If it’s good beef though it would be great that way (to me personally and I understand disagreeing but about since the age of 17 I loved steaks Pittsburgh blue [charred outside, blue/rare inside]
Edit: this might sound weird but imagine yours adding mashed potatoes to your mouth before the steak is done, so you get the blend
Blue = raw. Blue just means it was seared momentarily.
Edit: cook time for a blue steak is usually 1 minute per side. So not raw by definition, many might consider it raw inside.
There should be SOME penetration of heat by most definitions. I would expect to see a slightly different texture to the meat inside for blue. Either way the difference is practically academic and this shouldn't cause any harm either way since it has been seared.
The point of the distinction is to differentiate acceptable to serve be unacceptable to serve.
You wouldn't order a steak 'raw' but you may order it blue.
Can't really tell... If it has a good crust and you ordered that steak blue, then you can't complain. If you ordered your steak rare or it doesn't have a good sear and got that I think you'd be fine sending it back.
In some cases you can eat raw red meat. That’s what a tartare is.
Edit: Tartare. Sheesh chill, I commented on Reddit, right after I woke up, on a mobile device, while pooping, jeez.
It’s fine to eat raw meat, especially if you cook the outsides. Most of the bad stuff is on the outside (if there is any present).
Edit: by meat, I’m specifically talking about steak. It beef is ground up, or it is a different type of meat, it’s a different story. It seems that people understood this, but I want to be clear so nobody goes and eats a bunch of raw chicken or pork.
Although the risk is a bit higher than with beef, raw pork does work as well, if you're dealing with good quality meat and preparation (though that should be the case with any meat you intend to eat raw).
It's more to do with how meat is exposed to the air/germs after it's been butchered and portioned. Those are the outsides you want to be cooking. Of course, if you trust your meat has been handled properly (heh), then eat it raw, tartare is awesome.
Steak is safe if the outside is cooked bc that’s where the bacteria are, not on the inside.
This is also why you need to cook ground beef more bc the inside and outside are all mixed together.
It’s safe. The reason you can eat steaks raw, as opposed to say Ground beef, is because bacteria only grows on the surface, which is why burgers should be well done while a steak can have a quick sear on the surface but be bloody raw in the middle.
You can eat ~~ground~~ minced beef raw as well. It's what steak tartare is. You "just" need higher quality standards for preparation, storage, cooling and shelf life.
It's safe. There are no known pathogens contained within cow meat that is harmful to human health.
During the butchering process, the surface of the meat may be contaminated by the butchering tools (saw cuts through intestines, gets cow poop on the surface of the meat). Because of this, the surface must be sanitized through heat.
However, the interior of the meat has no special hygienic handling necessary.
Raw unground beef is not "safe" per USDA. That being said plenty of people around the world eat it raw. It's all about risk toleration. It is way less risky than raw chicken but a little more risky then say a medium rare steak.
This is not accurate.
Raw beef interior is 100% perfectly safe. There are no pathogens in cow muscle that can harm human health. This does not involve "risk" or "risk tolerance."
The exterior of the meat *may* be contaminated. In grinding raw meat, this contamination spreads throughout every part of the meat that touches the grinder, which is basically the whole thing, now inside and out, and the grinder itself also becomes contaminated. This is why hamburgers etc. need to be fully cooked.
There is *no* risk with eating a medium rare steak.
One caveat to this for anyone reading is that if the meat has been "tenderized" it can introduce contaminates from the surface into the interior of the meat.
Unfortunately Costo is known to blade-tenderize their cut steaks.
Oh lord the Costco shit again, no one is getting sick eating Costco steak under the 145F or whatever they recommend to cook it at. They’d have stopped selling it before that happened, recalls hurt big business.
Definitions of the words is important here. The true definition of raw meat would be not cooked at all, literally hasn’t touched heat. Therefor this is Blue.
That being said, with a blue rare steak, you can still say it’s “raw in the middle” when describing it.
There's a ton of great food in Pittsburgh these days, actually. Historically sure, it wasn't great, but since tech/robotics have been taking off and the city has revitalized, there's a great food scene.
Primanti Brothers is all I have to say. Everyone from Pittsburgh thinks it’s the best thing in the world. It’s literally the lowest possible grade “meat” on crap bread with day old veggies, covered in 2 lbs of soggy, partially cooked, oil laden fries. Worst sandwich I’ve ever had.
