My wife likes her steak medium well, which I think is criminal. I’m a medium rare guy myself. Now burgers need to be cooked through

My brother in law is a meat well done guy...until I made him one of my ribeyes...now he will only eat steak Med/Rare when I'm cooking. All else, he's getting it well done.

Just knock his horns off and drag it across the coals 3 times, ready

Mine too, this was the way I was taught to cook also. Thanks to you fine folks on here I have progressed to a more tender and juicy steak. I got busy with something on the stove and overcooked some pork chops. My wife said they were tough and asked why, I told her the same reason her steak is tough, its overcooked.

I cook my steaks rare, porkchops medium and chicken breast to 160. It's all delicious. Bag boiling really turns out some great food too. My bag boiling temps are steak 118, porkchops 135, chicken breast 150 all for an hour, then sear in a pan for 90 seconds each side depending on thickness.

I like mine medium rare. That's the way i like and don't care how anyone else wants theirs. They are paying for it and it should be the way that they want it No one else's business !!!

Before modern antibiotics and antiparasitics, people would die.
I've noticed that the olds, if they grew up over seas will tend to order at least medium.

Heck, there's been a couple fast food chains with serious outbreaks in recent history (I know ground beef can be the riskiest)

me and a buddy went on a Turkey hunt down in Coleman several years ago. The old rancher who ran the place cooked for us. Open pit over mesquite. He asked how we wanted our steaks(which was a set up) I requested medium-rare. My buddy says well-done. The old rancher, pointed the fire poker at him and said. "you'll get rare or medium rare, I ain't ruining a good steak on your pu$$y @$$. If you want to eat like a girl head your @$$ to Applebees" Rancher called him princess the rest of the trip.

I travelled to Japan for business for about 10 years , in Oita City ( Kyushu Island ) , my Japanese colleagues insisted that " raw " chicken raised in their City would not make any of us sick .
I refused , but one of my buddies said ok . When we were flying home the next day --- I never seen a guy live in a airplane toilet for 11 hours , the flight crew couldn't get him out . --- when we arrived home , he was rushed to the hospital where he stayed for 4 days --- lost over 25 lbs before they fixed him . Everyone one of my Japanese colleagues that ate the same raw chicken --- didn't get sick at all .

But, in her defense, I’d want ANYTHING cooked in Peru to be burnt. Never know what they’re cooking down there.

The ol’ Japanese raw chicken prank.

My wife and I are the same way!

Medium rare. More to the rare side than the medium. If you cook it more than medium rare you are just cooking the flavor out of it. The key is the quality of the cut of meat you get. You can make a poor cut good but you can’t make one great. And you can’t cook a better steak than the high end steakhouses. They get a cut that’s the best out there and they have spent a lot of time perfecting cooking it.

In Houston.....Pappa Bros, Eddie V’s, Maestro’s, The Palm.

Good marbled cut. Hard to pick out the best by eye. Cook a room temp steak on a hot grill. Lightly put olive oiil on both sides.Spice with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper. Other spice blends can be good to. You want to enhance the flavor of a good steak not cover it up.You want to retain as much of the juice as you can. Once you start drying it out everything goes south. Cook a hamburger more because when they grind it the bacteria can be on the inside where with a steak it’s on the outside.

Steak sauce is for a poor steak.

If you have ever been in a chicken processing plant you will never eat anything but a totally cooked chicken.

Educate yourself

The “juice” in your steak looks and tastes nothing like actual blood, because it isn't; it's called myoglobin, and it's a protein that's only found in muscle tissue. Like its cousin hemoglobin, which transports oxygen in blood, myoglobin's job is to carry oxygen through muscle.