A restaurant should ask its customers how they want their steak - or any piece of red meat -cooked. Sure, there might be several "acceptable" ways to cook it, but that choice should be up to the chef. They know the meat they’re working with and have been trained to cook it right.
No one ever asks how you want your chicken or fish done, so why should red meat be any different?

>>21451136 (OP)
>A restaurant should ask its customers how they want their steak
Agreed, and they do.
Pointless thread

>>21451136 (OP)
I agree with you acknowledging that you mean to say the word "should not" in the first sentence.
Medium rare is a shitty fashion trend anyways, give me a braised and well done beef shoulder any day over that slop

I OBVIOUSLY MEAN "SHOULD NOT" REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>21451140
I was about to agree with this anon, then I remembered ordering one at some establishment and the waiter saying "chef only cooks this rare". I'm more of a medium-rare / medium. But I agreed. It came out fucking blue. Afterwards I reflected that who is this cunt putting a dish on the menu, not allowing the level of cook on the steak and then getting it wrong anyway.

>>21451136 (OP)
A good chef should be aware that people have different fucking tastes

>>21451136 (OP)
>No one ever asks how you want your chicken or fish done
How do you want your chicken or fish done?

>>21451183
Listen, you fucking philistine, chefs are LEGITIMATE ARTISTS, and you're paying for the PRIVILEGE to experience their GENIUS. They know a lot more about food than you do - hell they know what you like more than you do yourself, since you probably subsist entirely on hot pockets and totinos, like a greasy little baby. When you spend your NEETbux on gay prostitutes, do you tell them how you want them to suck your shriveled, pathetic little penis? No, you give them the money and lay back and let them go to work, you picky little bitch. KYS

>>21451224
>When you spend your NEETbux on gay prostitutes, do you tell them how you want them to suck your shriveled, pathetic little penis?
Yes

Waiter: How would you like your steak done sir?
Me: the way the chef would order it.

>>21451136 (OP)
>choice should be up to the chef
you're a bootlicker.

>>21451224
If the chef is so great that he knows what I like then he should just serve me hot pockets and totinos

>>21451136 (OP)
0/10 rageb8

>>21451224
I bring my own salt and pepper to every restaurant. because some pretentious twats think their food does not need salt.

>>21451142
>my favorite pan-sear doneness? well actually give me an entirely different cooking method unrelated to a pan-sear
The meat you braised is "well-done" 10% through the cooking process, what you want goes far beyond doneness temperature and is more about the cook time. It's like people talking about how far they like their eggs when boiled and you walk in like an unhelpful retard and go "how do I boil my eggs? forget it, give them to be well-set in a quiche baked for half an hour". That wasn't the discussion, retard.

>>21451523
Pan searing is the first step of braising retard

>>21451537
You don't have to sear to braise something ackchyually

>>21451537
If you actually knew anything about braising you'd know that you wouldn't need to specify "well-done" but keep pretending.

>>21451136 (OP)
anything except well done is retarded and asking for parasites