How cooked do you like your meat?🤔

[The alchemist]

I need to feel some resistance when chewing on the meat, f*ck outta here, if thats not present. Kuwa cad just for some reason love soft meat.

I've eaten plenty with cadaans. Man, their meat is bland and weak when it is rare or medium rare. The juiciness is watery from wet meat, not the right kind of juicy that is fat-based, seasoned, or marinated in other methods.

Just know that if the meat looks like this:

You're in for an underwhelming experience. The watery meat also has no taste beyond light gamey juice that has not been transformed through cooking.

The reason this became popular in the early days was because of European classist nonsense ("we can almost eat it rare since our meat is fresh compared to you peasants"), and subsequent flamboyant French cuisine elitism (drew from nobility culture to brand itself as exclusive and legitimate). American beef culture that tried to rebrand it in a masculine sense, which was later justified by so-called culinary experts retroactively (Western food "science"). It's basically modern Western beef culture, not something objectively truer than how Chinese like their rice. Don't forget that this rare-medium rare nonsense goes out the window as soon as you need to make other meats, and when you need to include cooking that draws more flavour.

The funny thing is, these cadaans love their meat so much, but whenever I introduce them to good-flavored meat, they always get shocked. It's just that when they go home, they revert back to their culture. That's all it is about. They the go to restaurants to eat what foreigners consume often as something special if they want the upgrade. That is the truth.

 

[The alchemist]

I remember my homie and his family were talking about the leftovers my mom gave them for half a year. That food was literally the simple cooking my mom did that they were given on a whim, as my homie asked if he could take some with him to his house. Mind you, I thought that batch was somewhat underwhelming and definitely far from my mother's best, so I was shocked when they talked about it for half a year. I thought they were capping every time for conversation's sake because it was one of those dinners I would not look forward to, but it turns out they were for real.