As served in Trattoria La Molinara in Verona, Italy. Incredible quality and taste!
I like me a rare steak, but that looks barely cooked at all
We eat a lot of raw meat in Europe. And that’s the kind of rare steak you’ll get not only in Italy, but also in France, UK and elsewhere. We also have dishes like tartare and carpaccio which are just straight raw meat.
Ummm almost every restaurant overcooks their steak in the UK unless they’re a steakhouse so I don’t know what you’re talking about
Well, I guess you’re choosing the wrong restaurants…
That’s disgusting. And I’m not saying that from personal preference, I’m saying that from a modern understanding of food borne illness and parasites.
That’s totally fine and safe in countries with high quality food and high standards of husbandry.
Nope, it’s completely fine to eat cow or horse meat cooked like that (but not ovines, pigs or birds). It’s very common in Italy. Never heard of food poisoning from this kind of meat. I do hear of food poisoning from chicken meat or seafood, though, as they are more prone to host dangerous parasites. I would still carefully select the meat vendor or restaurant, though.
That is categorically untrue. And I can send you as many links as you like refuting that primitive understanding of what commonly exists in undercooked or raw meat.
You can minimize the dangers with freshly slaughtered meat and good husbandry practices but there are unequivocal dangers to eating raw meat.
Raw pork and raw duck are also fine. Some seafood is fine too.
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It’s bleu not rare.
Once again, it is rare in Europe. You ask rare in France or UK and you get the same result.
I see grill marks. I do not see a proper sear. Two entirely different things.
Bleu, just the way I like it, never tried horse but for beef the saying goes:
Knock it’s horns off, wipe it’s bum, and twice over a candle.
It’s called rare in Europe. Blue is when you torch it for a few seconds. Proper blue should not have any visible grey meat.
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How does horse compare to other meats?
Mmm, I had horse many times in my life. To me it tastes like horse. I’d say it has a bit more taste than beef (beef is quite bland IMHO, not really a fan) so more similar to pork in this regard. But less fat than pork. It is about as chewy as good lamb. For me personally horse is a better lean steak than beef. But beef is better when it has a lot of fat. Basically, horse meat has taste, but in beef fat has taste.
That sounds a lot like deer which is what I was assuming you’d say!
I thought of venison too.
Venison has a very iron-y taste which I enjoy. This looks pretty similar to it, nice and dark red. Horse isn’t something we eat where I’m from but I’d definitely try it given the opportunity.
Venison is gamey. Because it is a game meat. Horse is not. They are very similar texturally indeed, but the flavour is completely different.
I had horse meat sashimi once in Korea and I remember it being sweeter.
I’m a vegetarian, so I’m…whatever. But I see no real difference between cow/horse. I saw the six downvotes and was, if I’m honest, hoping for a little drama in the comments. But it’s not here. It seems like kbin/lemmy may have plateaued re user growth, at least for the time being. And I’ve been a bit bummed about it, generally. But this was a pleasant surprise.
I’m not a vegetarian, but I consume very low amount of mean compared to the average (I’d say I consume no more than I need), and I totally agree that there should be no difference between cows and horses, as both are very intelligent and can get attached to humans or other species. Same goes for many other mammals, and not limited to.
It’s tasty food, what drama did you expect?
I think it’s pretty obviously the horse meat. A lot of people have problems with that.
I don’t want to sound arrogant, but people who have issues with foods are generally Americans. People elsewhere eat everything and there’s no drama. My ignorant theory is that the American industrial approach to food has destroyed traditions and replaced them with synthetic crap. There should be no drama about eating a horse, a cricket or spinach.
I am an American and I agree. This issue started at the end of World War II. The technology we developed to store and preserve bulk calories in tiny packages was probably a contributing factor to outcome of that war. It was cheap, simple and it was fantastic technology at the time. It has gotten too good, unfortunately.
However, processed foods are just one of the problems. All things considered, we have a lot of extremely cheap normal food as well. The mid-west is practically dedicated to cattle farms and corn. Our calories are super cheap and for the most part, we have excellent logistics networks. A funny rumor is that we here in Colorado get fresher sea food than most coastal locations since our orders get processed first thing in the morning for transport. (That sounds silly enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true.)
There are many different issues that cause higher obesity rates here, is my point.
I don’t know man I live in the Netherlands and it seems really 50/50 whether someone accepts “uncommon” meat. I personally feel weird thinking about eating dog/cat meat or crickets even though I understand that it is not a rational thought (assuming you’re fine with other meat of course).
I don’t know much about Netherlands, I’ve only been once to Amsterdam and I didn’t like the food much.
But fried crickets are amazing! Great beer snack!
If you saddled that steak you could still ride it.
