/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17015618
You didn't actually season your pan. If you did, there would be a layer of polymerized oil coating it.

Stainless isn't for "seasoning" Everything will stick and then you'll scrub it off with steel wool and it'll be great.

>>17015618
You don't season a stainless steel pan holy shit mate. Use oil and the correct temperature(s).
You can fry an egg in stainless steel easily if you're not a fucking idiot. Cook them in butter and don't smash the heat too high. Be gentle.

>>17015618
Don't use a stainless steel for eggs. Don't use a stainless steel for anything you don't want to stick. The whole point of ss is stuff sticking so you can deglaze it into a sauce. Use cast iron or non stick for anything else, or carbon steel if you're retarded/have an amazing stove with high output

>>17015670
>Stainless isn't for "seasoning"
Only because it's unsightly.

Why would you bother seasoning stainless steel?

>>17015618
You're probably not preheating it long enough before you put the oil in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ye1hqMjV5k

>>17015950
This is pointless. Nobody fries water.

Nothing, that normal. Make more fond and make a pansauce.

>>17015678
So should I cook at higher temperature this one lady says I should get the pan hotter than the devils dick
https://youtu.be/FUwaOnCd1h0

>>17015698
So things don't stick so bad.

>>17016094
then either just buy a non-stick pan or buy a cast iron pan and season that.

>>17015962
>t. based retard
True, but if your pan's not yet hot enough for oil, then it won't be hot enough to not scorch like OP.

>>17015618
I bought an $8 chinkshit non-stick frying pan from Walmart and I've literally never had anything stick to it, any grease left in the pan just wipes out with a wet sponge.
How did you manage to fuck up choosing a pan so badly?

>>17016090
those eggs look fucking awful, completely overcooked to shit

>>17016090
"this lady" is also getting paid to make videos & get views. Try it; see if it works.

>>17016090
>paying heed to a woman youtuber
you're too far gone already

>>17015618
There's no 'seasoning'. Stop watching stupid americunt youtubers talking about cast iron.
The "seasoning" is the oil or fat you apply before you cook and only lasts until you clean the pan.
So just put oil in and get it hot. Stop falling for the seasoning meme, doesn't apply to stainless steel.

>>17016090
Yes it should be that hot, but it's not as insanely hot as you're suggesting.

I have a nonstick that I only use for eggs and sandwiches. Alternatively try carbon steel.

>seasoning stainless steel

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>>17016357
I'm too scared too cook eggs like that. Also eggs stink really bad when you overcook them

>>17016458
it can be done, it just rarely is.

>>17015663
Interesting, what's your method?>>17015670
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>>17016151
So you're telling me to get carbon steel or maybe a wok? I don't want to use nonstick, I like my testosterone

>>17015663
gross

>>17015618
that fond is never going to not-stick to the pan. you will NEVER cook something on a stainless-steel pan that pops off and leaves a mirror-sheen. But if you're cooking something and it's legitimately sticking to the pan, you're either agitating it before it's cooked properly and releasing from the surface, or, less-likely, overcooking it and burning it onto the surface.

>>17016801
Yes you ringknob. Stainless is NOT an alternative to nonstick pans. If you want a chemical-free nonstick coating, use cast iron or carbon steel. Stainless is ideal for when you want to sear meat with the option of reclaiming all of the cooked-on material (the "fond") through deglazing, cooking it into the (typically acidic) liquid in the pan.

>>17016607
So don't develop basic cooking skills. Not my problem.

>>17016926
what is basic about heating a pan until its hydrophobic then dropping a egg in it. seems counter intuitive to cook like that, I mean more heat should mean the egg cooks too rapidly

>>17017043
It's not an extremely high temperature. It gets that hot with the burner below medium. All they're saying is give the pan a chance to actually reach temperature. You don't cook eggs at low unless you're making custard.

>>17017043
>what's basic about turning on the stove and waiting until the pan gets hot

jesus fuck this is like rocket science to you, isn't it

>>17017069
I'll take your word for it. I've never seen it done in 22 years of living, and I doubt I ever will. Considering that olive oil begins to smoke at 374'F and the Leidenfrost effect doesn't happen until 379 I don't think I'll be trying that

>>17017107
If egg whites begin to turn white at 145'F what is the advantage of heating a pan to 379 so that the pan is hydrophobic I mean shit the egg will cook so fast that I dont even have time to season it

>>17015618
>never wash with soap
lol wtf... dude u just scrub the shit off with steel wool then wash with soap/water. easy cleaning is one of the best parts of stainless steel.

>>17017137
There's a certain amount of stored heat in a pan that's hot. When you crack a cold egg into it, there will be an equilibrium temperature at the surface of the pan that's somewhere between the temp of a cold egg and the hot surface of the pan due to the heat transfer from the pan into the egg.

Ignore the leidenfrost effect and 379 degree bullshit number. The pan just needs to be hot enough so that when it cools down from the egg being added it's still hot enough to prevent sticking

>>17017185
I get that. We are on the same page

>>17015618
Lmao this dipshit is confusing SS with castiron. What the fuck dude you don't season a ss pan, and you don't need to baby it like castiron. What the hell have you been reading?

>>17015663
>seasoning a stainless steel
dumb