In the eyes of many Chinese, steak is undoubtedly a feature of Western food, so that in many film and television works that depict Chinese eating Western food for the first time, a paragraph that does not understand how to cook steak will be added.
However, the most classic is that Teresa Teng invited Jackie Chan to eat steak, which should have been a very romantic and comfortable story, but because the sensitive Jackie Chan felt that he did not understand that steak was a bit cooked and delicious, it was an embarrassment, and the waiter's inquiry caused Jackie Chan to feel offended, so Jackie Chan ate a large piece of steak with a few knives, and Teresa Teng did not say much and did not eat much, and a meal was not happy and scattered.
In fact, the steak is divided into near-raw, one-point cooked, three-point cooked, five-point cooked, seven-point cooked and fully cooked, near-life and one point cooked and raw meat is no different, we can directly ignore, as for full cooked generally do not point, because fully cooked steak is not delicious, but also lost the meaning of eating Western steak.
Three points of cooked with blood, you can also see the raw meat in the middle, unaccustomed friends can point seven points of cooked, as for five points of cooked is between the two, it seems decent.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" >Why do Americans love steak? </h1>
The steak in Western food has not appeared for a long time, and it is more than two hundred years after the full dozen, after all, the birthplace of steak, the United States, has only been founded for more than two hundred years. Most of the white people who came to america were poor, and even many were sent prisoners, and at that time, the Americas were still a wild continent.
The natural environment is more primitive and there are many wild animals, which also means that the living environment of human beings is far less comfortable than that of European civilized society, if it is not so poor in the European continent that it cannot eat, or if it is assigned by the law, who wants to come to this deserted place?
In the early days of the colonies, the white people on the American continent, in addition to using guns and more antibodies to diseases in their blood than the Indians, were not much more civilized than the indigenous people, and even more barbaric in some ways, such as in the treatment of wild animals.
In many articles and books, it has been mentioned that the central grasslands of the American continent once lived in large numbers of North American bison, and these Northgate bison had become extremely docile and even less aggressive after a long period of semi-domestication by the Indians, and when the white colonists found these prey, they began a frenzied slaughter.
The original purpose of the slaughter was to obtain fur, and as for the remaining beef, which was naturally used to satisfy the appetite, the white colonists in the Americas encountered a headache, that is, they could not make beef at all.
Compared with pigs and sheep, cattle have a thicker physique, greater strength and endurance, and strong muscles also mean that there are many beef tendons in the beef tendon meat, if it is simply boiled or grilled to eat, often can not bite, which is roughly the most headache encountered by white people in the North American colonies at that time.
But the number of North American bison was so great that the cost of slaughter could be negligible, so the white Americans quickly found a solution, that is, to pick only the meat of the North American bison with almost no beef tendons, yes, what we often call beef tenderloin.
In the 19th century, Western steak mainly refers to the beef tenderloin this small piece of meat, called filet steak, beef in other places even if there is more, can not be used to make steak, and later with the popularity of Western food, steak demand is increasing, smart merchants will find the same beef near the beef tenderloin, that is, our later Sirloin steak and T bone steak, of course, this steak is naturally not as tender as the filet steak, either more bones, or more tendons (a fat).
Looking at the white Americans in the colonial period from the perspective of modern people, their extravagance and waste are really to the point of heinousness, as mentioned earlier, because they do not know how to cook, so they only use the tenderloin of the North American bison without meat tendons to make steak. Later, he simply ate the beef tongue of the North American bison, because it was tenderer than the steak but also smaller, and the beef that was left after peeling the skin was all discarded in the wilderness and allowed to rot.
After a large number of North American bison were eaten extinct by the Americans, Americans who have become accustomed to eating beef began to raise cattle, breeding naturally has a cost, Americans can no longer be as extremely wasteful as the original, when a cow slaughtered and removed a small part of the meat that can be made into steak, the rest of the beef is basically used to make beef cakes, which objectively provides an environment for the rise of McDonald's fast food based on beef burgers, of course, this is another story.
This is the background of the birth of American steak, Americans extravagant and wasteful habits have continued to this day, consuming the world's most beef every year, while producing the world's largest carbon emissions, while constantly blaming other countries, for their own waste and pollution have chosen to ignore.
Understand why Americans love to eat steak, why steak as a main dish will find that the so-called Western food is just so, even if the packaging is gorgeous, the atmosphere is romantic, can not cover up its historical short-lived and cultural shortcomings, of course, different cultures, especially different food cultures have their own characteristics and strengths, humble to learn good places, not humble, ordinary heart is good.
By the way, what subtly makes us think that eating Western food is more romantic and elegant? Yes, it is caused by the cultural output of European and American countries in the past few decades or even hundreds of years, whether it is edification or brainwashing, the benefits obtained by Western countries are real.
2021.10.19