Have you ever had Steak Tartare?

[NedNickerson]

I recently rented "Mr. Bean - The Complete Bean" from Netflix. In one episode, Mr. Bean visits a restaurant for his birthday and treats himself, to what he thought was a fancy dinner, by ordering steak tartare. I wasn't aware, and nor was Mr. Bean, that steak tartare is made from raw meat.

Wikipedia defines steak tartare as a meat dish made from finely chopped or ground raw beef or horse meat. Horse meat? Tartare can also be made by thinly slicing a high grade of meat such as strip steak, marinating it in wine or other spirits and spicing it to taste, and then chilling it. It is often served with onions, capers and seasonings (the latter typically incorporating fresh ground pepper and Worcestershire sauce or Tartare sauce), and sometimes with a raw egg, and usually served on rye bread.

The basis of the name is the legend that nomadic Tatar people of the Central Asian steppes did not have time to cook and thus placed meat underneath their horses' saddles. The meat would be tenderised by the end of the journey.

Yum! <----- (sarcasm)

Here's the clip:


I don't understand how anyone could pay good money for a raw meat pattie...
And wouldn't it be dangerous to eat raw beef?
How could the taste be better than, say, a charbroiled steak?

 

[Corny]

Not a "pure" Steak Tartare, but "Mettbrötchen" are often eaten here and very delicious

But usually they don't take horse meat for them

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

yeah - a good vet could get it up and running in 10 minutes !! but i do occasionally eat sashimi - go figure.

raw meat however? NO THANKS !! i can think of other uncooked "meat" products I'd rather suck on -- i mean ummm.....nevermind....

 

[SonOfSlobone]

I've eaten it, and in a very nice restaurant too. But these days I don't think you'll see it on the menu in the US given the state of our meat inspections...

 

[rareboy]

Yup.

Love it.

The horse meat is usually smoked though and served paper thin.

 

[CuppaJoe]

neigh....................

Or "Moo...!"
I like the part of the video when Bean holds the plate up to his ear...

 

[Triple G]

I perfer it cooked just enough to stop the cow from grazing in the salad.

 

[bankside]

I am not a fan. I've had it, but my impression was "just stop screwing around and cook the damn hamburger, dammit."

That and ditch the capers.

 

[SonOfSlobone]

I perfer it cooked just enough to stop the cow from grazing in the salad.

That's not necessarily a joke -- a friend of mine was served lobster in a Japanese restaurant that was still wriggling... euwww...

 

[flyingfree]

I've eaten tuna tartare. Non-meat eaters should give it a try. One of the ingredients is lime juice. The juice "cooks" the diced up raw fish.

 

[bankside]

I think non-meat eaters should try bacon and roast beef while we're at it!

 

[versatastic]

I've had carpaccio at one of Mario Batali's restaurants. It's the texture of sashimi with a subtle flavor of beef. It was good.

I've also had steak tartar with freshly hand-chopped beef. It was very good.

That pic looks like a burger pattty waiting to be grilled.

 

[G-Lexington]

The place down the street serves a really mean beef carpaccio.

...and now I know where I want to go to dinner.

Lex

 

[NineOfClubs]

I vaguely remember trying it long ago.

Today I think eating it is akin to taking a large bite out of a living cow

 

[Yooper]

The place down the street serves a really mean beef carpaccio.

...and now I know where I want to go to dinner.

Lex

Where? Sounds good.

Yes, I've had Steak Tartare. It was good.

 

[chatolandia]

never had it

wouldn't mind trying it...


I think though, it has to be from a place that I would completely trust

much like eating sushi, I would avoid 'discount' places

 

[zoltanspawn]

I like it. I miss the Maillard, but I like it. Too many capers is like too much soy-wasabi on good sushi, though: kinda seems like consumers are overdressing it for palatability when the point is something other.

Speaking of sashimi, there's a chicken variety. In terms of raw meat, this actually seems kind of gross to me (growing up in the era of typhoid). I've never eaten it. In the right circumstances, I would.

 

[chatolandia]

I tried Squid Sashimi and I could not eat it, some things are better cooked

 

[hungrybrownbear]

I think though, it has to be from a place that I would completely trust

much like eating sushi, I would avoid 'discount' places

You are a very wise man!

 

[scrapple]

I had steak tartare twice. I remember loving it once, hating it once. Wish I could remember why , each time. BTW, LOVED seeing the great Mr. Bean again!