I like my meat cooked medium rare, but when I order it as medium rare, it usually doesn’t come out medium rare. Historically, most restaurants overcook the meat so it ends up closer to medium than medium rare.

Because of that, I’ve developed a strategy to request meat cooked rare instead of medium rare. Then, the meat usually ends up closer to medium rare. In the cases that I run into restaurants that actually cook the meat properly rare, then that’s fine as well, because I’m ok with rare meat also.

A while back, scarra got me dinner with one of my friends, and to return the favor, I took him out to dinner last night. The restaurant we went to was a bit different … I asked for my burger cooked rare, and I ended up getting a blue rare burger.

It was still pretty good.