Cheap uncoated aluminum baking pans have good thermal properties, but there are two problems I have with them:
1. They're abysmally hard to clean. It takes a scotch-brite pad or the like, and when you scour off the stains with that you're scouring off the whole top layer, aluminum, stains, and all. You might as well use a power-sander.
2. Aluminum is harmful if ingested, and ingestion is likely if you're producing lots of aluminum dust by cleaning it with a very abrasive pad. Getting it clean with anything less is impossible.
So.... I'm looking for a copper baking pan that's coated with teflon. It's obvously the best design, therefore it probably doesn't exist. Maybe I'll settle for a glass baking pan, because that's also extremely easy to clean although it has terrible thermal conductivity.
1. They're abysmally hard to clean. It takes a scotch-brite pad or the like, and when you scour off the stains with that you're scouring off the whole top layer, aluminum, stains, and all. You might as well use a power-sander.
2. Aluminum is harmful if ingested, and ingestion is likely if you're producing lots of aluminum dust by cleaning it with a very abrasive pad. Getting it clean with anything less is impossible.
So.... I'm looking for a copper baking pan that's coated with teflon. It's obvously the best design, therefore it probably doesn't exist. Maybe I'll settle for a glass baking pan, because that's also extremely easy to clean although it has terrible thermal conductivity.
have u looked into eating out?
This is the cooking channel, lol.
I have oatmeal for breakfast, and eat out for lunch, but cooking dinner saves money.
Eating a meal out: $7.40
1 month's supply of oatmeal: $6
25 pound bag of rice: $9
4 pounds of good frozen chicken: $10
Frozen pizza: $3
etc...
oatmeal + lunch out + dinner out = $450/month
oatmeal + lunch out + dinner at home = $300/month.
So every day I save $3 by doing like 15 minutes of cooking/dishcleaning at home.
Cooking chicken takes only a few seconds of actual work; the rest of the time is surfing the web on my computer while I wait. Cleanup is the real work. Hence, I want to get baking dishes that are ridiculously easy to clean like my teflon frying pans. Besides, there's nowhere close I could go if I get hungry at 5am.
You want no stick surfaces on real cookware not teflon???
Collect your kitchen's items with a view to keeping it forever-stainless and cast iron are healthier, and it's what folks who cook for a living use-
Learning to care for good cookware is simple, rewarding, and makes the chicks think you have a clue....
Damn, we got a generation of 20 and 30 somethings that don't have a clue....chicks can't even sew anymore, it's the end of the goddamn world-
For baking I've always been partial to glass, its hard to stain and can be cleaned with a plastic scourer. Anything stubborn just needs to soak for 30 minutes then it'll come off with ease.
EDIT: Seems I was beat to the punch on the Glass suggestion by a minute.
Choggie, try making an omlette without oil in anything but teflon. Good luck. Cast iron is easily corroded and you'd have to grease it up to prevent it from rusting, which is too much work.
you'd have to grease it up
Grrrease me up, woman!!
/groundskeeper_willy