for me and my customers a "145" mid rare doesn't fly.............i'd get send backs all night long. while i'm not i big fan of tare tare, i do like a good carpaccio.
LOL----Many moons ago, when I was in my 20s, I ordered a steak Med/Rare at one of those cheap steak joints (The Rustler).
Everybody else's steak was brought to the table before mine was----I couldn't figure out why that could be.
Then I saw why---They brought me a well done piece of crap. I made my usual little cut in it to be sure.
I called the waiter over and told him I had ordered it Med/Rare. He agreed, and took it back to the grills.
I little while later they brought me a steak---It looked well done too!!
I flipped it over, and sure enough, there was the cut I had made in it the first time they brought it to me (The same steak!).
I picked it up, took it to the door that said "Manager" on it, and I knocked.
I asked the guy who came to the door if he was the Manager. He said he was.
I told him what had happened, and asked him if he knew any way that you could turn a well done steak into a Med/Rare steak.
He asked the guy why he sent the same one back to me. He said he didn't. But the little cut I had made???
He said he made that cut, and he had thrown the one I sent back away.
The Manager asked him which trash can he threw it in. He said, "None of these---I took it out to the dumpster".
So we are to believe he personally carried one steak out across the parking lot to the dumpster, with my cut in it.
The Manager made me one exactly the way I wanted it.
Everybody else at our table had to watch me eat, because they were all finished eating by the time I got my final steak.
Bear