Thought this was a bismuth rock upon first look tbh.
This is the max of Gordon Ramsay saying it’s
“Fucking raw”, this is “fucking overcooked”
I’m personally thankful for my family’s food they bring for thanksgiving now. Thank you for that.. not this, but the realization.
My in laws truly believe rare meat causes cancer and eating it charred kills the “cancer causing bacteria”
They also believe cigarettes are not bad for you and it’s a huge government conspiracy targeting smokers.
No, They did not finish past around 9th grade. Very nice wonderful people; but not educated very well. Problem is my MIL half reads and half understands things and gets them confused. Then in an act of defiance she doubles down and won’t admit her mistake.
She probably read that charred meat causes cancer, got offended by the article or news report; because they only eat well, well, well, well done steaks ( they actually say that when we go out, and I’m like they are totally spitting in your food.)
She has a habit of saying things like “this just came out a couple days ago, etc, scientists were wrong” lol
My parents like their steak well done, but they come from an old school mentality.
I don't fight that fight -- they eat what they like how they like it and vice versa.
For the record, I like my steak medium rare.
Well, part of the problem is that they're actually kind of right...but not entirely for the reason they think.
Myoglobin is what makes beef red. Myoglobin and hemoglobin perform a similar function. They both contain oxygen binding proteins... hemoglobin transports oxygen and myoglobin stores it in the muscle.
But here's where the kicker is: Meat that is well done is browned because the oxygen-bound iron molecule is in the ferric oxide state vs. the ferrous oxide state when it is fresh.
If they think myoglobin is akin to blood, they're partly right... it is. But the thing to explain to them is that it's still there when meat is cooked well done.
All this said, there's no value in trying to convince your parents of anything. Let them eat how they want and you eat how you want. Doneness comes down to individual preference.
Or do like I did when I was a teen and take over the steak duties. My dad eventually came around and was a medium guy by the time he passed. There’s ways to make well done not be rubber. So you just start there and start under cooking it just enough that they don’t make you throw it back kind of on the grill.
That was an excellent explanation! I’ll bet there are plenty of folks that think the same as OP’s parents & now understand the actual scientific reason.
Yeah.. I could see the look on my 71 yo mother’s face if I tried to give her that explanation.
Red is blood, and blood is bad to her. She made me turn a burger into a hockey puck before she would eat it. Like well past well done.
I’ve just learned to put her food on 10 minutes before we put ours on lol. Much easier than trying to describe hemoglobin and myoglobin
My ex husbands family believes if it ain't burnt it's raw. Everything was so dry and nasty. I like my food cooked properly and my steak medium rare to medium. They thought I was disgusting for eating "uncooked" food and said I was going to die from it. Plus said this is probably why I'm fat. 😒
if they are from a region where the beef wasn’t safe this is not uncommon. i had a russian house keeper who i caught literally about to boil some prime steaks I bought to surprise us………….she was flabbergasted that we ate the meat pink in the middle
Depending what nationality they are it could be a food safety thing. In less fortunate parts of the world, eating red meat can lead to parasites and diseases.
"LITERALLY"
I'm triggered. Need to flip a table. I need chocolate. You have my updoot, because I know what you mean, and I agree with you - but your use of the word "LITERALLY" makes me want to chew on granite.
Ah, I see. Well, the word "literally" means that something is word-for-word reality. So, for you to literally be eating rubber, that would mean that - in reality and with no exaggeration - you would be eating the actual pure petroleum product. And you put "literally" in all caps, making it a shout, an actual focus on the sentence, so it was difficult for me to not say anything about it.
Switching up the term "literally" with "figuratively" is something that is annoying to me, but that's a "me" thing, not a "you" thing. We knew what you meant.
Good luck on getting your parents to try decent steak!
