The joy of letting the pans soak.

[classic33]

JML have probably got a self-cleaning pan on sale.

TresClean have though.

 

[Colin_P]

You need to work on your thread titles.
Might I suggest this one would have benefitted from being captioned 'The Joy of Soaks'...

That conjures up unpleasant thoughts about gin soaked hags or having a long bath. But anything is possible.

 

[classic33]

That conjures up unpleasant thoughts about gin soaked hags or having a long bath. But anything is possible.

Get in the bath with your clothes on, h ave a bath and do your washing at the same time.
Also as good for you as a 30 minute walk, requiring the same energy.

 

[Seevio]

Get yourself an eazyglide neverstick. The food just levitates above it. I think it must use antimatter or something.

If it was antimatter, the food wouldn't levitate, it would explode in a glorious e=mc2 type way. Of course this would mean that while the pan would stay very very clean, any other food would be well roasted. Along with anything else in the general vicinity.

 

[classic33]

If it was antimatter, the food wouldn't levitate, it would explode in a glorious e=mc2 type way. Of course this would mean that while the pan would stay very very clean, any other food would be well roasted. Along with anything else in the general vicinity.

That'd be the case if the food mattered though.

 

[Colin_P]

Get in the bath with your clothes on, h ave a bath and do your washing at the same time.
Also as good for you as a 30 minute walk, requiring the same energy.

Genius idea, why not have the pans in the bath as well.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I once lived in a squalid student house in a seedy part of west London. One evening we had a casserole cooked in a cast iron pot, accompanied by a certain amount of grog. The next day, with hangovers raging, a bad-tempered argument broke out over who was responsible for washing up the enamelled-on residue. We all refused. Two days later the pot was still in the kitchen, as disgusting as ever. Eventually somebody put some water in it and left it in the overgrown back garden where it remained , forgotten, for three weeks. It was finally discovered in a pristine state after the local tom cats had licked it clean.

It's cast iron not cast away iron. My best non-stick frying pan is a wrist-strengthening cast iron one. I seem to remember having to give it a good searing with almost smoky hot oil and then giving it a good scrubbing with salt in it. It's now completely black, looks completely unhygienic, and nothing sticks to it. When nothing sticks to it, you don't need to soak it.

 

[classic33]

Genius idea, why not have the pans in the bath as well.

I get the feeling you don't believe me.

• A bath at 40C will raise your core temperature by 1C. Causing your body to release shock protiens to protect against the heat. This metabolic effort uses up blood glucose.
• If you were to spend the hour cycling instead, your core temperature will be raised by the same amount. However the bath is 10% more efficient at lowering peak glicose levels.
• Cycling burns more calories than bathing, but the hot bath still uses 126 calories per hour.
• This is as much as a 30 minute walk or 40 press-Ups.

Take your pick, just not into the bath.

 

[slowmotion]

It's cast iron not cast away iron. My best non-stick frying pan is a wrist-strengthening cast iron one. I seem to remember having to give it a good searing with almost smoky hot oil and then giving it a good scrubbing with salt in it. It's now completely black, looks completely unhygienic, and nothing sticks to it. When nothing sticks to it, you don't need to soak it.

Ours was one of those Le Creuset jobbies.....very Habitat/Terry Conran/mid 1970s. They were an absolute nightmare to wash up because stuff would always burn and stick on the bottom, despite the "even heat" sales patter. Lord knows why people bought them. Anyway, it wasn't mine so I didn't feel any obligation to wash the wretched thing up.

 

[Colin_P]

I get the feeling you don't believe me.

• A bath at 40C will raise your core temperature by 1C. Causing your body to release shock protiens to protect against the heat. This metabolic effort uses up blood glucose.
• If you were to spend the hour cycling instead, your core temperature will be raised by the same amount. However the bath is 10% more efficient at lowering peak glicose levels.
• Cycling burns more calories than bathing, but the hot bath still uses 126 calories per hour.
• This is as much as a 30 minute walk or 40 press-Ups.

Take your pick, just not into the bath.

What if you took your dirty saucepans to the local swimming pool and horsed them in, did 20 lengths. Would you burn as many calories and most importantly would the chlorine in the pool help the pans to soak?

