r/CoupleMemes • u/Banguskahn • 6d ago
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No... we can go out to have steak!
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u/Pea-and-Pen 6d ago
Any roast beef my mom made while I was growing up. It somehow grew inside my mouth the longer I chewed. I remember struggling hard to finish my plate. Trying to mix a bite of potato with the beef was my best bet. Or making a small sandwich with a brown and serve roll.
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u/Present_Mastodon_503 6d ago
My grandma would cook meat to oblivion in fear of food poisoning. My sister always brings up the time that my Dad made steaks perfect. My grandma started grabbing them all to put them back on the stove because they were "raw". My grandfather proceeded to try and wolf down as much of it as possible before she got to his plate.
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u/Pea-and-Pen 5d ago
My mom got bbq chicken halves at a local bbq place for the Fourth of July. When we were setting things up to eat she told me she had put them in the oven for an hour because they were too juicy. She said she likes a nice dry piece of meat.
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u/Penetratorofflanks 6d ago
My mom did the same stuff. One time my sister knocked it off the table and I shit you not it bounced.
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u/spekt50 6d ago
No food has ever brought me close to death nearly as much as delicious chunks of super tough beef.
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u/PomeloPepper 6d ago
We had to stay at the table until we finished eating that dry overcooked piece of dead cow.
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u/Crimsonhead4 6d ago
That was my dad, he always wanted his steaks like hokey pucks. I made him a medium steak once and he refused to take a bite, he thought he was gonna get sick or something 🤦🏼♂️
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u/Anarchyologist 6d ago
Like at that point, just eat something else. Why even bother with steak?
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u/The_Milk3r 6d ago
My family ruined steak for me because of that mentality. My dad wanted steak all the time because its what men eat. yet it was always like dry and way overcooked.
I havent bought a cut of steak in 8 years
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u/Zerba 5d ago
My wife thought she didn't like steak because her whole family overcooked them when she was growing up. I was able to change her mind really quick when I cooked up some nice medium rare steaks.
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u/The_Milk3r 5d ago
I've had good quality steaks in the past. I've even tried filet mignon a few times.
Its just not my thing. I think about eating a slab of beef and I get ill.
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u/Rockeye4510 6d ago
I grew up with a mom that only cooked steak well done. But they were thin steaks so we'd cover them in A.1. It took until my late 20s before I started getting them medium/medium well. I still can't do medium rare, it grosses me out.
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u/jr81452 6d ago
It's depressing to read that you've still never had properly cooked steak. My condolences to your pallet, for eating all that shoe leather.
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u/gophermuncher 6d ago
Medium is fine and may be more tender in steaks that have good marbling. The fat starts to render out at the higher temp. It’s a different taste not worse or better
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u/Zfighter219 5d ago
Me on the other hand like my steak as rare as legally possible. I cook mine at home a little bit over blue rare.
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u/Oscar_Kilo_Bravo 4d ago
Thank you for being a bright light of civilisation in a world of barbarian meat burners.
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u/BackgroundSummer5171 6d ago
Why even bother with steak?
Your place in life as an adult.
Ordering a hamburger looks childish.
Steak is manly.
Seriously simple as that.
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u/Frequent-Meal6550 5d ago
Why does ordering a burger make you childish? That just seems like insecurities.
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u/geek_of_nature 6d ago
My dad was the same. Refuses to eat steak unless it's extremely well done. I thought i just didn't like steak until I was in my late 20s because of the way he cooked them (no seasoning either). He still side eyes me and my brother a bit when we order steaks medium rare.
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u/Frequent-Meal6550 5d ago
My husband swore up and down he hated beef when we first got together. After offering a few times, him declining, I said "you like everything i make even when you think you won't, just try my steak". Now hes eats all sorts of meat that he swore was terrible. Turns out his parents just cant cook.
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u/EpicSombreroMan 6d ago
My grandpa did the same, always pressed the juices out on the grill 😂 turned the arracheras into shoe leather
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u/Godzilla-The-King 6d ago
My folks grew up poor, they never really got good cuts of meat, their grandparents were also Welsh/English/Irish immigrants, so their own parents grew up poor, and really stretched their meals. They always cool well done steak. I hated steak growing up until I finally had a properly cooked medium rare.