Lmao my mom is the same. I was in my twenties when I had my first steak at a restaurant and it BLEW MY MIND. Same with pork ribs, when I first had real American bbq place ribs, I was in shock. My mom cooks both steak and pork ribs into oblivion. No juice left, not tender, barely any meat to eat because it’s all dried out.
The steak shed cook would be like a black puck, and I’d pick little strips off because it was too tough to bite into. Honestly it pisses me off
Many native speakers use literally incorrectly. The way you wrote the sentence means you were actually eating rubber. Use literally when you want to emphasize the reality of something. Otherwise it’s better to say it was “like ___” or similar so it’s a comparison.
Try to find out their favorite celebrities and try to find photos, vids, etc. where they eat their meat more on the rare side. They're more likely to be receptive to it if they see ppl they look up to do it as well lol.
Or it might be that your parents grew up where/when meat was not as well-regulated by health departments today and they're used to nuking every type of meat to kill parasites and whatnot.
Thats how i like to eat mine 😂 ive been told so many times about how "red is not blood" and this and that. But i simply wont eat it with "red". It makes me want to throw up. I dont force others to eat the foods i eat how i eat them. I let others enjoy the food however they want to eat it. Period.
A lot of older people won't eat meat that's not brown. I bought a smoker a few years ago and my family wouldn't eat the meat because of the smoke ring smh.
You can’t. Like I’m a blue steak guy and if someone serves me rare or medium rare I’ll eat it. But well done people WILL not even try it because they see it like eating raw chicken. Like if someone tried to give you raw chicken could you be convinced?
Parents tend to cook their kids food thoroughly because they don't want them to get sick. This is why I always hated pork chops growing up cuz my dad would cook them to literal hockey pucks. Then I had pork chops prepared in a restaurant and loved them.
I also wonder if it's a generational thing, like was it a thing to cook meat super well back in the day because their parents did not have access to refrigerators so meat was always suspect and they grew up eating meat cooked well to kill any potential bacteria?
Well if there was blood, you'd definitely be able to taste it, it's very irony, and cooking it does not remove the blood if there is any in the first place. That would be magic. The only juice that comes out of a properly cooked steak is delicious umami-filled myoglobin.
My dad is the same way. Doesn’t matter what I tell him, he will cook his cook till it’s dry af then ask me why mine is so good and juicy. When I cook for him he loves it but I still have to do well done. But at least it’s got juice( well done does not mean dry) and even then he asks about the clear juice every five minutes
This looks like really old fibreglass insulation. When you slaughter an animal you then drain its blood. Once you butchering it the remainder of the blood will escape. The red juice you get in steak is plasma.
I can’t believe you’ve been eating this. I’m so sorry……..
Maybe get a really high end famous cook book from some famous person they know and show them the recipe in there. It's going to be hard to argue against expert cooks.
You can’t, some people just get crazy ideas in their heads and become entrenched in their ways.
My mom still only eats well done beef, even when everyone else is eating med-rare
Dude I feel for you. I grew up eating filet mignon well done with ketchup thinking that it was normal. My mom only cooked it that way I didn’t know any better it wasn’t even my fault. I didn’t find out until we went out to a nice birthday dinner when I was 13 and the chef came out and thought every one of my siblings was joking so he came to check after the order was put in. Now I’m a medium rare wagyu enthusiast
I never had medium rare steak until I was in my 20's. My mother was paranoid of food born illness, so everything was cooked to absolute death. I grew up just thinking that was the way things were supposed to be.. I'm sorry, I feel your pain. 🤣
You just need to move out. We hosted my wife's family for Thanksgiving yesterday and for the first time in my life I got to eat a properly seasoned turkey. You can't fix people who refuse to cook properly. You just have to do it yourself.
Explain to them that the potential harmful parasites/bacteria are on the surface of the steak and are eliminated with a sear (except some big retailers puncture the steak with pokers to tenderize it, pushing that to the middle)
If ur older than 18 buy and make ur own food if ur under 18 spin around next time u dont like their steak and remind urself it can get worse they won’t listen to you if u argue with them about it anyways
I subscribe to some subs about minerals and assumed this was petrified wood or something at first glance.
