Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months agoA soft (e.g. silicone) spatula is all you really need to avoid damaging a non-stick pan. And they are incredibly useful for other uses (a rubber flipper is awesome if you are perpetually impatient when it comes to flipping meat and don’t want to damage the skin).
But yeah. They are inherently a consumable which is why nobody should ever spend more than 20-ish (pre-trump) USD on one. It is up to an individual to decide if they would use it enough to justify that.
Id recommend going for carbon steel instead of teflon if all clad or steel is too much work.
For like $40-60, they heat up insanely well, are very light and will last your lifetime. They form a non stick coating after several uses just like cast iron.
I bought two a couple of months ago and I am never going back to anything else.
If you have a strong burner, the recommended carbon steel wok works great too, even on my electric stove. Im stunned at how fast it heats up.
+1 on the carbon steel pan. Eggs slide right off mine.
techt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sometimes the food can do it too – I scratched my last nonstick pan with a silicone spatula because I ground black pepper on my eggs and caught a craggy piece just right while flipping. After being super careful for months! So irritated.