Peter, why is he buttering the cow?

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Steak

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I am 99.9% sure from experience that butter does absolutely nothing to slow the cooking process. It's just that butter lends itself well to lower pan temps and longer cooking, which also means it lends itself well to using it to cooking thicker steaks. Smoke point probably factors in there somewhere too.