Really well done meat

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Lyricalis

19-04-2014

Originally Posted by pearlsandplums:
“I was up at my parents for dinner at the weekend, and we had a roast. Being an irish mother, my mother needs to cook the roast for about three days, and the veg for a similar length of time.
I know everyone has different tastes, but i just dont understand how anyone can enjoy meat thats been cooked for so long that its dried up and leathery.
Is anyone else a sole rare/medium eater in a family of well done-rs?”

My mother was never able to cook beef properly. It just ended up looking and tasting like shoe leather. Any other meat and she didn't overcook quite as much, but beef had to be totally nuked.

The first time we went to a restaurant as a family (long after all the kids had left home, in fact it was celebrating my mum's 60th birthday), my mother looked like she was going to be sick when she saw the rare steak I'd ordered

brangdon

20-04-2014

Originally Posted by JulesF:
“I don't really understand what you are saying about the veggies though. Some people like theirs soft and well-done, yes, but I've never heard anything about health risks involved with eating raw vegetables or fruit (other than things like rhubarb and potatoes, that are harmful when eaten raw).”

I need Brussels sprouts to be cooked well. I doubt they are poisonous, but their raw flavour is too bitter for me, so they need a good 8 minutes or so to make them palatable.

The Alpha Gamer

21-04-2014

Originally Posted by pearlsandplums:
“i just dont understand how anyone can enjoy meat thats been cooked for so long that its dried up and leathery.”

I don't understand how people can enjoy meat that's still pink in the middle. If you don't want it cooked properly, why not just eat it raw?

Pixie Queen

21-04-2014

I'm sure I read somewhere or was told, that in the past Pork had to be cooked well as there was a parasite or worm or something equally yeuk that could be caught from eating underdone pork and that apparently in todays world the pork wont have these nasties to pass on with your chop. Different ways and methods of rearing pork, medicines(and stuff) plus better understanding of nasties may have changed opinions.

I think I was also told/read that dogs shouldn't be given pork bones for the same nasties reason.

Uncle_Phil

21-04-2014

Originally Posted by Pixie Queen:
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I think I was also told/read that dogs shouldn't be given pork bones for the same nasties reason.”

Aside from that, pork bones splinter so that's bad for a dog anyway.

walterwhite

21-04-2014

Originally Posted by The Alpha Gamer:
“I don't understand how people can enjoy meat that's still pink in the middle. If you don't want it cooked properly, why not just eat it raw?”

I don't understand how people can think pink meat is the same as raw either. Why would you think that?

whoever,hey

21-04-2014

Originally Posted by molliepops:
“It's quite funny when you say that's how it should be when previously for many many generations it shouldn't have been and this rare and nearly raw in some cases meat may just be a fleeting fad in the scheme of things.

Meat had to be cooked safely and veggies too when they came in from the garden filthy and pitted it's only with todays clinically washed veg perfectly round with no flaws we can risk not cooking them until they are properly fully cooked through.”

Yeah I clinically wash my veg from the garden under a tap!

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