Fish Steaks 101

• recipe

  Pan-Seared Sesame-Crusted Tuna Steaks

  How do you get a crisp, perfectly seared crust and a rare center? We cooked 50 pounds of tuna to find out.

• recipe

  Pan-Roasted Halibut Steaks

  Is it possible to cook halibut steaks that have plenty of flavor and are both tender and moist—and do it quickly?

• equipment

  Oven Mitts

  Oven mitts once cost no more than the Sunday newspaper, but today a high-tech pair runs $60. We braved trials by fire, water, and grease to uncover the (very) painful truth.