Originally Posted By: IndyIan
I guess if its her dinner she gets decide how well done the meat is. I like rare but my wife will sometimes do steak to just warmish in the middle! She doesn't like it either when I give it a zap in the microwave, but if you use low power level you can bring it up to rare temps without over cooking any of it. Anyways our spouses aren't eating our meat so I guess we shouldn't make a big deal of it.
I hear you here, but I feel like I go to great lengths to cook things to my wife's satisfaction and it's just never enough. I will grill a chicken breast for her twice as long as one I'm giving to my daughter, to the point of being almost dry, and then cut it in half to show how thoroughly it's cooked...she still cuts it into tiny pieces and inspects every one, then maybe they still go in the microwave. I sometimes feel like just serving her a hunk of carbon that used to be chicken to see if that does it for her.
I used to love bloody beef, but it kind of grosses me out now and I tend to buy myself thin steaks of whatever cut to grill so they're done in just a few minutes. I get the grill nice and hot and cook my steak close to the flame so it'll sear even though it's in there a short time, my wife's chicken close by so it get cooked to death, and then my daughter's chicken on a raised surface because she doesn't like the grill marks. At least my daughter and I are usually happy with the results!
