Shopping for a Frying Pan

[Michael569]

Greenpan seemed to have put a lot of effort into making their products non-toxic and they have now fixed their super sticky pans they once used to make. Might be worth checking out. 

Link

 

[mandyjw]

I have a glass frying pan I got that's from the 70's. "Visions" glassware or something like that. You can often find them at Goodwill, Salvation army or eBay. They used to make them out of the real pyrex glass, now most all the baking dishes you get are run of the mill glass and break a lot easier. 

 

[mandyjw]

4 minutes ago, Michael569 said:

Greenpan seemed to have put a lot of effort into making their products non-toxic and they have now fixed their super sticky pans they once used to make. Might be worth checking out. 

Link

 

Good to know. It's really hard to cook eggs everyday in anything but a nonstick pan. 

[Michael569]

Just now, mandyjw said:

It's really hard to cook eggs everyday in anything but a nonstick pan. 

you gotta boil em Mandy  

[mandyjw]

Just now, Michael569 said:

you gotta boil em Mandy  

 I'm imaging the reactions I'd get if I served my kids egg and cheese sandwiches with boiled eggs instead of fried. Might be kinda fun to do on April Fools day though... 

[Michael569]

4 minutes ago, mandyjw said:

I'm imaging the reactions I'd get if I served my kids egg and cheese sandwiches with boiled eggs instead of fried

fair enough, let's not push it too far

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Michael569 said:

Greenpan seemed to have put a lot of effort into making their products non-toxic and they have now fixed their super sticky pans they once used to make. Might be worth checking out. 

Link

Ceramic coated pans are garbage. They all chip into your food. You should not buy any pan which is coated in anything because all the coating soon flake off.

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, mandyjw said:

Good to know. It's really hard to cook eggs everyday in anything but a nonstick pan. 

It's easy if you heat the pan well:

 

[Preety_India]

I always use steel milk pans for making tea every morning. Hehe. 

I bought a super expensive steel stock pot. 

 

[Preety_India]

Also steel pots and pans tend to yellow over time. Not sure what that implies.

 

[Michael569]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Ceramic coated pans are garbage. They all chip into your food. You should not buy any pan which is coated in anything because all the coating soon flake off.

Maybe..... I'd love to see someone look into this. Follow a cohort of 100 people who use different pans and see their urinary and tissue levels (confirmed by biopsy) of different heavy metals change after a year. Otherwise, we're all just fearmongering and many of these arguments are based on thin air. I also like to believe that certain companies do adhere to certain corporate social responsibility and not all arguments and claims are BS.....but maybe I'm kidding myself 

[Hello from Russia]

2 hours ago, Preety_India said:

I always use steel milk pans for making tea every morning. Hehe. 

I bought a super expensive steel stock pot. 

 

@Preety_India Lol! Do you brew tea in a pan? 

[Hello from Russia]

I was checking stainless pans today. Meh, so hard to spot the one with 100% steel. Most of them have some kind of a mix of steel + stuff like aliminium/nickel/etc

Edited March 15, 2021 by Hello from Russia

[Preety_India]

1 hour ago, Hello from Russia said:

@Preety_India Lol! Do you brew tea in a pan? 

A saucepan

 

[Snader]

1 hour ago, Hello from Russia said:

I was checking stainless pans today. Meh, so hard to spot the one with 100% steel. Most of them have some kind of a mix of steel + stuff like aliminium/nickel/etc

You sure it's the surface? Most of them have aluminium layers below to make the heat spread evenly, but I've kinda assumed that there is no reason to mix the steel with other metals, especially if the pan is even slightly more pricey.

[Preety_India]

@Hello from Russia looks like this. 

 

[Enlightenment]

The problem with stainless steel plate is that you have to use much more very high calorie-dense oil which is also going to affect your health long term

Tradeoffs 

[Hello from Russia]

1 hour ago, Snader said:

You sure it's the surface? Most of them have aluminium layers below to make the heat spread evenly, but I've kinda assumed that there is no reason to mix the steel with other metals, especially if the pan is even slightly more pricey.

@Snader yeah, this is exactly what I was seeing. Do you have any idea if this is dangerous or not? 

[Recress]

What about the utensils use for cooking?

 I'm glad someone posted this today. I was with my parents for 3 months and my mom has mostly stainless steel cooking ware. Now that I am back at my apartment, my cooking wares are plastic utensils and a scratch-off non stick pan.. That explains the weird feeling that I have over the past few days. I may need to shop a new wares asap.

[Leo Gura]

@Recress Change all your plastic for steel/wood.