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And hey, presto. That is a very loose egg on a stainless steel pan.

I'm getting a nice crispy edge all around that egg.

How's the underc carriage look? Yeah, it's actually very nice. Little bit of browning. You got a little bit of crisp. The crisp is really nice.

So, I didn't actually take the pan heat above medium at all. I was kind of like low to medium the whole way pretty much. So, this thing definitely retains heat very well indeed, I must say. Like, there's still tons of heat in this. And this has been off the heat for about almost 10 minutes. So that's really good.

Now, let's see how the pan handles the butter. You can see it's foaming. Perfect temperature.

But look at the quality of that boneette. That slightly nutty color and flavor. It's just basting and holding absolutely beautifully.

Yep, came off. No problem whatsoever.

Yep, that is forming nice and crispy.

Even layer as well. Quite uniform.

And your butter isn't burnt even on a low to medium heat, which is pretty impressive.

this is two separate pieces that are bonded together that have the base and the upper shell and the marriage here is absolutely perfect

so cast doesn't absorb energy as quickly as atlantis atlantis really is amazing how fast

so using the cookware makes you a better cook so that's a big bold claim for me to to make but it just does

if i'm using a lower quality piece of cookware and i'm using a piece of atlantis things may take a little bit more time things don't react so incredibly quickly in a piece of atlantis so i need to be more patient but the balance to that is that things turn out so incredibly well all the time

so that's the big big advantage of why you would spend money on atlantis and on proline is that it gives you that nice buffer things happen more slowly heat kind of moves through the pan up and down at a slower rate and you don't find all of a sudden you've gone from kind of browning to burning it just doesn't happen…

Then I turned both burners on at the same time to 248°F, the highest temperature possible when using them together. Water in the HexClad pan started to bubble first, around the two-minute and 10-second mark. Around the 5-minute and 30-second mark, the water in the HexClad pan came to a full boil while the water in the…

With the exception of induction cooktops, HexClad pans heat slower but are easier to control since they maintain a steadier temperature.

Other secret of this pan is its ability to become naturally non-stick. So the smooth grain of this takes to seasoning a little faster than cast iron and it becomes very rapidly non-stick when you season it. And you can cook in it with just a little bit of fat, and food will just come right out. So if you're really…

Stainless steel or, in particular, a fully clad pan where there are layers of stainless steel, aluminum, and stainless steel is really known for its ability to make even, uniform heat. The aluminum transmits heat very quickly, stainless steel much more slowly. The stainless retains it so it spreads, and you get this…

In the carbon steel, I think we got the sort of Goldilocks moment. You get this really beautiful golden brown crust that is deeply brown, and nice, and crusty. Inside is nice and pink. And you really get this nice contrast between the brown crust and the cooked interior that is nice and juicy. So I thought it was a…

When we were done, there was almost nothing in the pan. It was just, I wipe it out, rinse it out, and we're good to go.

so get the cheapo twirly pop if you if you are popcorn fanatic like I am

You can see with Teflon just how non-reactive it is. Like that oil just kind of moves around like a melted T1000.

we can see with the Teflon style pan that there's actually pretty decent searing, relatively even all throughout.

So, this is the non-stick pan that I just seared a steak in. Clean up should be real, real easy. Just a little bit of soap and water. Not much effort at all. In fact, I can just use the uh the soft side of the sponge.

so when it comes to cleaning, nonstick is the easiest if you're going to do them by hand.

All right, so here we have them. This is our teflon pan. It seared really nicely actually. It took about 3 minutes to get this color on it. It's pretty crisp throughout. Slightly light over here, slightly darker over here, but that's a pretty good sear.

So, of the three, the titanium pro and the teflon both I think seared the best as far as salmon skin goes.

All right, I'm going to give this the old slide test here. So, without using a spatula or anything at all, I'm just going to shake the pan and see how that egg moves around. Immediate immediate release. Zero effort at all. Even just sort of the tiniest tilt sends it skittering across the surface. That is very, very…

And there we can see no sticking. Tiny bit of browning. Not the perfect omelette, but it came out of the pan really nicely, which is what we care about right now.

Um, and you can see that the edges are set, but the inside is still nice and custardy, the way an omelette should be.

so as I would expect with a lodge Pan the non-stick ability right out of the gate is awesome

they're actually moisture than the Oxo one moist moisture moisture um yeah I prefer them over the office

like I said the lodge is cooked just fine of course it's adequately cooked it's not overcooked it's not burnt um wonderful texture they're well done it's really nicely cooked food

this is a bit soggy compared to link the lodge has the outside more uh crunchy this is interesting

this is cooking nice and evenly nice and brown

you know fairly good stick release with very little oil um for a you know non-fatty food so you know the launch is doing its job really really well

it's working totally fine you know right now it's working better than the uh the mapper for its release you know now now things are working just fine with the Snapper everything's come off properly fine um one more time that's really worked out quite well too

like I was saying a little bit less heat in the map for maybe but the large and the Oxo in this experiment are both doing very well so there's nice even consistency across the board here

so I really like this pen it's actually worked out really well

um the pre-seasoning from the factory Works actually I like this better on a carbon steel pan than I do on their cast iron pan I find that it's even maybe more textured or sorry like a more smooth like more micro textured um it worked really really well so I would give it high marks

Lighter than cast iron, heats up fast and answers the flame the second you turn it.

