Here’s five secrets to cooking the perfect steak at home. Secret number one, let your steak sit out for at least 30 minutes before you cook it. That does get the surface temperature up. That way, it won’t be such a shock to the pan, and you’ll get a nice hard sear on it. Secret number two, you want a smoking hot pan with a neutral oil that has a high smoke point. If you use something like olive oil or even butter, that’s going to burn, before you get all those Maillard reactions from that beautiful sear. Secret number three, gently press the steak into the pan. That way, you’re ensuring that all the surface area is actually touching the pan and getting that nice sear. You’re gonna flip that steak after it gets the nice sear. You’re only gonna let it go for about 30 seconds on this side, and then you’re gonna put it in an oven. Secret number four, pull that bad boy out of the oven when it is 10 degrees under temperature. I’m pulling it at exactly 113 degrees. Straight into secret number five, baste it in butter. Let your steak rest for five minutes. You cut it open, it just kind of bleeds out, and that’s how you cook a perfect steak, but ultimately, come to the conclusion that perfection is a journey, not a destination, and nobody’s perfect. Mm. Actually, I’d say that’s really good.