Have you ever eaten a plate of buttery, rich scallops at a restaurant and thought, "I could do that" — only to find out that cooking perfect scallops at home is trickier than you imagined? Despite how ...

When scallops are cooked right, they're melt-in-your-mouth buttery with delectably crisp edges. When they're cooked wrong, though, they have the rubbery, moist texture of something that was just ...