hypothetical FIRST-DATE question.

[roadwarrior]

21 hours ago, TOXIC said:

First I would need to see a picture of the date.?

As far as steak there was a place outside of Kansas City in a little town called Martin City that specialized in steak called Jess and Jim’s.  They had a cook selection on their menu that was a little beyond the Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Well and Well done options.  It was “Blue”.   And it was perfect.  ?

 Great steak house!. They serve your meat on red hot plates, too.

[NYWayfarer]

My wife can’t see any pink in her steak. She orders, “very well done” uses ketchup or steak sauce. I imagine the latter is to moisten up the leathery well done meat.

 

To each there own. Doesn’t bother me. What would bother me on the first date is if she would order the most expensive thing on the menu.

 

Liars and smokers are my real bail on the relationship things.

[Captain Phil]

10 minutes ago, NYWayfarer said:

My wife can’t see any pink in her steak. She orders, “very well done” uses ketchup or steak sauce. I imagine the latter is to moisten up the leathery well done meat.

 

Your wife and I think alike.  Although I didn't realize it at the time, my mother burned every piece of meat she ever cooked.  Consequently, I thought everyone ate steak like that.  When I met my wife, she liked her steak rare.  I thought it was disgusting.  She has since moved up to medium rare and I have gone to medium.   A well done steak tastes like whatever you put on it. ☺️

[NYWayfarer]

18 minutes ago, Captain Phil said:

 

Your wife and I think alike.  Although I didn't realize it at the time, my mother burned every piece of meat she ever cooked.  Consequently, I thought everyone ate steak like that.  When I met my wife, she liked her steak rare.  I thought it was disgusting.  She has since moved up to medium rare and I have gone to medium.   A well done steak tastes like whatever you put on it. ☺️

I like mine medium as well. That’s the Goldilocks zone of juicy but done enough to hopefully kill whatever nasties might be in the meat.

 

[A-Jay]

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A-Jay

[TnRiver46]

8 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

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A-Jay

I’ve watched those so many times my wife has threatened physical violence 

[Captain Phil]

If you want to be in a world of hurt, order your restaurant hamburgers rare.   ?

[MN Fisher]

1 hour ago, Captain Phil said:

If you want to be in a world of hurt, order your restaurant hamburgers rare.   ?

(shrugs) I've been eating rare restaurant hamburgers for 50+ years...haven't had a problem yet.

 

Course the wife accuses me of having a cast-iron stomach.

[Captain Phil]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

(shrugs) I've been eating rare restaurant hamburgers for 50+ years...haven't had a problem yet.

 

Course the wife accuses me of having a cast-iron stomach.

 

I suspect you've never had food poisoning?  Trust me, you don't.  

[Jrob78]

It wouldn't be a deal breaker but if she couldn't take some playful ribbing from me after the fact, that would be a deal breaker. A steak should never be cooked past medium.

[islandbass]

On 10/27/2022 at 7:11 AM, gimruis said:

THIS

 

Making a potential life-altering decision on such a minor detail would be foolish.

 

That being said, I would never order it that way either.  My Father grew up hating beef (both steaks and hamburger) because his Mother cooked the crap out of all it it.  Burgers were like hockey pucks and steaks were like shoe leather.  Only after he got married to my Mother who began to cook them to a lesser extent did he enjoy it.  "Where has this been my whole life?" was the question he posed the first time a steak was prepared medium rare for him.

I can definitely relate with regard to steaks. God rest her soul, My mother was an excellent cook in all respects except for steaks. She could not ever see or have steak pink. I grew up hating steak.

 

Then when a buddy found out I didn’t like steaks, he said, “Let me show you the way,” lol. My first bite into a medium rare steak was mind boggling. ? wow!

 

I reacted the same way. Where has this been all my life. I was about 21. What a waste of time. At least I was shown the light. ?

