Best all-purpose skillet

I fucking hate these threads. Define your goddamn parameters better. The best, of any cookware, would undoubtedly be made of silver with a lining. Heat it up to proper temperatures before adding in oil and boom, you have a non stick skillet. But it can still create a nice fond if needed. Unlike cast iron, you could cook with acidic foods, and it obviously has the superior heat distribution of all metals.

>I fucking hate these threads. Define your goddamn parameters better.
You are correct user.

And that's why when I see threads that are put composed like that I know that this is not a serious thread and I don't bother to waste my time trying to help,
I just post shit like this because they are not seriously asking for serious advise, they just trolling trying to waste out time.

Fuck them

imho would feed to dog

out with the old in with tthe new

Best all-purpose Veeky Forums shit thread
And why is it OPs thread?

I picked up one of those last month since my 10 year old teflon pan was beaten up and I had to toss it. Pretty impressive, I always thought of calphalon as a 2nd rate product but nah.
But cast iron is terrible, 2.5mm of copper lined with 18/10 stainless is the best all-purpose skillet, anyone who disagrees with this is stupid.

But the reality is if you are remotely serious about cooking you should have a variety of tools for different jobs. Stainless lined copper or alu for most tasks. Cast iron for oven work. Nonstick alu for fish and eggs and such. Tinned copper for saucemaking. And so on.

I mean you wouldn't try to cook with a ka-bar combat knife unless you had no choice, would you? Only an idiot would do that. But that's the mentality of the kind of people who think cast iron pans should be used for everything. Their lives are perhaps a little too comfortable and safe, so they have to cosplay like they're pioneers in the old west. Ridiculous.

So why don't you just post that as your choice instead of a big autistic rant about it being your choice if you had a choice.

MASSIVE TURD DETECTED

>he cares more about food than me so he's a jerk
Ok

Carbon steel is superior.

which company makes the best carbon steel?

caphalon is pretty good for the price imo

i have a 12 inch and a 10 inch anodized pan from them and they cook evenly and retain heat really well

AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Don't you mean Copper or Bronze?

got this old skillet for free from a friend
cooks pretty well now that it has been re-seasoned

cut the handle off and use it as a novelty shaped square frisbee

matfer

>But cast iron is terrible, 2.5mm of copper lined with 18/10 stainless is the best all-purpose skillet

Stainless is very hard to season (not impossible, but the layer is very fragile) and unlike Chromium unlike Teflon is actually toxic.

Teflon can do acidic sauces, meat, delicate fish, eggs all varying from reasonably well to excellent. Everything else simply fails completely on at least one of those. It is the all around winner.

youtube.com/watch?v=AmC9SmCBUj4

its not, carbon steel is

so the stake was overdone because at the end they cut the camera shot, ha ha
if the stake was done nicely they would show it for sure, and the unpeeled garlic is pure garbage trick
it adds nothing to flavour well maybe flavour of garlic peels
same thing with the herbs added at the end, what that was all about, pure bs.

He got good colour on it, all I really cared to show.

stake was done to a shoe letter toughness,
noticed how camera shot was quickly cut when he was cutting the stake at the end,
all that time camera was focused on the stake but at the end it was not,
they edited out because it was shitty job

It's steak, you god damn retard.

The way Ramzee cooked it it become tough that could be used as stake.
I like him, but he failed with this one, he should cook another one and show how it looked after was cut

If you think a ~3/4" steak is well done after 2 minutes you're not a very good cook.

It was almost certainly too rare.

Lodge makes some pretty decent carbon steel pans that aren't too pricey.

matfer

don't worry about any other brand

Why not to show it then, if was done to be so good show it with pride in your cooking skills

There was something fishy about that steakee in that video with that drunk cook

Cause it was fucking raw.

