Evening Standard
It’s come to this
A number of celebrity chefs are affected by the move, including Gordon Ramsay, whose Maze Grill restaurant sells a burger for £12, Angela Hartnett, whose York and Albany’s bar menu includes burgers, and the Soho House chain, run by Nick Jones, the husband of broadcaster Kirsty Young.
All face being asked at their next routine inspection how they offer their burgers.
Critics fear it could lead to questions over the safety of rare steaks and raw meat dishes such as steak tartare. The policy is to be the subject of a legal ruling.
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Why not.
BigGator5 on December 10, 2012 at 4:49 PM
That’s the real crime, here!
OldEnglish on December 10, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Shoot, this has already happened here. It’s self-imposed by restaurants who don’t wanna risk lawsuits, but there are plenty of places that have refused to offer me even medium rare meat for nearly 2 decades now.
Doughboy on December 10, 2012 at 4:51 PM
From my cold, dead hands.
rbj on December 10, 2012 at 4:56 PM
I thought this has been in place for a decade over there.
Back when “mad cow” was going to kill us all.
cozmo on December 10, 2012 at 5:01 PM
We walk upright, have an opposable thumb, discovered fire, and have evolved. We can have a properly cooked burger or steak rather than one that is raw and bloody. However, if one choses to have an uncooked or under cooked piece of meat, then let them. Don’t try to control their eating habits. Strange how people will eat a rare steak, but not a rare chicken breast.
DAT60A3 on December 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Forget London, in the state of North Carolina, restaurants cannot sell a burger less well done than “medium well.” Not even “medium.” Some still do, but there’s been a law on the books for over a decade against rare – medium cooked meat.
datroy on December 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Not strange at all when you think about it.
Though I don’t get the fascination with eating raw puffer fish.
cozmo on December 10, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Are they going to ban the sale of raw meat? Or will they go door to door and make sure people are cooking it long enough?
I shouldn’t give them any ideas…
Jim Treacher on December 10, 2012 at 5:36 PM
Cooking time has nothing to do with “mad cow”. The prions can even be transmitted through surgical instruments treated by normal sterilization procedures.
Chickyraptor on December 10, 2012 at 5:36 PM
First they came for our french fries…
JetBoy on December 10, 2012 at 5:40 PM
Dangit! Now I’m hungry.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 10, 2012 at 5:40 PM
My first job was at a restaurant (never again) called “Holly’s By Golly” when I was 15… there was a regular who always ordered a RAW hamburger. Not rare, RAW. And he was served every time. He tipped well, too.
I love my steaks rare, but my burgers have got to be cooked well.
Ugly on December 10, 2012 at 5:41 PM
Wow I messed that up
Ugly on December 10, 2012 at 5:42 PM
That I didn’t know…In and around NY and CT places have to put a caveat on their menus stating that fully cooking beef/eggs greatly reduces bacteria…or something like that.
I know in Jersey you can’t get runny eggs…not that I would anyway, but there it is.
JetBoy on December 10, 2012 at 5:44 PM
When I was doing the restaurant/bartending gig nights/weekends a few years ago, we had a regular customer, woman, very wealthy, seemed to have a different Jaguar for each day of the week…and very skinny and pale…would order two 8 oz burgers, charred rare, and nothing else with it. I can’t tell you how many times she’d send ‘em back too if they were even just slightly over what she wanted.
JetBoy on December 10, 2012 at 5:48 PM
Yep, a few years ago at Chilis i asked for my burger to be rare and was told they don’t do rare burgers, they did medium though so that’s what i got.
clearbluesky on December 10, 2012 at 5:51 PM
Oh boy, here we go with the prions again…
Don’t care to rehash that old tale of woe.
But at the height of the mad cow panic, all kinds of people were making nutty pronouncements.
cozmo on December 10, 2012 at 5:54 PM
JetBoy on December 10, 2012 at 5:48 PM
People and their quirks, I tell ya what
/Hank Hill
Ugly on December 10, 2012 at 6:40 PM
I used to crack eggs and dump ‘em raw right into my gaping maw. I actually loved them that way. But that was eons ago, with fresh eggs.
Ugly on December 10, 2012 at 6:46 PM
I tried that once…had a college roommate who ate (or more accurately, drank) raw eggs regularly…same guy that introduced me to the wondrous culinary dog-vomit known as Scrapple…and just couldn’t keep it down.
I even like my eggs bene on the well side.
JetBoy on December 10, 2012 at 7:12 PM