[TOXIC]

It’s pretty common knowledge why you can eat a steak rare but shouldn’t eat hamburgers rare (although I still do).  The simple answer is because hamburger meat comes from ground up beef. All the bacteria, such as salmonella, e. coli, and staph are mixed in the meat during the grounding process. If you prepare it rare then you'll still be eating live bacteria inside the meat that could give you food poisoning.

[cheezyridr]

i used to date a woman who LOVED cheez cake. in fact, when we would eat out, she would order the cheez cake first, then the entrée.  you had to make sure they understood she wanted her cheez cake before the meal. one time, i forgot to remind the waiter. he brought my dinner, and hers, at the same time.  she wanted me to yell at the guy for it, and not tip him.  i flatly refused. #1, you don't tick off the people serving your food. #2, you can't really blame the guy, she was the one person in a million who would prefer something like that. after they've had a long day, that's a totally honest mistake. i don't blame them at all.  on the drive home, we had a tense conversation about the way i handled it. i dropped her off at home, and went home that night instead of, well you know.  that was the last date i took her on.  i don't want to be in a relationship with someone like that.  no point in continuing to date her any further.

Edited October 31, 2022 by cheezyridr
spelling errors

[Skunkmaster-k]

On 10/29/2022 at 1:19 PM, Captain Phil said:

 

I suspect you've never had food poisoning?  Trust me, you don't.  

I worked maintenance in a packing house for a couple of years. I’ve literally seen people drop meat on the floor, shovel it up and throw it in the grinder.  Now I like a steak medium rare , but I don’t want to see pink in my burger. 

[Captain Phil]

11 hours ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

I worked maintenance in a packing house for a couple of years. I’ve literally seen people drop meat on the floor, shovel it up and throw it in the grinder.  Now I like a steak medium rare , but I don’t want to see pink in my burger. 

 

When I was still working, I did a lot of traveling.  Mostly to conventions where I lived on restaurant food.  At one meeting in Cherry Hill New Jersey I ate a hamburger for lunch in the hotel restaurant.  That night, I felt bad and went to the bathroom and passed out on the floor.  Luckily, my wife was with me and they rushed me to the hospital.  The next three days where the worst days of my life.  It took me a week to get strong enough to fly back home.  The next time that happened was in Atlantic City.    It wasn't as bad as before, but I got the message.   Either I was being told not to eat hamburgers in a restaurant or to stay out of New Jersey?  In either case, I took the advice. 

[Darth-Baiter]

i like my burgers cooked thru.  

 

i've been food poisoned twice and i thought i was gonna die.  at one point, i think i wished for the peace of death.  it is awful.

 

 

[the reel ess]

On our first date my wife asked me a lot of questions. Two of the questions were "What's the last book you read?" and "Have you ever been arrested?" I wouldn't say she grilled me. But we did talk for 3+ hours. She told me later that she had made a list of 10 things she'd like in a husband and I filled all but one of them.

[LrgmouthShad]

On 10/27/2022 at 12:57 PM, GReb said:

Anything past medium rare is disrespectful to the cow. 

Meet me in the middle here… I like a medium 

 

But I’m with the crowd in here that would probably just ask for a check if I’m on a date and she orders a well done steak with ketchup… golly 

[galyonj]

I don't care how she orders her steak. I care, very much, how she talks to the people that prepare and serve that steak.

[LrgmouthShad]

I cooked some steak last night for another bibimbap and it was right how I like it… bout a medium and it had been soaking in some honey, garlic, roasted sesame seeds, soy sauce, and toasted sesame oil. That was one of those steak portions that just knocked me out it was so good. 
 

The most involved dinner I’ve cooked

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, galyonj said:

I don't care how she orders her steak. I care, very much, how she talks to the people that prepare and serve that steak.

Yep. Like I tried to say in another thread and it didn’t come out so well, what you say is far more important than what you eat 

[galyonj]

8 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Yep. Like I tried to say in another thread and it didn’t come out so well, what you say is far more important than what you eat