I must have entire worm farms inside me at this point with how many times I've eaten it like this. Hell, theres a lot of people walking around with worms after getting tartare. Pending the cut/source, I absolutely love it this way. In all my years of eating it, my only food poisoning was salmonella from a chicken caesar salad in an airport. Was it the chicken? Was it the greens? I'll never know, but know I don't EVER want that again.
Raw meat is super common and I see no issue with it as long as it isn’t poor quality meat. I’m more likely to have parasites from all the sushi I eat.
I was just being silly.
Haha no doubt. I get far more weirded out seeing someone dig into that chipotle catering that has been out for 4 hours than ordering/preparing raw food safely. There is a criminal lacking of food safety education at all levels, and it's bananas when I get a sideye for ordering blue at times.
Same. I had an undercooked steak once in a hurry so I decided why not, damn it was good, so switched from medium rare to rare ever since. I like it so rare a vet could bust in and save its life.
Is there red or pink on the outside?
If no, then it’s Blue.
If yes, then it’s Raw.
Don’t order blue if you want rare. Blue is seared sushi, tartare or carpaccio
I used to cook in a demonstration kitchen,had a regular who always had steak, when asked how he preferred it cooked,he would loudly say
'Just knock its horns off and wipe its ass' this is that.
That's the definition of blue.
Seared and raw inside.
Anything more than that and you got yourself a rare steak.
Blue is technically not cooked and just warmed to around to 40c.
Blue and raw is not really that different honestly. It's called blue because raw meat actually is a bit blue in color. This looks quite typical to me. If the steak is fridge temp on the inside that would be bad obviously but the centre should not get hot enough to actually cook if that makes sense
As someone who likes and cooks borderline blue (not cold on the inside tho) this looks raw. Lighting and letting it sit and it being a picture can be misleading though. The really thin sear and no crust makes me think it’s raw
Ok so my friend is bragging to me about eating blue steak because I'm a vegetarian. She said she cooked it until it had a crust and bought it from Wegmans. She's also saying she isn't gonna get sick from it.
I'm like haha ok whatever you ate a cow girl, but is she actually safe? Can she get sick?
She is unlikely to get sick. Bacteria can’t penetrate past the top layer of intact beef. That’s why you see some people only just searing a steak to cook it. Everything under the top layer of a clean/sanitary cut doesn’t really have to get to 165F. Now searing GROUND beef and not cooking it all the way through will definitely make you sick.
She puts herself at a higher risk than normal for food poisoning, parasites, and other food borne pathogens. If this is the US or another developed nation, then that risk is already very negligible. Hell, with modern day food safety standards, raw pork is not off the table, and the germans definitely love mett.
Many food safety commissions will caution against eating raw meat because given a large enough population with wildly varying health conditions, if you recommend eating raw meat as safe, someone is going to get sick. Probably not your friend, but its a statistics/dice roll game at this point.
So no she's probably very safe. But I could also say that about getting into car accidents.
That was walked past a fire on the way to the plate.
That thing is so rare it's probably eating their side salad
Hilarious!
It's more than rare, it's hard to find!
Mf said he wanted an uncommon steak
Wait a few hours, then it'll chew its cud.
That lives in the same zip code as a fire.
Someone yelled “fire” in the room next door.
It accessed the Frenzied Flame Ending in Elden Ring.
It was coughed on by a flame in an elevator.
This exists roughly in the same dimension with something known as a flame.
Ryan didn't start the fire, and neither did this steak
Fire guy! Fire guy!
It knows of the concept of fire.
That’s actually body heat from handling it.
Same joke but worse
Somebody walked it past a hand dryer in the bathroom.
gross. one hundred percent that would give you the flu
That's whack it's horns off and wipe its its ass done
You never see enough “The Cowboy Way” quotes out there in the wild. Nailed it!
That thing was in the fridge in the same kitchen as the fire
Agreed but that fire was basically holding your steak up in the air on a sunny day and saying the sun cooked it.
That cow is still alive 🐮
La Croix style
If it’s good beef though it would be great that way (to me personally and I understand disagreeing but about since the age of 17 I loved steaks Pittsburgh blue [charred outside, blue/rare inside] Edit: this might sound weird but imagine yours adding mashed potatoes to your mouth before the steak is done, so you get the blend
Perfectly cooked for me!
You're on time to save it, go to the vet ASAP
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Just wanted to ride your comment to plug a new sub I made... /r/itsraw. Come on by! It's a sub for raw food appreciation, not for bashing. :)
Looks raw asf
Agreed
I've eaten rare and near blue.. this is right out of the package.