It heats up much faster than cast iron and cools faster, too. So, preheating is quick.

Carbon steel comes up to heat fast. That speed and that control are exactly why the working kitchens love it.

Carbon steel responds the instant you turn the burner up or down.

A well-kept carbon steel pan, properly heated with a little fat, will let a fried egg slide around loose as anything. No sticking, no tearing, slicker than a non-stick, and with none of the flaking.

And the best thing is it distributes heat quickly, efficiently, and evenly over the pan.

But often times they heat really inevenly, and they take a long time to preheat. This to me is perfectly balanced in that way.

Another reason, it creates flavor like fawns. It gets great sears on any piece of meat.

But guess what? Most of it won't end up on the food. You drain it on a paper towel. Really, it's not too much more.

Once it has seared properly enough, it will naturally release from the pan. You can already see the edge of this egg already lifting up off the pan.

just to prove the egg came off clean. Look at the underside of the egg. See that? No sticking, no ripping.

Cleaning this isn't going to be that hard. You take an abrasive pad to get this part off first. Clean it immediately. You're ready to go again.

And the beauty of this is if your pan is hot enough, really, your fish should move around the pan. You won't even really need to scrape it off.

You can see the skin is nice and crisp and dried out. You got a little bit of mayard on the flesh. It's not even sticking to it, even flesh side down, but I can feel the fish.

I've been sitting around medium, slightly above medium for this whole temperature. Right. If the pan looks like it's starting to get too hot, just drop the temperature a little bit. You can fluctuate it however you need. That is the key to using stainless.

And what will be left behind is little brown bits from the flour, stuck bits from the meat that are on the pan. That is your fond. There's tons of flavor in that. You don't want to throw it away.

You can scrape on the bottom to release any stuck bits. Scrape on the sides. Scrape that into there. Now, you can see all the stuck bits. That's all that like reduced intense chickeny flavor now giving flavor to this sauce.

So, my pan's not like ripping hot. It's warm, so it'll release a little easier, right? We're almost preparing this to delaze it, right? You're basically delazing in here.

And you'll notice that even just by doing that, if I rinse this bad boy out, I haven't even used soap yet. This is 90% of the way clean.

We have a pan that basically looks almost brand new. It's literally that simple. This applies to pretty much every single scenario I could possibly think of. The key is soap and water or proper stainless steel cleaner. That is it.

Leave it in there. Don't scrape it off because it's going to stick anyway, right? Just let it cool down naturally, and you could easily bring it back on once it stops smoking and turn it to medium heat. Eventually, it'll release.

So, you're going to fill this up with water about halfway up. Set it on your stove. Add one drop of dish soap. That was more than a drop. Set over medium high heat and bring it to a boil. Once it's boiling, let it boil for about 1, two, maybe 3 minutes until the residue comes off easily.

but what happens with stainless is that as they get better and better they start to behave a little bit more like cast iron they hold their heat incredibly well and they distribute their heat incredibly well

i can season of course in my cast iron pan where if i cook at the right temperature in my stainless steel and i use a lead enforced effect where i'm finding just the right sweet spot i can cook with a little bit of oil and things basically become nonstick

so using the cast iron pan being well seasoned it's more forgiving you can have it really well seasoned if it's a little cooler a little hotter a little variable in heat then it seems to allow you to have things that don't stick

the beauty with high-end stainless steel is the variability is wider so you have a bigger window of it being more of a perfect temperature within a high-end stainless steel aluminum core pan than you do in a cheat pan

it definitely can brown a little bit better over time things cook a little bit more thoroughly in cast iron somewhat when it comes to high-end cookware not not a massive difference

Because it’s so thick and heavy and holds heat well, it’s the better option for searing steaks, pork chops, chicken, and other meats.

It’s also better for cooking eggs, pancakes and other delicate ingredients. When cast iron is well seasoned it performs similarly to a non-stick pan.

Lastly, cast iron is ideal for roasting, baking, and frying because it heats up gradually and maintains a consistent temperature over long periods. Because it heats slowly, you’re less likely to burn food.

