Post #130745 by tiki mick 1 on Mon, Dec 13, 2004 11:23 AM

I totally understand the waitress having you sign a waiver..I was a general Manager for Sizzler for 4 years. Every week we had at least one con-artist/customer complain that they were "sick" from the food they just ate. Sizzler had gone through all the safety procedures as far as handling meat, and we were VERY anal about it. Sizzler and Jack in the box had some incedents up north, and to avoid it in the future, we really went over the top with the sanitation procedures. I would have trusted those steaks completly, as I subbbed for the butcher many times, and handled the tri-tips myself.
Still, as much as we tried, we always had at least one person a week claim illness. Stupid, really...if you truly were infected it would take a few hours before the raging bloody vomiting set in! It would not happen right after you took your last bite.

With Sizzler, what happened was that the people working the salad bar were using knives that had been cutting raw meat, and then they cut melons and other fruit with the same knives..not good!

However, unless you are eating Kobe beef, I would never order any red meat raw or rare at all. it only takes one case of food poisoning for you to really appreciate a well-cooked steak! The reason? heat breaks down not only bacteria, but the added chemicals, steroids and growth hormones they feed the cows! If you eat a blood rare steak, you are consuming much more crap then you actually can see!

Personally, I think rare is disgusting..I really don't need to see blood on my plate, and think about the cow in the slaughterhouse, hanging from it's broken legs by a chain before being "processed".

But, to each thier own!