(June 26, 2017 at 7:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(June 26, 2017 at 11:39 am)Shell B Wrote: I'll never, ever understand this. All the flavor is gone. All you're left with is a charred piece of meat with any seasonings you put on it. You might as well just eat the seasonings.
That said, I'm not about yucking anyone's yum. Have at whatever you want to eat.
Taste is always an individual thing. I don't think it loses it's flavor. I think for you it simply is not to your taste. The only way for an individual to eat food, is the way they like it. It is not like humans all share the same tongues.
It does demonstrably lose a lot of its flavor. All of the juice that contains so much of it is evaporated. Sure, it doesn't taste like nothing, but it doesn't have as much flavor as a rare/med-rare steak. That said, I completely agree with you otherwise. People have to eat food the way they like it. I said as much before.
I have a vegetarian sister who can't stand anything with extra flavor. For instance, goldfish has a line with added flavoring. She can't stand it. She prefers the ones I find bland. Perhaps people who prefer well done steak are the same way. Or it's the texture of a rarer steak that throws them off. For my aunt, she thinks it's still bleeding.