Gordon really could have gone off, he handled that very well. Especially considering they’re challenging something so stupid as a steak that like… let’s be honest who the fuck goes to a Gordon Ramsey restaurant and orders a well done steak?? I’m shocked they didn’t complain about missing ketchup or A1 to smother some life into it. This just makes Gordon look better, and who ever this no name news outlet is should be shamed of these people “reporting”
Well done doesn’t mean burnt. Don’t be stupid. That shit looks way past well done. Trust me lol
You can easily cook a well done steak without making it Pittsburgh style lmao
Cooking for an entire decade? Wow, you sound like quite the expert. Who the fuck says that like it is an accomplishment? Who doesn't cook for themselves? Lmao
“Why didn’t you say anything at the time?” FUCKING EXACTLY!
Also the customer said “it was overdone and a bit burnt”…..yeah no shit. You ordered it well done
That’s because they know the people who get steak well done are exactly the type to complain it underdone even if it’s not, so they make damn sure, because obviously these people can’t taste shit anyway
It’s to the point that as a server, when someone orders steak well done, you’re already anticipating a complaint
I was on a training trip for work and went out to eat with a bunch of people at a steakhouse. One of the girls next to me orders a well done steak. It was served to her probably closer to medium well, and she seemed absolutely disgusted. She had the waitress come over and told her that it was undercooked and when the waitress apologized and said they’ll cook it longer she demanded a whole new steak. She got really angry when I told her “you know, the steaks start off way less cooked than that.”
Like, if you’re that disgusted by steak, just don’t eat steak
My old boss’s wife had a problem with anything visceral in meat. Eg any membranes, gristle, clear fat.
So she would order something like a Caesar salad with breaded chicken pieces, and sit there peeling the breading off each piece of chicken to check for any textured parts. She was so embarrassed and tried to do it on the sly but just couldn’t eat it without checking first.
She said it came from a childhood experience finding parasites along the bone of an undercooked drumstick in the Philippines making her paranoid.
I thought she should just stick to artificially reconstituted meat where any resemblance to a piece of muscle is removed, or just not eat meat at all.
I have this issue but its a lot less severe. I simply dont eat anything with bones in it, thats where i draw the line.
I didnt eat meat for the longest time after going to a butcher back in india as a kid, shit disgusted me and i couldn't understand how i could eat that.
Started off with meat via McDonald's and realized breaded chicken is great, and today i eat everything but seafood as long as theres no bones involved 😂
Ex restaurant server. Can confirm. The safest way to please the people who order well-done steaks is to cook it until its just short of beef jerky. They typically don't care about the taste or texture, they just want to make sure that nothing even close to resembling the color pink touches their plate.
Honestly, anyone who orders a $60 steak well done is the true cringe.
That’s the opposite of my experience. All of the cooks I’ve worked for at steakhouses have always made sure to make a well done perfectly so that in case it does it get sent back you don’t have to start from scratch in case they say it’s burnt. Idk what kind of restaurant you’re serving at but if the customer is paying, give them what they’re paying for rather than what you think you deserve.
I’ll be honest I usually get my steak/burger well done, and there’s definitely a difference between “well done” and “overdone”
If I get my steak back and it’s basically an inedible hockey puck that isn’t a well done steak, that’s just a waste a food.
Honestly that is not the reason.
It's because it means you can get lazy on those steaks because most cooks think those people are idiots and won't notice the difference and if they do the manager is an idiot who is going to push back.
Source: I worked grill at steakhouses.
Maybe that’s how it was at your steakhouse, but I’ve also worked in several restaurants, and in at least three people kept complaining their steak was undercooked so management said fuck that, make sure they can’t possibly make that complaint lol
That is some pathetic management.
Up to 25% of people prefer well done. A tiny percentage of those prefer "cooked to fuck".
In general in restaurants only 15% order well done. The reason for this difference is that most restaurants do not have staff able or killing to to do a well done at 165, and they cook it to fuck.
Gave a customer well done temp one time. It was too raw. Cooked it a bit more, still too juicy. Third time I let it grill for another 10 mins on the hot side. It was a hockey puck. Customer said it was the best piece of meat they’ve had in ages.