Stainless steel is more of a go-to everyday type of cookware. It heats fast and evenly and you can use it to cook any type of food, including tomato sauces, soup, and other acidic and liquid heavy meals.

But, since stainless steel pans are made with a highly conductive aluminum or copper core, they heat up fast and evenly.

The water in the stainless steel pan started boiling after 2 minutes and 55 seconds, and the water in the cast iron pan started boiling after 3 minutes and 34 seconds.

Cast iron may not heat up as fast or evenly as stainless steel, but due to its thick construction, it has far superior heat retention.

Don’t get me wrong, stainless steel pans, especially good quality fully clad pans, retain heat well, but not at the same level as cast iron.

After ten minutes, the water in the cast iron pan was 104 degrees Fahrenheit and the water in the stainless steel pans was only 96 degrees Fahrenheit.

Because it’s nonreactive and heats evenly, you can cook anything and perform any cooking technique.

Cast iron is also versatile - you can use it searing, roasting, sauteing, frying, baking, and cooking eggs.

But if you do it the right way, it also creates a slick surface that makes it easy to cook eggs and other delicate foods without sticking.

Because it responds to temperature changes quicker, you have more control over the results.

i'm here to tell you that a cast iron skillet is going to be a really good skillet regardless of the surface finish

however i do agree that a smoother does mean a better cast iron skillet

now later on we're going to talk about carbon steel and carbon steel has a really smooth surface right out of the factory and it sears meat exceptionally well with an amazing non-stick coating

so let's talk about cast iron skillets that are made out of cast iron have some of the best properties and are famously known for getting a really good sear because cast iron is so densely packed it tends to retain heat really really well

cast iron doesn't necessarily get really piping hot for example stainless steel gets extremely hot and can shoot up to a really high temperature really fast

but where cast iron really shines is retaining that heat and once it gets up to that operating temperature that you're looking for it tends to retain an even temperature all around

but once you do figure it out once you get to know it a little bit better it's amazing you just have to kind of plan ahead

really once you do that you got a really good non-stick coating it's properly seasoned and you're really ready to go

now once you do develop a deep seasoning the risk of rust kind of diminishes over the years

but once a cast iron skillet is seasoned cleaning it is not the issue food just slides right off

it's a very small thing you have to do at the end of a cook that really goes a long way it's not an inconvenience at all

i feel like cast iron skillets don't tend to react as much as carbon steel skillets do

but once carbon steel and cast iron get their seasoning down i don't see them reacting anymore i've never had them react to where it completely stripped off the coating or anything like that

they're much lighter than a cast iron skillet but they're heavy and they develop an amazing nonstick coating

carbon steel skillets get hot really quickly they can really get up to high temperatures so that means they're going to sear food amazingly

they don't retain heat as well as cast iron skillets but that also means that they don't share any of those negatives

carbon steel skillets will react to temperature changes accordingly they will heat up and cool down much faster than cast iron skillets

food literally slides off of carbon steel skillets i've never had a mess with any of my carbon steel skillets when it comes time to clean them oftentimes i can just literally wipe the inside and i'm done

i usually put it back on the stove sanitize it put a drop of oil lubricate it store it away i never even have to use soap or water

eggs will literally slide right out of carbon steel skillet it's like foods ice skating on this thing

stainless steel skillets are the lightest out of the three skillets get really hot tremendously fast and they tend to cool down really quickly as well

biggest pro stainless steel skeleton is they do not rust so you don't have to worry about having to dry them or doing any special treatments after to completely dry them off and keep them from oxidating

now you'll see a lot of videos out there where people will tell you no they won't and that's true if you follow the fundamentals and you make sure that they heat up properly before throwing your food in there and you make sure you have enough fat cooking oil or grease or whatever it is that you're using yes food won't…

they're really light they heat up quickly they sear amazingly they're very easy to clean and they create fun for amazing sauces

Cleaning is even easier. You can take a dry paper towel, wipe it out, it's completely clean like it's never been used.

things are going to sear better in the Caraway. They're going to turn out better.

It's going to be easier to manipulate heat and and maintain certain heat levels the more you spend.

I mean, the food comes out and it is beautiful and it tastes good, but it's just easy to use.

You can pick it up and just swirl your food around. The coating is so so effective.

So, the biggest difference between the Carote at $15 and the Caraway at $150 is the quality of the coating of the nonstick coating.

I cracked an egg into it immediately. Even as it was starting to adhere, it was smooth, it slid around no problem. I mean, the nonstick, it's it's so effective.

the second it cracked into the pan, the egg A looked beautiful, right? I mean, it just looked really nice in the pan. It looked like I was almost doing a professional shoot.

When you place it on the heat, a copper pan heats up very quickly. And when the flame is turned down it cools fast too. This responsiveness to the stove's heat settings gives you excellent control, and it's what makes copper cookware a pleasure to use.