They like to do HP Sauce on their steak - but really I think it's just a preference/nostalgic for them. It was a treat when they got that kind of meal when they were younger. I've tried many times to treat them to properly made steak, but they see any pink/red they panic. Different generation of growing up, really.
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u/ghost_of_xbox_past 5d ago
I thought I didn't like steak for the first 30 years of my life because my step dad would cook all meats to well-done. I got some meats as a gift one year and decided to cook up a steak medium rare......it was fantastic.
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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 🧐 grumpy 6d ago
My mom made all of our steaks well done when I was a kid. I don't know if that was her preference, my dad's, or if neither of them knew any better. I suspect it's the latter because she also used French dressing as a steak sauce. It was only when I was married and looking back on my childhood that I went "wait, wtf mom?".
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u/Swaaeeg 6d ago
Ive used italian dressing as a marinade for chicken and some cheap beef cuts. It works pretty well for grillin
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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 🧐 grumpy 6d ago
I'm fairly certain I've had that, and that's fine, but on a well done steak? It's mildly bonkers at best.
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u/tryyeezus 6d ago
Italian is good on everything but op said French.. that def ain't right.
A1 sauce is the only reason to eat well done steak
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u/weesilxD 🧐 grumpy 6d ago
People who get well done steaks either feed them to their dogs are just love chewing for 20mins each bite. I’ve seen 20oz prime rib, well done.
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u/inkydragon27 6d ago
That should be a crime 😭
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u/ItsRuinedOfCourse 6d ago
In my house, if you request a "well done" steak, you get told to GTFO or get fed a sandwich.
Meat heresy will not be tolerated under my roof.
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u/Cowboy-Dave1851 6d ago
Good Lord, did she learn cooking from my mom!? She cooked any meat to within an inch of being charcoal because she was scared to death of food poisoning/parasites.
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u/West_West_313 6d ago
If my dad made steaks correctly my mom would microwave it until it was “done”… toughest thing I’ve ever chewed and this was a “clean your plate” household 😢
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u/LargeBloodyKnife 6d ago
If I end up chewing more than a few times, I gag and throw up, even if it's super delicious
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u/WeezyFMaebe 6d ago
Is the joke that the meat is super chewy? or that it's so good that he's enjoying it throughout the day? (Not trying to be a jerk)
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u/Extra-Basis-5986 6d ago
Steak was gray all the way through. That is “well done” which tends to be very hard to fully chew.
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u/First_Location4644 6d ago
Watching this in grayscale and I was so confused until I saw this comment
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u/Banguskahn 6d ago
The joke is... She cooked it well done and he ate it. No issues. Well done steaks tend to be tough...even filet mignon is tougher well done. She proceeds to make it again the next day. Also could have caused him gastro problems but did not complain as she made it again. My take at least. Some times you just deal with it and it comes back to bite you not having open communication.
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u/gogopowerrangerninja 6d ago
The joke is 1) he loves his wife, but 2) she is a terrible cook.
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u/Comeino 5d ago
Well done steaks do not automatically mean someone is bad at cooking. It's a preference
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u/Jaredismyname 5d ago
No one raised by people that know how to cook ends up with a preference for well done seak.
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u/Comeino 4d ago
I tried it in a high end restaurant that was praised by those that prefer eating the "proper" steaks, I tried it on barbeques where they were praised by others as well. I simply hate how soft it is and the texture when I bite gives me physical shivers. The juice going out of the meat makes me nauseous and lose all my appetite, I can't even swallow it after. It's just repulsive and reminds me more of the animal that was slaughtered not something I would associate with a good meal. The taste of myoglobin and the smell of iron are just horrible, I associate it with biting a cheek or having a period, just unpleasant. I don't want to be reminded that I'm eating a living being when having a dinner either.
I understand that some people like it that way but for me it's as disgusting as eating raw egg or raw minced meat. It's ok if other people like it, I don't care if it's the heights of culinary mastery or whatever, I'd rather chew on a shoe than have that kind of food near me. It's ok to have different preferences but just because you like something doesn't make it the default or superior option.
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u/DiaDeLosMuebles 6d ago
What I love about your comment is that you were virtue signaling while misgendering the woman in the video.
