You touch your steak,
you're going to ruin it,
and you're not going
to achieve that crust.
So literally let it sit.
[steak sizzling]
My name is Anthony Vitolo.
I'm the executive chef
for Emilio's Ballato in New York City.
Everyone has this thing in their mind that
if you see your steak on
a stainless 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 have the beautiful crust
that you always wanted.
All right, so, here we
have two shell steaks.
We're 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 butter
in the pan until it heats up.
You see how the butter's
turning brown here?
So, all that flavor is
gonna go into that steak.
Nice and brown.
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 outer layer that you want.
That really crunchy,
salty, peppery flavor.
You want that crust on the
steak, do not touch your steak.
When 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 it 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 ready, feeling nice.
You want a little give-back,
you don't want it too hard,
just well done.
You wanna press it, you
wanna press the steak
and really feel that steak,
that it gives back a little bit,
you don't want it too hard.
That steak's done.
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.
[steak sizzling]
