Do you undesrtand this strange sentence?

Let whatever you are cooking come up to room temperature (from the refrigerator) before you cook it, and after you cook it, leave it alone for five minutes before you try to cut it. (This advice is usually true for steaks.)

Hi,

No. It's not natural English.

Always cook from room temperature I wonder if this means 'Always defrost it before cooking'?
and allow it to
rest No, say 'sit'. Not 'rest'.
for about 5 minutes after it is cooked.

Cl

of course we do :-)

when you make a dough, you let it to rest so that it is easy to roll it...

Thanks, the answer was indeed about steaks.

Actually, when it comes to taking meat off the heat source, you do indeed refer to letting it "rest" before you cut it. If you cut it right away, the juices will run all over.

I let it sit, but some of my colleagues let it rest. Both words seem to be acceptable.

I spend way too much time watching "The Food Network"

CliveI don't eat meat

My sypathy.

CliveI don't cook.

Your good fortune.