Medium Steak??

[cat lover]

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..??

Thanks

 

[M&S+Bump]

Medium steak is fine. As long as the outside is brown, there are no germs on the inside of it.

 

[tina3747]

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..

 

[PrayerfulHope]

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.

 

[Annunakian]

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.

 

[mumoffive]

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!

 

[Cattia]

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.

 

[WifeyMommy]

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.

 

[Mum2MJ]

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: https://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/917.aspx?CategoryID=54&SubCategoryID=130

 

[UkCath]

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.

 

[membas#1]

I've been eating med/rare most of the pregnancy--we buy our beef from a local/free range source so i trust it more, and a few times have eaten it more on the rare side. if i were going out and unsure of the beef source, i'd probably do medium or medium rare. but i still eat soft yolk/runny yolk eggs too--which they say not to do that, but i get my eggs from a friend's farm and trust the source. haven't had a problem. wouldn't do that with standard grocery eggs though.