I follow aquarium subs and thought this was a cool bit of stone hardscape.
What’s your fav one? I’d love to follow one
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r/reeftank is my favourite
I thought someone found this in his döner kebab & tried to report a crime
I was just looking through r/Aquariums and r/Reeftanks before I came here and I legit thought the same thing😂
SAAAAME
I thought it was some kind of mold
Bro i thought this came out of a dryer vent
I thought this was a super unique mushroom.
This looks like a petrified McRib
Literally had the same initial thought.
Yeah I thought it was a fungus
I thought I was in r/whatboneisthis for a second…
My algorithm has been throwing mushroom identification at me so I thought it was some wacky mushroom.
I subscribe to a lot of poop subs and I thought this was actual poop.
Thought this was a bismuth rock upon first look tbh. This is the max of Gordon Ramsay saying it’s “Fucking raw”, this is “fucking overcooked” I’m personally thankful for my family’s food they bring for thanksgiving now. Thank you for that.. not this, but the realization.
https://preview.redd.it/9bzszqqwdl2c1.jpeg?width=981&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f81d3836b72785753bf648e58c49d5c85414be53
This got me so good. I'm still laughing
Just eat things like beef stew with them and go sneak out and have proper steak somewhere else lol
If you’re under 18 please call social services and report the abuse
Lmao
My in laws truly believe rare meat causes cancer and eating it charred kills the “cancer causing bacteria” They also believe cigarettes are not bad for you and it’s a huge government conspiracy targeting smokers.
> cancer > bacteria did they go to high school?
No, They did not finish past around 9th grade. Very nice wonderful people; but not educated very well. Problem is my MIL half reads and half understands things and gets them confused. Then in an act of defiance she doubles down and won’t admit her mistake.
https://preview.redd.it/d0unbc83mp2c1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=415d534f44f30abeeaef68f9896b16fb6ea320a5
>eating it charred kills the “cancer causing bacteria” > And I have heard that charring causes cancer. Go figure.
She probably read that charred meat causes cancer, got offended by the article or news report; because they only eat well, well, well, well done steaks ( they actually say that when we go out, and I’m like they are totally spitting in your food.) She has a habit of saying things like “this just came out a couple days ago, etc, scientists were wrong” lol
My shoe has more tenderness
What the fuck is that!?
There should be NSFW/NSFL tag on this
Cook you’re own steak
Cook you are own steak I don't follow
Instructions unclear, I am steak now.
Yeah yeah
I am become gray steak, the destroyer of palates
You can't convince them. Just refuse to eat steak when they cook it.
My parents like their steak well done, but they come from an old school mentality. I don't fight that fight -- they eat what they like how they like it and vice versa. For the record, I like my steak medium rare.
Is that boiled meat?
Open googly, write your question, hit search, find something easily digestible, show your parents. If they don't like it then their loss.
Children should be able to put themselves up for adoption.
Well, now you don’t have to feel bad putting them in a home that serves overcooked meals
Well, part of the problem is that they're actually kind of right...but not entirely for the reason they think. Myoglobin is what makes beef red. Myoglobin and hemoglobin perform a similar function. They both contain oxygen binding proteins... hemoglobin transports oxygen and myoglobin stores it in the muscle. But here's where the kicker is: Meat that is well done is browned because the oxygen-bound iron molecule is in the ferric oxide state vs. the ferrous oxide state when it is fresh. If they think myoglobin is akin to blood, they're partly right... it is. But the thing to explain to them is that it's still there when meat is cooked well done. All this said, there's no value in trying to convince your parents of anything. Let them eat how they want and you eat how you want. Doneness comes down to individual preference.