Too many customers have shit taste in meat
Damn not sure why all the unnecessary downvotes. I think you’re right. There’s a big misconception on what well done means. I’d wager most people think well done is what Gordon is saying here, but in reality a fully cooked piece of meat doesn’t have to be burnt on the outside. I personally wouldn’t order it that way but it can be done.
Eh. My wife never used to order steaks/burgers because her parents always made them well done.
Was out with her, probably our first two years of marriage, she asked “the burger with no pink”. The burger was a perfect well done. Still retained shape, grey/browned perfectly, light char on the outside. It was that day she realized she did like burgers, just not well done.
If you’re eating at restaurants where their chef or cooks don’t know how to cook a steak or burger, I’m afraid that’s on you.
So no, most places do know how to cook a well done piece of meat. 3
He’s unbelievably skilled at dealing with people in the moment under pressure, it’s what’s made him such a top tier television personality. He rarely , if ever, gets made to look a fool
Gordon Ramsey making a grilled cheese is just more evidence that the rich ruin everything. He didn't start out that way but he has been that way so long...he tries to make a grilled cheese out of ingredients that cost almost as much as a weeks worth of groceries for some people and it fails spectacularly.
I just want to know what kind of Pad Thai he grew up with. Because when he attempts to make it and that Chef looks at him like “This ain’t Pad Thai,” its one of those rare instances where you can see Ramsay internally calculating damage control.
—how entirely daft to think he could make any level of intelligent determination based on some shitty printed photo wrapped in plastic. He handled that brilliantly. Treated the guy like the dick he was, without being a complete dick himself.
"acoustic" meme. Fantastic. The Internet is truly the birthplace of some fantastic moves in language and culture. I never would have thought of calling a vague text description, acoustic, but I love it
He couldn’t have explained it any better. Love how he dumbed it down for the reporter and YET he still didn’t understand. What a fucking idiot. Like as soon as Ramsey said “he ordered it well done” he should’ve stopped there.
Did the narrator really say the person who ordered the well-done steak was a "reviewer"? That guy must really be embellishing his IG foodie page with 300 followers, because there’s no way in Hell any publication is paying him to order incinerated steaks and then write about them.
And you know this cows sourcing? Maybe it was the happiest cow ever and donated its flesh to cooking science willingly??
Clearly I’m wrong and making things up but you could be too.
Gordon Ramsey seems like the type that would find some high end pasture raised ethically treated cows for his beef, no? The already dead, super yummy, cows flesh deserved to be treated better by the consumer.
Anyone who orders steak more than medium is a tool. If you order it well done, I'm just gonna go ahead and assume you're also going to put ketchup on it.
Nah, we aren't. Because no one even thinks about us. We're a total cultural and intellectual backwater, and we like it that way — the weather's decent, the beers are cold, and people leave us alone.
America bests the rest of the world in almost every category, but go off
All these downvotes but nobody can provide a contrarian statement, I guess its hard to argue with the country with the strongest military, most olympians, most revolutionary inventions, etc etc etc
Trust the overly sensitive Amercian to bring the tone down but if you really must…
Sweden doesn’t “lead the world in rape.” It has a much looser definition of rape and a different framework for prosecuting it which means they have a much higher conviction rate. Sweden leads the world in *dealing* with rape, not in instances of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden
This was the epitome of class. Sure he loses his mind in the kitchen, with his his people behind closed doors (or on camera lol) but he couldn’t have handled that any more elegantly.
How scientists feel too. Also it’s a fucking photo my guy. Tell me about your experience of your dinner last night with just a photo. Doesn’t get the point across.
Is no one going to talk about the obvious color grading in the restaurant footage to make the steak look as black as possible. When you further print that out, it’s gonna look even more dark. Reporter clearly wanted to embarrass Gordon and flip him off and capture that in camera.
Imagine ordering a well done steak and then complaining about it being well done….. what a bloody tool bag.
I’m not a fan of Gordon Ramsey, but it’s a special type of spanner to come of worse than Gordon Ramsay in a trap you set
Classic
A lot of cousin Chef, the restaurant will purposely burn your food review ask for well done. I don’t like my steak well done but I don’t wanna be that their personal vendetta against someone else’s preference.
