/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10174352
Whatever you are frying, you want a pan that fits the size of the item being cooked, so you don't end up with hot oil smoking around your object. For one egg, go with an 8", but for 2-3 eggs, maybe a 10" pan.

Since most people are cooking eggs in the morning, you want easy cleanup, so get a nonstick pan. Nonstick pans require a little less oil, and since you probably don't reuse high temp frying oil, you want a small amount of it/less waste.

Buying a high quality nonstick pan means getting as heavy a bottom as you can find. The thicker the bottom, the less likely to heat unevenly or warp given time, and that means health for that nonstick coating. I'd look at macys sales, marshalls leftovers, and try to find brands that you recognize like calphalon's manufacturer discontinued celebrity line. I bet the Mario pans are on deep discount right next to the Paula Deen stuff.