Our top-rated pans offered plenty of cooking space, Low flared sides, they just make it easier to reach under food with a spatula and they help moisture evaporate so food browns more quickly.

All right, I have to admit that while I loved cooking in copper skillets, their performance only slightly outpaced the pan we already recommend, which is the all-clad stainless 12 inch fry pan with lid.

Secondly, it makes the cookware 30 percent more efficient on induction cooktops. Induction cooktops only work with cookware that's made of magnetic materials. Steel is magnetic and since Atlantis pans have three layers of steel on the bottom, they work faster and more efficiently on induction.

Both collections retain heat well but due to its additional layers, thickness, and sheer weight, the Atlantis collection absorbs and retains heat better than Industry.

I repeated this test with several other pans and as you can see in the results Demeyere Atlantis retained heat better than every other pan after five minutes, and they tied with Made In after 10 minutes.

Atlantis cookware is more forgiving which makes it easier to cook with Because it's thicker and retains heat better, the temperature doesn't fluctuate as much while you're cooking and adding and removing ingredients. You won't burn your food if you accidentally turn the heat too high. It heats slowly and steadily.

Its thick 7-ply construction allows it to heat evenly and retain heat better than almost any other cookware.

Their heavy lids lock in moisture, and the thick walls retain heat and maintain steady temperatures.

However, my testing shows that Staub retains moisture better, and its self-basting lid distributes liquid more evenly over the pot.

also the stainless steel material allows me to cook acidic ingredients without a metallic taste

It's second only to silver in terms of heat transfer speeds. It's one and a half times faster than aluminum, which is known to be really fast. It's 25 times faster than stainless steel.

and the thing that's great with the matte fur is that the handle can go into whatever temperature into the oven we want

it now is kind of kind of turned like a golden orange color because it's oxidizing a little bit so it's very obvious that that pan is being exposed the raw metal is being exposed to the air

and now the new matte fur come without anything on them they're really nice and easy to clean

but this guy is definitely you know non-stick on there there's no doubt about that right

so looking at these two pans we've got that this was the first time that I ever cooked on them you know that you know nothing's really stuck on here

this guy here behaved a lot better in being at a preheat of 250 previously like I was saying I was at 250 preheat it looked like I got too hot I went down it got too cool and it wasn't a great result this guy's looking quite perfect at the moment sitting at 250

so that's a really nice result right there doing its thing induction burner gets a little bit mad when you do that this guy here same thing so great result okay so definitely that factor of that first cook with a new pan you know seedling that surface definitely helps so our second result here is really great

right now there is zero spinning from this is the one that was abused this is the one that was not and they are not spinning whatsoever

okay so clean and cool cool zero spinning so that is great that cheap what I think is kind of crappy induction cooktop I have been able to make spinners out of other carbon steel with that cooktop um it does make spinners these guys didn't that's a tremendous result so super stoked

so you know Matt fur I would give you know a big big thumbs up I think they're tremendous I love that they have non-vivided handles onto the pans the shape of them of course are ideal I really enjoy that they the handles don't have epoxy on them and they can easily just go straight into the oven they're great

I ran the same test with several other titanium pans and a stainless steel pan, and they all performed well, but Viking was the sickest.

I also cooked pancakes on each pan with a little butter. Viking passed this test easily, as did the other pans.

Without any butter, the pancake didn't stick to Viking, but it did stick a little bit to some of the others.

In terms of evenness, after 2 minutes on medium heat, the gap between the center and the outer edge was only 35°. The average gap for a pan like this is around 80°. Because of this, food browns evenly across the whole surface instead of darkening in the center and staying pale around the edges.

Beyond the numbers, the real world cooking experience has been excellent. It sears well. It cooks evenly edge to edge, and the temperature stays steady. It doesn't get too hot too fast and burn your food, and it doesn't lose heat the second you add something cold. It's a very easy pan to control and it's enjoyable to…

The non-stick performance is excellent.

Anolon was by far the fastest to heat, but that means it's also very easy to overheat.

When I preheated it slower, it worked fine.

Next, I cut the fat in half, using just a half teaspoon of oil and 2 g of butter. Again, all three pans handled it without sticking.

Then I tested pancakes with a light layer of butter. Misen and Anolon released cleanly, but Strata had some slight sticking.

Misen and Anolon were both impressively nonstick right out of the box, and they've stayed that way for months.

To be totally honest with you, this was one of the toughest reviews I've ever done because all three pans perform really well, and they're all priced pretty much the same.

It heats up fast and evenly and maintains a consistent temperature.

I recently tested All-Clad against Made In, and as you can see below, the chicken browned nicely and cooked evenly in both pans.