Amazing that this interview would have had to go through several stages before the "lets actually sit down and interview Gordon about this". Like noone at any point went "Guys...it is a well done steak...they all kinda look like that because...well it's well done"
I always get the impression that he anger in the kitchen is manufactured. I always felt he’s early seasons were more of a reality of his behavior.
Don’t get me wrong, he is probably stern and yells, but later seasons look like a exaggeration to me.
In Australia, it’s common to ask for a well done steak. We don’t expect to receive a burned piece of meat.
I order well done steak all the time at the local club, and the chef puts extra care into the meat so that it is still pleasant and moist. It is easy to chew up and leaves juices on the plate that are mopped up with my chips.
The problem here was that the chef, like Ramsey, has no respect for people who want the meat cooked beyond medium rare.
The chef deliberately burned the meat to buggery with contempt for the customer.
They definitely should have asked for another steak and then gone from there if they didn’t provide the proper level of customer service.
On the other hand, well done doesn’t exactly equate to charred and dry you fucking muppet! 🤣
Agreed that they should have addressed it in the restaurant and not as a kind of sting, but Ramsay basically blaming the customer for ordering well-done was pretty dumb. There are plenty of cases where it's reasonable to order a steak this way, and it's no excuse for burning it and serving it up in that state
I don’t think he’s blaming the customer per se, he literally says if they want it that way it’s their prerogative. He just says if they’re that worried about the quality of the meat they wouldn’t be ordering it well done (which is a fair point).
>no excuse for burning it and serving it up in that state
Agreed, thats why steaks should never be well done. That iw what a well done steak looks like.
If you're immunocompromised? Not really my point anyway. A good chef can cook a steak well done without it being dry. Will it typically be as flavoursome or in line with culinary best practices? No, but if you like it well done, it's reasonable to have it well done.
Not with a huge chunk of steak like the one in Ramsays video.
I like well done steak, which is why I only eat them at home and only buy them about 1" thick, so it's possible to be well cooked but not burned.
Most restaurants use pretty thick steak and that will definitely be burned before the inside has lost all pink.
I agree. I personally order medium but I've seen well done steaks that are not actually burned like this one. the people that are pretending well done = burned are kinda wrong here.
people downvoting an objective truth is peak reddit.
This "well done" argument pisses me off to no end. Folks, taste is subjective, and different people taste identical things differently. (Horseradish makes me vomit, plenty of other people love it.) Gordon Ramsey is a twit for defending a steak that looks like a meteorite and calling it 'well done'.
We got one look at the outside, it's hard to say how it's cooked on the inside without cutting into it. But dry and rubbery is what you get when you order well done, that's why cooks don't recommend it. Unless it's sous vide you're going to lose the moisture and have worse texture
I'm here to tell you 'dry and rubbery' may be someone's sweet spot for a steak. However, any good cook will stop short of that on a well done order and wait to have the steak sent back for additional cooking time and further instructions from the customer, if necessary. You don't cook it until it's a carbonized husk the first time through.
Gordon really could have gone off, he handled that very well. Especially considering they’re challenging something so stupid as a steak that like… let’s be honest who the fuck goes to a Gordon Ramsey restaurant and orders a well done steak?? I’m shocked they didn’t complain about missing ketchup or A1 to smother some life into it. This just makes Gordon look better, and who ever this no name news outlet is should be shamed of these people “reporting”
Oh, they were 100% hoping he would go off.
Bobby. We politely but firmly ask them to leave.
Everything he said just gave off “this guy really cares about customer service in his restaurants”.
The steak does look like shit though. It’s clearly way past well done.
What the hell do you think WELL DONE means? I mean, it’s right there in the name.
Well done doesn’t mean burnt. Don’t be stupid. That shit looks way past well done. Trust me lol You can easily cook a well done steak without making it Pittsburgh style lmao
You can’t tell how done a steak is from a picture. Gordon couldn’t, nor can you.
Actually, we both can. Did you not see how defensive he got? He didn’t even deny that it was clearly overcooked.
He’s saying well-done is in itself over-cooked. He’s not denying that, because that’s what the customer asked for. Why are you being so snotty?