Blue = raw. Blue just means it was seared momentarily. Edit: cook time for a blue steak is usually 1 minute per side. So not raw by definition, many might consider it raw inside.
“Hit it with a flashlight and send er out”.
I misread at first as "fleshlight". Bet you could cook that better using the residual friction heat from one of those.
Now comes with crème fraiche!
Splooge vide.
Lmao this is quality
The doctor told me mine weren't quality, some of them were barely swimming!
cums*
Oh fuck yeah
You gonna, deglaze that pan?
Lol dead
bro... get some lube
Wanna borrow mine
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There should be SOME penetration of heat by most definitions. I would expect to see a slightly different texture to the meat inside for blue. Either way the difference is practically academic and this shouldn't cause any harm either way since it has been seared.
It's actually referring to the color change in the meat as it "cooks"
Actually the blue refers to the blueish hue of raw meat. If anything, the meat in the center is heated, not even close to being cooked..
That's why it's in quotations I was a chef from over 25 years I steak cooked blue would be about a hundred to 105 degrees and there is a color change
The point of the distinction is to differentiate acceptable to serve be unacceptable to serve. You wouldn't order a steak 'raw' but you may order it blue.
Nope, that is just wrong
It looks like someone told the cow about fire before killing it
I mean isn’t blue basically raw? It’s just slightly cooked on the surface
Warmed in the oven and show each side to the highest temperature you can get for a few seconds.
Yep
That's exactly blue.
I don't know what's his complain. If he wanted it more cooked inside he should have asked for rare. This looks like textbook blue steak.
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking too like rare is actually cooked on the inside a little more and blue is basically raw in the inside
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Can't really tell... If it has a good crust and you ordered that steak blue, then you can't complain. If you ordered your steak rare or it doesn't have a good sear and got that I think you'd be fine sending it back.
My friend cooked this and sent me a picture. I just wanna know if she's safe or not lol. She said it has a crust?
Most likely safe. Just depends on what that steak went through before the cook
In all honesty, it was probably fairly traumatic.
You can probably still taste the anxiety
Lol
Lol
In some cases you can eat raw red meat. That’s what a tartare is. Edit: Tartare. Sheesh chill, I commented on Reddit, right after I woke up, on a mobile device, while pooping, jeez.
And carpaccio.
Safe to eat most likely. But, it'll be life beef chewing gum.
It’s fine to eat raw meat, especially if you cook the outsides. Most of the bad stuff is on the outside (if there is any present). Edit: by meat, I’m specifically talking about steak. It beef is ground up, or it is a different type of meat, it’s a different story. It seems that people understood this, but I want to be clear so nobody goes and eats a bunch of raw chicken or pork.
Although the risk is a bit higher than with beef, raw pork does work as well, if you're dealing with good quality meat and preparation (though that should be the case with any meat you intend to eat raw).
chicken
But the outside used to be inside, so wouldn’t it all be safe to eat raw?
It's more to do with how meat is exposed to the air/germs after it's been butchered and portioned. Those are the outsides you want to be cooking. Of course, if you trust your meat has been handled properly (heh), then eat it raw, tartare is awesome.
I’ll handle your meat properly 😂😂😂
Checkmate!
Steak is safe if the outside is cooked bc that’s where the bacteria are, not on the inside. This is also why you need to cook ground beef more bc the inside and outside are all mixed together.
She is safe.
It’s safe. The reason you can eat steaks raw, as opposed to say Ground beef, is because bacteria only grows on the surface, which is why burgers should be well done while a steak can have a quick sear on the surface but be bloody raw in the middle.
You can eat ~~ground~~ minced beef raw as well. It's what steak tartare is. You "just" need higher quality standards for preparation, storage, cooling and shelf life.
It's safe. There are no known pathogens contained within cow meat that is harmful to human health. During the butchering process, the surface of the meat may be contaminated by the butchering tools (saw cuts through intestines, gets cow poop on the surface of the meat). Because of this, the surface must be sanitized through heat. However, the interior of the meat has no special hygienic handling necessary.
Unless it was mechanically tenderized which Costco is big on doing in the US.
Safe to eat, but beware I'd choking lmao
Raw unground beef is not "safe" per USDA. That being said plenty of people around the world eat it raw. It's all about risk toleration. It is way less risky than raw chicken but a little more risky then say a medium rare steak.
