Why is a blue cooked steak, called `blue`, when it is obviously red?!
Why is a blue cooked steak, called `blue`, when it is obviously red?
Please don't tell me how to cook a steak, because I know. Thanx.
Answers:
Blue means so rare that it's cold inside. Cold=blue.
Black and Blue means
Blackend on the outside.......But still red on the inside usually rare!
blue connotes cold.
As the previous answer said, the meat is all-but RAW, under what looks like a COOKED surface! A friend, of mine, - who, actually, LIKES his steaks, that way, once told me, that:- "THE WAY TO GET THE PERFECT 'BLUE' STEAK, IS - RIP THE HORNS OFF, - WIPE IT'S BACKSIDE, - AND THROW A MATCH AT THE COW!"
Only HE wasn't as genteel, when referring to the cow's anatomy, - IF you get my drift!
blue means cold so its just had the outside seared. why anyone would want to eat cold cow beats me!
It's French..........bleu
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When I was working as a chef, once someone asked for there steak cooked "Pittsburgh", black on the outside, blue in the middle, we had to use the flat top stove, so hot that it glowed red, places like Ruth Chris and Mortons have high temp broilers, that can range up to 800 degrees. More infared as aposed to radiant heat.
"Pittsburgh" When Pittsburgh was a major steel town,the workers in the mill would bring raw steaks for dinner. They would slap them onto the side of a furnace of crucible. When it fell off,that side was done and they'd slap it on again,raw side---when it fell off again,charred black outside,warmish red inside. If you like "rare" this is it.Now I'm hungry!
if u make a steak blue.it means u just put it on the grill for a minute or two before u turn it and if u look at the colour of the steak its got a blue-ish colour to it not the normal brown