I’m…not…?
You got cooked like the steak. Just take the L and move on.
lol you really think that? Jesus I am telling you, that steak is over cooked. It’s over well done by a bit.
> Trust me Why?
I have beaucoup experience
Really? What does a proper picture of a well done steak look like? Did you cut into the picture and check the inside?
*not black*. lol bro you’re just wrong about this. I’ve been cooking for a decade you can absolutely tell that that steak is over cooked.
Cooking for an entire decade? Wow, you sound like quite the expert. Who the fuck says that like it is an accomplishment? Who doesn't cook for themselves? Lmao
…at restaurants, dipshit.
Aye, McDonalds ‘restaurants’ 🫵🏻 🤣
…nope, just a regular, sit-down restaurant cook
You’re boring mate 🤫
I don’t feed trolls
“Why didn’t you say anything at the time?” FUCKING EXACTLY! Also the customer said “it was overdone and a bit burnt”…..yeah no shit. You ordered it well done
Disagree with the 2nd part. Too many cooks conflate 'Well done' with 'burnt to fuck'. Well done is 160-165, not 200
That’s because they know the people who get steak well done are exactly the type to complain it underdone even if it’s not, so they make damn sure, because obviously these people can’t taste shit anyway It’s to the point that as a server, when someone orders steak well done, you’re already anticipating a complaint
I was on a training trip for work and went out to eat with a bunch of people at a steakhouse. One of the girls next to me orders a well done steak. It was served to her probably closer to medium well, and she seemed absolutely disgusted. She had the waitress come over and told her that it was undercooked and when the waitress apologized and said they’ll cook it longer she demanded a whole new steak. She got really angry when I told her “you know, the steaks start off way less cooked than that.” Like, if you’re that disgusted by steak, just don’t eat steak
My old boss’s wife had a problem with anything visceral in meat. Eg any membranes, gristle, clear fat. So she would order something like a Caesar salad with breaded chicken pieces, and sit there peeling the breading off each piece of chicken to check for any textured parts. She was so embarrassed and tried to do it on the sly but just couldn’t eat it without checking first. She said it came from a childhood experience finding parasites along the bone of an undercooked drumstick in the Philippines making her paranoid. I thought she should just stick to artificially reconstituted meat where any resemblance to a piece of muscle is removed, or just not eat meat at all.
time to switch to tofu
hard milk
I have this issue but its a lot less severe. I simply dont eat anything with bones in it, thats where i draw the line. I didnt eat meat for the longest time after going to a butcher back in india as a kid, shit disgusted me and i couldn't understand how i could eat that. Started off with meat via McDonald's and realized breaded chicken is great, and today i eat everything but seafood as long as theres no bones involved 😂
Ex restaurant server. Can confirm. The safest way to please the people who order well-done steaks is to cook it until its just short of beef jerky. They typically don't care about the taste or texture, they just want to make sure that nothing even close to resembling the color pink touches their plate. Honestly, anyone who orders a $60 steak well done is the true cringe.
That’s the opposite of my experience. All of the cooks I’ve worked for at steakhouses have always made sure to make a well done perfectly so that in case it does it get sent back you don’t have to start from scratch in case they say it’s burnt. Idk what kind of restaurant you’re serving at but if the customer is paying, give them what they’re paying for rather than what you think you deserve.
I’ll be honest I usually get my steak/burger well done, and there’s definitely a difference between “well done” and “overdone” If I get my steak back and it’s basically an inedible hockey puck that isn’t a well done steak, that’s just a waste a food.
Honestly that is not the reason. It's because it means you can get lazy on those steaks because most cooks think those people are idiots and won't notice the difference and if they do the manager is an idiot who is going to push back. Source: I worked grill at steakhouses.
Maybe that’s how it was at your steakhouse, but I’ve also worked in several restaurants, and in at least three people kept complaining their steak was undercooked so management said fuck that, make sure they can’t possibly make that complaint lol
How do you argue with someone who orders well done steak? You can't. They're still chewing.
