With bigger cuts, such as a whole prime rib roast that will be sliced after cooking, "a thermometer is super helpful for ...

and this represents how a medium-cooked steak should feel. As you stretch your thumb to reach the ring finger, now you've got medium well, and the tension in the thumb when touched with the pinkie ...

Executive Chef Billy Oliva invited Business Insider into the Delmonico's kitchen to give a master class on cooking steaks to temperature. More from Retail Just a few short blocks from the New York ...

Instead, received a beautiful plate with the most deliciously cooked steak. Afterward, the chef told me never to order "well done." He told me to say "medium well" or "pink in the middle," and ...

However, cooking steaks to perfection isn't always easy ... 52C for rare 57C for medium-rare 63C for medium 66C for medium/well 71C for well done ...

It has long been the thing that non-steak eaters or well-done incinerators point to ... Because the "bloody" liquid you see pooling round a rare or medium rare steak is not blood, but a protein ...

One of Carter's favorite foods is sirloin steak, and he prefers it medium-rare. And with a side ... meats — including steak — to be served well-done. George Washington — steak and kidney ...