Posts Tagged ‘butter-tempering’

New Generation Chefs Don’t Need to Rest Their Steaks

David Varley, executive chef at Bourbon Steak in the Four Seasons Hotel, and I have been talking about Michael Mina's inventive approach to cooking steaks for at least 30 minutes now. He's getting very deep into the chemical interactions that occur when heat is applied to  animal proteins. I'm trying like hell to keep up. [...]