I think the funniest thing I've had happen at a cookout related to done-ness is a guy (who probably wanted to impress everyone) who ordered his steak "with the heart still beating", but sent it back because it was bleeding.
You know what actually goes well with steak if you can find a good Japanese steak house/hibachi that makes it well is Yum Yum/seafood sauce. When I was living in Melbourne, FL this place called Fujiyama’s had incredible yum yum sauce that I used to eat my steak with.
Try this, it's a duplicate icate of white sauce, I think that's what you're referring to:
Japanese white sauce
1 1/4 cups mayonnaise
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon melted butter*this is the secret, I don't know why it makes a difference but it does*
1 teaspoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon paprika*I feel like paprika is very subtle and if you don't have any it shouldn't be a big deal.
Add cayenne pepper to taste if you want spicy version
Make it at least one day ahead of time so all the flavors meld together.
It'll last in your fridge as long as you would keep a jar of mayo or salad dressing. I'd say a few weeks, a month.
Your dad is right that cheese looks like shit. And I’ve never seen a potato so small it makes shredded cheese look massive. You should be grateful he hasn’t disowned you. And the steak looks ok but you shouldn’t over cook it like that.
Probably a somewhat justified fear of illness from undercooked grocery store steak and lack of information.
I'm sure food handling, expiration monitoring, and more were not done as well 50 years ago as today.
End-to-end cold storage is a modern miracle of infrastructure.
Think about how much work, preparation, and organization it takes to move something like a steak hundreds of miles from farm to grocery store, without *ever* letting it get above 40°F or so. And yet in any random town you can get fresh, properly stored food without really worrying about it.
Its also a bit of a modern nightmare. Cattle can be raised on poor producing land or land too rough to be efficiently farmed. Hauled hundreds of miles to a feed lot where byproducts of food production can be used to fatten them up. Then hauled hundreds of miles to one of a few slaughter plants large enough to process hundreds or thousands of cattle per day. Then hauled hundreds more miles in every direction. Almost every step of the way the process has been turned into a job that can be learned in a few days or weeks instead of supporting multiple viable small businesses. Now when one plant slows down because half their workers have covid or a piece of machinery is contaminated with ecoli a few million people are affected.
40°F is equivalent to 4°C, which is 277K.
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God. Both me and my husband suffered through our mom’s cooking pork chops til they were dry as shoe leather. They’re almost exactly the same age and it really is a product of the time - you didn’t fuck around with undercooked pork back then.
Now? We cook chops/tenderloin to 138°f. It’s rosy pink in the middle, succulent and delicious!
Who knew that pork chops didn’t require chewing for 10 mins!? Amazing stuff, ya’ll.
> Who knew that pork chops didn’t require chewing for 10 mins!?
Heck yes. Coworker of mine started a Berkshire hog farm. We get bone in chops ~1-1.5" thick, cook them to about 135F and let them carry over.
Amazing.
Honestly I like my wings very well done. Super crispy on the outside, cooked thru inside. I know juicy wings aren’t undercooked but to me with the sauce plus the juice they’re just too wet and it’s a weird texture thing.
It’s fear of illness. The town my Dad grew up in had meat contamination several times when he was little, and so he grew up having to eat well done food so that’s what it should taste like to him. I’m in my mid twenties now but due to a large beef born illness outbreak I didn’t eat steak medium until college. When a friend of mine would take me to a French restaurant where little English was spoken so he’d order for me. Still can’t do medium rare myself because it tastes off, and I’m not alone most of my friend do medium as well. My brother actually went to a 3 star steakhouse and ordered it well done with ketchup because that’s all he’s ever known. At the end of the day it’s all preference but it’s interesting to think about what experiences shape preferences.
I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but in the USA food options are significantly fancier than what the boomer and older generations grew up with. Many working class (most people) grew up with food that I could only describe as “simpleton cuisine”. Especially in small towns and especially amongst people who identify as conservative. ‘Eating out’ consisted of going to the local diner and ordering something like “bob’s special of the day: a breaded veal cutlet smothered in a sauce of velveeta and half-n-half”. Rare steak was something eaten by lawyers or big city people. I think the trend towards quality cuisine among everyday rural Americans started with Julia Child in the 60s and really took off around the turn of the millennium with artisanal & organic grocery stores.
Anecdotal but I’ve heard that during the Great Depression families would purchase cheap “questionable” meat that they would burn to a crisp to ensure it was say to eat. The habit took hold and they passed it down to their children’.
Whoever cooked that knows what they’re doing! Looks like a perfect medium rare sear to me. If dad doesn’t want any, I’ll bring him some tendies and eat his steak.
