How do you like your meat cooked?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Steak, rare.  Hamburger, medium rare.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Well done. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but oh well. Had rare once and I could barely chew it.

Most likely it was an inferior cut.  If you go to a place that serves really good meat, or buy the really good stuff, it melts in your mouth.   Next time you get to go to a good restaurant that specializes in good cuts of beef, try medium rare as a baby step.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Well done. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but oh well. Had rare once and I could barely chew it.

Most likely it was an inferior cut.  If you go to a place that serves really good meat, or buy the really good stuff, it melts in your mouth.   Next time you get to go to a good restaurant that specializes in good cuts of beef, try medium rare as a baby step.

If you cross-reference this thread with another recent one that wonders whether humans are a "higher form of life" than other animals, I wonder if there is any correlation.

After all, a tiger don't need no stinkin' Doyon 20-gallon capacity circle air convection oven.  As for me, I like that we have learned how to distill fermented grain beverages.  That alone is enough to stand us above the tigers.  

Still, there are folks who like their meats cooked.  Early man, even before he made his way out of the fertile valleys of East Africa, and once he got used to the immense heat given off by the burning bush after a lightning strike, figured out that the giraffes and zebras were a little easier to digest if you denature the proteins on a flame.  Certainly fajita meat, although "inferior," tastes good when cooked, and even better with a little Cholula on top.  

You've been nipping on that flask in your filing cabinet, haven't you

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Of course angus likes only angus beef.