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Default Sending a steak back

On Jul 22, 4:51*pm, Miche > wrote:
> In article >,
>
> *Goomba > wrote:
> > Metspitzer wrote:
> > > I like my steak "a little pink". *When I order, I say.....medium well,
> > > mostly well......barely pink. *At least 25% of the time, I end up
> > > sending it back to cook some more. *Even at the places I go
> > > frequently. *

>
> > I never considered "medium well" to have much if any pink left in it.
> > It's certainly not how steak houses want you to order good steaks.
> > There is a practice in restaurants of keeping the lesser quality pieces
> > for folks that order well done (perhaps medium-well too, I dunno?) since
> > I guess the assumption is that they don't *really* care about the best
> > way to taste steaks.

>
> Or they do and have a medical condition that means eating bloody steak
> will make them ill for up to a week.
>
> Not that I have any experience of that in my family, of course. *My
> husband must be a dolt who has no idea of how to eat steak.


It doesn't mean that he's "a dolt" in any other way.
>
> Miche
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--Bryan