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Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose (www.worseonpurpose.com)
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Everything above reduces to four rules you can run in about two minutes, standing in the aisle:

  • Look up the owner, not the name. The name is the cheapest part of the company to preserve. If the ownership trail ends at a private equity firm or a licensing group, assume the product and the reputation are no longer aligned.
  • Read the warranty before the reviews. Its length is the company's own estimate of how long the product lasts, and its exclusions are a list of the ways they expect it to fail.
  • Buy bare metal where you can. Cast iron, carbon steel, plain stainless. No coating means nothing that dies at cycle 40 and nothing to rebuy in eighteen months.
  • Distrust a name that's on everything. When the same brand appears on your pan, your knives, your toaster, and a box fan, nobody who owns it makes anything.
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[–] its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cast iron is the way. Bread pans, grill pans, regular ole skillet. Seasoning is easy and it simply lasts with proper care and seasoning.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Carbon steel is also great.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Good for if you need something less heavy, but not as good at non stick as a smooth cast iron.

[–] myfavouritename@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

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