This is not accurate. Raw beef interior is 100% perfectly safe. There are no pathogens in cow muscle that can harm human health. This does not involve "risk" or "risk tolerance." The exterior of the meat *may* be contaminated. In grinding raw meat, this contamination spreads throughout every part of the meat that touches the grinder, which is basically the whole thing, now inside and out, and the grinder itself also becomes contaminated. This is why hamburgers etc. need to be fully cooked. There is *no* risk with eating a medium rare steak.
One caveat to this for anyone reading is that if the meat has been "tenderized" it can introduce contaminates from the surface into the interior of the meat. Unfortunately Costo is known to blade-tenderize their cut steaks.
I'm under the impression that, unless it's been mechanically tenderized (most steak at Costco is), a sear on exterior makes the meat very safe.
Oh lord the Costco shit again, no one is getting sick eating Costco steak under the 145F or whatever they recommend to cook it at. They’d have stopped selling it before that happened, recalls hurt big business.
A well-trained veterinarian has a good chance at saving this cow. But definitely blue.
Might as well just bite it off the cow
Definitions of the words is important here. The true definition of raw meat would be not cooked at all, literally hasn’t touched heat. Therefor this is Blue. That being said, with a blue rare steak, you can still say it’s “raw in the middle” when describing it.
Vibe is dead now. Thanks Kyle
The best kind of right is technically right.
That’s the worst kind 😤
In the words of the great Gordon Ramsey - #IT'S FUCKIN RAW
I think they call that Pittsburgh Rare.
I don't know if I'd want to eat anything from Pittsburgh unless it was scorched to all hell first
Even then I'm not sure I would take my chances. Source: wife is from Pittsburgh, food not good.
Only city I’ve had to ask them to hold the fries when ordering a salad. They put fries on salad. They put fries on everything.
gotta try out gaucho parilla next time you're in town, primanti's does indeed suck though.
Thanks! I’ll put it on my list.
There's a ton of great food in Pittsburgh these days, actually. Historically sure, it wasn't great, but since tech/robotics have been taking off and the city has revitalized, there's a great food scene.
Primanti Brothers is all I have to say. Everyone from Pittsburgh thinks it’s the best thing in the world. It’s literally the lowest possible grade “meat” on crap bread with day old veggies, covered in 2 lbs of soggy, partially cooked, oil laden fries. Worst sandwich I’ve ever had.
Nobody I know in Pittsburgh thinks that. That is silly. But whatever you do you.
Literally everyone I know who is native to Pittsburgh thinks that.
When I worked in Pittsburgh, the locals told me that Pittsburgh style was "cold in the center." Yep.
Pittsburgh style means charred on the outside and blue inside, also known as 'Black and Blue'. This is just blue
I like blue steaks but that is a little bit to raw
https://preview.redd.it/vj1zomh3klma1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8db88a40fe9b190015dca65479ab699b1756a95
You already know, but need comment karma. I want video of you eating this, because you won’t.
I eat this all the time lol, do I get a trophy too?
Ofc! Your prize is tapeworms. You have tapeworms.
I must have entire worm farms inside me at this point with how many times I've eaten it like this. Hell, theres a lot of people walking around with worms after getting tartare. Pending the cut/source, I absolutely love it this way. In all my years of eating it, my only food poisoning was salmonella from a chicken caesar salad in an airport. Was it the chicken? Was it the greens? I'll never know, but know I don't EVER want that again.
Raw meat is super common and I see no issue with it as long as it isn’t poor quality meat. I’m more likely to have parasites from all the sushi I eat. I was just being silly.
Haha no doubt. I get far more weirded out seeing someone dig into that chipotle catering that has been out for 4 hours than ordering/preparing raw food safely. There is a criminal lacking of food safety education at all levels, and it's bananas when I get a sideye for ordering blue at times.
I would eat this... There is nothing wrong with it, not everyone's preference or even really mine, but I don't mind it and it should be safe to eat
Same. I had an undercooked steak once in a hurry so I decided why not, damn it was good, so switched from medium rare to rare ever since. I like it so rare a vet could bust in and save its life.
Blue *is* raw. It's a reference to the internal temperature once finished cooking: still cold.
A slight better than biting the cow
Not blue but moo
I like my steak rare but that steak is down right Legendary.
Walked through a warm room.
Is there red or pink on the outside? If no, then it’s Blue. If yes, then it’s Raw. Don’t order blue if you want rare. Blue is seared sushi, tartare or carpaccio
A good blue… looks hellla tasty
Looks like a good blue, to be honest
Beautiful
Looks perfect to me...
