From Rare to Well-Done: Meat Temperatures for Perfect Steaks

No thermometer? No problem. Chef Yankel gives a crash course in using touch, texture, and color to measure meat temperatures.

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[deaconbarton-cootes]

Man your well done steak is still alive…

[vlad]

You made steaks from Rare to Medium.
Your well done would not even qualify as medium well in most restaurants :)

[Redallstar]

This guys thermometer is broken. No way are those medium well to well done steaks.

[wanterbaik]

This guy got a lot of confidence posting this video

[Jigsaw_the_mastermind]

4:43 is when I turned it off... When he showed the "well done steak" 🤦‍♂️👋

[LAsHoGuY]

Imagine your at a restaurant and he comes out and explains that your steak is in Fact “Well done”….
Bruh I’d loose my shit

[outoftheblue]

It's like they are all varying degrees of a medium
rare done steak 😂

[CommandoX]

Yeah, that's not a, "well-done" steak.

[igggaming]

I think most people expecting a well done steak wouldn't want any pinkness. I know the pinkness means flavor, but well-done eaters are afraid of pinkness!

[Stinky-samurai]

This guy's a genius he's teaching everyone how to cook a well done steak if you don't have a thermometer or even medium. AKA no more well-done or medium done steak.

[rons]

I used to only eat well done steak. What you showed was not well done. Well done steak is brown throughout.

[AL.BUNDY.]

Dude forgot to check if his thermometer was broken. That thermometer misread his "well done".

[nathanhaines]

A well done steak should have no pink, and should be a bit dry. Take it off at 160 to 165. Final resting temp should be around 170.

125 degrees a steak is still quite rare. That's a good temp to remove a steak from grill if you want med rare.

135 kinda borderline temp. Coolest temp for medium. Highest for med rare.

[TopStrikerMaverick]

If “we’ll done “ means still alive and moving then yeah u nailed it

[JimP]

I don't understand this at all. I use a couple different properly calibrated temp probs and if I cooked to 140F its looking more well done than this well done steak. Also 150-170F and still that pink, no way. Plus if it was 170 before resting, it probably would come up a few more degrees on top of that. This just confused me even more. I'd also like to point out that the thumbnail image tells an entirely different story.

[Mizai]

at kfc you sometimes get medium rare chicken

[johnr]

What temp so it won't bleed all over my mashed potatoes?

[FxnWaySheGoes]

Did you cook these steaks near a heat lamp?

[ancherrera]

That’s the most beautifully cooked Well Done steak I have ever seen. Unfortunately, people who ask for well done would never eat it, “Those people” are usually put off by that lovely color. If it’s not gray they won’t eat it. I never give those people Butcher Box meat. They don’t deserve it.

[kenowens]

Can't eat red meat. I guess I have to cook it very slowly so the inside is brown.