AIBU to think if you want me how I want it, give it to me as I ask?

[FirstOnRecallDay]

Today DP and I visited a well known diner chain for some dinner and I ordered a burger, no problems there, the waitress then returned to our table and asked me how I'd like my burger cooked, as a person who likes meat almost breathing as it reaches me I asked for it med-rare.. For her to say:

"I'm sorry, we only do medium as a minimum.."

She returned with a miserable piece of coal blacked and beaten that was drier than the bread it was served in.

AIBU in thinking that if you ask me how I want my meat, I have the right to be annoyed when you tell me I can't have it that way?

Im going to complain strikeoutin hope of free vouchers strikeout

It's getting ridiculous - I was in a place in Cumbria recently and asked for my steak to be blue. Off went the waiter and (no joke - this is true) returned with an insurance waiver for me to sign before the chef (if he wants to call himself that) would cook it.

sooty I assumed the same :o

Sooty me too! OP YADBU not to have followed up your title with something interesting about your sex life!

I'd like to say YANBU about the way she phrased it but YABU because you should have sent it back. But I worry what happens to food that's sent back in a restaurant - you hear some yukky things.

I thought it was sexual too ????

Was it TGI's? They're very fast to throw vouchers at you for complaining

Bimba, where on earth are you eating that will only cook meat medium?!

MrsTerryPratchett, my husband once tried ordering Steak Tartar in a restaurant in Paris. He's had it before, knows it's raw, knows he likes it. The waiter shook his head, and said, "no no, Monsieur. Not for you. As Madam" ("madam" had ordered a fillet steak, medium-rare). It didn't matter how much he pleaded, the waiter refused to believe an Englishman really wanted Steak Tartar and DH eventually had to give in and have the same "as madam".

OP YANBU. Unfortunately, a large majority of 'Brits' are very conservative about food, and turn their noses up at anything slightly unconventional. This leads to anyone who asks for anything thats a bit different or not ruined by overcooking being treated as if they have two heads.

I like steak rare, and would go for a medium rare burger, and I've lost count of the number of times I've been asked 'are your sure and do you actually know what you have asked for' when ordering anything less than cremated meat.

I ordered something delicious that I can't remember the name of in Tenerife that was basically thin slices of raw steak with herbs, rocket and dressing (carpaccio?) and they said 'you do know that is raw?', even though it said so in the menu .

I also love sashimi and got the 'you do know that is just raw fish and garnish' in a small Japanese place when I ordered it (I'm not Japanese).

I wonder how many idiots people complain when served things like sashimi, rare steaks etc, that it is 'undercooked'?

There are obviously many of us with issues on this thread

OP YANBU even if they don't do anything less than medium they should do that if that's what you asked for, not charcoalled.

In Scotland it's illegal to serve a rare burger

Although no-one then asks you how you'd like it done, as there would be no point.

I thought this was going to be a sex thread.

tbh I like my meat somewhere along the charcoal side. If I get bacon I want it to shatter when I hit it with a fork. I want crispy burnt bits.

Even so I would be a bit about asking for it one way and getting the opposite.

(veggies in our house are usually seriously undercooked, however, so we save fuel there)

GinOnTwoWheels where do you live that rare steak and sashimi are considered odd? I live in rural South Yorkshire yet can eat sashimi at Yo Sushi in Meadowhall and a rare steak at any of the pubs round where I live. These food items are not that unusual.

Bacon does have to be crisp. Steak or roast beef should still be twitching on the plate and carpaccio is amazing. But I don't want my burgers/hotdogs or sausages anything other than cooked all the way through and not pink.

The potential for e-coli and complications from it are just not worth the risk IMO.

I'm with you on all those points Clay