Rare meat

[DaveTheFishGuy]

Kangaroo's pretty good.

[Loki]

Honestly, it comes down to the cook. A well done steak can feel like you're chewing through cardboard and a rare steak can melt in your mouth. If it's cooked right, the danger of disease is almost nothing. Sure it's still something, but the amount of dirt, droppings, and insects in your other food is also not nothing.

Cooked meat certainly has advantages over uncooked meat aside from disease. i.e. ease of digestion, nutritional value, etc. But overcooked meat can be dangerous. In fact, there are studies which show overcooked meat is more dangerous than raw meat due to the production of carcinogens.

The University of Minnesota has released data that has shown well-done charred meat will increase your risk of pancreatic cancer by 60%! The immolation of amino acids produces heterocyclic amines, which is a known cancer causing agent.

The general rule of thumb for food is the closer to raw, the better. Of coarse some have limits and there are exceptions, but for steaks, this is pretty much spot on.

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by DaveTheFishGuy

Kangaroo's pretty good.

I've tried Ostrich meat, which is decent, but holy crap bison meat is delicious.

[Loki]

Why do you think we practically hunted them to extinction?

[Talon87]

While we're on the topic of bison, an interesting bit of trivia from Wikipedia:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Their most obvious weapons are the horns borne by both males and females, but their massive heads can be used as battering rams, effectively using the momentum produced by 2,000 pounds (900 kg) moving at 30 mph (50 km/h). The hind legs can also be used to kill or maim with devastating effect. At the time bison ran wild, they were rated second only to the Alaska brown bear as a potential killer, more dangerous than the grizzly bear. In the words of early naturalists, they were a dangerous, savage animal that feared no other animal and in prime condition could best any foe.

[DaveTheFishGuy]

Originally Posted by Ethereal

I've tried Ostrich meat, which is decent, but holy crap bison meat is delicious.

Agreed. There was a Bison ranch on the road home from uni, used to stop and buy some steak and burgers almost every time I passed by.

Originally Posted by Raptor Jesus

Why do you think we practically hunted them to extinction?

Wasn't it to decimate the Native American population, whose entire culture revolved around the Bison?

[GrJackass]

i never really tasted any 'rare meat' i might have ate ostrich but don't recall if i actually did or not, either way this thread reminds me of This

[Lonely Cubone]

I just had a very nice rare steak. It was bloody lovely, although apparently from this thread my bowel movements should be entertaining.

[Princess Ana]

When I went on a field trip to Quebec, Canada, I had some smoked buffalo.

It really kicked me in the ass. It i possible my piece wasn't smoked right, or, that I am allergic to buffalo, but I spent the day after barfing my brains up. And then eating maple toffee.

[Doppleganger]

Originally Posted by GrJackass

i never really tasted any 'rare meat' i might have ate ostrich but don't recall if i actually did or not, either way this thread reminds me of This

Ostriches are farmed locally here. I can't recall if I actually ate an ostrich burger, but some sensations in my brain tell me they were "very strong, gamey turkey".

[Jerichi]

Bison is soooooo good.

Literally the only red meat I ate during my not-eating-red-meat 3 year period.

[Doppleganger]

Where does one get a bison?

[Firewater]

...lol, medium well to well done. I am not a vegetarian, but I get a bit uneasy seeing blood seep from my dinner, lol.

I can eat rare, and used to eat medium rare meat, but I'm not a fan of blood, lol.

[Marion Ette]

Originally Posted by Firewater

...lol, medium well to well done. I am not a vegetarian, but I get a bit uneasy seeing blood seep from my dinner, lol.

I can eat rare, and used to eat medium rare meat, but I'm not a fan of blood, lol.

Interesting fact... That's actually not blood dripping from the steak. It's actually a protein called myoglobin (which consequently gives the steak its red color).

Rare, rare, rare. Raw if you can get away with it. Anything else is transforming a beautiful piece of meat into a burnt carcass, in my opinion.

[kusari]

Originally Posted by Rangeetsuper

Because quickmeme doesn't like embedding and I'm too lazy to re-upload.

Link isn't working (for me at least). Besides, I love ketchup but putting on steak is like watching Scarface performed by Paulie Shore. It's just wrong.


