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In restaurants I invariably get some sort of verbal warning that my steak will have a cool red center. Sometimes I wouldn't be surprised if I was brought a waiver of liability to sign.
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Well I time the grilling of my steaks using a watch with a second hand (somewhere around 90-105 seconds per side on my grill), and always have done. But as far as I can tell, in America I should be timing the grilling using a calendar.
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I usually get some sort of verbal warning that my steak will have a cool red center. Sometimes I wouldn't be surprised if I was brought a waiver of liability to sign.
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In restaurants I invariably get some sort of verbal warning that my steak will have a cool red center. Sometimes I wouldn't be surprised if I was brought a waiver of liability to sign.
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Often I order a rare steak only to be told they can only do medium rare
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I think Pulaski has actually hit on the reason with his mention of a waiver of liability. In our litigious society, restaurants do not want to get sued by customers who get sick from eating meat that might somehow have become a tad contaminated. Perfectly fine if adequately cooked, but a potential hazard if served as rare as some people might like. Just not worth the risk.
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As I am sure you are aware Ruth
my remark was directed at the yanks not the brits
.........to be honest every man I have ever met reckons they can cook a piece of meat better than the other, makes no odds where they come from, the only difference in my opinion is that the brits tend to slack on seasoning and spices etc.
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Unfortunately it isn't widely understood that for cuts of beef at least, the risk of microbe contamination is confined almost entirely to the surface. So the risk of a ground beef patty not cooked through to the middle is massively greater than for a steak, which can be made safe to consume by searing the exterior. The same is true for lamb, and I've heard it is now true for farmed pork, but historically the risk of getting worms from pork was much greater.
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You can get little knives in World Market, they're 4 inches tall so perfectly kid sized.
http://www.worldmarket.com/product/l...-4.do?&from=fn
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Wasn't he left handed? Just like most of the presidents. I eat the left handed way, much easier to use the knife in my left hand.
I've been training my kids to use knives, if only as something to scoop food against for now. They are using children's cutlery sets from the UK, US ones don't have knives, not even pointless blunt ones.
I've been training my kids to use knives, if only as something to scoop food against for now. They are using children's cutlery sets from the UK, US ones don't have knives, not even pointless blunt ones.
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Perhaps you should get out of your little box a wee bit more, a quick Google will show you that you are wrong. It is the norm for most children's cutlery sets to contain the basic 3 pc cutlery. fork, spoon, knife. Look at any Target, Walmart or children's store, perhaps it is easier to make false claims, even pointless blunt ones !
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