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Feb 27th, 2011, 11:45 AM
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Medium Steak??

Hi ladies! I hope you are all well.

Just wondering - is it OK to eat a medium steak or should I have it well done? I am going out for dinner tonight and could drool at the thought of a medium steak... but not sure if its dangerous..??

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Feb 27th, 2011, 11:50 AM
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Medium steak is fine. As long as the outside is brown, there are no germs on the inside of it.

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I'd say it's fine.. It's very rare you get any food poisoning from beef, people eat steak tartare (blughgh!) think it's more 1st tri you'd need to avoid..

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I hope so because I ate a medium steak the other night. I didn't get sick so I assume everything was fine, and, it was amazing.

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I usually have mine medium rare. Anything more than that and it's too tough for me. I love steak tartar (cannibal sammiches it's called here) but I haven't had any since before I found out I was pregnant, the only place I trust for that is a local store by my Moms which is an hour away and we don't go there often if at all.

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I always thought it had to be cooked all the way through? I thought the issue was listeroisis because its undercooked? I have always thought that. I would love a medium rare steak!

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I wish I had know that's OK. DH insists on buying steak and I have been eating mine well done which I really don't like. I like them really rare normally but medium rare would be better than nothing.

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I've been encouraged by my OB to eat Medium or medium rare beef because of my iron deficiency and the iron pills are intolerable for me. Beef 3 times a week and plenty of lentils and greens have been on my menu for the past few weeks.

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Hi, I think the risk is toxoplasmosis, I haven't eaten steak at all this pregnancy because I can't stand it well done so I don't see the point. Here's the link to the NHS guidelines on foods to avoid during pregnancy (includes undercooked/rare meat) for those who want to know: http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/917.aspx...CategoryID=130

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I think people have said before that Toxoplasmosis is a risk in rare steak but that it's actually very unlikley to be found in beef products so quite a low risk, where as pork products are much more likely to be a Toxoplasmosis risk if undercooked.

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