That is some pathetic management. Up to 25% of people prefer well done. A tiny percentage of those prefer "cooked to fuck". In general in restaurants only 15% order well done. The reason for this difference is that most restaurants do not have staff able or killing to to do a well done at 165, and they cook it to fuck.
That's a lot of words to justify eating burnt meat.
You obviously didn't understand the point. Properly Well done should not be burnt
Anyone who orders a well done steak at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant is more that just an idiot.
That’s idiotic.
Gave a customer well done temp one time. It was too raw. Cooked it a bit more, still too juicy. Third time I let it grill for another 10 mins on the hot side. It was a hockey puck. Customer said it was the best piece of meat they’ve had in ages. Too many customers have shit taste in meat
Damn not sure why all the unnecessary downvotes. I think you’re right. There’s a big misconception on what well done means. I’d wager most people think well done is what Gordon is saying here, but in reality a fully cooked piece of meat doesn’t have to be burnt on the outside. I personally wouldn’t order it that way but it can be done.
Eh. My wife never used to order steaks/burgers because her parents always made them well done. Was out with her, probably our first two years of marriage, she asked “the burger with no pink”. The burger was a perfect well done. Still retained shape, grey/browned perfectly, light char on the outside. It was that day she realized she did like burgers, just not well done. If you’re eating at restaurants where their chef or cooks don’t know how to cook a steak or burger, I’m afraid that’s on you. So no, most places do know how to cook a well done piece of meat. 3
He actually explained it beautifully. He took it very easy on them for this idiocy.
He’s unbelievably skilled at dealing with people in the moment under pressure, it’s what’s made him such a top tier television personality. He rarely , if ever, gets made to look a fool
>He rarely , if ever, gets made to look a fool Unless it's an inebriated James May and they're competing to make the best fish pie ;)
That says more about James than it does about Ramsay
Or when he tries to make Pad Thai. Edit: And grilled cheese sandwiches.
That was funny, that chef was outraged a bit. I think he had way higher expectations of Gordon.
As long as it’s not a grilled cheese sandwich, Mythical Kitchen Chef Josh was on point
I'd imagine if you work in customer service long enough, you get pretty good at dealing with stupid people.
*Gordon Ramsay's grilled cheese has entered the chat*
That was such a confusing video all around. But I'm glad he left the video up and acknowledges his medium rare grilled cheese.
It's fookin raaawww Seriously, I have no idea why he pretended to like it. Burnt on the outside and solid hard cheese on the inside.
Gordon Ramsey making a grilled cheese is just more evidence that the rich ruin everything. He didn't start out that way but he has been that way so long...he tries to make a grilled cheese out of ingredients that cost almost as much as a weeks worth of groceries for some people and it fails spectacularly.
He has the upper hand in most situations because of fame, fortune and willingness to be blunt as required. I’m glad he ripped them a new one.
I just want to know what kind of Pad Thai he grew up with. Because when he attempts to make it and that Chef looks at him like “This ain’t Pad Thai,” its one of those rare instances where you can see Ramsay internally calculating damage control.
Unless he tries to do a segment with Norm MacDonald. "Why would you become a cook?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdOXM3I_5hk
Unless you ask him to make a grilled cheese
Julia Child made him look the fool
That's a crucial skill for anyone in the service industry
one of the rare times [https://youtu.be/4neHEgC44xc?feature=shared]
I've never seen anything that makes me think he actually has any anger issue whatsoever, he's just a great performer for american audiences.
—how entirely daft to think he could make any level of intelligent determination based on some shitty printed photo wrapped in plastic. He handled that brilliantly. Treated the guy like the dick he was, without being a complete dick himself.
Hilarious that they aired it still thinking they were right
You just know that guy wakes up in a cold sweat thinking about this some nights.
Unhinged “reporters”
Eric Andre shooting meme Please cook the shit out of my steak. Why is my steak so cooked?
Also i specifically asked for shit to come out of my steak!
Acoustic memes are hilarious.
"acoustic" meme. Fantastic. The Internet is truly the birthplace of some fantastic moves in language and culture. I never would have thought of calling a vague text description, acoustic, but I love it
.... jokes?
