Are people really ordering rare burgers?
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I agree, that’s bonkers. Rare ground meat? Bleh
Completely uncooked ground meat is a local specialty here that I love and I still wouldn't want to eat a "rare" burger. Part of it is trust (when you buy from a local butcher you can be quite sure that it's safe), but that specific mix of almost uncooked, cooked and fried parts sounds so unsavory.
Beef tartare is minced similarly and it's pretty good, though the beef used in burgers are probably not good enough to be eaten like that
Beef tartare is chopped from a single cut, not made from pre-ground. The likelihood of food-borne illness is considerably less in beef tartare, as I understand things.
Yes, my understanding is that it's not about the cuts used. It's not so much that ground beef is typically just any leftover bits, but it's mostly a manner of prep. Tartare is prepared on the spot, the day of. This gives it a super short shelf life, but makes it fresh enough to be eaten raw, since bacteria hasn't had time to grow. Ground beef is prepped on an industrial scale and packaged for long enough that surface bacteria gets thoroughly mixed into the meat and given enough time to reproduce
What do you order?
I've always been taught that it's supposed to be either medium-well or well-done, due to it be ground up and any surface microbes getting mixed in.
Uncommon. Good enough for me.
i like mine medium
Magic, but on a special occasion I might splurge on Epic.
But yeah, jokes aside, burgers should be well done.
Chicken.
Rare.
Torisashi too - raw chicken sashimi. I think they sometimes blanch it.
I'm always medium-rare.
I can't remember where I was, but I was once told that they couldn't do below medium-well because the meat had been frozen.
I believe early burgers and Hamburg steaks were very often served raw or rare. That's not to say there's no risk -- of course there is -- but it's not wild.
Similarly, steak tartare is really available in restaurants across France (and perhaps in the States?) and is raw ground beef.
Fine when grinding in-house from whole cuts near to-order, but in literally any other case hell no.
"That'll be $24,000."
That's not how this works, the waiter brings out a mystery platter and you get the five burgers at random. You can pay extra for more burgers, and technically there's a mercy rule if you order enough burgers but at that point you'll be downing hundreds of common burgers and likely die of cardiac arrest.
Edit: oh, my waiter informed me I can pay for a burger storage upgrade so I won't die.
When did the rarity colours become mostly standardised? Was it World of Warcraft, or an earlier game?
As someone else mentioned, Diablo 2 popularized the concept of rarity and corresponding colors, but the specific white, green, blue, purple, orange colors are world of warcraft
Maybe diablo?
Ooh, good call!
My earliest personal example was Borderlands, but it probably came from an earlier game.
If you order the legendary steak instead of the burger, they give you Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker to cut it.