Teflon Pans to Stainless

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Moving away from Teflon to stainless steel and haven’t found many offers online. Walked into @Home and found their Cuisine : Pro Iconix range/stainless steel pans on 30% discount, so got the 28cm for R1,259. Seems decent quality.

Any tips and tricks? Should I get something else?

Believe I need to get it hot before frying an egg? When do I drop heat? Can I use butter, when?
 
Cuisine : Pro Iconix range/stainless steel pan
I've got the same & I'm very happy with the quality. For meat I still prefer the cast iron but for everything else I mostly use the stainless. Have done eggs a few times but I still resort to a regular non-stick for a quick fried egg.

Enjoy - it can take a beating and anything that browns and sticks to the bottom is quickly deglazed to add to the flavor of whatever you're cooking. You don't need to season it before using.

A few stainless tips:

 
LOL these Youtube "experts"
Very few people like crispy eggs.

Let me teach you something. Even non-stick pans are not non-stick anymore after a year or so.

How to make any pan non-stick. Enamel, SS, Cast iron, old non stick.
Put a small bit of oil in pan on your stove and heat it at max. Make sure the oil cover everywhere. It can be really little oil and you can wipe it everywhere with a brush or your hand(before its hot). No need for a lot of oil running around in pan.

Now you heat it till it starts smoking, let it smoke at least 30s- 1min. It is better to use cooking oil than olive oil as its has a higher smoke point, but olive oil still work OK.

When it smoked your pan is now non stick. For fried eggs you can remove from heat and let it cool down a slight bit before adding eggs. Scramble eggs not necessary as you can stir before it get crispy and egg will cool down pan anyway.

This will never be as non stick as a fresh new good quality non stick pan, but close enough. I make scramble eggs(that stick way more than a normal fried egg) in the SS pan without anything sticking to the bottom.

And no butter wont work, it will burn. You can wipe a thin layer of oil, heat till smoke and then cool down a bit and add butter.
 
OH and for eggs and quick stuff its better to get a cheaper thin SS pan that heat up quickly and cooldown quick.
 
I’ve used a Swiss diamond tryme frying pan for eggs for more than 10 years and it’s still good as new.

 
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