My dad only eats well done then proceeds to complain how nobody can ever cook it right cause it’s always too chewy. Then pours absurd amount of bbq sauce lol
Good thing you obviously didn't learn how to cook steaks from him. You can consume meat with color safely. Beef, chicken, pork.... you don't have to turn it solid brown/white throughout to enjoy it. The FDA has even lowered the safe internal temp for pork in recent years.
Depends, where’s you’re dad from ? And how old is he ? If he is Eastern European 40 or above. Then it’s raw is the way they were raised. Meat was cooked well done to make sure everything was dead (bacteria/parasite…)
You could save money when your dad comes to visit and give him a cut from a piece of shoe leather, it’s about as tender as the way he likes steaks clearly
Well, my dad likes his steak more done than me. When I cook for him, I make sure he has his steak how he enjoys it.
I’m cooking for my guests, not myself or the illusion of perfection of others…
But, your steak looks good to me!
Send him information on Steak Tar Tar, the evidence of beef being safe to consume when prepared responsibly is there, even if the steak was ACTUALLY raw.
Your dad is a cultureless heathen that should dine on nought but grain and peas.
Now THAT'S what I call a proper insult.
Hey! I can only afford to eat grain and peas if I want to have a juicy steak the first Sunday of every month
r/RareInsults
Damn.
Looks like a good medium rare to me. Your dad is just a well done scallywag.
>scallywag Can’t remember the last time I heard that term used lol
Wanted to use "Jabroni" until I saw this
I’ve been calling people “bozos” lately. It’s my new thing
Whos this bozo implies that someone is not only a clown but a clown now one has heard of
This deep dive of the psychology of the term made me lol
I've heard of bozo!
I can't believe that the Bozo Show/Bozo's Circus has been off the air since 2001.
This is one of my favorite jokes haha
People might get confused with the clussy epidemic starting up
"Hey McFly, you bozo, those boards don't work on water!" "Unless you got POWER! AAAHHAHAHAHAHA"
Jeff Bozos?
I grew up with my dad frothing at the mouth shouting that at people when he drove lol
Was he high on cocaine ?
Always sunny fan?
Very much so
I can't rlly use bozo since it means bitch in my language
That seems like even more reason you should be using it.
Georgian?
Haha why not ?
Bozo did the dub
Easy Mac
Same
Cool word!
I prefer my milk steak boiled over hard
Was gonna use "ninny muggins" until I read this
You keep saying this word, and it’s _awesome_.
Jabroni is too harsh, it's OPs dad..Scallywag is perfect and non-threatening yet insulting at the same time....
Here in Louisiana we say couyon (pronounced koo-yon)
That directly comes from the french "couillon", which we still use a lot in France. Glad you kept this one!
Oh I didnt know that - they must've cajunized it down here
A scallywag is just an 18th century jabroni.
I tend to call them J-Brones.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHEN YOU SAW IT
Haha love that word
It’s not a milk steak
Or 'wassuk'
Jabroni. Cool word.
Steak scallywags are the worst lol
Preach my dude or dudett.
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King of the hill 😂
And take his ketchup bottle with him.
I think your dad doesn't know what raw means.
Well he did have OP
lets not rule out an accident
Pulling out is the blue-steak of birth control.
Nah cause with a steak you can determine if you f'd up in the first 5 minutes, thats the difference in Walgreens and a clinic my friend.
Leaving it in is the steak tartare of birth control.
Then I'm a blue-steak pro. 4 years, no accidents
He’s the butchers baby
You can't get someone pregnant by peeing on them, no matter how many times you do it.
Or milkman
My man, nice!
Yes. It definitely was him and not the mailman.
The mailman would still be his dad
He tried ceviche sex
His wife was well done tho…
Your dad is raw.
Your mom’s dad is raw.
Your sister’s mom’s dad is raw.
Arnold Schwarzenegger once made a raw deal
Your dad’s sister’s mom is raw
No, he was cremated. If anything, he's rather overdone.
If someone doesn't like steak cooked to that temp, that's fine; but to call it raw is ~~completely~~ ignorant
A good and reasonable response.
I think the funniest thing I've had happen at a cookout related to done-ness is a guy (who probably wanted to impress everyone) who ordered his steak "with the heart still beating", but sent it back because it was bleeding.
Would smash
Does you dad put ketchup on his steaks?
"How much ketchup does your dad put on his steaks?" FIFU
> FTFY FTFY
You know what actually goes well with steak if you can find a good Japanese steak house/hibachi that makes it well is Yum Yum/seafood sauce. When I was living in Melbourne, FL this place called Fujiyama’s had incredible yum yum sauce that I used to eat my steak with.
Try this, it's a duplicate icate of white sauce, I think that's what you're referring to: Japanese white sauce 1 1/4 cups mayonnaise 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon melted butter*this is the secret, I don't know why it makes a difference but it does* 1 teaspoon tomato paste 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon paprika*I feel like paprika is very subtle and if you don't have any it shouldn't be a big deal. Add cayenne pepper to taste if you want spicy version Make it at least one day ahead of time so all the flavors meld together. It'll last in your fridge as long as you would keep a jar of mayo or salad dressing. I'd say a few weeks, a month.
