/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Just buy a de buyer pan, lasts a lifetime, can cook anything I want in it

>>17737626
lower the heat. My shitty electric stove goes 1-9. I cook most meats on 5. Then lower the heat to 3 and remove the pan for 30 seconds. Add the eggs and they cook fine. I have lodge cast iron with shit tier seasoning I take horrible care of and it still works

>>17737630
this? (pic related)
That looks like what I used to wash as a dishwasher in a retirement community of 200+ people. Honestly, I'd rather wash that pan than an iron pan when it comes to eggs. I'm not sure if this is a thing but I've seen eggs stuck to that as well. It wasn't nearly the same nightmare but it still sucked. But we used steel wool type shit to wash everything, so maybe that had something to do with it (ie made scratches in the metal for the eggs to stick to).

>>17737626
Low and slow my fren.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NimXm-rFTc8

>>17737648
slow and steady wins the game? Ima try that. But I am going to try getting a few more layers of seasoning on my pan. ty

High heat

>>17737626
If lowering the heat doesn't work for you, try a different cooking oil. I switched to sunflower oil from olive on a whim, and for some reason that' that made the meme real for me.

>>17737719
I just wanted to let you know I accidentally clicked on that image while going through the catalog and actually flipped my desk over for the first time in my life.
I am far from angry and you should bask in the glory of your accomplishment.

>>17737736
This is the most reddit garbage I have read today. Never post anything anywhere ever again.

>>17737719
>seed oils
>>17737626
use lard

>>17737793
>use lard
I'm not sure why no one else has said this. Lard was historically used to season cast iron cookware.

>>17737653
No dude you're doing it all wrong. You the pan from your pic, I have those as well. Then you season them once, just with oil and high heat. In the beginning it will stick but after some time the whole pan will turn black and it's perfect. Just never ever wash it with soap or scratch pads. Just use hot water and a brush or a piece of paper towel.

>>17737626
Pour in a little oil, spread it around the inside of the pan with a paper towel and heat the pan right up the smoking point of the oil (plain canola for instance) and keep it there for a minute or two, then make some thin French crepe style pancakes in the pan. The first one may still stick a little, the next ones ought to come out fine.

That is the method I use to touch up the non-stick seasoning on my carbon steel and cast iron pans. No hour long, roasting your bare pan in the oven sessions required.

>>17737736
>And everyone clapped
Get out of here faggot, no one cares

>>17737653
Looks like carbon steel. Season it and eggs are easy just add oil and swirl to coat. Also wait before the white has set before moving. I like to start at medium high and turn down when the bottom is solid

>>17737648
I fucking hate having an electric hob, cast iron was made for fire. You are right about lowering the heat, makes such a difference.

>>17737626
>throw cast memeron away
>get stainless steel
>forced to learn how to control the heat and cook foods without sticking
>cast memeron skills improve as a result
wa la lad

You throw away thousand year old tech you were duped into buying and buy a space age materials technology non stick griddle.

Then you learn to use your brain in the future.

>>17738787
in my experience butter always fries the best, but that's also very unhealthy. for eggs I'e been using rapeseed oil and got good results.

>>17738804
>carbon steel
I really want a carbon steel pan but there's so many different fucking recommendations and its hard to find genuine reviews and not endless 'best of' clickbait websites.

>>17738855
>but that's also very unhealthy
Butter isn't unhealthy fren

>cant even into eggs in a cast iron
ngmi, just live off mcdonalds

Medium low heat and butter

>>17738877
the actual fuck is that disgusting shit lad

>>17738857
Most of those reviews are BS because there's Chinese ones (shit) and French ones (good); however, two French ones will basically be the same, two Chinese ones will basically be the same. There's nothing to review except for price and handle ergonomics.

For what it's worth, Matfer Bourgeat are fairly inexpensive and I've never had any problems with mine.

>>17738877
I didn't know it was so easy to make your own rubber

>>17738877
That is a divorced dad making breakfast for his kid that hasn't spoken to him in months.

Love me hard annodized aluminum nonstick pan

Cook everything in it

Eggs, meats, stir fries. Fry, braise, simmer. Does it all just fine, and best of all? I can laugh at all the pretentious kiddos on /ck/ fumbling about with their cast iron and steel

some butter and oil in pan , low heat, eggs in don't increase the heat season when eggs are about halfway done and shake the pan gently to not let them stick works for me everytime
I like to add some dried basil or tarragon

>>17738877
I think you need to start with understanding what the word 'low' means. Also be less of a spastic.

oil in, HIGH HEAT, get it smoking, crack your eggs in, turn the heat off and leave it for five minutes. they'll be cooked when you come back.

>>17738815
the egg white shouldnt bubble like that

>>17738924
lazy cunt
>>17738955
stupid cunt

>>17738970
>stupid cunt
I thought it was a meme too but it actually works

>>17738924

>>17737626
Get a $8 nonstick pan from Walmart

get a ceramic pan, cook at 5/10 heat

>>17738877
>american scrambled eggs
absolutely subhuman

I use olive oil (regular, not extra virgin) on medium low heat, and add some butter half way through to froth over the eggs and help them cook on top. That works for me.

>>17737626
just use a teflon pan for eggs. its not going to fucking kill you for this one thing that cast iron is terrible for. its not hard to keep teflon good when you use proper utensils for it and clean it with the soft side of a sponge, and especially if you're only using it for a small fraction of your food

>>17738855
you don't need to use oil, you should be able to cook eggs on cast iron or carbon steel without using oil or butter.

>>17738877
>cast iron is a me-

>>17738877
I'd rather eat Teflon flakes every day than eat eggs like that

>>17738877
>pours 1 beaten egg into a 16'' skillet
>way too hot
>clunky as fuck handling of everything
>awkwardly reaches across counter to grab cloth to shake pan
>throws the cloth out of reach
>moves the eggs around a bunch of times aimlessly
>awkwardly grabs cloth he threw out of reach again
>serves rancid oil soaked eggs on a plate
>leaves some egg behind
>stirs leftover eggs in pan around for no reason
>doesn't get them out to eat>>17738903

Are all cast iron fags this retarded?

>>17742973
>scrambled eggs, American style
what do you think?

>>17737626
Low and slow with a bit of bacon grease

>>17737648
Yeah I gotta lower the heat after frying potatos. I also throw down some butter if the pan is too dry

>>17737626
Cast Iron is a meme, a regular pan works fine for anything.

>>17743266
cast iron is a regular pan