How do you like your hamburgers cooked?

[TheFamilyMan]

If it's hamburger, god only knows what that beef started out as: medium well to well solves that problem for me! Now for steak/prime rib it's a totally different story.

[hudsonf]

I prefer my burgers and steaks rare to medium. When being cooked at home I will save some for me to eat raw. I was in a restaurant one time and was told I could only get my steak well done because of some new law. I told her when the law starts paying my bill they can tell me how to eat my steaks. I then got up and my wife and I walked out. I think it was a policy of the restaurant and not a law because I went to another restaurant and got my steak cooked rare.

[edDV]

Food safety comes down to physics and common sense.

If Salmonella or other contamination is present, it will be on the surface of a steak and will be killed even if cooked med-rare. If the contamination is ground into hamburger, it will take higher internal temperature to kill all the bacteria. Bottom line, if you like rare to medium rare, get a steak not a hamburger.

[FulciLives]

Medium Rare

[zzyzzx]

Well done for me....I don't want any ecoli.

I also prefer well done. No ecoli or salmonella for me either.

[Seeker47]

Dunno. I haven't had one in about 25 years. It's not any Vegan kinda deal, either;
I just don't do chopped meat.

A long time ago, your hamburger might have come from 2 or 3 cows. Today, it could
easily be from 50 or 60 different animals. There may only have been a handful of
cases of Mad Cow disease (all outside the U.S. ?), but there are other health issues,
and this is too much a roll of bad dice for me -- even if I had a much greater yen
for red meat than I do.

The young dolts those Carl's Jr. humongous bacon cheeseburgers are pitched to will
have well-clogged arteries by the time they're 35.