meat temp orders for thursday

[Guest guest]

For Thursday night beef temps at my place of work, we had these orders (from

my tables only):

2 well, 3 med well, 3 med, 2 med rare, 1 rare

18% ordered well done beef

27% ordered med well beef

27% ordered medium beef

18% ordered med rare beef

9% ordered rare beef

72% ordered their beef medium or higher

45% ordered their beef medium well or higher

only 27% ordered their beef medium rare or lower.

twice as many people ordered well as ordered rare.

The sampling is pretty small, but if I have the opportunity I'll keep a

running tab on this. What I consider acceptable, which most folks on the list

would probably tend to agree with, is cooked about half as much as a " rare "

steak.

So at least medium, and I would even consider med rare as well, should be

considered " overcooked " by our standards. Using the broad definition, 91% of

people ordered their meat overcooked ;-)

Chris