[Sca-cooks] OOP: Frying pan opinions?

[Olwen the Odd]

I'm sorry.  I must be missing something.  How big of a pancake do you make?
And why big?  I know that is not the subject you asked an opinion on but I
am just so curious.

As far as skillets go I use cast iron.  I do not use the new cast (read
crap) iron which is not tempered correctly or something.  Almost all my pan
and pots are either cast iron or enamaled cast.  Some are the Le Creuset
pans but most are much older from Holland.
Olwen

>I  use our big cast iron frying pan to make pancakes. The pan is
>bigger than the burner, with the result that the part near the edge
>is cooler, with predictable effect on the pancakes.
>
>It occurred to me that perhaps I ought to be extravagant and get one
>of the fancy pans that has copper or aluminum (which conduct heat
>much better than cast iron) sandwiched between layers of stainless
>steel. Betty suggested that I put the question to the list--which
>model of fancy frying pan do people here prefer and why?
>--
>David/Cariadoc


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