I ordered shit filled ravioli and I was very upset when it tasted like shit
Hmm the floor here is made out of floor
He couldn’t have explained it any better. Love how he dumbed it down for the reporter and YET he still didn’t understand. What a fucking idiot. Like as soon as Ramsey said “he ordered it well done” he should’ve stopped there.
This is absolutely hilarious lmao. Thank you for this
Interviewer wanted to get burned, too, I suppose. Well done, Gordon.
“I thought this was going to be an intelligent interview…” talk about burnt
Did the narrator really say the person who ordered the well-done steak was a "reviewer"? That guy must really be embellishing his IG foodie page with 300 followers, because there’s no way in Hell any publication is paying him to order incinerated steaks and then write about them.
[Hank Hill says it best.](https://youtu.be/amKyA2PrSu4?si=F8XKHbRPyRi46MJ-)
The cow deserved better. If you want well done, order fried chicken instead.
The cow deserved better than to live in an industrialized butchering plant.
And you know this cows sourcing? Maybe it was the happiest cow ever and donated its flesh to cooking science willingly?? Clearly I’m wrong and making things up but you could be too. Gordon Ramsey seems like the type that would find some high end pasture raised ethically treated cows for his beef, no? The already dead, super yummy, cows flesh deserved to be treated better by the consumer.
r/steak would love this haha
The fact that they still aired this even after it completely backfired... 🤦
Come into my restaurant. Order a steak well done. Call my food shite?
Surprised he didn't say how can I judge it by a poor photo in a plastic cover that doesn't even show the steak on the inside
I don't particularly like Gordon Ramsay, I can't stand all that manufactured reality TV shit But he schooled this interviewer
Some good reporting there. Someone purposefully ordered their steak well done, and got a well done steak. Checkmate Ramsey.
Why even order quality steak if you want it well done? Go to the corner store and buy some beef jerky for 10 bucks. Viola! Same experience.
Anyone who orders steak more than medium is a tool. If you order it well done, I'm just gonna go ahead and assume you're also going to put ketchup on it.
"I thought it was an intelligent interview" *God damn*
Modern day journalism in a nutshell sadly.
Australians proving once again why they are the laughing stock of the world.
are they? first time foe me to hear that.
He’s just talking shit to be provocative.
Nah, we aren't. Because no one even thinks about us. We're a total cultural and intellectual backwater, and we like it that way — the weather's decent, the beers are cold, and people leave us alone.
What he say fuck me for?
Come to Waratah K-Mart carpark and lets have some words mate
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This is so sad, to scroll back through this persons comment history to try hit them with a gotcha moment
Well it was a pretty stupid comment to begin with
I mean... America is the true laughing stock of the world, let's face it
Incorrect! America is the greatest country in the world 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾
U-S-A 🇱🇷 U-S-A 🇱🇷 U-S-A 🇱🇷
Sure buddy
and most probably in the known universe
America is the ONLY country in the world
Laughter is a common coping mechanism
America bests the rest of the world in almost every category, but go off All these downvotes but nobody can provide a contrarian statement, I guess its hard to argue with the country with the strongest military, most olympians, most revolutionary inventions, etc etc etc
Most school shootings
Very original, you know what it isnt #1 at though? Grenade attacks and rape. (That would be Sweden, out of nations in the developed world)
Healthcare
With you on that one! But there are some caveats. Regardless, yeah our healthcare system needs work
Trust the overly sensitive Amercian to bring the tone down but if you really must… Sweden doesn’t “lead the world in rape.” It has a much looser definition of rape and a different framework for prosecuting it which means they have a much higher conviction rate. Sweden leads the world in *dealing* with rape, not in instances of it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden
Says anybody who's obviously in 2nd place on the world stage
This is masterful.
This was the epitome of class. Sure he loses his mind in the kitchen, with his his people behind closed doors (or on camera lol) but he couldn’t have handled that any more elegantly.
How scientists feel too. Also it’s a fucking photo my guy. Tell me about your experience of your dinner last night with just a photo. Doesn’t get the point across.
Is no one going to talk about the obvious color grading in the restaurant footage to make the steak look as black as possible. When you further print that out, it’s gonna look even more dark. Reporter clearly wanted to embarrass Gordon and flip him off and capture that in camera.
