What are you cooking?

[Fishmanic]

I use a meat thermometer to check doneness of a steak.

 

[Fishmanic]

To many it does not matter but I started cooking commercially in steak houses.

Oh… so you DID work in a restaurant as a cook. With all your gourmet meals that you cook, I figured that.

 

[jaylach]

I use a meat thermometer to check doneness of a steak.
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That works but my personal training was testing buy touch and I'm more comfortable that way. Again, though, using a puncture thermometer still causes a loss of juice but it would be so minor of a loss that it really would not matter unless cooked it a REALLY high end place where you were paying $100.00+ USD for a filet magnon. Personally I don't even like filet.

Oh… so you DID work in a restaurant as a cook. With all your gourmet meals that you cook, I figured that.

LOL! I admitted to that way back when. I would not say that I worked in REALLY high end places... Let's call them medium high. I've also done more than just being a steak cook. When in Florida I worked a place that I usually did meat but they had a Sunday Brunch thing going. I would do most of the cooking for that. Shoot, the biggest cooking complement I ever got working commercially as a cook was at the brunch place. There were some customers that would come in and ask if I was cooking. If I was off shift they would leave. I don't think it wrong of me to be rather proud of that.

I've never had any formal cooking schooling but my mother taught me the most important thing needed. My mother was a wonderful cook but never taught me one single actual recipe. What my mother taught me was to NOT be afraid of food and to experiment. I actually had a place add one of my personal recipes to their menu.