What I like most about All-Clad is that each collection performs differently, which allows you to choose pans based on your cooking style and needs.

Overall, All-Clad's performance is excellent and lives up to the hype.

Copper Core and G5 pans pans react incredibly fast to temperature changes.

I tested All-Clad Copper Core against the start-up brand Goldilocks, and the chicken browned much faster in the All-Clad pan due to the fast-heating copper.

For context, Copper Core and G5 pans boiled two cups of water about 20% faster than D3, HA1, and D5 pans in my standard heat conduction test.

The difference is responsiveness. Carbon steel heats up fast and cools down fast, giving you precise temperature control.

and also because temp is more sensitive to temperature change so as you turn down the heat you can see the change happen right away

but with carbon steel is really fast like usually lower temperature into half and then just leave it off a little bit wait for it to cool down and put it back and it's it's good

And carbon steel does that really well. And compared to cast iron, it heats up faster, cools down faster, and it's also much lighter.

So, one of the nice things about carbon steel also is that it's part of sort of what gives a walk that walk flavor. Like you cannot get walk that kind of smokiness out of a actual non-stick, you know, like a coated non-stick pan.

and only about nine or ten percent of the energy that this guy produces makes into the walk

with the power flamer you can see that the heat builds up from the center of the wok the the heat mainly is in the center and it builds up around the edges which is what you want for controlled cooking

but it does the job really well

Finally, we'll look at the titanium pro. Um, ignoring the part where because of the structure of the meat, it didn't touch the pan. We can see actually there's very very even browning all the way across the board. A nice crust on the edges and even browning here all the way to here between these three.

Um, so Titanium Pro, pretty easy to clean. It doesn't wipe out quite as easily as the nonstick does, but it wipes out a great deal easier than the cast iron or carbon steel.

And the Titanium Pro almost as easy as non-stick in the sink. Um, but it is also uh completely dishwasher safe.

Finally, this is the titanium propan. It looks to be of the three, I'd say, the evenest throughout. Again, we have one of these little spots where because of the way the fish was butchered, um, part of it didn't come in direct contact with the pan, so we won't really pay attention to that. But, if you look at the…

Um, and this one cooked faster than in the Teflon style pan, 2 and a half minutes. Again, because the material of the titanium pro, the steel in there acts as a bigger thermal battery, so you have more heat to give to the salmon once it goes into the plate.

Almost too slick. So, not quite as slick as the uh the non-stick. It still takes just a tiny bit of tilting to get it to slide around, but significantly more slick than the cast iron.

It's almost too nonstick. Get that side over. That actually ended up behaving very similarly to the nonstick.

You know, I know in my experience, like this one test, it showed it sliding out of there very, very easily.

Titanium Pro, it slid out nearly as easily.

Not perfect for omelets, but still this omelette came out really nicely. In fact, I think it came out a little bit better. More custardy in the center. Real tasty.

maybe the Oxo is a little bit more cooked more more black and browned um there's not really one over the other uh something interesting

let's give those guys a try we're going to start from the Oxo no in case I expected you know the crunchy these are better when they're cooled than dried

the oil that I used and the previous cooking the best nonstick release that I had was with the oxtail

Um, but for just regular, you know, for what these are for, which is frying, they're absolutely excellent.

and wine reductions and all kinds of things in these pans and no problem whatsoever.

first off, all three of them, including the La Leon line, cook quite evenly. I was quite surprised.

So that's our impression of the overall choice of lineups in the Duboet carbon steel pans. They all cook absolutely beautifully.

They release food once it's once you've got a sear on. It releases perfectly. and they are an absolute joy to cook with.

So it cooked evenly and it adjusted fairly quickly when we changed heat settings on the stove.

Its generous cooking surface cooked plenty of food without crowding and it's low-flaring sides help evaporate steam so food browned deeply.

the pans even heating and reactiveness means my homemade tortillas came out perfect

to my surprise I think I would be hard pressed to find a difference in performance between these and lines like all clad D5 without significant scrutiny

I’ve used it to cook crispy bacon, brown and roast chicken, and fry chicken cutlets, and it performs similar to stainless steel. It heats up quickly, maintains a stable temperature and delivers consistent results.

The bacon came out perfectly crispy and the chicken seared nice and even.

I had no issues with eggs sticking as long as the surface was greased with plenty of oil or butter.

HexClad performed well, not only were the bubbles uniform across the cooking surface which indicates even heating, but it was one of the fastest pans to boil the water.

As you can see in the results, HexClad’s heat retention is above average and better than brands like Calphalon, Hestan, and All-Clad.

Another benefit I want to highlight is how easy Hexclad is to clean. It cleans up like a typical non-stick pan. Unless you really scorch it, a quick rinse with soap and water will do the trick.

releases food better than stainless steel.

