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You basically bake the steak at a low temp to raise it to the correct internal temp (125-145 depending on what you want temp wise) so it is properly cooked and then you throw it on a grill or hot pan to sear it and get the outside pretty looking.

General rule of thumb: turn your oven to twice the temp you want your steak at and it'll be roughly 30-45 minutes or 11 minutes per 3oz of steak. But that depends a lot on thickness and cut as some are going to be more dense than others. Another thing to know about steak, because of both the muscle fiber structure of the meat and the conditions cows are raised you actually are pretty safe with it being slightly "under cooked" because genuinely then bacteria that can make you sick will not penetrate the meat as deep as say chicken or pork which are pretty dirty animals with softer muscle fibers than beef.

So let's say we have a good 12 oz ribeye, a dinky 6oz NY strip and a classic 8 oz filet mignon.

• 12oz Ribeye is usually thickish and tougher muscle tissue so it might be 35ish mins for a rare, 45 for medium/med well.

• 8oz Filet mignon is softer but the cut is a thick piece of meat so it'll probably be 30-35 for a good med rare. And less than 40 for medium.

• 6oz NY strip the meat is softish and the cut is usually not that dense so it'll probably be about 22-25 for a med rare. 30 for medium.

Home ovens usually are not serviced and also might not have calibrated thermometors and so your oven might be lying when you set the temp unless you have a good oven.

Classic cooking teaching is a lie. If you Google it they will say "searing locks in the moisture" it doesn't, literally goes against all science. Hot makes water evaporate as anyone who went through 2nd grade learned. Which is why today a lot of places sous vide their steaks and other proteins as you basically seal it in a bag and don't allow juices to escape or they'll do as I said and actually just bake the steak and finish with a sear or grill but in commerical kitchens you're also probably slacking the steak(letting it sit out to get to room temp/par cooking it so it can be finished quicker for service).

You can also wrap your steak in old butter wrappers to rest, the foil-ish looking ones are best but the waxy see through kind is okay too. The material doesn't trap heat the same way aluminum foil will and the butter remain will actually slightly melt and soak into your steak giving it just a little more fat content. But that's kind of bougie shit most people wouldn't bother with, it really does work though.

Another thing places will do is actually put a layer of mayonnaise on their salmon(usually skin side but doesn't have to be) to get a crispier skin/better sear faster without blasting away so much of the juices within it.

Source; make food hot for living. That'll be $100 for my professional consultation.

Also I apologize for how long the reply is. Knowledge is power or something.

You slap a previously cooked steak into a pan, turn off the hotplate to a low setting (like -3, or what ever the equivalent on your stove is) and reverse the Maillard-reaction