Ceramic Fry Pan Serious Eats

Joel russo we ve spent years here at serious eats building a compendium of cookware information covering nearly all you need to know about buying caring for and cooking in everything from cast iron and carbon steel to modern nonstick and stainless steel pots and pans.

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The third option buying it cheap is therefore the best. Anything that requires heavy searing followed by gentle even cooking slow cooked braises like pot roast carne adovada or better than chipotle s barbacoa it s also handy for soups like spicy pork green pepper and corn soup and hearty escarole and barley and of course dutch ovens are great for chili like the best chili ever and texas style chili con carne. It s a beautiful pan that. That s the perfect size pan for a classic three egg omelette.

But there s one classic material we ve written almost nothing about. Stainless steel cookware doesn t always work with induction. What a dutch oven is good for. It performed well and has a cool design but it has slightly higher and steeper walls than we like in a frying pan.

To test use the magnet trick. This 12 inch nonstick frying pan is built for success with an aluminum core surrounded by stainless steel along with three layers of nonstick coating on the cooking surface for easy food release and simple cleanup. Nonstick pans have their flaws namely they quickly and inevitably wear out but they re still useful to have in the kitchen. Most aluminum cookware will not work since aluminum doesn t include any iron based compounds.

Sadly even then it s not a given. From recipes to seasoning instructions myth busting to vintage restoration we ve got you covered but there s another type of pan with similarities to cast iron that we haven t written much about and it s made from carbon steel. No matter how good the seasoning on your cast iron skillet it s still easier to cook eggs and other sticky or delicate things on a teflon coated pan nonstick is simply the most reliable way to make a perfectly smooth omelette keep your over easy eggs unbroken. Serious eats has become an amazing resource for cast iron cookware.

In most cases that means restaurant grade aluminum pans like this farberware eight inch nonstick skillet which cost about 16 at the time i wrote this. In testing it took a little longer than the others to come up to a high. It s also only available in one 10 25 inch size. Hestan s nanobond skillet has a dark obsidian like finish that makes it seem like a frying pan from the future or maybe from darth vader s kitchen.

Kenji lópez alt 9 essential pots and pans serious eats december 3 2013 alina tugend how not to wreck a nonstick pan the new york times december 17 2010.