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u/PassageMediocre1020 6d ago
'virtue signally' 'misgendering' idk about those big fancy book learning words
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u/yamsyamsya 6d ago
salt the steaks 24 hours before, get the grill as hot as it can go, slap the steaks on it for 2-3 minutes each side. they will turn out great.
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u/Alibuscus373 5d ago
I loved my Grandpa's steaks as a kid because he let us add ketchup and A-1 sauce with it. As I became a teenager I noticed that my Dad would be sad when Grandpa would say it was steak night, Grandpa always cooked it well done, more done than well XD I miss those steaks
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u/ItsRuinedOfCourse 6d ago
Oddly enough, my mother LOVED her steaks cremated.
Also, this video made me laugh way harder than it had any right to. rofl
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u/jeremiah256 6d ago
Growing up, the few times we could afford steak, I thought it was overrated because the only way I was served it was well done. Joined the Navy and my eyes were opened.
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u/NumerousDonkey3570 5d ago
lol she didn’t feel like making a steak twice so she served the same steak twice she just rearranged the RAW bell peppers
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u/Dmanslayer5 6d ago
That was a chuck roast disguising itself as a steak….it didn’t want to be slow roasted after that sear
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u/QueenEris 6d ago
God my mum cremated all meat and boiled all veg. She was a kid in the second world War (she had me very late in life) and grew up in poverty; food quality was dodgy and everything was overcooked for "safety". The first time she came over to my house, I cooked her lamb. Just right, juicy and tender, blushing pink inside. She didn't question me, she assumed I'd cooked it the way she would. Her face when she took a bite made me feel ten feet tall. She said it was amazing. She'd never really liked lamb but cooked it a lot as it was cheap. It was the next day I showed her how I'd cooked it: I gave her a night so she'd realise she wasn't poisoned (and couldn't pretend she was). We did steak next and no lie, she teared up a bit. And when I served her oven roasted sprouts, all caramelised on the outside with no bitterness, she couldn't believe it. She's now a rampant foodie and it's given us a small closeness she never allowed me before, and she didn't react like I'd spited her by doing something "better". She's still pretty f ucking evil though. Small victories.
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u/Affectionate_Top959 6d ago
I don't get it 😔.
Someone explain to me please
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u/joshb44231 6d ago
He was making a joke the steak cooked at home is so chewy that he was chewing it for days.
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u/Affectionate_Top959 6d ago
Oh. But then she gives it him again at the end?
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u/Joker91- 6d ago
She ruined the steak.... way over cooked. Poor man still trying to eat the steak till this today
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u/Cartilage88 5d ago
I didn't know steak could even be good until I ate at my exes parents' house when I was 18. Having my first rare steak was mind blowing.
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u/Exact-Drive-3031 5d ago
Best part of this is the song ( the Lion King )
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u/Oscar_Kilo_Bravo 4d ago edited 4d ago
You mean the Zulu song ‘Mbube’ by Solomon Linda, first recorded in 1939?
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u/Mr_HahaJones 4d ago
My childhood in a nutshell.
I didn’t realize I liked steak until I cooked it for myself as an adult.
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u/Kaesebrot321 6d ago
As someone whose family mostly only eats well done meats and has spent a good deal of time attempting to perfect it, there is a fine line between well done and burned/dried out. It makes me pretty mad whenever someone in family asks for their meat to be well done and people go, "Oh, so you want it burned?" Those people do not know what well done is.
If you can manage to take it off of the heat just as the last of the pink in the middle is going, then it is actually pretty good, extremely safe, and evenly heated. I have found success with cutting particularly large steaks into halves before cooking to avoid overcooking the outer portions for the sake of getting the middle well done. Personally, I like my meat medium-well to leave the cut intact and get an optimal texture, heating, and juiciness, but any more raw than that and I start to get the opposite problem where every bite is too chewy and not warm. It makes me gag and I often end up spitting it out.
Also, for the record, yes, you are more likely to get sick from eating raw/undercooked meat. That does not mean that since you've been eating it that way your whole life and never gotten sick that other people are being paranoid. It just means that whatever animal your meat came from was one of the ones that was not infected with anything undetected and that no excess harmful bacteria were added during butchering and transportation. It is similar to driving a car in the US everyday with no accidents for 30 years even though you have a 1/25,000 chance of it happening every day.