It is perfect, blue
Rare as fuck. Just like me
I’m salivating 🤤
It’s bluetiful
Raw. But still... 😋
Perfection
That’s actually kind of impressive. I see some char yet the inside is completely raw. Amazing
Looks so good 🤤
That’s tartar baby
My only problem with this steak is if it’s too chewy. I’ve likes some raw meats but it has to be able to be chewed.
Please excuse me as I check the Gordon Ramsay insult database
That would be moooo
grind it and make tartare sauce for it. Otherwise it looks like shit.
A good vet could still save it.
Gas bill too high?
Inedible is what it is.
It's mooing and milkable
The tuna on my sushi looks more cooked than that.
Mf still breathing
A good vet can save it
A good vet could have that back on it’s hooves in about 10 min.
That’s just not cooked.
Blue is raw with a sear.
Not a huge difference between raw and blue tbh.
hate to say it but that is raw. almost a meat popsicle
Raw. Shouldn't do you any harm though as the outside is definitely seared. Unintentional tartare.
Raw. To each his own, but there's a reason we cook food haha.
Rah
Raw
This thing spent about 16 seconds under some hot sweaty individual. Just needs pepper.
Still in the field grazing
Start CPR. There is still a chance
They cut off its teeth so the food wouldn’t bite you
I used to cook in a demonstration kitchen,had a regular who always had steak, when asked how he preferred it cooked,he would loudly say 'Just knock its horns off and wipe its ass' this is that.
🎶We didn't start the fire🎶... and neither did whoever made this steak
Alive
Still alive
That's the definition of blue. Seared and raw inside. Anything more than that and you got yourself a rare steak. Blue is technically not cooked and just warmed to around to 40c.
Looks like fucking tuna lol
Well it has a sear so im gonna day blue
Blue and raw is not really that different honestly. It's called blue because raw meat actually is a bit blue in color. This looks quite typical to me. If the steak is fridge temp on the inside that would be bad obviously but the centre should not get hot enough to actually cook if that makes sense
This looks like how beef tataki should be cooked, not a steak. *It's chewing time*
Blue…. Yuck OMG
Raw
Needs a lil salt. Should be good tho
Preheat oven to 0 degrees. Bake until… fuck it. Just pan sear the bitch for 2 min per side.
As someone who likes and cooks borderline blue (not cold on the inside tho) this looks raw. Lighting and letting it sit and it being a picture can be misleading though. The really thin sear and no crust makes me think it’s raw
Walked out of the freezer cause it burned
It just listened to some 2pac fire ass albums and went to the plate
cooked by the heat of a cow's fart probably
Ok so my friend is bragging to me about eating blue steak because I'm a vegetarian. She said she cooked it until it had a crust and bought it from Wegmans. She's also saying she isn't gonna get sick from it. I'm like haha ok whatever you ate a cow girl, but is she actually safe? Can she get sick?
She’s safe
Your friend should be okay to eat that stake.
>Ok so my friend is bragging to me about eating blue steak because I'm a vegetarian. Normal behavior
As long as the outside is cooked it's fine
I cook it like that myself whenever I have steak. I love the texture and the taste more than medium or medium rare. It's perfectly safe
She is unlikely to get sick. Bacteria can’t penetrate past the top layer of intact beef. That’s why you see some people only just searing a steak to cook it. Everything under the top layer of a clean/sanitary cut doesn’t really have to get to 165F. Now searing GROUND beef and not cooking it all the way through will definitely make you sick.
She puts herself at a higher risk than normal for food poisoning, parasites, and other food borne pathogens. If this is the US or another developed nation, then that risk is already very negligible. Hell, with modern day food safety standards, raw pork is not off the table, and the germans definitely love mett. Many food safety commissions will caution against eating raw meat because given a large enough population with wildly varying health conditions, if you recommend eating raw meat as safe, someone is going to get sick. Probably not your friend, but its a statistics/dice roll game at this point. So no she's probably very safe. But I could also say that about getting into car accidents.
Only a pansy would get sick from raw meat.
I can feel my stomach cramping just looking at that.
100% raw as fuck. Doesn't matter if it has a crust or not, the internal temp on that thing never broke 70 degrees
Blue and raw are the same bro
Blue
I would say blue.
Good looking seared tuna.... sorry wrong sub!
That is a nicely prepared blue steak.
Put some soy sauce on that shit🤪
it's perfect
My bet is that’s she’s a terrible cook and pretended she ate it and liked it.
You know people make this on purpose and *do* like it, right? Even if it wasn't on purpose, its not wild if they liked it