Cast iron, for example, does take the high heat without complaint, holds it steady, builds a non-stick layer over time, and can last for generations.

the condenser is an important note because the condenser will instantly freeze your ice cream

If you want precise control over your cooking, go with D3.

If you're a multitasker in the kitchen and prefer more forgiving cookware, you might want to consider D5.

If you love the brushed, matte look, D5 is the only option.

the reason a wok is not made with that is because, first of all, we don't want aluminum in a wok because we want there to be uneven heat patterns. We don't want the entire wok to get hot. You kind of end up wasting energy that way because you want the bottom to be very hot. You don't really do much cooking on the…

But yeah, if they're if they're greasy, use less fat, use a better seasoned wok, use higher heat, and emulsify a little better, and you should be good to go.

here i made a big mistake i cooked some hash browns and they stuck like a duck but it turns out normally i despise the induction burner but this time it was my fault

Cast iron is really heavy, it's dense, it has a lot of material. So, it has a reputation for being really, really good at retaining heat just because of its sheer mass.

It also has a light interior that makes it easy to monitor your food.

Unlike thinner, cheaper pans, these have a thick base and walls that hold a consistent temperature. That makes them easier to work with. They won't overheat and burn your food if you accidentally turn the heat too high. They heat up gradually and give you time to adjust.

Then there's Fissler M5-Pro Ply and All-Clad, which are thinner pans that heat faster and respond quickly to temperature changes.

Most have around a 50° gap. Fissler M5 came in second at 29°, and the difference in temperature between the center and edge of All-Clad and Demeyere pans ranged from 45° to 82°.

I enjoy putting vegetables in the blender and leaving the blender on high for a whole minute until it warms up close to body temperature at which point I can have a warm soup and enjoy that very much

although it's incredibly efficient at blending the Vitamix blender definitely pulls air into your food and and it aerates it which means that some of the oxygen sensitive nutrients are affected now if you eat the food right away we're really not talking about any issue at all because even chewing has that same effect…

for almost everything 801010 all you really ever need is just water now if water doesn't clean the Vitamix really well what I'll do is I'll fill the Vitamix half full with water and then put the top on put it on the base and turn it on with just water and mixing that water at high speed it just it just cleans it like…

if you put water in a Vitamix blender turn it on to high speed and walk away in a few minutes that water will be boiling hot and so you can actually boil clean the inside of your Vitamix

it just cleans it like crazy now you know if you put water in a blender or certainly in a Vitamix blender if you put water in a Vitamix blender turn it on to high speed and walk away in a few minutes that water will be boiling hot and so you can actually boil clean the inside of your Vitamix

Second, D5 is more forgiving. If you turn the heat up too high, it takes a little longer to react. The same goes for when you turn the heat down. This may sound like a negative but it gives you some leeway while you're cooking.

This helps you avoid burning food but doesn't give you the control that you might need for certain dishes.

The answer is responsiveness. When you turn the heat up or down, the temperature of the pan changes quickly. This gives you more control.

But in general, carbon steel is more responsive than cast iron, and in some cases, it's more responsive than stainless steel.

Certain meats might stick slightly, but if you leave them for a minute and allow a crust to form, they will naturally release from the pan.

A well-seasoned carbon steel pan releases food similar to a non-stick pan.

What's interesting is you actually need to use less oil with this than you would say a dutch oven because of its shape. So, you need less oil to fill it.

Hexplat handled the steak, too. However, it's a slightly different story. The moment the meat hit, the temperature dipped, then bounced back quickly when I turned up the burner. So, heat response is good.

it also offers that non-stick cooking surface and sheer power

because Henckels pans are thinner, they heat faster but also cool down faster. With Henckels, you need to pay closer attention when cooking because the pan can quickly overheat and burn or overcook the food.

Once the oil is in the pan, I want to talk about heat control. This is where everybody makes big mistakes. All right? This is where people burn stuff. This is where people smoke out their houses.

And this is also where people get that sort of brown ring around the pan, which is fine, but it's just annoying to clean.

There's a thin layer of oil around here that's going to get hyper hyper hyper hot because the edges of this pan are thinner than the bottom, right?

You will have to use more oil or more fat when you're using stainless steel. That is the simple reality.

Obviously, the parts of the pan that didn't have any oil on it is where the egg stuck on the scramble.

This is what stops people from cooking with stainless steel. They see this happen and they're like, I'm got to throw the pan away. And a lot of people have thrown their pans away because of this.

Common mistakes that will ruin your life or maybe just your pan. Number one, cooking on too high of a heat.

Now if this was a steak or whatever and you wanted to delaze your pan, this fond no more. This is just char. So if you delaze this, it'd be bitter. It'd be blackened. It'd be gross.

