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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reject tradition. Embrace forever chemicals.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

BerlingerHaus uses some kind of artifical stone instead of teflon. I've only got a grill pan so far but it's easier to use and to clean than teflon. Surely wherever you are has something similiar?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Enameled cast iron is definitely a thing, our le cruset Dutch oven is a work horse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Le creuset Dutch oven is a different budget :x

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

We found a used older one, used it just about daily for a couple years before my dumb ass left it in an oven that was too hot (some old ones only got to like 400F apparently) and caused a bunch of cracks. We messaged le cruset and after sending them some pictures and a sob story they sent us a brand new one.

Doesn't need to be a new one or le cruset, enameled cast iron is just nice generally in my experience

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got a $30 enameled cast iron 6-quart Dutch oven at a post-Christmas sale. It wasn’t Le creuset, but it was a kitchenaid, which was over $100 at its original price. I also got a crockpot brand one, which was under $40 at its standard price, and they both lasted over a decade, until I moved across an ocean (afaik, my former neighbor is still very happily using them and my old kitchen aid stand mixer).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ahh enameled cast iron. The forgotten brother of the glory that is cast iron. The truest form of slow cooking but still limited to softer utensils. I got a cheap one too and the sucker still is perfect enough for a roast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

some kind of artifical stone

Ceramic - similar to glass in that it's made by melting sand (tiny stones)

My pans are ceramic, they're great nonstick pans. Usually any patina of burn-on is easy to clean off with some barkeeper's friend. Everything else comes off in cooking. Still wouldn't use metal utensils on it though as at the end of the day it is still just a coating and scraping it will degrade my pan. But they're still like new a couple years after buying them and they're very aesthetically pleasing pans to boot. And no pfas to my knowledge.

One of them is an aldi find, safe in the oven up to 450°

The other one is just a t-fal frying pan with a plastic handle. So not oven safe at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, not normal ceramic. It has non-stick properties (imho superior to Teflon).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes. It is non-stick and not teflon but it's still a non-metal coating on top of a metal pan.