Shoutout to the line cook at my old spot who told me my sear was just burning butter

Linda Mason · 2026-10-08T17:55:04.884225+00:00

I worked at a diner in Akron for two years and always cooked my steaks in a screaming hot pan with butter from the start. One night a cook named Ray watched me and said, "You're not searing that, you're just burning butter." He showed me to use a dry pan until the crust forms, then add butter at the end with garlic and thyme. My steak came out with an actual brown crust instead of that bitter gray ring around the edge. Turns out I had been doing it wrong my whole life, what's the dumbest cooking tip someone gave you that actually worked?

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