While many of us love munching on a medium-rare, juicy steak, for some others this idea is revolting because of the Romanian popular name “friptur\u0103 \u00een s\u00e2nge” which could be translated by “roast in blood”.<\/p>\n
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However, this translation is improper, creating a negative perception of the image in the plate when the beef is cut, and it creates a barrier to enjoy rare steaks even for many beef lovers.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The steak in blood is not actually in blood<\/strong><\/p>\n The steak is no longer so appetising when you think it is swimming in the blood. That reddish liquid present in medium-rare cooked beef is not really blood.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you think about it, steak doesn\u2019t taste like actual blood \u2013 if it did it probably wouldn\u2019t be such a popular and appreciated dish.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What is this liquid in fact?<\/strong><\/p>\n The red liquid is actually myoglobin, a protein that\u2019s only found in muscle tissue. Myoglobin carries oxygen through the muscle and contains a red pigment \u2013 which is why muscle tissue is red.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a steak is cooked, the myoglobin darkens \u2013 which is why the more \u201cwell-done\u201d the meat is, the greyer it looks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Interestingly, some commercial meat packers even treat raw steaks with carbon monoxide to \u201clock\u201d in the myoglobin and keep it looking a nice, fresh red colour.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do rare steaks look a little more appetizing to you now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While many of us love munching on a medium-rare, juicy steak, for some others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,337],"tags":[151,153,157,126,115,117,113,116],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSC_3522.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6030,"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/6030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premiumangus.ro\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}