[Sca-cooks] OOP: Frying pan opinions?

[Elaine Koogler]

I just realized that I goofed in my message...what we use is the Le Creuset
enameled pans, not Chantal....

Kiri

Olwen the Odd wrote:

> 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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