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[ThunderGuts]

[chickenstrip]

My dad used to make knives more blunt when he tried to sharpen them
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[RhynoCZ]

Blunt knives are not safe nor pleasant to use.

Remember what Gordon and other chefs say, let the knife do the work. I've noticed this right after I started sharpening my own knives. No more pushing a blunt knife through whatever I'm slicing.
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[hellkat]

I'd like to learn to sharpen knives, as it goes.
Might see what Youtube has to offer.
I was always worried about fucking them up and then having no decent knife, but now I have inherited a few spares, I guess I could practice on one
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[BigTim]

[Diggs]

We know a song about that.

'She was only the butcher's daughter,
but she lay on the slab and said fillet...'
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[piazza]

Sounds like something your avatar would say

[toby1]

Nobody mentioned All Clad yet? Superb American copper cored pans. Used in Masterchef?

[spikey34]

Hello to the round,

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Do you regularly take dietary supplements and if so, which ones? [/url]
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[hellkat]

Oi, who are you calling "round"?
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[MCN]

Le Croo Sit are a mortgage to buy but they combine the mass of cast iron with the non-stick effect of enamel (melted glass coating).
Cast Iron if lifetime stuff. Last as long as the hoose will.

Un-glazed cast iron needs a little bit of care. They need a layer of polymerised oils on to provide non-stick but that is not acidic food friendly so needs to be 'seasoned from time to time. Not a massive chore once you are into it.

Stainless avoid. Stuff sticks to it like shite to a hairy blanket. Usually thin so heat is not uniform so usually a copper plate is fused to the underside.
Cheapish.

Glass... Absolutely shite.

Alumininininmum ok if thick section.
Mark easily.

Teflon (PTFE) coated good for non stickery but if overheating is your thing the finish will be fooked and he fumes extremely toxic.

Plastic for some reason it absorbs the red from tomatoes. 🤔 (micro-wavery)

Your spoons should be wood or bamboo. They don't mark and they'll conform to the base of the pot.
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[hellkat]

[MCN]

[ThunderGuts]

[A100man]

[ThunderGuts]

[MCN]

Cast Iron pot and skillets sets a plenty on eBay.
Cheap AF.
They have the cast texture and come pre-seasoned (which wears off quickly). But decent performance in them.
Season before use and regularly.
A wee bit of squeezy in the water won't hurt the polymer coating. Cooking will wear it off faster.
Once the oil is burned on it takes more than a bit of dish soap to shift it.
But tomatoes can wreck it. (Doesn't stop me frying tomatoes in my cast iron pans though.
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[thx1138]

i tend to use lecreuset, but it's pricey if you pay the full price, and heavy

[McHattrick]

I have the Rock Grill and Griddle Pan Set from Costco.
Around £40.
Superb set of pans. They are Aluminium with some kid of Stainless Steel coating which makes them pretty well non-stick.. and heavy.
I love them so much my wife is banned from using them (She can destroy a Teflon coated pan in record time).
The Grill is great for steaks and the Griddle so good for veg like broccolli and asparagus that I am starting to eat healthy food for the first time in decades.
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[RhynoCZ]

Stainless steel coating? How?
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[McHattrick]

No idea.
From the website
"The Rock Grill Pan & Griddle Set gives a great performance thanks to it's patent-pending RockTec surface treatment. This patent-pending technology uses tiny steel pellets to harden the aluminium creating a rock-like finish with peaks and hollows on the surface of the pan. The result is outstanding release performance and superior scratch resistance."
They state its made from aluminium and stainless steel.

Actually my bad... probably the handle that's stainless...


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