Fry Pans

[old2soon]

         Wait-What? You read it right-talkin bout fry pans. I eat out once in awhile but cook most of my meals at home. Spent a bit on supposedly non stick fry pans. Yeah-right!  Well my Brother had a fry pan at his place when I was up there called GraniteStone Diamond. Yeah-THAT granitestone. You may have seen th ads on t v. First thing I noticed about the one Ross has is the surface is NOT super slick like you'd think. The surface has a texture to it. But I'm here to say the dadgum thing WORKS. I've cooked bacon then wiped it out put my eggs in and cooked them up but you needed the spatula to flip the eggs. Could be cuz I pepper and salt my eggs before turning over. Dripped cheese from the cheese burger wipes right off. No oil or grease in the pan and you do NOT destroy the piece of chicken turning it over. NOT 100% as the commercials depict but danged close. Brown up a sausage patty run the spatula over the surface put the eggs in and they turn over easy. In a word-I'm sold on this pan. The only thing I might complain about is it is a 10" diameter instead of the more common 12" diameter. For 20ish dollars not bad NOT Bad at all.  RIDE SAFE.

[G-Man]

MY own experience with ANYTHING non-stick is that almost all of them work great when new.  Thank goodness they are very inexpensive to replace nowadays and you don't even have to leave the house or look for that darn bed bath and beyond 20% off coupon.

BTW, how does the teflon stick to the pan ?? 

[Jess from VA]

One major trick to keeping non stick staying non stick, is not sticking hot pans under the cold faucet right after cooking.  It fubars the pan's karma (and metallurgy).

Some of those commercials are goofy (well they are ALL goofy).  Who ever pan fries a pile of rock candy?

The old cast iron skillets still make the best head bangers, among skillets.

And generally speaking lower heat and longer cooking time makes most food better, and the pan lasts longer.  Though when I'm hungry I don't care.    

[old2soon]

MY own experience with ANYTHING non-stick is that almost all of them work great when new.  Thank goodness they are very inexpensive to replace nowadays and you don't even have to leave the house or look for that darn bed bath and beyond 20% off coupon.

BTW, how does the teflon stick to the pan ?? 

           How do ANY of the non stick surfaces stick to what they sposed to stick to? RIDE SAFE.

[Willow]

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Some of those commercials are goofy (well they are ALL goofy).  Who ever pan fries a pile of rock candy?
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I take it that you have never tried fried rock candy?   

[Moonshot_1]

MY own experience with ANYTHING non-stick is that almost all of them work great when new.  Thank goodness they are very inexpensive to replace nowadays and you don't even have to leave the house or look for that darn bed bath and beyond 20% off coupon.

BTW, how does the teflon stick to the pan ?? 

Teflon is made of the same stuff chemically as your standard establishment politician. Slick as hell but sticks to everything forever.

I have now made this thread political. My job here is done.

[Big Rig]

MY own experience with ANYTHING non-stick is that almost all of them work great when new.  Thank goodness they are very inexpensive to replace nowadays and you don't even have to leave the house or look for that darn bed bath and beyond 20% off coupon.

BTW, how does the teflon stick to the pan ?? 

The other side of Teflon is VERY STICKY!!! 

[cookiedough]

MY own experience with ANYTHING non-stick is that almost all of them work great when new.  Thank goodness they are very inexpensive to replace nowadays and you don't even have to leave the house or look for that darn bed bath and beyond 20% off coupon.

BTW, how does the teflon stick to the pan ?? 

agree,  most are fine when new but give them 5-10 years of use will see how non-stick they really are.  WE still have our COOKS ESSENTIALS set some 20 years later bought the set on QVC stating lifetime warranty and wonder if I give them a call they will replace our non stick frying pan that sticks now?  Nothing like this lasts forever all will go bad just a matter of time.

[Jess from VA]

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Some of those commercials are goofy (well they are ALL goofy).  Who ever pan fries a pile of rock candy?
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I take it that you have never tried fried rock candy?   

I never eat rock candy of any kind.  My teeth are too important to me, and I'm already missing a few. 

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https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/devil-we-know-how-dupont-poisoned-world-teflon

[MAD6Gun]

 After several sets of pots and pans losing their "slickness" with recommendations from her aunt my wife and I bought a set of Berghoff EuroCAST pans. They are expensive and you can only buy them online or occasionally at Sam's club. They set up a booth at Sam's Club every so often. Our 11 piece set cost us $650. They are kind of a coated cast iron pans with removable handles. These pans are great. Even burned on stuff comes off with little effort. You can't use any metal utensils that might scratch the coating.

 They are expensive but how many "cheep" sets do you buy until you find a set that works....

[MarkT]

Among the many hats I've worn in my life, one was a home-demo cookware salesman, then sales manager for the West Bend company.  Yeah I was successful, earned a trip to Paradise Island, Bahamas, from Tucson.  The product we sold was the "Miracle Maid" line of cookware.  Anodized heavy aluminum.  This was in '76 - they have 44 years of daily use.  I still use the cookware and the anodizing is still intact.  Except for the 3 qt. pan which is used to cook sauces, stuff with tomato in it - acidic.  Anodized aluminum is very durable, semi-non stick, not as slick as teflon.  Really like the french skillets for eggs and such.  You see pros using various makes of thick anodized aluminum.

[ridingron]

I use a non-stick pan for my eggs. Every thing else is in a cast iron skillet. The main skillet is old. I got it in 1971 when I moved out and it had been around for years. It still gets used several times a week. I thought my mother was being nice but later realized it was an excuse to not cook. 

[shadowsoftime]

i use cast iron skillets and nothing sticks to them, wipe clean with paper towel, wipe some oil in it, put lid on , set it aside.