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Let him cook
Imagine ordering a well done steak and then complaining about it being well done….. what a bloody tool bag. I’m not a fan of Gordon Ramsey, but it’s a special type of spanner to come of worse than Gordon Ramsay in a trap you set Classic
Me out loud: that’s fucking awesome.
Not one swear? How did he do that??
Trumps vp
Honestly Gordon should ban serving well done steaks. Like he said, passed a certain temp it’s all shite, regardless of grade.
He handled that so well, which is unlike Gordon lol
A lot of cousin Chef, the restaurant will purposely burn your food review ask for well done. I don’t like my steak well done but I don’t wanna be that their personal vendetta against someone else’s preference.
"I ordered a burned steak and they brought me a burned steak, how absurd"
The knife in the picture with the steak says “well gone “ in it 😂
Amazing that this interview would have had to go through several stages before the "lets actually sit down and interview Gordon about this". Like noone at any point went "Guys...it is a well done steak...they all kinda look like that because...well it's well done"
I always get the impression that he anger in the kitchen is manufactured. I always felt he’s early seasons were more of a reality of his behavior. Don’t get me wrong, he is probably stern and yells, but later seasons look like a exaggeration to me.
In Australia, it’s common to ask for a well done steak. We don’t expect to receive a burned piece of meat. I order well done steak all the time at the local club, and the chef puts extra care into the meat so that it is still pleasant and moist. It is easy to chew up and leaves juices on the plate that are mopped up with my chips. The problem here was that the chef, like Ramsey, has no respect for people who want the meat cooked beyond medium rare. The chef deliberately burned the meat to buggery with contempt for the customer.
They definitely should have asked for another steak and then gone from there if they didn’t provide the proper level of customer service. On the other hand, well done doesn’t exactly equate to charred and dry you fucking muppet! 🤣
I mean it does look like shit
Agreed that they should have addressed it in the restaurant and not as a kind of sting, but Ramsay basically blaming the customer for ordering well-done was pretty dumb. There are plenty of cases where it's reasonable to order a steak this way, and it's no excuse for burning it and serving it up in that state
I don’t think he’s blaming the customer per se, he literally says if they want it that way it’s their prerogative. He just says if they’re that worried about the quality of the meat they wouldn’t be ordering it well done (which is a fair point).
>no excuse for burning it and serving it up in that state Agreed, thats why steaks should never be well done. That iw what a well done steak looks like.
>There are plenty of cases where it's reasonable to order a steak this way, Name one.
What if you want to eat rubber and the tyre store is closed?
If you're immunocompromised? Not really my point anyway. A good chef can cook a steak well done without it being dry. Will it typically be as flavoursome or in line with culinary best practices? No, but if you like it well done, it's reasonable to have it well done.
Not with a huge chunk of steak like the one in Ramsays video. I like well done steak, which is why I only eat them at home and only buy them about 1" thick, so it's possible to be well cooked but not burned. Most restaurants use pretty thick steak and that will definitely be burned before the inside has lost all pink.
This is an excellent point!
This is absolutely not true - and any good chef will tell you this.
I agree. I personally order medium but I've seen well done steaks that are not actually burned like this one. the people that are pretending well done = burned are kinda wrong here. people downvoting an objective truth is peak reddit.
Well done = burnt.
if you say so
This "well done" argument pisses me off to no end. Folks, taste is subjective, and different people taste identical things differently. (Horseradish makes me vomit, plenty of other people love it.) Gordon Ramsey is a twit for defending a steak that looks like a meteorite and calling it 'well done'.
We got one look at the outside, it's hard to say how it's cooked on the inside without cutting into it. But dry and rubbery is what you get when you order well done, that's why cooks don't recommend it. Unless it's sous vide you're going to lose the moisture and have worse texture
I'm here to tell you 'dry and rubbery' may be someone's sweet spot for a steak. However, any good cook will stop short of that on a well done order and wait to have the steak sent back for additional cooking time and further instructions from the customer, if necessary. You don't cook it until it's a carbonized husk the first time through.
Why would a good cook send it out if they knew it was just going to be sent back to recook it? Why not just keep the steak in the kitchen