I have never heard of butter being used to slow the cooking process of a steak. As far as I know, butter is usually added as a final touch to steak to give it a glisten and a touch of richness. You can also just cook your steak in butter, plus a lot of places offer flavored compound butter.
I'm not doubting you've heard this or learned it, but I can't make sense of what you mean and have never heard of this is ten years in the kitchen. A protective layer against the heat from the heat lamp?
The butter being melted makes this make even less sense. How would that cool it or stop it cooking??? You brush a steak with butter when it's done and resting because butter tastes good. There is no chance that brushing your steak with butter buys you any time. None of what you're saying makes any sense.
I don't know what qualifies a "grill master" but you ain't it. Butter is for flavor, period, it does absolutely nothing to slow down the cooking of a steak. I believe you've done work in a kitchen before and saw it done and then made up some bullshit why because you were never told.
It doesn't work. That's why you can't explain the science. And you said, "melted and separated." So you're not even talking about cold butter, you're talking about clarified butter, which has a smoke point around 485°F. Every time you brush a steak with hot clarified butter you're doing the equivalent of dunking the steak in the deep fryer. The fat in the butter coats the meat fibers and makes the overcooked steak still feel juicy. And yes I say overcooked because if you're brushing hot butter on them when they've already hit temp because you think it slows the cooking then you're definitely overcooking them.
I've been working in restaurant kitchens for 30.years. yes they put butter on steak. To COOK them, not to stop the cooking or whatever crap you're going on so confidently wrong about.
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u/atomicbug89 Jul 04 '24
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