In article >,
congokid > wrote:
> In article >, Omelet
> > writes
> >In article >,
> > bugbear > wrote:

> >> The (Meyer) non stick pan ended up with a tightly

> >. It sounds like your pan is not seasoned properly
> >tho'.

> I thought that part of the point of non-stick pans is that they don't
> need seasoning.

I agree. Logic says that non-stick pans use a lining that things don't
stick to. In which case, the thing you want is the lining absolutely clean
without any sort of covering. Seasoning a non-stick pan will just add a
layer on top of the lining and food can stick to that layer. I suggest what
happened with the onions may have been polymerisation - you formed a type
of plastic which was resistant to water and detergents and that's why you
couldn't remove it.

I remember causing offence on this group some time ago over this issue. I
said that IMO it was vital to keep non-stick pans "sparkling clean" and got
the response that her pans were always clean! I obviously didn't get the
message over. I am old enough to remember the time before non-stick pans
were widely available - cleaning frying pans was not an issue. "Wash a
frying pan?" It never happened; not in our house anyway; my mother just
added more fat when the existing fat dropped too low. Breakfast was fried,
often including fried bread which soaked up the fat, and as for health
issues, a much larger proportion of the population did active manual work;
and, I expect, they had heart attacks.

Anyway, back to the topic, when the first non-stick pans came out, the
suggestion was that you just had to wipe them out after use with a dry
tissue (or maybe newspaper at that time) and I'm sure many people did that;
IMV that would leave enough of a deposit to build up and kill the non-stick
property which might have been one of the reason why why the early ones
didn't last as non-stick.

Cheers
Jane.

I wash my non-stick pans thorughly with hot detergent and don't use them
for anything likely to polymerise, like the example given. They seem to
keep their non-stick.

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Jane Gillett : : Totnes, Devon.