I grew up with well done steaks. My dad lived through the depression, and whatever meat they were able to get had to be fully cooked to make sure it was safe to eat. He ALWAYS cooked all meats thoroughly to make sure they were safe for us. I didn't learn about medium/medium rare steaks until I was about 17 years old and have never looked back.
When I was younger we I would always want well done steaks because I didn't like how bloody the steak was. Now I'm happy with Rare to medium well done. Then again, as long as it's a good steak I'll eat it well done now. I've messed up grilling steaks so I won't let that meat go to waste.
@@keno2048 well atleast that is tasty like a shaslik or something. But my mom always cooked it like a rubber shoe. Or atleast steaks and other beef. All the other meats she cooked normally
My wife's family is Chinese, so she grew up with everything cooked through. Meat had to be well done. Even lettuce was stir-fried. I've gotten her to unbend enough to eat meat medium, but when I try to feed her medium rare she pokes it with a fork and says "Moo! Moo!"
My wife only ate well done meat when I met her. Then one day I forced her to eat a medium rare piece off my plate... This was when I was still grilling everything, before I bought a sous vide cooker. Now she only eats rare and medium rare, especially knowing how safe SV is with cook times. Now if I could only convert the rest of my family, and then the world!
As the saying goes, "If you think you like your meat medium you're mistaken, you actually like it medium rare. If you think you like your meat well done, you're mistaken, you don't actually like meat"
guess you eat beef stew with medium-rare huh? or osso buco medium? it depends on the type of cuts. different people have different preferences, not you to judge them.
Criminal breaks into Guga's house at night, thinking no ones home. Suddenly, the room gets lit up by the flame from his torch. Guga: " I KNOW, your day doesn't look that good right now, BUT WATCH THIS! "
Dude, he never sears his meat first. Criminal will go into a big sous vide cooker, probably a converted ice chest for like 72 hours. Then he sears the face. Don't you watch this channel?
When I was young, I always wanted my steak well done because I thought the red juice coming out of the steak was blood, until one day my friends dad cooked us steaks around med / med rare and I didn’t want to make him mad by not eating it so I tried just one bite and I immediately fell in love with the texture and tenderness. Every since that day that’s how I always order / cook my steaks. (Shortly after, I found out the “red juice” in steaks is just a protein called myoglobin)
Hey guys! Just found you! I love the way you go through the recipe and cooking technique, awesome personalities, love how you actually eat what you cook and describe it, and love that you cook with a lot of steak! This is my new "late night and hungry" channel! Awesome guys!
My current wife, when we were still dating, first time she stayed over at my place overnight... I made sunny side up eggs for breakfast in the morning. And she was like, what's this, you can eat eggs like this? I could not understand. Apparently she'd never had runny eggs before. Her mom is a good cook too (used to work the line in a kitchen in her younger days), but apparently won't have anything to do with "undercooked" eggs.
Depends on the meat though, you don't want undercooked pork or chicken for instance. Most people do not like soft bacon or pink sausage and undercooked chicken can literally kill you. Clearly there are exceptions to the rule.
Any mexican steet joint can get you 3 tacos or 1 burrito for $1.00 if you choose a cheap meat. Although the $3.00 ones with extra cheese and salsa are the best.
No, not chew. You chew when the pieces are already in your mouth, well most people do anyway, it wouldn't surprise me if you do otherwise. He meant bite.
My mom grew up constantly around cattle so she didn't eat beef for a majority of her life. Only within the past 3-4 years has she started. When I cook steaks, or even at restaurants she has to have it well done. I always tell her I'm cooking steak for me and beef jerky for her.
Guga "This is my weapon of choice. Your Barret 50 cal. means nothing to me! The flame thrower will dominate all your culinary desires !" Love you my brother ! Your passion is inspirational!
I made carne this past weekend. Done it sous vide an on charcoal. Charcoal crushed the sous vide. I've made carne no less than 2 dozen times and this was the best yet. Now to get my hands on wagyu skirt!
I owned a Mexican food restaurant when I was married. To this day, I get all kinds of requests from friends for various items from our menu, carne asada is a favorite. I don't use rice in my burritos but if I did...it would be Spanish rice. I keep my ingredients simple and with basic flavors going on. Otherwise items clash. The skirt steak would be good enough for me.
@@EstebanZavalaF Yes ☺ Our cook was from Mexico City, he taught me his grandma's recipes. We made the "stew" for both beef and chicken (the carbohydrate was ALWAYS with freshly cooked pinto beans). The carne asada was our highest priced of the 3, meat placed on the grille and a splash of salsa while it cooked. Everything was yummy, I was proud of our little place. Rice is a side dish! lol
I wanted to make a short montage of Guga but I'm too lazy. Imagine this: -Guga says "I know, it doesn't look that good right now. But watch this:" -*A short cut of SpaceX Raptor engine vertical stand test video* -Guga tastes the steak -"That's fenomenal!"
