It's a perfectly good heavy frying-pan, except the non-stick surface has worn away and it's a nuisance to cook with, but it seems very wasteful simply to get rid of it. Is it worth doing anything else with it?
Daniele
Clean the remaining non-stick off with a wire brush, "season" the pan as described in any good cook-book and continue using it for the rest of your life.
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It is now legal to wham burglers on the head with a frying pan.
Think of it as a non stick surface with a free base attached.
It is completely worn out and the base was free...so chuck it.
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I sympathise with this, it's happened to me. I use mine for wet cooking which won't stick anyway.
Mary
Aluminium doesn't really season.
Well, could you copper plate it and give it to your local crusty country pub? Old pubs often have copper pans hanging up but copper plated aluminium would be OK too - noone would know the difference! :-)
Markus
Do you have children? If so, give them the frying pan, some sausages and the makings of a bonfire, works for me :-)
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How about a bird bath - I use an old frying pan, mainly in icy weather when the bird Chingford Lido has frozen.
mike
Polish it up with wire wool and use it as an aluminium pan, just like we used to before they invented fragile non-stick coatongs that don't work very well anyay. If you want a really durable non-stick pan use cast iron.
Ah, if it's aluminium, I would throw it away.
I either buy (i) cast iron, non-nonstick frying pans, in which case buy a good one and look after it, or (ii) really cheap non-stick, usually supermarket branded, non-stick ones and treat them as a consumable.
I don't believe any non-stick pans are cast iron. The non-stick coating is adhered by a process which pretty much implies aluminium.
Does too.
Plemty of teflon coated cast ironers about actually. Ive had several.
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They don't taste all that ;-)
mike
Le Creuset do them
Colin Bignell
But, what do you do with the frying pan after the kids have incinerated themselves?
Colin Bignell
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All-clad do a stainless/aluminium/stainless/nonstick series.
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My Creusets are cast iron ... my Circulons are aluminium - but with superior non-stick finishes.
Mary
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Have fun making more kids?
Mary
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