Whether a matter of personal taste or professional pride, the well-done steak continues to evoke strong opinions from ...

My little well-done life world was perfect. I thought I enjoyed nice steak, but it was because I'd never had a good one. My first exposure came on a date. I was 16, she was 19 and told me that she ...

Medium well steak hits 150 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit. At this phase, there will be no more redness, very little pink left over, and the meat will be hot all the way through.

If you're only accustomed to ordering steak in the U.S., then French customs regarding doneness might come as a surprise.

Broadly speaking, medium-rare — when steak is deeply seared on the outside and registers about 135 degrees in the center, which will stay rosy — achieves a kind of perfect sweet spot between ...

For our medium-well steaks, we also found the hand method lacking. We got a steak most people would call medium, and according to the thermometer, it was still 3° F shy of the minimum safe ...

The internal temperature for a medium-well steak should be around 150 degrees. For a 1-inch thick steak, cook each side for about 12 minutes, then let it rest for about 10 minutes before serving.

A UMD researcher cuts into a medium-well-done steak with a hardened wood knife. Credit: Bo Chen With most of the lignin gone, the wood became soft and flexible, even "somewhat squishy," per Li.