How rare can steak be before its not safe?
 

It was pretty rare tonite. Like red in the middle. I let it cook for about 10 minutes,, but its was fucking rare. tasted awesome, but wondering if it was too rare

what??? no pics?

i bet it's good...

i always eat it that way :thumbsup

as long as the outside was cooked you should be ok, (that's where most of the bacteria is)

hamburger has to be cooked throughout, (the outside has been ground up and mixed in the center)

Heh cool. I love it rare, but it tasted so good extra rare I couldnt believe it. I guess if it was hot inside it was good.
I marinated it in salt, pepper, and A! for about 3 hrs. Wow, nothing beats a good steak.

Awesome ,, outside was cook fully :thumbsup

Pittsburgh Rare for me. Still cold and red in the middle and full of blood! :thumbsup

always depends of the quality of your meet too I guess ... but I eat them almost raw (not even really HOT in the middle) and I never was sick ...

This is perfect! :thumbsup

http://www.keeters.com/spainTrip/san...yRareSteak.jpg

Just make sure the outside is cooked.

Guess I wondered (aka worried) for nothing. :)

Rare is the way to go.

When the blood puddles underneath it...too rare

Ha yeah bro looked something like that. A Little thicker but red. Tasted awesome :pimp

You only have to cook the part that touched air...

That is why hamburger, needs to be cooked, lots of sides touched the air...

i like my shit bloody

If you wash the surface of a steak to remove all bacteria you can eat it absolutley raw without any problem.
A popular meal from vietnam is serverd with raw beef and there is no problem at all.


Basically it's cow shit in the butcher room that gets on the meat that makes people sick. That's where the e coli come from....SHIT!!

There is always some risk, however limited, in eating raw meat or unwashed anything. The main concern with raw/undercooked beef has been in those countries which have identified mad cow disease.

Possibly the most dangerous foods to eat undercooked are chicken and eggs, because Salmonella Enteritidis is now endemic in battery farmed chickens. However they are vaccinated, so this should rarely cause concern (yet) either.

Might make you think twice about eating steak tartare tho, since it is basically raw minced steak mixed with raw eggs...

Drop a big blob of butter on it and toss it on the grill and let the grease fire up and let it sit in the flame for a few minutes. Best steak you will ever have!

30 seconds each side on a hot grill :thumbsup

My steaks gotta be blue otherwise its a waste of meat :2cents:

Regards,

Lee

I've never eaten a steak "blue rare" before, but many many years ago I had a job as a cook at a local restaurant and some guy would come in every Saturday and order an 8 oz sirloin blue rare.

Toss it on the grill, count to 10, flip it over, count to 10, serve it. (cold in the middle)

It is unconfirmed at this time whether that guy is still alive. :D

wtf???? you ate that? :throwup

Yuck, just make sure the temperature in the middle gets up to at least 155 degrees, that will kill bacteria.

That looks delicious actually. Are you a vegitarian?

I like to eat sushi so I eat it raw :winkwink:

That my friend is over done.

Steaks or any cut of non pork is plenty safe in the cold to touch state on the inside. Pork really can go as low as an internal of 145-150 before resting (remember 10 degrees for carryover cooking). Also if you take your own cuts and self ground them in a food processor or meat grinder you can also eat hamburgers at rare to medium rare with no real risk.

Bacteria lives on the surface of meats, pre-ground meat just has to much surface area to deal with unless you grind your own. So people enjoy your rare steaks, they be perfectly safe.

With steak it doesn't matter how rare the inside is, it's not like chicken or hamburger. Some people put it on for 20 seconds on each side just to kill the bacteria, and eat it blue. Steak Tartar is uncooked. Sounds gross as hell, I wouldn't try it, but it's not dangerous.

Depending on my mood, I have eaten a steak that was seared on each side for exactly 2 mins...

I usually eat my steak Med Rare (a little blood and always pink)....approx. 6 Mins on each side.

Remember, Any meat will continue to cook while resting on your plate before you cut into it...

Very nice steak....Makes me want to get one right now...

Hmmm...I just might!

Bleck.. mine has to be medium well or I won't touch it. Guess it's all in what we got when we were growing up.

You can eat raw beef. Not a whole lot, but it's very common.

Steak tartar (a la tartare) can be found in a small number of fine restaurants where this delicatessy is served table side. It consists of raw fillet of beef. The meat is chopped in the kitchen with a knife. And, at restaurants where they have trained wait staff, the Steak Tartar leaves the kitchen unprepared on a platter. Surrounded by the greens of butter lettuce the meat takes up the middle of the plate. The fresh-red, fine-chopped fillet is topped with a whole raw egg yolk. Individual small cups filled with chopped onions, pickles and capers are sitting to be used on the greens next to the meat. Additional condiments are set up on a separate tray. There are mustard, virgin olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne and regular pepper.

That is one way or version. Some use very super thin slices of meat. Not all use raw eggs and so on.

true...

i just copied that from somewhere google came up with...