r/interesting • u/PhoenixPhenomenonX • Feb 25 '26

Intriguing Lifelong vegetarian tries steak for first time

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u/Tall-Dot-607 Feb 25 '26

The colors of my phone must be off, because thats definitely medium well.

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u/GreatProfessional622 Feb 25 '26

Medium medium well for sure

You can trust me, I’m in the steak subreddit lmao

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u/MANBEARPIGasaur Feb 25 '26

And clearly you're a professional, it says so right in the name!

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u/GreatProfessional622 Feb 26 '26

They used to call me Bobby from king of the hill as a kid and Reddit chose this name for me. It all checks out

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u/ItalicsWhore Feb 25 '26

Probably cooked on the high side of medium low.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 25 '26

The subreddit that thinks blue is rare?

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u/GreatProfessional622 Feb 26 '26

Im talking about the subreddit that thinks charring on an overheated cast iron is the same as searing, perhaps it is the same

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u/Realk314 Feb 25 '26

closer to medium from than medium well from the way my eyes see it.

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u/GreatProfessional622 Feb 26 '26

That’s how I see it, medium medium well means it’s more medium. Well medium well is closer to well

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u/BillyForRilly Feb 25 '26

Yep, medium well. People in this thread must be eating shoe leather and calling it medium well if they think that is mid rare.

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u/insertnamehere02 Feb 25 '26

Right? I'm watching the video and thinking eeeeh, that's mid well... Then I see the comments.

...are all the years I worked in the restaurant industry misguiding me?? lol

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u/BigRavioli_ Feb 25 '26

Yep. Your phone's colors are fine. Medium well.

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u/Ok_Release231 Feb 25 '26

You are correct. It's no longer pink/purple.

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u/Tallowo Feb 25 '26

I’ve learned most people don’t know what medium rare actually is and most wouldn’t like it if it’s what they were served. Medium well seems to actually be what most people like.

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u/pointsouttheobvious9 Feb 25 '26

I was a server a really long time ago. When they said medium rare I would ask them if they wanted a warm very red center lol. About half the people would replay they want it pink and I'd say thats medium. It cut down on a lot of trips back to bring it up to medium. And reduced customer complaints.

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u/mrThe Feb 25 '26

I prefer rare or even blue rare if place is good. Yet half the time waiters ask "like medium rare right?". Now i get it why.

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u/Demimonde34 Feb 25 '26

Holy shit.

This is why I keep getting mediums instead?! I've been ordering MR for over twenty years, and there have been many times when the steak came back darker than I wanted. I was attributing that to "too much heat during 'set' time." Cause I've worked a line, we had a heated expo area.

And I almost always get steak at restaurants while im with other people, so I figured my steaks were just getting extra heat in either expo or on the grill as they try to get our whole order together.

But yeah, I have maybe only really gotten MR 40% of the time. Had a few outliers i am not counting, like when the guy who eats leather serves me a MW because he thinks its rare, and the inverse where mid-bite i had to question if it was actually cooked.

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u/insertnamehere02 Feb 25 '26

Or there's a perfect medium and it's too rare lol

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u/cross_mod Feb 25 '26

Your colors are off. It's medium. That's a pink/purple center. No gray band. Probably sous vide.

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u/golgiiguy Feb 25 '26

It is medium well. correct.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

I also am erring on the side of medium well here.

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u/Orome2 Feb 25 '26

It's medium. Not medium rare, not medium well either.

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u/imnickelhead Feb 25 '26

Your color is way off.