You don't know why melted butter makes a difference? Boy howdy. Wait until you discover popcorn, (garlic) bread, and so many other things!
That’s nearly perfect
He was talking about the unmelted cheese on that potato you savage
Scrolled way too far for this. Also did he slice the cheese into carrot stick size on purpose?
That’s “rustic cut” shredded cheese
Yeeeeahhh I got a real problem with the state of that cheese.
Your dad is right that cheese looks like shit. And I’ve never seen a potato so small it makes shredded cheese look massive. You should be grateful he hasn’t disowned you. And the steak looks ok but you shouldn’t over cook it like that.
Seriously!
Is there a reason older people like well done steak? Genuinely curious because it’s a repeated thing I see with both my and my wife’s family.
Probably a somewhat justified fear of illness from undercooked grocery store steak and lack of information. I'm sure food handling, expiration monitoring, and more were not done as well 50 years ago as today.
End-to-end cold storage is a modern miracle of infrastructure. Think about how much work, preparation, and organization it takes to move something like a steak hundreds of miles from farm to grocery store, without *ever* letting it get above 40°F or so. And yet in any random town you can get fresh, properly stored food without really worrying about it.
Its also a bit of a modern nightmare. Cattle can be raised on poor producing land or land too rough to be efficiently farmed. Hauled hundreds of miles to a feed lot where byproducts of food production can be used to fatten them up. Then hauled hundreds of miles to one of a few slaughter plants large enough to process hundreds or thousands of cattle per day. Then hauled hundreds more miles in every direction. Almost every step of the way the process has been turned into a job that can be learned in a few days or weeks instead of supporting multiple viable small businesses. Now when one plant slows down because half their workers have covid or a piece of machinery is contaminated with ecoli a few million people are affected.
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That's exactly what it is. Long term conditioning is hard to overcome. My peeps still refuse to eat pork that has any pink at all.
God. Both me and my husband suffered through our mom’s cooking pork chops til they were dry as shoe leather. They’re almost exactly the same age and it really is a product of the time - you didn’t fuck around with undercooked pork back then. Now? We cook chops/tenderloin to 138°f. It’s rosy pink in the middle, succulent and delicious! Who knew that pork chops didn’t require chewing for 10 mins!? Amazing stuff, ya’ll.
> Who knew that pork chops didn’t require chewing for 10 mins!? Heck yes. Coworker of mine started a Berkshire hog farm. We get bone in chops ~1-1.5" thick, cook them to about 135F and let them carry over. Amazing.
Happy cake day, friend! Also, I need a friend like yours.
Don’t get me started on hard fried wings. Some people are conditioned to believe that juicy wings are undercooked wings.
Honestly I like my wings very well done. Super crispy on the outside, cooked thru inside. I know juicy wings aren’t undercooked but to me with the sauce plus the juice they’re just too wet and it’s a weird texture thing.
I use the air fryer, gets them super crispy on the outside and still juicy inside. Magic.
Me: *cooks chicken properly* My family, leaving most of it on the bone: "idk it's a bit juicy..."
Pork with some pink is delicious! I do see people eat rare pork and they get sick and they dont blame it on the cook of it
Yeah, I'll eat it with a little pink, but not rare.
It’s fear of illness. The town my Dad grew up in had meat contamination several times when he was little, and so he grew up having to eat well done food so that’s what it should taste like to him. I’m in my mid twenties now but due to a large beef born illness outbreak I didn’t eat steak medium until college. When a friend of mine would take me to a French restaurant where little English was spoken so he’d order for me. Still can’t do medium rare myself because it tastes off, and I’m not alone most of my friend do medium as well. My brother actually went to a 3 star steakhouse and ordered it well done with ketchup because that’s all he’s ever known. At the end of the day it’s all preference but it’s interesting to think about what experiences shape preferences.
I know my dad moved from medium rare to medium in the last few years. He says it's because he has a harder time chewing when it's rarer.
I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but in the USA food options are significantly fancier than what the boomer and older generations grew up with. Many working class (most people) grew up with food that I could only describe as “simpleton cuisine”. Especially in small towns and especially amongst people who identify as conservative. ‘Eating out’ consisted of going to the local diner and ordering something like “bob’s special of the day: a breaded veal cutlet smothered in a sauce of velveeta and half-n-half”. Rare steak was something eaten by lawyers or big city people. I think the trend towards quality cuisine among everyday rural Americans started with Julia Child in the 60s and really took off around the turn of the millennium with artisanal & organic grocery stores.
Anecdotal but I’ve heard that during the Great Depression families would purchase cheap “questionable” meat that they would burn to a crisp to ensure it was say to eat. The habit took hold and they passed it down to their children’.
