It's not, it's a cooking myth

The reason I've heard was "you lose juices that way," but I don't think it makes a significant if even noticable difference.

It's not really bad, just unnecessary.

The steaks in OP's pic didn't need to be flipped at all.
Also someone took larges bites out of each one before cooking.

Yep because I like my meat burned to a fucking cinder before eating it.

By flipping multiple times you get a much more even heat distribution.

There is no need to. Get it right the first time you fucking retard or stick to salad

flipping only once allows for more even cooking. Its a suggestion but not a requirement.

>>3573686
that doesn't make any logical sense

Because constant flipping is a sign of being an indecisive bastard.

Because you need the heat to go through the meat, and if you keep flipping it you cool each side of the meat before the heat to penetrate far enough to warm the middle, and end up with raw innards and overdone outards.

>>3573703
The only way to cook a thick well-done steak without charring each side to a cinder is to flip it every 20 seconds or so.

OMFG, stop giving advice when you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

>>3573703
There is nothing cool anywhere directly above that fire.

>>3573704
>cook a thick well-done steak
>knowing what you're talking about

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>>3573704

Are you a complete and total retard or just trolling?

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>>3573733
>>3572946

You must be new here.

>>3573728
What's wrong with his finger?

>>3573114
This. There's nothing wrong with flipping multiple times but it's retarded if you have to do it in the first place. Just cook both sides evenly the first time.

It's funny to hear people who think they have a clue about how cooking works. Watch the Food Network and everytime someone talks about "IT GETS THE JOOCES FLOWIN" they're talking out of their ass and it only make them sound more obnoxious.

>>3573114
>>3573728
>>3573733

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-9NgOZuUXM

Learn to cook faggots

i think the flip/no flip argument is really just about grill marks. if you flip more than once or twice, then you wont get distinctive grill marks. if you dont care about that i don think it matters.

>>3573789
>i think
Yahoo Answers is that way

>>3573783
His way is to keep it at a high temperature and he likes a rare steak. Of course he's going to have to flip it multiple times..

>>3573793
yahoo answers agrees with my answer? or yahoo answers thinks, like its a sentient artificial intelligence?

>>3573799
The ninniefaggot is probably referring to how most answers on Yahoo Answers are "I THINK THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS" with a load of bullshit in there.

In other words he's a nitpicking faggot

>>3573801
ninniefaggot is such a great term, we should use that term in the states more often. that and bollocks.

>>3573807
We need a "bollocks". The closest thing we have to it is "crap" or censoring ourselves by saying "bull". We're really boring when it comes down to it

>>3573812
lets just start saying bollocks. there are constant opportunities. it will catch on eventually, it fills a grammatical void the many people don't even know is there. yet.

>>3573783
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>>3573783
That guy is one of those "crust" faggots, I hate that new shit fad.

A steak that is flipped on time gets all the crust I need and cooks very evenly.

You fuckers damn sure better know better than to flip chicken or fish more than once.

the only reason I don't is so I get better looking grill-line. So for me its purely aesthetic. However, I will swear by the one flip rule with Ground-beef, like burgers.

>>3573846
You get that grill line by rotating 90 degrees you dont have to flip