Ceramic Fry Pan Serious Eats

Anything that requires heavy searing followed by gentle even cooking slow cooked braises like pot roast carne adovada or better than chipotle s barbacoa it s also handy for soups like spicy pork green pepper and corn soup and hearty escarole and barley and of course dutch ovens are great for chili like the best chili ever and texas style chili con carne.

Ceramic fry pan serious eats.

Serious eats has become an amazing resource for cast iron cookware. Hestan s nanobond skillet has a dark obsidian like finish that makes it seem like a frying pan from the future or maybe from darth vader s kitchen. In testing it took a little longer than the others to come up to a high. It performed well and has a cool design but it has slightly higher and steeper walls than we like in a frying pan.

But there s one classic material we ve written almost nothing about. From recipes to seasoning instructions myth busting to vintage restoration we ve got you covered but there s another type of pan with similarities to cast iron that we haven t written much about and it s made from carbon steel. Most aluminum cookware will not work since aluminum doesn t include any iron based compounds. Nonstick pans have their flaws namely they quickly and inevitably wear out but they re still useful to have in the kitchen.

No matter how good the seasoning on your cast iron skillet it s still easier to cook eggs and other sticky or delicate things on a teflon coated pan nonstick is simply the most reliable way to make a perfectly smooth omelette keep your over easy eggs unbroken. The third option buying it cheap is therefore the best. That s the perfect size pan for a classic three egg omelette. However some aluminum pots and pans feature an iron core which should mean they ll work with induction.

Kenji lópez alt 9 essential pots and pans serious eats december 3 2013 alina tugend how not to wreck a nonstick pan the new york times december 17 2010. Sadly even then it s not a given. It s a beautiful pan that. Stainless steel cookware doesn t always work with induction.

Joel russo we ve spent years here at serious eats building a compendium of cookware information covering nearly all you need to know about buying caring for and cooking in everything from cast iron and carbon steel to modern nonstick and stainless steel pots and pans. In most cases that means restaurant grade aluminum pans like this farberware eight inch nonstick skillet which cost about 16 at the time i wrote this. It also can be used at high heat to crisp foods in oil or to sear meats for the best flavor. To test use the magnet trick.

What a dutch oven is good for.