You are exactly right, noah! Funny thing is, when codinghorror suggested I misremembered where I read it, I thought, “Heh, he doesn’t know I only read three websites regularly.” When I read your post, I thought, “Ermm, four websites.” Many thanks for the digging.
It even goes a little further…the sailnet post was by a prominent female poster there. So my little brain was convinced that Xeni or Maggie had posted these instructions.
Sailnet would have a red-faced icon to insert here. Thanks everybody.
I ended up following some other instructions for pan searing, and turns out I need more practice. It was cooked grayish all the way through, with no sign of pink anywhere. My family claimed to like it though.