What happens to steak after it leaves the pan?

Chefs debate resting steak, too. In 2024, Chris Young published an experiment testing the belief that resting itself keeps juices inside the meat. He also focused on something else: a steak can continue heating internally after it leaves the heat. The same pause can therefore have different effects on steaks of different thicknesses or cooked by different methods.

This is presented as a culinary experiment and an ongoing discussion. It does not establish one resting time for all steaks, or mean that resting is never useful.