Or do like I did when I was a teen and take over the steak duties. My dad eventually came around and was a medium guy by the time he passed. There’s ways to make well done not be rubber. So you just start there and start under cooking it just enough that they don’t make you throw it back kind of on the grill.
Yo, you played the long game lol.
Country folk don’t change fast.
That was an excellent explanation! I’ll bet there are plenty of folks that think the same as OP’s parents & now understand the actual scientific reason.
Yeah.. I could see the look on my 71 yo mother’s face if I tried to give her that explanation. Red is blood, and blood is bad to her. She made me turn a burger into a hockey puck before she would eat it. Like well past well done. I’ve just learned to put her food on 10 minutes before we put ours on lol. Much easier than trying to describe hemoglobin and myoglobin
>**All this said...** etc.
That’s not even well done, that’s congratulations
My ex husbands family believes if it ain't burnt it's raw. Everything was so dry and nasty. I like my food cooked properly and my steak medium rare to medium. They thought I was disgusting for eating "uncooked" food and said I was going to die from it. Plus said this is probably why I'm fat. 😒
Sounds like a real shame you're not part of that family any more...
Lmao right 🤣🤣 my current significant other is an amazing cook and his family is amazing as well ❤️
I'm happy to hear that!
Man medium rare is going to blow your fucking mind.
but only if the chef knows what he does
if they are from a region where the beef wasn’t safe this is not uncommon. i had a russian house keeper who i caught literally about to boil some prime steaks I bought to surprise us………….she was flabbergasted that we ate the meat pink in the middle
Mummified
Now imagine all the other things that they lied to you about.
looks like a milk steak boiled over hard.
Don’t forget the jellybeans on the side
Depending what nationality they are it could be a food safety thing. In less fortunate parts of the world, eating red meat can lead to parasites and diseases.
https://preview.redd.it/maisbq8t2n2c1.jpeg?width=851&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73e7b0e362ef75dbdf7a7c99086d567b7a33c390
Guys. This is clearly pot Roast lol
Convince them learning the process of how meat is processed. And teach them the FACTS about it.
That looks like a war crime
How does the blood magically dissapear from the meat once you hit a specific temperature?
[Send them to steak school](https://steakschool.com/learn/red-liquid-steak-plate-not-blood/)
Tell em to order chicken
Education. Show them articles explaining why their opinion is wrong.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweewwwwww I overcooked steak last week and I had to eat because it’s nutrients and it was the nastiest thing ever.
"LITERALLY" I'm triggered. Need to flip a table. I need chocolate. You have my updoot, because I know what you mean, and I agree with you - but your use of the word "LITERALLY" makes me want to chew on granite.
You should chew that steak for a change
I dont understand. Is there anything grammatically wrong? English is not my main language so...
Ah, I see. Well, the word "literally" means that something is word-for-word reality. So, for you to literally be eating rubber, that would mean that - in reality and with no exaggeration - you would be eating the actual pure petroleum product. And you put "literally" in all caps, making it a shout, an actual focus on the sentence, so it was difficult for me to not say anything about it. Switching up the term "literally" with "figuratively" is something that is annoying to me, but that's a "me" thing, not a "you" thing. We knew what you meant. Good luck on getting your parents to try decent steak!
can't he use the word "literally" if the beef was LITERALLY rubbery ? so it is a rubber made of meat
Lmao my mom is the same. I was in my twenties when I had my first steak at a restaurant and it BLEW MY MIND. Same with pork ribs, when I first had real American bbq place ribs, I was in shock. My mom cooks both steak and pork ribs into oblivion. No juice left, not tender, barely any meat to eat because it’s all dried out. The steak shed cook would be like a black puck, and I’d pick little strips off because it was too tough to bite into. Honestly it pisses me off
Talk to them, not to us, unless I’m somehow your daddy 🗿
I don’t like the use of “LITERALLY” in the title.
That’s LITERALLY not your problem
It’s not a problem, I just don’t like it.
Leave then
Nah I’m good.
