# How'd You Like Your Steaks?!
**URL:** https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762
**Category:** General
**Tags:** poll
**Created:** [June 20, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762 "2017-06-20T00:01:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@AlyssaWOAH](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/AlyssaWOAH)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/1 "2017-06-20T00:01:49Z")
Want to know what everyone’s preferences for steaks are! 😋
_Poll ([view on site](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/1))_
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### Author:  [@fischersd](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/fischersd)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/2 "2017-06-20T13:58:45Z")
Just have to speak to the OCD in some of us. 🙂
This should have been sorted in level of doneness. 🙂 I guess we’re presuming that no-one that cares enough about their food quality would have their steak well done? 🙂 (with you guys selling the Nano’s, you may see a lot of new faces in here) 🙂
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### Author:  [@AlyssaWOAH](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/AlyssaWOAH)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/3 "2017-06-20T15:45:45Z")
Haha I should have ordered this in level of doneness - but too late now!
¯\_(ツ)\_/¯
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### Author:  [@acs](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/acs)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/4 "2017-06-21T06:45:07Z")
Does “Black and Blue” mean “well done” or does it mean bleu (more rare than rare) with a heavy sear (sometimes AKA “Chicago Blue”)?
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### Author:  [@AlyssaWOAH](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/AlyssaWOAH)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/5 "2017-06-21T06:53:04Z")
Second part!
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### Author:  [@Ember](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Ember)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/6 "2017-06-21T11:32:23Z")
I guess it depends where you live because I know the bleu with heavy char as New York steak.
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### Author:  [@fischersd](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/fischersd)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/7 "2017-06-21T11:46:05Z")
@Ember, you sure it wasn’t just a New York strip? 🙂
Up here, we call it Chicago, but many places call it Pittsburgh.
> **[Pittsburgh rare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_rare)**
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> A Pittsburgh rare steak is one that has been heated to a very high temperature very quickly, so it is charred on the outside but still rare or raw on the inside. The degree of rareness and the amount of charring on the outside may vary according to taste. The term "Pittsburgh rare" is used in some parts of the American Midwest and Eastern Seaboard, but similar methods of sear cooking are known by different terms elsewhere, including Chicago-style rare and, in Pittsburgh itself, black and blue....
The steel mill explanation would make sense as to how it came to be (and why they’d call it Pittsburgh), but why we call it Chicago? No idea. 🙂
You can order any level of doneness as “Chicago” at the steak houses in Ontario - they just do a quick char on the steak after it’s done.
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### Author:  [@Ember](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Ember)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/8 "2017-06-21T12:59:20Z")
No sir. Down here in Australia black and blue steak has been called “New York” no matter what the cut.
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### Author:  [@AlyssaWOAH](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/AlyssaWOAH)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/9 "2017-06-21T19:56:31Z")
@Ember that’s interesting! If I ever visit Australia, I know not to order the New York steak haha.
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### Author:  [@kcwalker](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/kcwalker)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/10 "2018-02-09T19:17:30Z")
I just saw this topic/poll, so adding a comment to push to the top.
The Anova Community really needs sticky posts, or create a category to find these fun polls.
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### Author:  [@chatnoir](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/chatnoir)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/howd-you-like-your-steaks/7762/11 "2018-02-09T19:37:04Z")
Here’s a tip of my toque to KC.
Thanks.