False Facts About Steak Everyone Actually Believes

You may know how to cook the perfect steak, but there’s still a good chance you believe at least some of the most pervasive steak-cooking myths out there. These are the common myths about steak that are actually false. One aspect of eating a steak that can really turn some non-red meat-lovers off is the pinkish-red liquid that oozes out of a juicy steak. It can be unsettling, because, yes, it does kind of look like blood. In fact, we often call a very rare steak “bloody.“ However, you won’t find blood even in the rarest of steaks. The liquid coming out of a cooked steak is actually called myoglobin, and it’s a protein in animal tissue. Myoglobin serves to deliver oxygen to the muscles of an animal. Luckily for every steak-lover out there, it’s safe to eat and doesn’t have anything to do with blood. The myoglobin in a steak will darken as it’s cooked, which is why a rare steak looks a lot “bloodier“ than a more well-done steak. All that juiciness is pa