well-done because you don’t like the idea of bloody meat? What if I told you that that pool of red juice at the bottom of your plate isn’t blood at all? And in fact, that it can’t be blood because ...

Steak culture is full of “rules” that sound authoritative but fall apart under real testing. Many of these ideas came from ...

The liquid that comes out of a piece of freshly-cooked steak is actually water mixed with myoglobin. Myoglobin is a protein that’s rich in iron that turns red when exposed to oxygen. All proteins, ...