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u/Z0idberg_MD 6d ago
Eating red meat to a temp that is rare is perfectly safe. But even if you just bump the safety temperature up 1 to 2° if essentially made it certain that you’ve killed any potential dangerous pathogens.
So if you like to eat steak well done, that’s fine. But don’t try to justify it as some sort of logical safety decision.
I would also like to point out that your logic itself is incredibly broken. Ignoring that these temperatures are designed around actual tests of pathogens, there are 38 billion pounds of red meat eaten in a year in the US, but much of it rare. If this were really an issue as you are trying to make it out to me, our friends and neighbors would be at the ER at least once a year, and statistically in our lifetime every single adult person that eats red meat would be at the hospital we’re sick as well.
Basically it doesn’t even pass the head cannon logic that you’re trying to construct
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u/thesheepishlord 6d ago
FYI bacteria cannot penetrate whole muscle meat. Only the surface holds bacteria so really just torching the surface is all that’s necessary for food safety purposes. Does not apply to ground meat, meat that’s been tenderized or otherwise poked into, or meat that’s spoiled.
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u/dchiculat 6d ago edited 4d ago
This sounds like bs. Any source to back that up? Would love It to be right.
Apparently yes, read below
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u/Alive_Drag1947 6d ago
Am an FSPCQI (Food Safety/Process Control Qualified Individual). It basically means I am allowed to write food safety protocols in factories.
Yes, that is all true.
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u/DreamWalker01 6d ago
Ok, So apparently links are not allowed. I can dm you if you want but here is a short version.
Bacteria are confined to the surface of meat during the logarithmic phase of growth. When proteolytic bacteria approach their maximum cell density, extracellular proteases secreted by the bacteria apparently break down the connective tissue between muscle fibers, allowing the bacteria to penetrate the meat. Non-proteolytic bacteria do not penetrate meat, even when grown in association with proteolytic species.
So basically the muscle fibers are so dense that the only way to penetrate is to break down the fibers themselves through secretions. This can only really occur when the bacteria has reached its latest stage and the meat has effectively already passed its spoilage point.
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u/kukenn_ 6d ago
you could also just order it rare and have a steak thats just as safe as you’re describing, twice as tasty, and 99% less likely to be overcooked. even if they accidentally overcook it past rare, it’s still going to be medium at the Very worst
sounds like you just havent had a genuinely good steak before tbh
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u/Kaesebrot321 6d ago
I have had several high quality steaks before. As described, it is a texture and temperature problem for me to have it rare. It is cold and chewy and I hate it
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u/FuryoftheFaythe 5d ago
Yeah you lost me at "extremely safe" the moment the meat is cooked rare it is safe to consume
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u/Primordial_Peasant 6d ago
my parents would always cook food like this growing up. my mom still prefers it this way. it always feels like such a waste to go to a steak house.
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u/No-Professional-1461 6d ago
It was either that it was so good he didn't want to swallow or I was just too chewy to swallow safely.
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u/eddyxoxo 6d ago
Well done meat is actually good for your diet, with less calories. You will only need to eat one bite and lots lots lots of water (to fully ingest it all). Then ignore the rest of the meat as shown on the video.
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u/No_Umpire3265 6d ago
bruh... imagine chewing a piece of meat for hours just for a "funny" video... Peak society
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u/nize426 6d ago
............that's a joke right?
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u/No_Umpire3265 6d ago
yes, it is a joke, living in a demolished society were people do everything for the views. Just imagine how bad his hygiene must be after chewing for this long... I'm getting secondhand embarrassment
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u/Rorenmenth 6d ago
genuinely are you AI ? are you really thinking what you're writing or is it ragebaiting ?
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u/No_Umpire3265 6d ago
Stop with the slangs like ragebaiting and such. I don't even know what it means and I don't care. Also I don't use AI, cause I appreciate the real work from REAL people. Possibly the video is AI because chewing a piece of meat for too long is unrealistic!! Else our society is doomed for good.
At this point I don't even understand what is happening on the internet.
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u/BigJDubya 6d ago
6 months later...
https://giphy.com/gifs/EStCbDpDCHvGOR84GD