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Anyone else bothered by rare steak?

#101
SolarMan said:
I love RAW beef

Ever tried beef carpaccio at a fine Italian restaurant? Totally uncooked and utterly fantastic

I lived in Belgium for 2 years and a big seller there is "Filet Americain" - Raw ground beef (Funny thing that 99% of Americans wouldn't touch it!)

If the beef is handled properly - Raw is where it's at (Just like Sushi)

Beef Carpaccio:

Filet Americain with Frites:

I think the Filet Americain is similar to Beef Tartare

Enjoy! :)
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Count me in.

Being raised in Milwaukee, cannibal sandwiches are a traditional favorite. Find the very best ground top sirloin you can (Karl's Meat Market in Menomonee Falls is a great source), butter up some nice dark rye, salt and pepper to taste and top with sharp onion slivers or slices. That makes a meal fit for a king. None of that mamby-pamby tar-tar with egg or Woshtershire needed.

Yummy yummy yummy yum yum yum!

iJazz - A cannibal sandwich has nothing to do with a sicko named Jeffery.
 
#104
Pretty punny, mohawk.

So far as raw food goes, the best I've had is fresh ahi. Chinese culture knows the importance of fresh food; fish shops display filleted fish with their beating hearts intact and will even sell cuts while they're still swimming.

And about Vulcans, they don't like finger food either; what do they know? A lot, actually, but that's not the point.
 
#105
colcifer said:
Pretty punny, mohawk.

So far as raw food goes, the best I've had is fresh ahi. Chinese culture knows the importance of fresh food; fish shops display filleted fish with their beating hearts intact and will even sell cuts while they're still swimming.

And about Vulcans, they don't like finger food either; what do they know? A lot, actually, but that's not the point.
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I can't help myself when it comes to Venison. :-P Particularly awesome on the BBQ.
 
#106
ksandvik said:
Oh, I'm mostly worried about the double-standard of having some animals as pets and killing others, or even the combination of both that happens sometimes. It's not logical as Vulcans say. Hence I don't eat meat or fish.
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I'm like a lion, ripping at the haunches of a fully conscious antelope on the veld while the others of the pride rip its throat and abdomen open. Like a lion. Life feeds on life. :P

Cows and fish are not affectionate to humans like dogs and kitties are.
 
#107
Antibiotics won't kill the tapeworms. Those need an antiparasitic. Parasites are multicellular as opposed to unicellular.

I like my steak to have a good sear and be warm and pink in the middle. Well done seems like a waste to me.
 
#109
totallyfrozen said:
LOL! Enjoy that E. coli or trichinosis! :D
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I have been eating raw beef at least a few times a week for pretty much all my life and i never had anything!

When i say raw i mean raw! With a raw egg mixed in it!
Our national sandwich filling is "fillet Americain" witch is ground beef with an egg and a bit of seasoning.

Many people also go for the porc version, also raw, its just a sausage emptied into a sandwich!

People have been doing it forever and Belgium has managed not to be decimated by bacteria!
 
#115
ubnomnar said:
if it's not pink... are you sure you want to eat it?
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#116
bjabass said:
...BTW when was the last known US case of trichinosis? I think it predates the FDA....:smug:
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Nah, it doesn't. The FDA started in 1906. There was a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] MUCH MORE recent than that in Orlando, Florida; however, trichinosis comes from pork mostly not beef so much. I just threw that in there because it's another one of several pathogenic microbes that inhabit flesh that we eat.

Beef has parasites, however.

Datz Y I kooks mynz! :D
 
#118
carlos840 said:
I have been eating raw beef at least a few times a week for pretty much all my life and i never had anything!

When i say raw i mean raw! With a raw egg mixed in it!
Our national sandwich filling is "fillet Americain" witch is ground beef with an egg and a bit of seasoning.

Many people also go for the porc version, also raw, its just a sausage emptied into a sandwich!

People have been doing it forever and Belgium has managed not to be decimated by bacteria!
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Interesting.

Here in Alaska, a dish popular among the natives (I believe the Eskimos, specifically) is a thing where they take a raw fish, bury it in the soil for several days, then remove it and eat it raw. It has, by then, grown a reasonable colony of C. botulinum. The botulism toxin makes them high when they eat it. Those eskimos have built up a tolerance to the toxin that would typically kill someone who wasn't used to eating rotten fish. Basically, they get botulism poisoning but are able to tolerate it with some transient feeling of being stoned; whereas, that poisoning might be enough to kill someone else.

Sounds like many Belgians have become used to eating the raw meats. I'd be curious to see a CBC on someone who has eaten raw pork. I suspect their eosinophil count would be pretty high. Those are the white blood cells that specialize in killing helmenths (worms). Could be that you and many of your countrymen have developed an immune system that is pretty handy will killing various types of bacteria and worms.

Of course, I can't say that will protect you from high cholesterol and colon cancer, though. Eating raw eggs and red meat put all of us at risk for high cholesterol and cancers. Your immune system doesn't play much of a role in your cholesterol level. It can play a role in controlling some types of cancer, however.
 

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