The French insist that raw foods like steak tartare actually strengthen the immune system.
Only problem with raw beef is there isn’t much flavor. I make a cannibal sandwich like in “Alas Babylon”: dark rye spread with horseradish & hot mustard, and an onion slice over the ground round.
Anyway, to each his own, Pres. Trump included. Even well done steak with ketchup isn’t nearly as gross as eating ketchup with a hot dog, as Dirty Harry Callahan observed.
Just sayin'.
I bought a cuisnart eons ago, and steak tartare was in the menu booklet. Yes, I made it once. Didn't care for it.
I do like my steak rare, though, half a notch above blue.