Poll: what type of cookware do you use?

I prefer my cast iron, but use stainless steel for my sauce pans. I haven't used teflon in 20+ years. My cast iron skillets are just as non-stick!!

 

I have my trusty old cast iron pans and I have a set of nice stainless steel. I like them both and use them daily.

With cast iron if taken care of and seasoned properly they are 'non-stick'.

I don't have a sticking problem with my stainless either. Properly heating the pan is the trick.

 

tramontina stainless primarily, but we do have a couple of non-stick griddles.

 

Cast iron fry pan and a deep fry pan for sauces, and a cast iron dutch oven. Stainless steel for pots. I got rid of everything with plastic on it about 20 years ago, ans aluminum before that.

 

I usually don't post on non chicken related items, but this is my two cents.

I got rid of the Club Aluminum pots and pans when I read that excessive amounts of aluminum were found in the brains of dead Alzheimer patients.

I don't drink out the aluminum cans either.

Now for teflon. I have an uneasy feeling that teflon causes Morgellons disease. When I looked at those fibres under the microscope, I realized that man could not create those fantastic hues of blue and red until the German chemist learned to create analine dyes from coal tars in the 1800's.

What is the source of teflon?

So, now I use a couple of old cast iron skillets that have been in the family for over a hundred years.

Maybe I am just an old nut case, but I feel better without the teflon.

Rufus

 

use cast iron mostly and copper bottom sauce pans

 

I have a ton of cast iron (or as I say it castarn) skillets that I inherited from my SO's mom, so to speak. Also, I have a variety of corningware. One of the skillets is a whooping 24 inch one and it's heavy! Too heavy for me to use most of the time with the problems I have with my hands, but it's also the size I almost always need to cook breakfast for my big guy. That's why I bought one Nordicware Texas skillet. It's also 24" and teflon coated. My SO is scared to use it after the lecture I gave him on scratching teflon, so he sticks to the cast iron when I'm not home.