Gravy's Cooking Thread

Lanx said:

i have nothing against anyone using teflon/ceramic pans, as long as you use a safe sponge, silicone spats and don't go above 400degrees and replace the pan every 3 years, you should be safe.

i'm personally just trying to have a non pfa/teflon life, i even gave up my zoji rice cooker w/ teflon for a stainless steel, korean one.

i was just over a friends place for thanksgivin, shes also trying to be plastics free, but she can't cook eggs w/o a teflon pan. if she asks, i'll say something, like i spent time w/ her in an air bnb for the summer and you know those airbnb pans are scary, the teflon was all scratched up, so i made eggs w/ the cheap stainless pan they had (high heat, butter + oil, almost like you are searing a steak), and the eggs didn't stick.

and then we tried again for thanksgiving, i showed her, she tried, i showed her again she tried. went thru like 6 eggs, but i think thats fine.

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Im pretty happy with Hexclad pans. Good non stick, had the for about a year and a half, not a single scratch even though I’m not always careful about what utensil I use in them. I’d buy them again.

Lanx said:

saw one dude fuck his shit up

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He had to be trying pretty hard to get it to that point. Wow.

Lanx said:

saw one dude fuck his shit up

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lurkingdirk said:

He had to be trying pretty hard to get it to that point. Wow.

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Ehhh yes and no....

What hex-clad "is" - is simply patterned teflon or ceramic or whatever they use now. There was a good youtube somewhere about "how it is meant to work" - and essentially the stainless parts are a smidge higher than the teflon parts so they take and skate off any damage in theory - however, what it does is also add in a TON more "edges" of the teflon to the base material and /that/ is the main cause of failure as seen in the video above... so you are adding something for resiliency in one way, but adding a lot more, a LOT more points of failure that are naturally occurring in what the product is. You also have food that "sticks" to the patterned stainless the same as it would with any stainless, but the surface tension/adhesion area is WAY smaller so it is /not as bad/ obviously as all stainless etc.

Like, asphalt driveways, if you edge one in concrete it will last way, way longer than one that does not have and edge done - its the edges that generally cause the eventual failures.

Siliconemelons said:

Ehhh yes and no....

What hex-clad "is" - is simply patterned teflon or ceramic or whatever they use now. There was a good youtube somewhere about "how it is meant to work" - and essentially the stainless parts are a smidge higher than the teflon parts so they take and skate off any damage in theory - however, what it does is also add in a TON more "edges" of the teflon to the base material and /that/ is the main cause of failure as seen in the video above... so you are adding something for resiliency in one way, but adding a lot more, a LOT more points of failure that are naturally occurring in what the product is. You also have food that "sticks" to the patterned stainless the same as it would with any stainless, but the surface tension/adhesion area is WAY smaller so it is /not as bad/ obviously as all stainless etc.

Like, asphalt driveways, if you edge one in concrete it will last way, way longer than one that does not have and edge done - its the edges that generally cause the eventual failures.

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Good information, thanks! Hadn't thought of it this way.