Made a small roast to celebrate my boyfriend’s promotion, and asked how he’d like it done. He said on the rare side of medium rare. When served, he looked at it strangely, and asked if I was sure it was done. I told him it was how my family always referred to steaks as medium rare, and he said they were wrong, and I shouldn’t trust any of their advice on cooking.

Admittedly, we never really went out to restaurants for steak growing up - it was just whatever someone in the family cooked for us. What are your thoughts, Reddit? Has my family always described their steaks wrong?

Mines the 1st, his is the second. Make it make sense!

Celebratory steak.. also I bought a cast iron pan haha

decided to post an update since so many people asked for it. Memorial Day bbq dad steak pictured here for comparison. original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/steak/s/vuqvjhkzoF

Yes, I am eating the steak with a plastic fork in my bed. I won’t feel embarrassed by that because the steak was cooked to perfection and nothing could be more embarrassing than my date was.

Made this prime strip with a cheddar and chive twice baked potato along with roasted broccoli with garlic. Reverse Seared in oven at 250(f) for 50 minutes. Followed with a hot sear on cast iron for one minute each side. Topped with flakey salt

Sorry for the bad photo quality. One of the cooks in the open kitchen was grilling me (a lot harder than they grilled the steak) while I took this.

I felt so bad telling our server that this was really not good, and that I wanted the bill.

This was "medium rare", for $50, with a quarter cup of broccolini on the side too.

Boston MA.

Finally got the chance to cook a nice steak for pops. Went and picked up a couple prime ribeyes from the farmers market, reverse seared them to what I thought was a pretty solid medium rare. The first thing he does is mention it’s raw and that he can’t eat it. Got him to try a bite and he threw the rest of his steak on my plate, I didn’t hear the end of it for the rest of the night. I will definitely reconsider making the family dinner next time I get the opportunity. So what do you guys think, too raw, perfect, or cooked too much?

I personally this it’s too done. what do you think?

24hr dry brined ribeye reverse seared over charcoal and mesquite.

Tell me everything that’s wrong with it. Be fierce.

15 great years with him at my side, still didn't feel like enough. I'll miss ya Cooper.

My family got together for new years so I grilled some tri tip.. literally nobody ate any of it but myself! Fairly new to grilling . Open to any criticism!

Thoughts? Seared in a pan then finished in the oven.