My dad is colour blind, so growing up, I had to ask for well done to get anything other than genuinely raw with a hint of warmth. If not, I'd get ill from dinner. Then my friends parents were so offended and angry when I asked for well done at their houses.. But of course, nobody would let me explain why I wanted it that way or tell me why I was offending people. So it took me literally decades before I could enjoy a good steak..
2:42 - Cilantro rime rice? lol. It's a mouthful Guga. Another fantastic video! I love skirt steak and will be trying this recipe too. I have yet to find a recipe of yours that my family doesn't like. That says a lot given our 4 kids...as you know, they can be picky eaters.
a great experiment you should do is slicing a brisket into steaks and sous vide the steak briskets to medium rare and grill for sear. this way we can see if a long sous vide will turn a brisket into a great steak
Me, I'm more the saignant type of steak guy. Nice brown crust on the outside, warm on the inside, if it still goes moo, who cares? Perfect steak. Once someone wanted me as their cook to spoil a piece of meat by having their steak well done. I told them: "Here's the pan, there's the grill, commit that sin on your own!" They ate my medium-well done steak after all. That was the absolute maximum concession I made for them.
I can’t eat rare meat anymore, had a kidney transplant and I’m on immunosuppressant meds. I buy Akashi or Wagyu skirt steak and do it medium well...I love it so much! I want to try your pasteurized steak method. Thanks!
Hi Guga , If you want that Mexican rice flavor all you have to add is blended tomatoes and chicken bullion, one cube if you have the cube kind. Make sure yo use a strainer.
🤤 That's look amazing Guga. I made a lot of videos based on your recipes. You are one of my best motivation to make my content better. Thank you very much and God bless you guys 🙏🏼
I’ve seen a ton of Guga’s videos... especially at a time like this I wish he liked spicy foods. I wish he had good recipes for spicy homemade salsas. Nothing is better than a spicy sauce for a burrito!
I love watching your videos. I was born and raised in Southern CA (a stones throw from the border). I now live in Illinois.......Mexican food out here is very much not the same. I cook my own , but your food looks amazing!!!!!
for beans i do an orange cut in half juiced. onion cut in half with the roots cut off but enough to hold the onions together. the raw hard dried beans. 1 pack sazon. and water to cover by about an inch cook on medium heat till beans are soft. season with salt to taste after because water will reduce. remove onion and orange. eat. also although its wagu the fact that you didnt do the marinade on just one piece to test out flavors was a little confusing for me. i would have tested all aspects of this.
Mother in law eats well done steak with ketchup. Woman goes to Ruth's Chris and says she wants her steak "cooked", as if the poor server is supposed to know she actually means "charred until unrecognizable in both appearance and flavor." It's amazing.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm coming too strong about this, as I said, big fan of both your channels and I don't mean no disrespect. But actually in the past weeks there's been 4 different conversations in different groups I'm part of about exactly this, "Burrito vs meat wrap", "Actual traditional Mexican burritos" and "Burritos around the world" and as a Mexican (and Usually the One Mexican in those groups) I can almost always be the one to settle it.
I cannot believe it! I found some Wagyu hamburgers at WALMART! 3 patties to a pound for $5 ! Now they cook fast and tender, just brown quickly on both sides, and transfer to the plate! Three meals with great hamburger steaks for $5.
Yep, I have a brother from another mother that cannot eat a steak unless it’s well done. I should add that we never take him when we go eat beautiful meat
I used to cook steak well done n i thought thats the best way to eat it until i started watching Guga now i only eat my steaks medium rare. Thanks Guga
Great content as always Guga! When you get to 1.3 million subscribers! Can you do a review of your first ever video and a few landmark others to see how you did back then as opposed to now? Also your opinion on what might've changed your opinion through a bunch of these food experiences, etc.
Guga is so Hollywood, got Wagyu Burrito's and all that. That's how you know you made it! You got 1 of the most inexpensive items in the World and can just dump Wagyu into it. This is like that Scene in that Movie 'Parasite' where the Lady makes Dried Ramen and just Tossed Wagyu in it. I am jealous tbh
Guga after every single sous vide 1:they smell fantastic 2:I know they don’t look that good right now but watch this (the music be like de dee dereree)
Hey Guga, Can you add the recipe for the beans? And going with that maybe a way of substituting that bought spice mix. Getting that sort of stuff in Australia is HARD!
Hey Guga. You got MBS 8, which is great. But we also have 10+ MBS here in Australia, which is better than A5 Japanese imo. There is an amazing farm called Blackmores, which your meat dealer should be able to source from.