Rarest meat I've had was bear and it was quite good. Had snake too which is basically cut like sushi but cooked more thoroughly. Bison is fucking godly. If I could eat any meat it'd probably be shark, panda or kobe beef (the king of beefs).

[Doppleganger]

Originally Posted by kusari

panda

Good luck with that.

Thanks to this thread I now realized where I can get bison. Imma gonna try some out real soon!

[Princess Ana]

Originally Posted by kusari

Link isn't working (for me at least). Besides, I love ketchup but putting on steak is like watching Scarface performed by Justin Beiber. It's just wrong.

The comparisons have to be extreme for such a heinous crime. I HATE when my brother pus ketchup on his steak,

[DaveTheFishGuy]

Originally Posted by Doppleganger

Where does one get a bison?

In the bathroom! :rimshot:

Originally Posted by kusari

Rarest meat I've had was bear and it was quite good. Had snake too which is basically cut like sushi but cooked more thoroughly. Bison is fucking godly. If I could eat any meat it'd probably be shark, panda or kobe beef (the king of beefs).

You have to be careful with shark - the Elasmobranch (Sharks & rays) urinary system means that instead of excreting ammonia over the gills like other fish, they covert it to the less toxic urea, store it in their body and flush it out at regular intervals. The upshot of this is that shark (or ray) prepared wrongly tastes of piss.

Anyone ever had Monkfish? It's the coastal anglerfish (like the deep-sea ones but more robust and with no flashy lights), and it's really tasty. The great thing is that there's almost no bones in the rear body, so all you have to do is cut off the head and excise the spine, then you can stuff it with extra flavouring where the spine used to be and wrap it up with string like a skillet of lamb before roasting it. I'd cook it more often if it weren't so bloody expensive.

[Doppleganger]

My grandfather hated bony fish, he loved either big fish or those without bones so he could chew "steaks". I might have inherited that in an unusual way - I have a fear of putting sharp objects I could swallow in my mouth (i.e., needles) and the spines of some bony fish skeletons, which I presume are cartilaginous (in tilapia) really get my nightmare machine rolling.

I'll look into monkfish but it seems really exotic. No fish-monger I know of ever stocks something like that.

[DaveTheFishGuy]

Nah, Tilapia would have calcified skeletons. But fair enough, I can understand not wanting to risk bones. This is why things like Tuna/Swordfish steaks are good, and they have more of a 'meat' texture as opposed to a 'fish' one.

Monkfish is fairly common around here (but this is England, you're never too far from the sea), it's just too expensive to eat regularly.

[Rangeet]

I've heard of monkfish thanks to RuneScape. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a seafood eater, especially saltwater fish, so there's that.

If by some stupid chance you have someone from Bengal who knows how to cook who lives close to you, Dave, ask him/her about a "Lobster malai curry." I detest Bengali cooking and hate lobsters in general but a well made Lobster malai curry is amazing.

If you're looking for recipes btw google "Chingri macher malai curry." 'Chingri mach" being lobster in Bengali.

:p

[Loki]

I've eaten koalas. They're filled with chocolate.

[Sneaze]

Koalas are the best damn animal on the planet. I think we can all agree.

>Monkfish

Had it once, really wish I wasn't broke so I could have it again. It's delicious.

>Bison

So. Fukken. Good. Excuse me while I see if I can find any locally.

I'm very used to venison living in the middle of PA, and if prepared right it makes a great steak.

Best rare thing I've ever had was monkey brain though. It was delicious. Not even kidding. If you ever get the chance to try it, do so, though it is understandable if it grosses you out.

Also, this thread just brings back how many things I've eaten that a lot of people haven't. I used to eat octopus on a weekly basis back when I was working multiple jobs and could buy any food I wanted. I do want to try Hake sometime, one of many fish I have yet to get my hands on that I'd like to try.

[Slash]

Had swordfish last night, was spectacular. I don't generally like fish, but I loved it.

I've also had alligator, which is rare in some areas.

[Princess Ana]

Originally Posted by Kairne

Had swordfish last night, was spectacular. I don't generally like fish, but I loved it.

I've also had alligator, which is rare in some areas.

Swordfish is amazing. Quite possibly my favorite fish.