I've spent a lot of time lately thinking about (and cooking) steaks. Now, I'm a Medium Rare person, but I've cooked enough steaks for people to know that everyone likes their steaks differently. So this weeks questions is:
POLL: How do you like your Steak?
1) Rare
2) Medium Rare
3) Medium
4) Medium Well
5) Well
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Comments
You are missing the best way of cooking steak – blue.
Medium rare is good for me but my wife likes her’s dead
To be truthful I like mine cold center, wipe it’s butt show it to the fire and slap it on my plate!!!
SOme would call this blue! I call it the only way to eat steak!
run them around the side of a hill break a leg then there done but what i am looking for is a good bbq book on cooking on the weber baby q 100 gas the book that comes with bbq is weak and the aussy book has to much mutten in it
what we need is A GOOD OLD U.S.A. BBQ BOOK FOR THAT GRILL HAMBURG/STEAK/ RIBS/FISH/ HOTDOGS / CHICKEN
I like mine medium rare . I don’t cook any past medium . If you want it ” done ” I have soy bean meat that I cook you and there is also no ” stake sauce ” at my house…
Fresh kill, still warm.
I grew up on a cattle ranch. Whenever cousin Bad Bob walked through a warm room holding raw beefsteak, he thought he had just cooked the thing “medium rare”! The card-cheatin’ curmudgeon liked his steaks “most rare” and once ate an entire steer just because it strayed a little too close to our campfire. Spittin’ out the hooves, hide, and the horns, he exclaimed “Yum”, then belched impolitely! There is not now and never was such a thing as “well-done” grilled steak cooked anywhere upon the entire ranch. If some inconsiderate, rude dude asked for such a ghastly item, he was usually asked to quietly leave the dining room. Once outside, the ill-bred and misinformed tenderfoot was hurriedly hustled down to the creek by “Brandin’ Iron Mike” and “Horseshoe Bendin’ Kelly” – four hundred and seventy pounds of “nasty”… stacked in two piles! The two big cowhands took turns holding the fellow’s upper torso beneath the cold water until his head “cleared” and he apologized to the cook. If the novice had asked for catsup with his steak, his arraignment would be forfeited with extreme prejudice and the guilty, worthless, scoundrel would be scheduled for trial the following day – just before he was lynched.
B.R. Brynner
The Chuckwagon Gourmet
How do you define/differentiate between medium/medium rare/ and rare?
still moo-ing!
RARE, lots of blood in it, my friends like it well, ewwww.
We usually have only a hint of pink. Does that count as medium well or well done?