A basting brush is a useful utensil to keep in your kitchen drawer for glazing tarts and basting cuts of meat with marinades. But if you haven't got one and you need to brush an egg wash over the ...

And one of them is basting a steak in the pan—essentially splashing big spoonfuls of hot butter, usually flavored with herbs and garlic, over your beef at the end of cooking. What makes Young ...

Chris Young of the Fat Duck, Chef Steps, and Modernist Cuisine experiments on the efficacy basting your steak in butter.