In Praise of .... Ceramic frying pans .....

[deptfordmarmoset]

Has anyone mentioned cast iron yet? My trusty old one weighs a ton and needed ''seasoning'' with hot oil and then drying out with heat and salt. It's now completely black though I don't think it was black to begin with. Eggs evidently take one look at them and vow never to stick to one of those.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

[QUOTE 4456851, member: 259"]The only disadvantage is the weight. My wife doesn't like cooking with cast iron pans at all as she finds them far too heavy, so she tends to stick with non-stick pans (which I hate) or a cast iron griddle plate, which is a bit more manageable.[/QUOTE]
I agree with the weight problem. Drop one of those on a ceramic hob and you have a domestic disagreement on your hands. On the other hands, naked aluminium (the non-anodized silver bits) stains porcelain sinks badly and cannot be removed with anything I know of.

 

[Tim Hall]

[QUOTE 4456826, member: 259"]The griddle is very important if you want to get the Berni Inn stripes on it.[/QUOTE]
Or use a Sharpie.

 

[KneesUp]

I bought a ceramic one yesterday as it happens - having read that teflon is possible carcinogenic, and that the very last thing you want to do it put a teflon pan with marks on the teflon in a dishwasher and get microscopic bits of teflon over everything else. So I recycled our two. I was going for a stainless steel one, but spotted teflon ones. As @fabfoodie says they seem very very slippy when new. Hopefully the ones I got are good ones (but at the price I paid I doubt it)

 

[pawl]

[QUOTE 4456826, member: 259"]The griddle is very important if you want to get the Berni Inn stripes on it.[/QUOTE]




Do they still exist.

Shows what wrinkly I am as I remember Berni Inns.

 

[Drago]

Poncy middle class nobbery. I eat my food out of MacDonalds wrapping.

Posh git

 

[Fnaar]

Up here in Northumberland we just drag a cow onto a bonfire, wait a bit, then knaw at the corpse in wanton abandon, rubbing the fat and blood into our naked torsos, and singing the theme from Children of The Stones

 

[Colin_P]

Posh git

More of a Greggs man then?

Up here in Northumberland we just drag a cow onto a bonfire, wait a bit, then knaw at the corpse in wanton abandon, rubbing the fat and blood into our naked torsos, and singing the theme from Children of The Stones

Tame, I thought you would have gone more for the "Just wipe its arse and pull its horns off and eat it raw" type thing.

 

[Fab Foodie]

This.

And the one I had wouldn't burn the outside of a steak anywhere near to a charred style.

It's only a little one for me fried eggs in the morning!!

 

[Markymark]

Steak should be pink, never red. That's just bravado. Pink is where the taste is. Insert joke here.

I switched some years ago after speaking to a respected chef and never looked back.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's only a little one for me fried eggs in the morning!!

Something like this should be perfect

http://www.nobleexpress.co.uk/cp/bl...EOI8_x-riq7-Hs6N10psVmS_Q3VrZ5mS4yBoCRbHw_wcB

 

[slowmotion]

I use this method.
http://www.irishsteak.com/blog/?p=57
Get the pan ridiculously hot and don't use olive oil.
Lidl do fillet steaks for about £4 and I think they have good animal welfare certification.

 

[TVC]

Cast Iron here.

Perfect burgers - get smoking hot, drop in burgers. Wait 1 min, turn over then bung the pan in a not oven for 6 minutes. Remove the burgers and rest for 5 minutes.

Note to Mortherners: not Birds Eye frozen horse burgers.

 

[raleighnut]

Cast Iron here.

Perfect burgers - get smoking hot, drop in burgers. Wait 1 min, turn over then bung the pan in a not oven for 6 minutes. Remove the burgers and rest for 5 minutes.

Note to Mortherners: not Birds Eye frozen horse burgers.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I use this method.
http://www.irishsteak.com/blog/?p=57
Get the pan ridiculously hot and don't use olive oil.
Lidl do fillet steaks for about £4 and I think they have good animal welfare certification.

Their animal welfare can't be that good. Pretty sure the steaks are dead.