Strip steak New Zealand and Australia, it is known as Porterhouse and Sirloin (striploin steak) and can be found in the "Handbook of Australian Meat" under codes 2140 to 2143. In the UK and Ireland it is called sirloin. In Canada, most meat purveyors refer to this cut as a strip loin; in French it is known as "contre-filet". Delmonico's Restaurant, an operation opened in New York City in 1827, offered as one of its signature dishes a cut from the short loin called a Delmonico steak. Due to its association with the city, it is often referred to as a New
Steak from the chuck or round are cooked with moist heat or are mechanically tenderized ("e.g." cube steak). Beef steak can be cooked to a level of very rare (bleu, a cold raw center), rare, medium rare, medium, medium well done, or well done. Pittsburgh rare is charred on the outside. Beef, unlike certain other meats, does not need to be cooked through. Food-borne human illnesses are not normally found within a beef steak, though surfaces can potentially be contaminated from handling, and thus, very rare steak (seared on the outside and raw within) is generally accepted as safe. Beef steak