Let me be honest with you. This hack still sucks to do, but it works really well.

it takes a while to get to operating temperature because it's so densely packed it takes a while to cool down

so that translates in if you need to adjust your temperature you better adjust it well in advance because you can easily burn your food if you realize that your temperature's set too high and you want to lower it the skillet's going to take a while to adjust

so dialing in your temperatures and adjusting during your cooks can get pretty tricky with cast iron there's a bit of a learning curve

and with cast iron and carbon steels you do have to be very careful with how you do clean them at the end of your cooks you need to wash them and then completely dry them on the stovetops and lubricate them before storing them every single time or you do run the risk of getting rust and you definitely don't want that

another big thing with cast iron skillets and carbon steel skillets as well is that they tend to react with acidic foods

but the biggest con of stainless steel skillets is yes they do stick

but it does stick you don't believe me try making scrambled eggs it can be done you have to put a lot of oil on there and it's a lot more work you have to be very mindful to temperatures

the biggest cons of stainless steels however are they stick they stick like crazy they're not as forgiving if you make mistakes

i mean they get hot really quickly they cool down really quickly but if you're not paying attention you can either put your food in when the skillet's not necessarily hot and boom now you've just created a really sticky mess or you'll get distracted and you've burnt your food really quickly

but other than that the two biggest cons are the price and they're not as nonstick as carbon steel and stainless steel

and she definitely loves the carbon steel skillets but i don't think she likes to do that extra step at the end you know completely drying them off and cleaning them

Misen stuck badly. A thin layer of pancake stayed glued to the surface, and I couldn't flip it without tearing it.

They're not as slick as a brand-new Teflon pan, but if you don't overheat them and you use a little oil or butter, food won't stick.

The only times I've had issues were when I overheated them.

So rough that some people say it makes them impossible to cook on.

Out of the box is so rough that I can literally grate cheese on it.

I cooked two eggs and the pan was clearly too hot.

I had to abort the mission and start again.

and what i found was that the 200 000 btu burner it took about a minute to heat the water that much but this guy which is only a 160 000 btu burner um actually only took 45 seconds to bring the water up to the same uh degree so this one is about twice as efficient um as this one is as far as um the amount of energy…

if you actually do the calculation only about four percent of the energy um that this big burner produces actually makes it into the wok

on this guy on one of these wide burners you can see that the wok heats up pretty much all around its surface pretty pretty quickly it's not concentrated in one place or another that is actually not ideal for walk cooking that's a sort of inefficient way to cook it and it gives you a little bit less control over the…

I can feel the center is actually a little bit paler though. Um, again, that comes down to the evenness of the heating. So, the center of that cast iron pan because of the shape of the flame uh was actually cooler than the rest of the pan.

That said, you can do it without soap. Um, it takes a little bit more effort. You see your sponge gets really greasy.

Cast iron is the most difficult. Uh, requires the most work. It does require you also to make sure that you dry carefully and rub them with oil so they don't rust or pit.

Cast iron surprisingly seems to be actually fairing, I would say, the worst. If we let it go for the same amount of time at the same heat, a full 3 minutes, um, it gets a much darker sear. So, that can be advantageous if your goal is to get a really dark crust on something like a steak or a burger without, you know,…

So, I cooked the second piece of salmon, this time for 2 and 1/2 minutes. Um, this one also still came out a little bit darker and definitely much more uneven than the Teflon style pan. Again, that's because of the uneven heating of cast iron.

Tiny bit of sticking in the center there. Uh-oh, more sticking.

It also stuck quite a bit more to the cast iron than to the other pans.

And let's see, the texture also doesn't look quite as nice. Again, that's because, you know, cast iron retains a little bit too much heat for certain things. So, definitely for an omelette like this, you want to have sort of faster temperature control than you would get in cast iron.

you cannot hear you cannot use more than 75 percent of the maximum power of your burner that means if you're a gas burner or induction is going from 1 till 10 you know like seven or a bit more than seven is going to be the maximum you can use and that gives for me a general feel of slowness

it will damage your pen and things go from you use the right amount of heat it's going to be a very slow kind of searing you need to take time

don't don't put the heat too high anyways if you do what's happening everything sticks Everything Burns so you go from a really nice control kind of heat and if you go out of the boundaries you burn everything everything start to stick

if you try to use these two let's say oh I'm gonna make a pasta sauce and you know really sear some mince mince meat or something like that the pan doesn't like it it burns it starts to color on the sides

and if you buy them this is going to be a big big learning curves I am still trying to understand some of these spans out here

If you were to just do this on the stove top, you'd really have a burned steak on both sides and it be undercooked in the middle.

if you do that with stainless things stick if it's too hot too cold you have problems you just gotta find that right temperature

a really thin cheap aluminum core stainless steel pan it's kind of sweet spot to cooking is very very small

The only issue was with Anolon on my first try. Because it heats so quickly, the pan got way too hot and the egg stuck.

