It's a perfectly good heavy frying-pan, except the non-stick surface hasworn away and it's a nuisance to cook with, but it seems very wastefulsimply 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 panas described in any good cook-book and continue using it for the rest ofyour life.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when thedrugs began to take hold. I remember (D.M. Procida) sayingsomething like:Use it as an elephant-scarer.

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

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Dave 21 years ago

Sorry for delay in answering you, I am having computer problems.

As Fred has stated, it is not as good a non-stick surface, but it is certainly a lot harder. Even if you do damage the surface, it will self repair next time you get the pan hot. Assuming that you do get a pan very hot before you put anything in it, that is.

One bad thing about this old fashioned non-stick surface, is that it can go on the bottom of a pan and that can be very dangerous, as the pan will slip and slide all over the hob.

HTH

Dave

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Grimly Curmudgeon 21 years ago

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) saying something like:

Use it as an elephant-scarer.

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