How To Cook The Perfect Steak In A Stainless Steel Pan

You touch your steak , you're going to ruin it and you're not going to achieve that crust .

So literally let it sit .

My name is Anthony Vitolo .

I'm the executive chef at Amelia's Bolado in New York City .

Everyone has this thing in their mind that if you see your steak on a stand of steel , it's gonna stick .

But if the pan heats up to the right temperature , it's automatically going to release the steak and it's gonna be have the beautiful crust that you always wanted .

All right .

So here we have two shell steaks just gonna season them simply with salt and pepper .

Same thing on both sides , salt pepper .

What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put them on medium to high heat .

So with the stainless steel pan , I like doing the brown butter method , which is just putting brown butter in the pan , putting butter in the pan until it heats up .

See how the butter is turning brown here .

So all that flavor is gonna go into that steak nice and brown .

So now I'm gonna add my steak to this pan because it's ready .

So don't touch the steak .

Let the steak create that powder layer that you want that really crunchy , salty peppery flavor .

You want that crust on the steak , do not touch your steak .

You touch your steak , you're going to ruin it and you're not going to achieve that crust .

So literally let it sit .

Once you see a nice crisp outer layer on the outside of the steak .

Look at this , look at that .

That's what you want right there .

Now , flip this and do the same thing .

Now , what I like doing here is I like taking the flavor of the butter and cooking through the steak .

You keep taking the butter and feeding it into the steak .

Really cook those juices on the inside .

Now , this steak is bready .

Feel it nice .

You want a little give back , you don't want it too hard .

It's well done .

You wanna press it , you wanna press the steak and really feels at stake that it gives back a little bit .

You don't want it too hard .

That takes time for people that aren't used to doing it in a stainless steel pan .

I can see why it would be a little difficult for them .

It's just trial and error .

You have to learn how to correctly cook a steak in a stainless steel pan .