rare steak
Cool pink middle
Rare steak is beef cooked briefly at high heat, leaving the interior red, cool, and soft while the exterior is seared.
The meat reaches an internal temperature of about 125°F—warm but far from fully cooked.
Ordering steak rare signals a preference for tenderness and beefy flavor over the firmer texture of more thorough cooking: I'll have the ribeye, rare.
- bloodyGore-covered or British curse
- juicyFull of moisture
- searedBurned on the surface
- pinkPale red hue
- tenderSoft or sore
charred · cast iron skillet · black and blue · medium · beef · red meat · grill · sirloin · ribeye · filet · prime cut · butcher · carnivore · crust · iron · red · warm · succulent
- Undercookedraw, underdone, underbaked, uncooked, raw meat
- mediumsoil paint, watercolor, acrylic, tempera, pastel
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