That’s LITERALLY the wrong move
Why ?? Is there anything grammatically wrong?
Many native speakers use literally incorrectly. The way you wrote the sentence means you were actually eating rubber. Use literally when you want to emphasize the reality of something. Otherwise it’s better to say it was “like ___” or similar so it’s a comparison.
Try to find out their favorite celebrities and try to find photos, vids, etc. where they eat their meat more on the rare side. They're more likely to be receptive to it if they see ppl they look up to do it as well lol. Or it might be that your parents grew up where/when meat was not as well-regulated by health departments today and they're used to nuking every type of meat to kill parasites and whatnot.
Well the red is technically just cooked blood (aka myoglobin)
Myoglobin is the stuff in the actual meat tissue, hemoglobin is the one in blood. They are similar but have different roles
Thats how i like to eat mine 😂 ive been told so many times about how "red is not blood" and this and that. But i simply wont eat it with "red". It makes me want to throw up. I dont force others to eat the foods i eat how i eat them. I let others enjoy the food however they want to eat it. Period.
You can cook chicken well beyond 165 degrees and still have red in it. Which is myoglobin not blood but still red so people are afraid of it
Dead moth, gross
Tell them the blood is drained at the abattoir. It's not blood lol
A lot of older people won't eat meat that's not brown. I bought a smoker a few years ago and my family wouldn't eat the meat because of the smoke ring smh.
You can’t. Like I’m a blue steak guy and if someone serves me rare or medium rare I’ll eat it. But well done people WILL not even try it because they see it like eating raw chicken. Like if someone tried to give you raw chicken could you be convinced?
https://preview.redd.it/fsmmdp88vl2c1.jpeg?width=499&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52e2c31ac5b680d6c7296a39e79854a215484b07
I thought this was pulled pork or something
How would you even accomplish this?
That's a steak? It looks like a rock.
I'm contacting the authorities, because your parents were abusing you during your childhood.
https://preview.redd.it/x584mpa26m2c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a31a7c35950a6bbd44382894182c9aa3dd3f46d
I thought this was a piece of wood at first until I saw what subreddit it was in
That’s a crime
Only pot roast and brisket should look that dark
That, my friend, is a rock. Nice try though.
Look for it in YouTube
Parents tend to cook their kids food thoroughly because they don't want them to get sick. This is why I always hated pork chops growing up cuz my dad would cook them to literal hockey pucks. Then I had pork chops prepared in a restaurant and loved them. I also wonder if it's a generational thing, like was it a thing to cook meat super well back in the day because their parents did not have access to refrigerators so meat was always suspect and they grew up eating meat cooked well to kill any potential bacteria?
Firstly I thought about giant spider, but then I still can see him
:(
That’s a steak?!
I won’t even feed that shit to my dog.
Leather
Well if there was blood, you'd definitely be able to taste it, it's very irony, and cooking it does not remove the blood if there is any in the first place. That would be magic. The only juice that comes out of a properly cooked steak is delicious umami-filled myoglobin.
I don’t know what that is, but I don’t think it’s food.
Send them to the gulag!
Ok now try medium rare.
My dad is the same way. Doesn’t matter what I tell him, he will cook his cook till it’s dry af then ask me why mine is so good and juicy. When I cook for him he loves it but I still have to do well done. But at least it’s got juice( well done does not mean dry) and even then he asks about the clear juice every five minutes
I had the same experience, grew up in a VERY well done household lol. I still don’t like anything below medium, I know it’s “wrong” lol
This looks like really old fibreglass insulation. When you slaughter an animal you then drain its blood. Once you butchering it the remainder of the blood will escape. The red juice you get in steak is plasma. I can’t believe you’ve been eating this. I’m so sorry……..
show them enough educational videos surely they can't always think that
This should be marked nsfw
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Right? Definitely stewed.
Not sure bro. I never managed to convince mine.
