How do you want your hamburger done?

[Guaranteed]

Poll question: How do you want your hamburger done?

Credit Magic Rat for this poll.

[bigwillq]

1. Well done (this poll and my burger) n/t

[JasonDeter]

2. Without Mad Cow thank you. No burgers for me.

[kath]

14. Me too-- I'm avoiding hamburger, hotdogs, sausage with beef in it

until the mad cow situation becomes clearer.

[corporatewhore]

22. Oprah was right!!

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. Steaks, medium rare to rare. Burgers, medium well.

It's that whole E. coli thing.

[solinvictus]

4. Organic, and medium to medium-rare

[Padraig18]

5. I LIKE it medium rare, but won't eat it that way.

Too much chance of an E. coli bug, or something equally-nasty. Make it well-done...*sigh*

[name not needed]

6. ooooooh! shiny!

[Kamika]

7. Go DEAN

Take that kerry!

[Nikia]

8. Medium well

I don't want it dried out but I want it done and not bloody. The worst cooked burger I had was at a Hard Rock Cafe. It was charred on the outside and almost raw in the center.

[MrSlayer]

9. Medium.

I like it red in the middle. Yummy.

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. medium

With Kerry, and a side of Edwards. :D

[Mass_Liberal]

11. HAHAHA!!!

in a one day tracking poll, Deanburgers led Kerryburgers among Democratic carnivores 3-to-1. It's looking like an absoloute landslide. Back to you, John.

[moof]

12. WHAT !!!!!! no " Other & No " In Paradise " ??

moof prefers Cheeseburgers in paradise.

A big warm bun and a huge hunk of meat.
Cheeseburgers in paradise.
Heaven on earth with an onion slice.
Not too particular, not too precise.
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise.
I like mine with lettuce and tomato,
Heinz Fifty-seven and French fried potatoes.
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer.

[populistmom]

13. Ground beef should always be well-done

For health reasons (nasty e-coli and listeria and such). For steaks though, medium to medium well. And please no tar-tar, sushi, or raw anything.

[gate of the sun]

15. organic turkey

with a little olive oil, pepper, cayenne and rosemary can be nice.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Brand it and bring it

e coli be damned.

[peterh]

17. Steak Tartar…with a raw egg in the middle…

Just had it in Zurich last month….yum yum…

[Lostmessage]

18. On a sesame seed bun

With lots of miracle whip on it.

[radfringe]

19. make mine RARE

state law prohibits eateries from serving rare burgers - :sigh: - all you can get is a hockey-puck on a bun

so I don't order burgers in the restaurants - make them at home and the way I like them

1. make a "grilled cheese sandwich"
2. fry up a burger in a pan with sautee onion
3. open up the grilled cheese sandwich, add the burger and onions
4. garish to taste
5. eat it

yum....

[corporatewhore]

20. made out of newborn babies becuase i am a

liberal and all liberals are satanists becuase they dont worship our lord and savior bush :evilgrin:

[0rganism]

21. With a side order of prions in a honey mustard sauce, please

Seriously, doesn't "prion" sound like some kind of topping or side dish?

"The beef was tasty, and the prions were fresh!"

[Piperay]

23. None at all

vegetarian here. :-)

[chenGOD]

24. Burger:Well Done. Steak: Medium Rare

Burgers should always be well done due to health reasons. The reason for this is because with ground beef, you don't know which part of the ground beef has been exposed to open air contact. WIth a steak, you can just cook the outside and be safe, cause the ourside is the only part that's been exposed to the air.

Mad Cow's bad enough thanks, don't need to bring E.Coli and other assorted disease.

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Medium-rare to rare.

To minimise risk of nasty bacterial infections, the thing to do in order to have a nice rare hamburger is to go to the store, buy a decent-size sirloin steak, sear it in a cast-iron skillet so that the exterior is definitely bacteria-free, then put it in a meat grinder, make burgers out of the result, and cook to taste. Especially recommended for anyone who likes less-than-well-done burgers but won't eat 'em out of paranoia.


And steak I like blood rare, cold in the middle. Grilled or pan-fried with a crust of about an eighth of an inch on the outside. When I eat meat, I want it to taste like meat. Not like leather or charcoal.

[Awsi Dooger]

26. Close to high and let it fry

My nana made the best burgers that way, right after school when I was in junior high. I could hear the glorious sizzling when I dumped the bike and walked into the house.

Actually I voted medium well. But please no juices at all. The only burgers I can't stand are the thick restaurant type that some places consistently undercook, even after the e-coli episodes and regardless of how you order it. Last summer in Miami I sent back Ale House burgers during six different visits, usually blood red even when I emphasized medium well.

Plenty of relish, thank you. Ketchup, lettuce and onions on a sesame seed bun.