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Originally Posted by Loneiguana
No. Do not do this.
All restaurant steaks go from cold storage directly to the grill. Why? Because any amount of time where meat is kept at a unsafe temp. is bad. Any time uncooked meat is not kept within in a safe temp. only increases the odds of getting sick. I prefer to not take any chances.
And it doesn't do a thing for the meat. It is better for the meat to go directly from cold storage to the heat.
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I'm not going to get into a big debate about this. Most of what you say is technically true, excluding the bolded part. Setting the meat out before cooking allows it to have a more even temperature, which in turn allows it to cook more evenly.
As for the health risk, while technically true, a lot of people have been doing it this way for a long time. It hasn't killed me or my family yet.