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> Up in Eastern Europe everyone is hardcore convinced overcooked meat is healthy because no bacteria plus warm food good for stomach. Tons of people still wince

> Up in Eastern Europe everyone is hardcore convinced overcooked meat is healthy because no bacteria plus warm food good for stomach. Tons of people still wince at medium rare steak. I probably fit into this group, because in my mind it's better to be safe than sorry. While most of the food you'd get in stores is going to have good quality control and should be safe, "most" is still not "all". I recall a story from a number of years back in the news, where a person had found worms in some sushi that they got, for example. While that's an outlier, there are also many people that enjoy hunting and eating game meat, not cooking which fully would be just asking for trouble, because you could end up with trichinellosis, essentially with parasitic worms in your muscle tissue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinella Of course, the meat that comes from farms is quite different, but regardless, you only need to get unlucky once to have plenty unpleasant experiences, from food poisoning to worse. So for the foreseeable future, "overcooked" meat it is for me, others can enjoy their raw or rare meats and fish as they please.

dzhiurgis 4y ago
Seeing how poorly my folks handle hygiene in kitchen, they are more likely to get infection by washing your chicken or straight up leaving uncovered leftovers for days... If I offered you irradiated steak or tartare, would you eat it?
- KronisLV 4y ago
  > If I offered you irradiated steak or tartare, would you eat it? I'm not sure what radiation would practically do and whether eating something like that would be safe for me either way. As for the steak, if I was sure that it was quality meat, I might opt for medium well due to social pressure, otherwise leaning more on the side of well done, which some might view as a social affront. As for tartare, I wouldn't eat it either way, the same way how I don't eat raw salmon or other raw meat like that - while there are people over here that do enjoy that sort of thing, it's a matter of taste or perhaps an acquired taste.
  - dzhiurgis 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radura seems to have such a friendly icon, but would freak people up there too. Majority of people are still wary of microwaves, almost a century after it's invention... As for raw food - can't acquire taste without trying! Raw salmon per se isn't impressive - so many people get it wrong and are not using the fatty salmon belly. I haven't tried tartare yet myself.
    - KronisLV 4y ago
      > Majority of people are still wary of microwaves, almost a century after it's invention... I wouldn't be weary of microwaves per se, but rather their effectiveness in making food safer to eat. Even if we think just about it heating the food up enough to be safe, I've found that it doesn't heat up evenly, especially in the center of a rotating microwave. I guess that's what you get with standing waves, but it makes me a bit concerned. I did try looking up more information, but found nothing conclusive, sadly.
      - dzhiurgis 4y ago
        To heat up evenly - make a hole in the center of your food But purpose of microwave heating it is not for sanitisation, it’s for taste

dzhiurgis 4y ago

Seeing how poorly my folks handle hygiene in kitchen, they are more likely to get infection by washing your chicken or straight up leaving uncovered leftovers for days... If I offered you irradiated steak or tartare, would you eat it?

KronisLV 4y ago
> If I offered you irradiated steak or tartare, would you eat it? I'm not sure what radiation would practically do and whether eating something like that would be safe for me either way. As for the steak, if I was sure that it was quality meat, I might opt for medium well due to social pressure, otherwise leaning more on the side of well done, which some might view as a social affront. As for tartare, I wouldn't eat it either way, the same way how I don't eat raw salmon or other raw meat like that - while there are people over here that do enjoy that sort of thing, it's a matter of taste or perhaps an acquired taste.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radura seems to have such a friendly icon, but would freak people up there too. Majority of people are still wary of microwaves, almost a century after it's invention... As for raw food - can't acquire taste without trying! Raw salmon per se isn't impressive - so many people get it wrong and are not using the fatty salmon belly. I haven't tried tartare yet myself.
  - KronisLV 4y ago
    > Majority of people are still wary of microwaves, almost a century after it's invention... I wouldn't be weary of microwaves per se, but rather their effectiveness in making food safer to eat. Even if we think just about it heating the food up enough to be safe, I've found that it doesn't heat up evenly, especially in the center of a rotating microwave. I guess that's what you get with standing waves, but it makes me a bit concerned. I did try looking up more information, but found nothing conclusive, sadly.
    - dzhiurgis 4y ago
      To heat up evenly - make a hole in the center of your food But purpose of microwave heating it is not for sanitisation, it’s for taste