Alton Brown's Secret Ingredient for Cooking Steak Is Just Weird Enough to Work — Pop Culture

Don't you just hate it when you're trying to make a recipe, but halfway through, you realize you're missing a key ingredient? It's so frustrating. It happens to the best of us, though. Just this week, Alton Brown found himself with a raw steak, but no oil or butter to cook it in. Rather than give up, or drive to the store to get some more, the Good Eats host decided to improvise, and he cooked his steak in mayonnaise instead. Even he seemed surprised.

"I didn't have any oil or butter so… #mayo #steak," he wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of a very large, good-looking steak sizzling in a cast iron pan. The steak is indeed slathered with mayonnaise.

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