Getting Your Meat Cooked The Way You Like

[mousebrat]

We hale from the beef capital of the world (at least some would call it), but can't stand bloody beef. Will the restaurants prepare meat well done (or at least medium well)? I looked at some of the pictures in a recent post - some of the meat looked ready to moo.

 

[GhostlyHitchhiker]

I was actually happy to hear the mooing on that picture thread.

I like my steak rare and find that very few (read no) restaurants serve it like that anymore. Most tell me flat out that the best they can do is medium rare, which ends up being medium anyway.

All that said, I have no doubt Disney will be able to cook it anyway you prefer. Since they seem to be able to make a good rare steak, I'm sure they're just as good at making it well done.

 

[wccruiser]

We hale from the beef capital of the world (at least some would call it), but can't stand bloody beef. Will the restaurants prepare meat well done (or at least medium well)? I looked at some of the pictures in a recent post - some of the meat looked ready to moo.

Amen (fellow Texan here from way back)! I like a crust on mine!!

 

[BethC1952]

Yes, they will cook it to well done, if requested. I don't like beef if it's pink at all, and they were able to cook it well enough for me!

Beth

 

[mousebrat]

One of the problems we have in the Texas Panhandle is that cooking meat even medium well is some kind of beef blasphemy. Accordingly, when you go to formal dinners where there are limited options (e.g. everybody gets filet mignon and a lobster tail) the beef is always cooked medium. Nobody ever asks how you would prefer your steak - they are just serving in bulk and everybody gets the same thing. My concern was that the ship's restaurants would be the same way - thanks for alleviating some of those fears.

 

[Rence]

We sailed with a big family group Dec 2003. My dad is never the shrinking violet type, so I don't know what was up with him our first evening in the dining room.

He ordered a steak "sort of medium well". It arrived, was a little pink, and he leaned over to me and said that he couldn't eat that. My dad seemed reluctant to bring it up. This was my second DCL cruise and I knew that they would do whatever it took to make him happy, so I go the attention of the waiter.

My dad told him he needed it "a little bit more well done", so the waiter brought out a second steak and there was a hint of pink in it and my dad leaned over to me and said that he still couldn't eat it.

I got our waiter's attention. He seemed quite concerned. This time I spoke up for my father and I said "BURN IT". The waiter returned with a very very well done steak. My father was in heaven. At that point he bonded wtih the waiter and they were best friends for the whole week.

You can get the meat the way you want it. Just be clear to the waiter.

 

[CM_Mom]

Mousebrat, take the recommendation of a fellow Texan, skip the steak except at Palos. I ordered a sirloin in the dining room and it was sorta OK....but about what you would expect for a kitchen probably cooking 500 plus steaks...not up to backyard grill standards. But as a Texan, I admit to being a steak snob.

However the filet at dinner in Palo was DELICIOUS and cooked EXACTLY like I requested. If I hadn't been so totally STUFFED when I finished it, I would have ordered another.

In the dining rooms, I decided that I prefer to experiment with new foods although the barbeque wing appetizers are not to be missed.