/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16545764
This is a pan that has been polymerized with cooking oil and left to cool back down. Notice the reflection of the backsplash on the cooking surface. I can cook something as delicate as eggs in that pan without any sticking as if it were made of Teflon and when I’m down I can just scrub it down with soap and water to remove the oil layer.

>>16485586
No, you polymerize the pan by coating the surface in oil and heating the oil until it’s just starts to smoke and shimmer. Take your pan off the heat and let it cool down a bit. You can wipe away any excess oil with a paper towel and the surface of your pan should be a mirror. It’s now non stuck and you can crack an egg right onto it at any heat without fear of it sticking. You can see in my pic how the surface of the pan mirrors the tile behind it.

>>15383727
Copper stuff is just too expensive and I don’t want to have to do the maintenance. I love my demeyere stuff. There are some quirks about their frying pans through. Perfect example is their depth. The frying pans are deeper than some thing like allclad. The rounded walls make for easy tossing but can make it more annoying to slide things like spatulas under the food. I’ve got a few of their frying pans and a couple of their sauciers.

>>15377321
Stainless, just learn how to polymerize your pan. See how my pan is like a mirror? That’s polymerized and nothing is going to stick to it.

>>15290652
Teflon has its place but it shouldn’t be your go to.

>>13553817
Lol it’s stainless steel. Micro scratches are literally meaningless. Don’t use steel wool but the rough side of a sponge is perfect. The real trick to keeping stainless clean is to polymerize the pan before use. Add a bit of oil with a high smoke point and heat up the pan. Distribute the oil over the surface of the pan and turn up the heat u til the oil begins to smoke. Turn off the burner and remove the pan from the heat. Let it cool down a bit and wipe away any excess oil. A thin layer of oil will have stuck to the metal and created a non stick surface. This is very easy to do and only takes a couple minutes. Look at pic related and see how reflective the inside of the pan is. That’s what your lookin for if you’ve done it correctly. As long as this process is done you should be able to clean up the pan with a bit of hot water and some paper towel.

>>13499515
Also I have the demeyere 12.5” frying pan. Make sure you actually need one that big because it’s mother fucking huge. If I could do it all over again I would have bought the 9.5” or the 11”. The 12.5” can easily fit six chicken breasts at once.

>>13491824
Pasta in and butter melting.