>and the unpeeled garlic is pure garbage trick
>it adds nothing to flavour well maybe flavour of garlic peels
>same thing with the herbs added at the end, what that was all about, pure bs.

what about this bs tricks that do nothing to the taste

Carbon steel master race:

youtube.com/watch?v=GWNl-uJD0Uo

As I said,I like him and enjoyed in the past watching his TV shows setting up restaurants and all that,
but I cought him that this video is a massive BS and it should not be released.
New video should be made where he is not ashamed to show the final product,
he is known to bust other cook's asses for sloppy food so he should also be strict with his own food.

Look how shitty he deals with this steak failure in his own restaurant, Ramsay is full of shit here,
if that was some other chef he would rip into him with brutal force but when is his own restaurant he is spitting total bullshit as an excuse.

Gordon Ramsay gets angry over a steak.
youtube.com/watch?v=lCc8IEvh70wGordon Ramsay gets angry over a steak

what an asshole self righteous cunt

Gordon Ramsay Yells at Scared Customer.
youtube.com/watch?v=KOIA41CqyXY

they call it an everyday pan
i use it nearly every day

what if you want what you're cooking to stick to it? sear some fish skin side down in a stainless steel, finish in the oven, and the skin comes right off

>they call it an everyday pan
if you remove all three handles you can use the top and the bottom part as frisbees

I love cast iron in the oven.
I use stainless steel on the induction however.

hey asshole stop posting pictures of deliciously looking food
makes me hungry and jealous I can't bake stuff like that
what is it ?

I disagree. Solid silver is the best all purpose skillet.

deep dish pizza

hmm I should start making that
I have few cast iron pans might as well start using them all,right now I'm using on regular basis only two 10" high wall
and regular 6",3 other large pans sitting doing nothing but all are round, I like the square shape

just need to find good recipe for deep dish pizza
have any links handy that have good recipes
Thanx

just use a pizza dough with a shitload of oil
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup corn oil
1/2 cup water
1/2 tsp yeast
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar

roll out and fit into cast iron.
I can set my oven to exactly 105f for proofing.

Thank you user,

that gives me motivation to start making pizza and I will start baking other stuff again
not only the taste and knowing what's in it
but the smell of baking goods coming from the oven is so nice to have around

thats the recipe for chicago deep dish.
Everything then was cheap. Corn oil. All purpose flour.
They use steel pans. I use cast iron cause its even thicker and easier to find different shapes.

I will keep my eyes for square cast irons, for now I will use my round pans, but square of course are much easier to fit in the oven.

I like to buy them used and restore (nice old quality brand names cast iron)

i have a full set of griswalds made in the 30's
and a waffle iron

Lucky bastard.
I'm not talking to you any more
lol

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yes yes rub it in. lol

Please tell me what this is all about

biscuits

caviar is good on pizza too

aaa, OK Thanks.
That tells you that you dealing with no cook here
just a food and cast iron fan.

ok

i picked up 28 bottles of olive oil for $1 a bottle.
I use that in my pizza dough.

Are you sure it was real olive oil.
You know of the scam going around with olive oils.
I'm mean even if it was not 100% real olive oil it is still great deal

the stocker at the store wanted to clear the shelf. He had the cashier adjust the price.
Its normally $16
he said $1 a bottle so i bought it all

wow, that's sure is great deal, they sold it at a loss
how it tastes, it tastes like rear olive oil ?

with 28 bottles you are set for couple of years for sure

its real. I just got lucky.
I even do french fries in a gallon of olive oil now

How does that taste?

not sweet like the coconut oil i normally use. Doesnt really have an olive taste tho. Since its heated

fuck you

ha haha
That was sweet and short

>stainless steel more toxic than teflon

never go full retard

1.oliveoiltimes.com/library/uc-davis-report.pdf

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_toxicity

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284091/

>I left my precious stuff out in the open and pissed off my room mate
>what could possibly go wrong

He may be an ass but you're undoubtedly an idiot.

so what kind of oil did i get for $1 a bottle?

The fries taste good

main.colavita.com/a-letter-from-our-ceo/

I know it's toxic, but it's not MORE toxic that flourine plastics