Finally, I cooked pancakes with no fat at all. Anolon had just a little sticking, but I was able to flip the pancake without breaking it.

The stainless steel pan, as is their want, left some fond. It stuck a little bit. There was a brown spot where the burger had cooked, and that's great if you're gonna make a pan sauce or whatever. It's not a non-stick pan. It has none of the traits of non-stick the way cast iron or very well-seasoned carbon steel have.

so you know the the egg test I'm thinking technically because of being a tri-clad is where we weren't getting them I think so yeah um you know I don't think it's a learned thing I think we would still struggle I think probably like one out of five times you'd get it perfect another time you get a little bit of…

we're all getting the same non-stick results yeah stainless a little bit less so the thinner usually like a triclan even lasso so your band of kind of non-stick ability is really really thin

with cast iron it kind of retain heat longer so even if you let's say you you try to avoid something from getting burned you lower the heat it will take cancer in a while for it to to lower the temperature so you have to actually put it away from the stove uh for you to cool down faster

Okay, so with the steaming, most likely the culprit is that either your burner um is not quite powerful enough for what the recipe recommends or it's diffusing the heat in the wrong way.

A carbon steel pan much bigger than your burner will have a hot center and cool edges and your food cooks uneven.

The egg stuck badly to the Hestan, Heritage Steel, and Taima pans.

The pancakes stuck a little bit to the Hestan pan, but not much.

Hestan had a very tiny spot that stuck, but it was barely noticeable.

Since industry pans are thinner, they heat faster but the temperature fluctuates quicker when you turn the knob or add ingredients. So you have to monitor your cooking more closely to make sure you don't overcook or burn something.

the induction one is is a little bit hard to get exactly right where the gas you can just regulate it just perfectly

I had it at 250 Fahrenheit previously and it was smoking too hot I went down to 195 and it went too cool

It may not be the best cookware for certain sauces and meals that require precise temperature control.

HexClad cookware is oven-safe up to 500°F but it’s not safe to use under the broiler.

I’ve tried cooking eggs in an ungreased HexClad pan at a lower temperature in the past and the results were even worse.

But again, after preheating for the same amount of time at the same temperature, HexClad’s thinner walls made the cooking surface hotter and the eggs overcooked slightly.

and then this was our Heston so you can see that's probably where the most residue actually is so that is coming off

so yeah it looks like the Hester didn't stand up as well as these two guys

you still seem to be getting empty a little bit of stick still yeah a little bit

we're just gonna give this a quick little clip but still like still not as good uh I would say even so it took a little bit more finance a little bit more finickiness and that that's kind of what you usually expect out of a D3 right oh sorry out of a tripod yeah for sure

to deal with this problem of uneven heating most cast iron and carbon steel pans are very thick and heavy this helps them cook more evenly but also makes them very slow to adjustments in heat

iron is not nearly as good of a conductor as aluminum that's why it's prone to hot spots

I find that this bumpiness makes it hard to achieve a truly non-stick surface and slows down the seasoning process

because this pan is so thick and heavy it may not be quite as responsive as a little bit thinner pan and it may have taken a little bit longer for that change to take effect so I was cooking up around six or seven went back down to six or five and then I went down to four so a full three notches and these were still…

one of these high temperature tests I still prefer a good cast iron or a carbon steel for that task

pretty loud but like I said it hasn't you know we've been using it for years it works really great

one negative I would give is when you do got a dough in there like especially sourdough that thing's cranking this thing is really working and this you know you think it's going to fall apart because this is like really jamming around

you'll see that it can like work its way up over that if it got it on there there's a good chance you might have got some of that in whatever you're making

But it does take an extra 2 minutes for your stainless steel pan to drop in temperature compared to nonstick. So if you're not patient enough with letting the pan cool, you're going to easily burn your food or dry out your sauce, kind of like how we did with the carbonara.

they do stick out slightly from the cooking surface. This creates tiny crevices where food can get stuck.

it's going to take it longer to change temperatures

one other thing that you'll notice that is potentially a bit more of a negative is you do have a higher pan on the Dem the lips is going to be a little larger and so you are going to get a little bit more of a steaming effect than this

When you turn the heat down on a cast iron pan, it takes a while for it to cool down. The downside of this is that you need to pay close attention when cooking. If you don’t, the pan can quickly overheat and burn your food.

However, you still need oil or butter and if the seasoning is worn down in some spots, delicate foods like omelets and scrambled eggs can still stick.

The downside to stainless steel and enameled cast iron is that delicate foods like eggs and fish are more prone to sticking.