typically serve steaks) because I have found that today’s medium is yesterday’s medium rare. I am scared of sending a steak back. I also trust my rare meat much more than a restaurant’s. So I guess I couldn’t answer the poll question without a caveat.

[Troutman]

I think I just heard FireMan request an AR Pit survey. Survey says ????

[Jerod Broussard]

I ordered medium at a local Mexican restaurant since I didn't know exactly how they did it. It came out Pittsburgh Rare with a hint of rare in some parts. My dad said it looked like they cooked it about 1-2 seconds on each side. ZERO juice on the plate.

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

I'm actually surprised. When I was turning steaks at a restaurant at least half of my orders were med or med well, very few well done or blue requests and the rest med rare

[WillTravelForFood]

The food website MASHED surveyed 55,000 people "worldwide" on the question "of all the ways to order your steak, which one is the best?" and published their answer yesterday

The choices:

• rare
• medium-rare
• medium
• medium-well
• well-done

The results:

• 6% selected RARE
• 47% selected MEDIUM RARE
• 22% selected MEDIUM
• 14% selected MEDIUM WELL
• 10% selected WELL DONE

Had the PIT been asked to participate in this survey, I think we all know what the correct answer to this question would be, right?

https://www.mashed.com/609419/only-6-of-people-prefer-steak-to-be-cooked-this-way/