Stainless steel is better because it’s not reactive and more durable, I don’t think anything other than stainless steel cookware should even exist honestly, so much material wasted on pots or baking sheets or whatever that people are going to fuck up in some way, which would literally outlast them if they were steel
Copper cookware is a gimmick sold to old people, As Seen On TV shit
I’ve had some stainless steel pots and pans for almost 20 years now. Basically look new still and I suck at taking care of things. I got divorced and all I wanted to keep was these pans and my cat
Imma start this by saying I love my stainless pans almost as much as my cast irons, but copper pans definitely have their place. Pretty much no other material is as heat conducting as copper, not even aluminum, and while it is a potential future cost any and all cooper pans can be retinned and restored to brand new condition, but it takes years of use to get to that level of wear.
I’m a little confused, the primary function of a cooking pan is to transfer heat from whatever heat source you have to the food you are cooking. Conductivity is how to measure how effective that heat transfer is. All pans can be cleaned and generally I’ve found they don’t need scrubbing if you don’t over heat the pan and burn shit to it.
I guess we just have different priorities, I care more about how well my pans work over how easy they are to clean, because they are never hard to clean when used correctly.
I will still reiterate, there are applications where stainless is preferred, but I find it to be the right pan for my needs much less often than my cast irons and copper
Again, I recognize different priorities. I don’t cook for profit, I just make food for myself but I do cook essential every meal for myself. I also get joy from using the cast irons passed down to me by my mom and my wife’s mom. Some of the pans I use on a daily basis are over 200 years old and still going strong.
Stainless steel is better because it’s not reactive and more durable, I don’t think anything other than stainless steel cookware should even exist honestly, so much material wasted on pots or baking sheets or whatever that people are going to fuck up in some way, which would literally outlast them if they were steel
Copper cookware is a gimmick sold to old people, As Seen On TV shit
You can pry my carbon steel wok out of my cold, dead hands.
you can do whatever you want but I’m not going to fuck around with cookware I can’t scrub the shit out of
For a second I misread “carbon steel woke” and was very confused lol.
I’ve had some stainless steel pots and pans for almost 20 years now. Basically look new still and I suck at taking care of things. I got divorced and all I wanted to keep was these pans and my cat
Imma start this by saying I love my stainless pans almost as much as my cast irons, but copper pans definitely have their place. Pretty much no other material is as heat conducting as copper, not even aluminum, and while it is a potential future cost any and all cooper pans can be retinned and restored to brand new condition, but it takes years of use to get to that level of wear.
I cannot imagine ever caring about the conductivity of a pan more than how durable and easy to clean it is
I want my pan to fry my tofu and charge my phone
I’m a little confused, the primary function of a cooking pan is to transfer heat from whatever heat source you have to the food you are cooking. Conductivity is how to measure how effective that heat transfer is. All pans can be cleaned and generally I’ve found they don’t need scrubbing if you don’t over heat the pan and burn shit to it. I guess we just have different priorities, I care more about how well my pans work over how easy they are to clean, because they are never hard to clean when used correctly.
I will still reiterate, there are applications where stainless is preferred, but I find it to be the right pan for my needs much less often than my cast irons and copper
Im a professional chef and I’ve never once thought “you know what my pan needs to transmit heat more effectively” you’re being gimmicked to
just lol
Again, I recognize different priorities. I don’t cook for profit, I just make food for myself but I do cook essential every meal for myself. I also get joy from using the cast irons passed down to me by my mom and my wife’s mom. Some of the pans I use on a daily basis are over 200 years old and still going strong.