Didn’t have time to defrost the meat, but you need to start cooking for minutes right now to be in time for dinner? If you have 2 metal pans, you are the master of the situation. Or a hostess.
So, in order to quickly defrost an ice steak, you need to put meat in one pan, and put a second pan on top of it. Pour warm water into the top saucepan (the one without meat). After 5-10 minutes, the meat will thaw noticeably.
The thing is that the metal conducts heat well. And the second pan, weighted with water, also increases the area of contact between the meat and the warm metal surface, which ultimately speeds up the process.
The wider the meat, the longer it will take to defrost. But, as the chefs who have tried this life hack say, it will take 1-5 minutes to defrost a 7 cm wide steak.