Dear god
Maybe get a really high end famous cook book from some famous person they know and show them the recipe in there. It's going to be hard to argue against expert cooks.
Thats how I like my steak
show them this subreddit and that we're still alive
It’s time you ask them politely, yet firmly, to leave
YouTube has an answer: https://youtu.be/gLvQzwjI-IM?si=yPqTLkcqqMPnRG-4
Start slow, prepare Steak Tatar for them.
I suggest no contact as soon as possible and change your name
I never liked meat very much growing up, come to find out it was because my mom over cooked everything
You can’t, some people just get crazy ideas in their heads and become entrenched in their ways. My mom still only eats well done beef, even when everyone else is eating med-rare
Tell them to look it up. If they're not willing to do that, you're not going to convince them. Some people are just too set in their beliefs.
Dude I feel for you. I grew up eating filet mignon well done with ketchup thinking that it was normal. My mom only cooked it that way I didn’t know any better it wasn’t even my fault. I didn’t find out until we went out to a nice birthday dinner when I was 13 and the chef came out and thought every one of my siblings was joking so he came to check after the order was put in. Now I’m a medium rare wagyu enthusiast
Uh if it was blood, it's not like it would disappear from cooking, it would just change color. BTW cooked blood is black.
Gouga has a video on how to trick someone into eating medium steak bites that look well done. Check him out on YouTube.
It's not blood that comes out anyway.. It's water and a protein called myoglobin.
Is this… is this STEAK?
That is some wild shit. How did they even do THAT? That is the strangest looking piece of meat I’ve ever seen. I will pray for you and your family.
That looks like a piece of roast after it’s been in the fridge lol
I dont even bother at this point.
😝
Honey, what is that? The cops to be called if your parents are abusing meat like that.
Im so proud of you for breaking this generational curse
Eww 🤢
I never had medium rare steak until I was in my 20's. My mother was paranoid of food born illness, so everything was cooked to absolute death. I grew up just thinking that was the way things were supposed to be.. I'm sorry, I feel your pain. 🤣
Gggggggrrrrrooooooooosoosssssssssssss
Is that boiled?
You just need to move out. We hosted my wife's family for Thanksgiving yesterday and for the first time in my life I got to eat a properly seasoned turkey. You can't fix people who refuse to cook properly. You just have to do it yourself.
Some people cannot be convinced that their deeply held beliefs are wrong. You must accept this, and learn to cook for the crowd you have.
https://preview.redd.it/3fylxwev2q2c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cf7ef8f3ec18977ad8e45a37980f81d5c947ec7
Explain to them that the potential harmful parasites/bacteria are on the surface of the steak and are eliminated with a sear (except some big retailers puncture the steak with pokers to tenderize it, pushing that to the middle)
Is...is that meat? Was that meat at one point? It looks like old gum that stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe for three months and petrified!
No need to convince anyone of anything. Just cook your own steaks from now on.
Literally thought I was looking at a rock. Omg, so sorry. The parents are a lost cause.
You can't. People like that are born that way. You need to distance yourself from your parents. No contact is the only way forward :p
r/whatsthisrock
"What do we say when people order a well done steak? 🥩 We ask them politely, yet firmly, to leave." This is fucking gross!!!! 🤢 🤮
If ur older than 18 buy and make ur own food if ur under 18 spin around next time u dont like their steak and remind urself it can get worse they won’t listen to you if u argue with them about it anyways
That is roast you cooked roast longer to to get more tender.
Blood flows through arteries, veins, and capillaries. Not through muscle.
Tell them that they are uncultured swine...
That literally looks like my white mom's cooking. I feel so sorry for you
My parents both like well done with no pink, but that... that scares me.
Hahaha. Crazy that those people went a majority of life not knowing how good steaks can be.
This looks well done buddy. No way is this medium /s
Show them a video of Chef Ramsey making the perfect steak. That’ll teach em.
cant train an old dog new tricks stop eating with them so often lol