Or even if you took your bike to the pool and rode it underwater (with a long snorkle of course) using the pans as ballast to keep you on the bottom?

 

[classic33]

What if you took your dirty saucepans to the local swimming pool and horsed them in, did 20 lengths. Would you burn as many calories and most importantly would the chlorine in the pool help the pans to soak?

Or even if you took your bike to the pool and rode it underwater (with a long snorkle of course) using the pans as ballast to keep you on the bottom?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0v7se4XnYs

& lets not forget Mythbusters
At a pool, Adam and Jamie both struggled to ride an unmodified bicycle under water because of the density of water and the lack of traction. Adding 50 lbs of weights helped slightly when riding downhill but they still could not ride uphill. They decided to modify their bikes further and have a race to see whose ideas worked the best. Adam filled his tires with corn syrup in an attempt to improve traction and he added 50 lbs of weight to the bike’s frame. Jamie, meanwhile, added lead training wheels weighing 140 lbs total to the front and back of his bike. Both Adam and Jamie still struggled greatly to ride their bikes uphill in order to complete the race. Despite their troubles, this myth was busted because they did find it possible to ride under water on flat ground.

You'd need more than a few pans!

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 4983559, member: 9609"]we have some super accurate scales now and I can loose just over a pound if I give myself a good long boil. it must cause a lot of dehydration which can't be good if you have just done a long ride.[/QUOTE]
Boil in the bag!

Where'd you get a pan big enough anyway?

 

[Colin_P]

[QUOTE 4983570, member: 9609"]in the bath, and its not a real boil, 44c is about all I can take.[/QUOTE]

Having a really hot long bath is an art form and can be likened to boiling a frog.

If you put a frog in boiling water it jumps striaght out, however if you put the frog in cold water and gently heat, it has no idea it is being slowly boiled. Regardless of which way you would boil a frog, I don't think you would need to soak the pan afterwards.

From a human perspective, to get as near to boiling your self as possible you need to start with moderately warm water and once in the following is done and repeated until you are a boiled frog;

1, With toes, pull out plug, let some water out, with toes put plug back in.
2, With toes, turn on hot tap.
3, With hands, sloosh the water round the bath and you so as not to create a temperature difference and only frog boil your feet and legs (below the knee).

Repeat 1 to 3 above as many times as neccessary until you are boiling away.

Advanced practicioners of this method will have a combi boiler and the bathroom sinks hot tap in easy reach of the bath. The combi boiler will provide endless hot water and having the sink hot tap near means that you can manage away the cold(er) water that has to come through the pipe before the hot does.

 

[classic33]

Having a really hot long bath is an art form and can be likened to boiling a frog.

If you put a frog in boiling water it jumps striaght out, however if you put the frog in cold water and gently heat, it has no idea it is being slowly boiled. Regardless of which way you would boil a frog, I don't think you would need to soak the pan afterwards.

From a human perspective, to get as near to boiling your self as possible you need to start with moderately warm water and once in the following is done and repeated until you are a boiled frog;

1, With toes, pull out plug, let some water out, with toes put plug back in.
2, With toes, turn on hot tap.
3, With hands, sloosh the water round the bath and you so as not to create a temperature difference and only frog boil your feet and legs (below the knee).

Repeat 1 to 3 above as many times as neccessary until you are boiling away.

Advanced practicioners of this method will have a combi boiler and the bathroom sinks hot tap in easy reach of the bath. The combi boiler will provide endless hot water and having the sink hot tap near means that you can manage away the cold(er) water that has to come through the pipe before the hot does.

You've been practising!

 

[swee'pea99]

The reason it's called a non-stick coating is because the coating never sticks to the pan.

You remind me of a bit of Primo Levy I read decades ago, where he describes the paradox at the heart of creating new formulations for paint (he was a chemist by trade, before he became a writer). On the one hand, you want maximum adhesion, because you want it to stick to whatever you're painting it onto as strongly as possible. On the other, you want minimum adhesion, so that the dirt it will inevitably cop during its working life can be easily removed. So your job as a chemist is to devise a formulation that has maximum adhesion and minimum adhesion. Good luck with that...