Medium rare. Looks delicious to me.
That looks absolutely delicious!
Whoever cooked that knows what they’re doing! Looks like a perfect medium rare sear to me. If dad doesn’t want any, I’ll bring him some tendies and eat his steak.
My dad only eats well done then proceeds to complain how nobody can ever cook it right cause it’s always too chewy. Then pours absurd amount of bbq sauce lol
Get a new dad
Your Dad knows nothing, send him back to Dad School.
This implies his dad isn't his real dad. Which might be true.
Someone call Maury, this is worth a special
Med rare
Looks perfect to me!
That's not raw. That's perfect.
That’s how I eat it and it ain’t raw
Looks good to me and I don’t like raw
Did you ask your dad politely, yet firmly to leave?
Your dad likes bad steak, and that’s ok
Throw out your dad and get a new one.
Raw cheese
Agreed, the only thing that makes sense here is if your dad was talking about the raw cheese
Perfect.
I feel sorry for your mom
It may be time to ask him, kindly yet firmly, to leave.
Good thing you obviously didn't learn how to cook steaks from him. You can consume meat with color safely. Beef, chicken, pork.... you don't have to turn it solid brown/white throughout to enjoy it. The FDA has even lowered the safe internal temp for pork in recent years.
You mean, your ex-dad?
looks fuckin nice to me, bro
Not even close lol
Nothing more hand and hand than dads and sayin shit they got no idea about.
Your dad should order chicken instead
I feel bad for your dads steaks
Your dad has no clue
This is definitely not raw. My family is the same way, they think “a little pink in the middle” is rare but realistically it’s medium well.
I think it's impossible to tell the temp from that pic but it's definitely not raw
I'll eat his
Sure it's raw let me take care of it lol
If your dad thinks that’s raw he’s not welcome in my house…
You sure he wasn’t talking about the cheese on the potato? Steak looks great.
Obviously not raw. Maybe show him raw?
Yeah it’s medium-rare but I get what he means. I’m brown and people refer to me as black so…
Depends, where’s you’re dad from ? And how old is he ? If he is Eastern European 40 or above. Then it’s raw is the way they were raised. Meat was cooked well done to make sure everything was dead (bacteria/parasite…)
You could save money when your dad comes to visit and give him a cut from a piece of shoe leather, it’s about as tender as the way he likes steaks clearly
Well I thought you had French fries on your potato
Does your dad use Ketchup to?
Get a paternity test.
For proper evaluation, you must mail the steak to me at you earliest convenience.
Your dad must like chewing on hockey pucks
Not raw. Looks perfect to me.
I say you're the man of the house now.
Wait - Is your dad my dad?
Only the first pic is necessary
If a good veterinarian can’t save it, it’s overcooked.
Looks medium rare-medium from the first pic. Rate or raw will be a cold and red center.
Looks perfect, but there are better ways to grate cheese other than a hatchet.
It’s literally perfect. I’m sorry your parents made you eat leather growing up
Well, my dad likes his steak more done than me. When I cook for him, I make sure he has his steak how he enjoys it. I’m cooking for my guests, not myself or the illusion of perfection of others… But, your steak looks good to me!
Ask him politely but firmly to leave
Raw and steak can mean a lot of things. That cheddar baked potato is definitely raw though.
Your dad and my dad shouldn’t eat steaks
I think you need a new dad
Get a new dad is what I say
That's a medium rare so perfect that it couldn't be more tender if I beat your dad over the head with it
I’m more concerned about those big chunks of cold cheese on the bake potato
This looks Damn good, that's what I think.
If that’s raw, you can call me ODB
Medium rare.
You dad is a Philistine who probably put ketchup on a steak.
I’d say that’s perfect
Next time make sure he gets chicken!
Looks perfect, add two poached eggs and breakfast is served
Red is raw, pink is perfect.
Looks as tender as pot stew. And yeah it med-rare.
Ask to be emancipated and/or get a child divorce.
Lol 2k upvotes and 700 comments in 7hrs? We get a lot of pics like this so tht shows how scrumbdidlyumptous yours looks buddy.
Send him information on Steak Tar Tar, the evidence of beef being safe to consume when prepared responsibly is there, even if the steak was ACTUALLY raw.
Get a new dad.
Not raw, looks perfect!
Perfect for me
THAT IS A FUCKIN BEAUT
Your dads raw
After that comment I’d serve him pork chops next meal. 😄
All due respect. Your dad sounds like he calls it rare if there's ANY red.
MRare to rare at most. And I don’t even eat steak. Certainly not raw. Get your dad an internal temp next time and call it a day.
I’d say it’s definitely rare
that fuckin cheese is raw
It's perfect.
The potatoes look slightly raw, but that steak is perfect. 😋
nah, you’re good