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Tips to make your pans last longer

Tips to make your pans last longer

Everyone loves good food. And almost everyone loves tips to make your kitchen utensils last a little longer. Curious how you can best maintain your stainless steel, Teflon and cast iron beauties? Please read on.

Whether you are a real kitchen princess or prefer to have something delivered five times a week:we all have pans at home. Then you better maintain them as well as possible. Fortunately, that is not so difficult.

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Everyone's friend. Almost impossible to break. Can go in the dishwasher. Or be scrubbed with a scouring pad. And leaving it alone for an evening (or night) after a dinner at your house is no problem, cleaning the next morning will make him just as happy. A stainless steel pan is your friend for life!

Teflon

Actually a brand name, once registered by a well-known pan maker. It concerns the non-stick coating, as you often encounter in frying pans, but also in frying pans. A pan made of or with this material needs just a little more attention. In any case, it is wise to avoid scratches (read:just turn your meat or pancake with a fork or knife), this affects the non-stick coating. Most of these pans can go in the dishwasher these days, but if you prefer to polish it by hand just to be safe, there's nothing wrong with that. Just do not use a scouring pad. Bonus tip:to get the pan super clean once in a while, you can heat a little bit of vinegar in the pan. Then it will shine like never before.

Cast iron

Just like his buddy RVS, a rock solid handsome. Cast iron pans can really last a lifetime. It is therefore not surprising that your grandmother also cooks with them, or that you sometimes spot the pans at a thrift store:almost indestructible. The cast iron pan is preferably washed by hand. And make sure you let the pan cool down a bit after cooking/roasting/baking, before rinsing it under cold or lukewarm water. He thrives on that. There are die-hards who grease their cast iron pans after washing them. Then you are very dedicated.

Pottery

Oven dishes for example. Can usually be washed in the dishwasher or by hand. So it's just what you like best. Letting it soak for a while isn't a problem either. Only point of attention:pottery is of course quite fragile. So with a little bump against the edge of the counter or put it hard in the oven, you'll soon have a break. Replace your casserole if that happens, no one wants bits of grit in their meal. Or a glowing meal that seeps out like a lava flow through the cracks off the saucer.