/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13276291
what the fuck is a "smashburger"?

Stainless steel for all around use and abuse. Good for searing those smash burgers, easy maintenance.
Something with a thick base, triply and up. Meaning at least 3 layers of sandwiched metals and steels. That will help with heat retention, distribution and the pan's durability.

>>13276336
a minuscule amount of meat formed into a patty and then flattened as much as possible so that the burger is a dry piece of jerky covered in american cheese product

>>13276291
Estwing Plastic Gold Pan 10" - EBP10

>>13276339
those are some sour grapes, third worlder

>>13276291
Cast iron and carbon steel. Every other answer is wrong. You're welcome OP. I've saved you from a world of memes.

>>13276339
nice strawman

>>13276339
so literally a smashed hamburger, sounds like shit Now I'm glad I did not recommend a good pan to the fag OP

>>13276352
>>13276355
>gets mad over accurate description of the burger
i didn’t even say it was bad

>>13276352
>third worlder

anyone with access to ground meat can make a patty

>>13276370
back to the dung farm before they cut your kid's hands off.

>>13276382
how do fried 3rd worlder hands taste like?

>>13276352
>Americopes

>>13276291
My Kitchenaid pan has served me very well. 15+ years, shit loads of meals. Cleans up easily. Don't remember the exact construction, but it's stainless with a copper core.

>>13276480

>>13276352
it's like slightly better than those 1/8lb fast food patties everyone uses

>>13276339
>so that the burger is a dry piece of jerky
Retard, you flatten it before the fat is rendered, right after you put it in the pan. Smashing it against the pan causes a beautiful crust to form which traps all of the fat in the meat. If its dry you cooked it too long idiot or pressed it after the fat rendered. Whatever the reason its definitely user error.

>>13276561
>burger is 2mm thick
>dry crust around it
>it’s not dry!!!

>>13276572
The fuck is wrong with you?

dont use nonstick for burgers. you won’t get a nice crust

>>13276585
>dont use nonstick
FTFY desu

>>13276291
USA Pan 10" 5 ply skillet $60

>>13276842
Nonstick is good for eggs
and literally nothing else

>>13276561
>crust traps the fat

>>13276902
What's the point then? Eggs slide around my cast iron pan

>>13276932
that cast iron is heavy and unwieldy. but that's what carbon steel pans are for

>>13276944
Yeah I have one of those too. Nonstick is the real meme pan.

>>13276955
yeah. the only thing they're good for is being cheap and low maintenance. that's why they're more common in restaurant kitchens. no reason to get one at home.

>>13276968
I've only ever seen carbon in the boh.

>>13276988
>checked
IME, they start out as nonstick, but after DMO has a go at them, they're all carbon pans. And who knows who ate the teflon coating.

>>13276932
Not without oil they don’t. You’re full of shit

>>13277072
>not cooking eggs in butter or high quality olive oil
ISHYDISHYFISHYBISHY

>>13277020
Lol why bother then and not buy carbon? Seriously you can tell a kitchen is poorly managed if they don't use carbon pans because you don't have to replace them.

>>13277081
fishy you say?

on topic: I got my non-stick pan free from a pile of trash someone, left outside by their garbage bin.

>>13276902
Fish

>>13276336
Wasn't that the name of a restaurant by the flavortown troll?

>>13277292
It is the name of a chain but he has no association I believe.

>>13276291
Get a 12" lodge cast iron pan.

>>13277081
>not cooking in schmaltz

>>13277347
No. I'm not Jewish.

>>13277088
Checked again
We had a guy who came around and recoated pans for some crazy cheap price. IIRC, it was 1/4 of buying new, like 5 bucks a pan. So we had 40ish 10 inch saute pans in various stages of coating. Guy would come once a week and take 10 and drop off 10. I'm sure our kitchen supplied enough Teflon in the sewer to make the city nonstick.

Why nonstick? Company spec for some dumb reason.

>>13277392
>company spec
Yeah chain restaurants do shit like this because bean counters in accounting think they'll save money because they don't know how to cook. The brass at the group that owns olive garden didn't want them to salt their pasta water because they thought it would save money on pots because they were worried about rust or some stupid shit.

>>13277425
accountants don’t manage company decisions

>>13276389
Less marbling then american ones

>>13276291
get a copper core sauce pan
out of everything i've bought in my life, this is honestly more satisfying than a car.

>>13276339
>>13276361
why not call it flatburger instead

>>13277367
Schmalz ist lard dummkopf.

>>13277675
It is Yiddish

>>13276291
got to your local resturant supply store. buy the vollrath wear ever nonstick. 10inch runs about 65

>>13276291

Matfer Bourgeat 62005 frying pan, 11 7/8-Inch $50

https://www.amazon.com/Matfer-Bourgeat-062005-Frying-8-Inch/dp/B000KENOTK/ref=sxin_0_osp24-2173403e_cov

>>13276291
Cast iron. Inexpensive, reliable, can take any heat your stove can put out. Can be used for basically any food. So long as you're not retarded like the memeposters act, it's as non-stick as the non-stick-coating-coated pans.

>>13277675
It's chicken fat.

>>13277850

Carbon steel has all the benefits of cast iron without the weight. It also heats up faster.

>>13276336
The ground beef is pressed into the searing pan on both sides. This gives it a crunchy outer texture without over cooking the inside.its okay.

>>13277932
Cast iron is better at searing and baking. I have both tho and both are great. SS and NS are the memes.

>>13276572
The crust absorbs the sauce and cheese you add to the burger. This is actually a good thing.

>>13276339

>>13276291
Ceramic is pretty okay for that. They make for pretty resilient cookware. Kind of a happy medium between satainless steel and teflon.

>>13277081
>cooking olive oil

>>13276912
What is giving you trouble.

>>13276291
The one you have with you