• shameless
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    322 months ago

    I moved to using cast iron and steel pans, I found even hand washing non-stick pans they eventually just get scuffed up after years.

    I’d rather just use a few more drops of oil on a regular pan.

    • @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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      12 months ago

      I’ve got a few dishes that want a non stick surface and have a dinner in a tomato sauce. I keep the non stick for those, and for house guests who don’t understand carbon steel.

      • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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        62 months ago

        I also keep a couple non-stick skillets around for guests.

        However it’s incredible (in a bad way) just how ubiquitous these coatings have become. It’s going to take years to get through them all. I just got stainless cookie sheets but all my bakeware is non-stick (blind spot: I used to use a baking sheet for the broiler without connecting the dots on excessive heat vs teflon).

        Next step (by frequency of use) really needs to be my rice cooker

      • @RBWells@lemmy.world
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        52 months ago

        I don’t. The flat iron skillet (comal) is nonstick enough at this point that even my kids never complain about making eggs on it, they release well. Tomato sauce does fine in stainless steel. Though I also haven’t made guests cook for themselves yet. Had one nonstick pan in the early 1990s and that was enough to sour me on them.

      • @vga@sopuli.xyz
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        2 months ago

        I make tomato sauces on both my cast iron and carbon steel. Sure, they get a bit bad afterwards, but oil+heat fixes that.