What's to be done with an old frying-pan?

[nightjar]

With a frying pan? You are obviously more inventive in that area than I am.

Colin Bignell

[Mary Fisher]

"nightjar .uk.com>"

At my age I'd have to be super inventive with any method ...

It amuses me when I go for a uterine scan as part of a clinical research sub protocol. The ulstra sound gadget is in the assisted fertility unit. Hopeful young couples have to sit in the waiting room with grey and long bearded Spouse and me, I'd obviously break all world records for giving birth ... Perhaps I shold tell them about frying pans.

Mary

[bigcat]

doesnt that cause digestion problems?

Probably teeth problems as well.

NT

[Rob Morley]

Use it as a shovel to dig a shallow grave?

[Mary Fisher]

"D.M. Procida" wrote in message news:1grywvg.x85xuf1ltco8wN% [e-mail]...

Just had a genuine idea:

Cut down the rim at both sides of the handle and round the bottom edge of the pan (removing the sides) so that you are left with the handle attached to the flat base.

It will make an admirable peel.

Mary

[Bob Eager]

Saute the kids...

[Dave]

I have an old aluminum pan that I have successfully seasoned. It used to be a non-stick one, but the wife used a metal spatula and scratched the surface to such an extent that it was not a non-stick pan any more :-(

As it was quite an expensive one, I took off the handle and coated the pan with a thin film of ground nut oil and put it in the oven at the maximum temperature. The result of this was I had a new non-stick pan again :-)

Dave

[John Stumbles]

I'v been trying to imagine what Mary looks like.

Didn't reckon on the beard though :-)

[John Stumbles]

er, what's a peel?

[Huge]

Bzzzzt! next contestant, please.

Le Creuset make them. They're very heavy, the non-stick comes off quite easily and they shatter if dropped onto a tiled floor.

[Mary Fisher]

You have mail

[Mary Fisher]

D'ye not ken?

It's a sort of large spatula for removing free-form bread and the like from an oven, especially an earth oven. Always used to be wood but they don't have to be.

Mary

[Owain]

"Bob Eager" wrote | > But, what do you do with the frying pan after the kids have | > incinerated themselves? | Saute the kids...

Human black puddings are already being discussed on ukfdm

Owain

[Bob Eager]

You rose to the bait!

[Ian Stirling]

I could say that I'm completely right, as I refuse to believe otherwise :)

Won't do the floor much good either.

What's the point? Would work better with a thin Al layer on the inside.

[D.M. Procida]

How exactly does this work?

Daniele

[Holly, in France]

nightjar .uk.com>

surface

incinerated

Not sure about the frying pan, but as for the kids, plenty more where they came from :-)

I should have said campfire rather than bonfire!

Holly

[Chris Hodges]

Do we even want to know what ukfdm is?

[Mary Fisher]

uk.food+drink.misc

Not as interesting or as gory as d-i-y.

Nor uk.business.agriculture ... they're always nailing politicans to church doors there.

Mary

Mary

[Fred]

The surface becomes largely carbon and is quite rugged, it's similar to the "black" which forms on baking trays etc which are constantly used in the oven. However it's not nearly as good a non-stick surface as a genuine teflon coating.