Carbon steel pans. You season and treat them like cast iron, but they develop a beautiful, smooth, non stick surface. I just made two over easy eggs in mine. They’re basically all I use anymore - no PFOx, no muss.

I thought I bought two from a French company that started with an ‘M’ but I can’t figure out which brand 😂

Bonus because any metal ions that do leach into the food are Iron which your body needs anyway.

Sounds like you're on the right path, and I know you didn't ask, but just wanted to chime in. I love cooking, and have both stainless and cast iron skillets. The circlejerk for cast iron is strong, but I have to say, it's genuinely the best available non-stick pan once it's seasoned properly. I can make a perfect omelette, sear scallops, steaks, sautee vegetables, & use it as a pan for oven roasting chickens and roasts. I use it for bread baking as well. They're cheap (compared to clad cookware) and I'm not sure I could damage my pan even if I wanted to. They're extremely sturdy, and hold heat very well. I clean mine with cold water and a stiff bristle brush, dry, lightly oil (when it looks like it needs it) & it's ready to go.

Down side to cast iron pans is that they need some care in the initial seasoning stages, and it stinks up the house when you season them (do it outside on the bbq if you have one!). It's a bit messy to keep them oiled. They're heavy and not ergonomic. Can't use them to simmer acidic sauces because that actually will soften and strip the seasoning, so I use my stainless for that. Get one, season it correctly, and you'll never look back.

Yeah I just kinda accept that even a really good a non stick is gonna eat it after a while but I've found with proper care they'll last a long time. That means no metal cooking tools and I even avoid really hard plastics. Definitely never use the dish washer and will opt for a long soak type of clean where I don't have to do any abrasive scrubbing. And then also just not cranking the heat ultra high. Someone else in this thread mentioned the thermal expansion thing and I really think that's true.

We use Fika pans at home and I believe they are ceramic. Will that wear off too? We've been using them for almost a year now and they have been great. It's a low bar though because prior to that we've always used cheap non-stick pans. lol

someone got me a pan called blue diamond or something from Walmart its an "as seen on TV" item but it truly necee sticks and id quite durable

When I saw gallon of PCP, I hoped it was what I thought, and I was pleasantly surprised.

That gallon of PCP lasted at least the rest of Candace's life

How is your experience with the framework? I've been eyeing it as my next upgrade but it is a bit pricy so I'm saving up for it at the moment.

Easy there Grim. Not all of us have that much reaping to do, of any variety, unless it's enough to require a combine harvester or maybe a sniper rifle if you're a soldier.

I've been reading posts like this and this is the first time I've seen scythe. Aside from collecting people's souls, are there any practical uses for them in an urban setting?

Bonus points if you budget a little extra and make friends with a local upholster. They can work magic in turning that solid, but ugly, chair from something your grandma would have to something you might find in a design magazine.

Hard to beat real wood - just as long as you take care of it.

Just bought a Vitamix after my ninja food processor bowl essentially fell apart. The 900 Canadian dollars hurt but I know with a 10 year warranty I feel confident in it lasting.

Big change in my mindset from 10 years ago. Give me the quality shit every time now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm5IzzGPzQA

someone else mentioned carbon fiber bikes, I thought I've read they can break - obviously in your case it held up a while, I think steel is most durable though

another commenter ITT (edit: in other thread) raised concern with carbon as well. I think it's mostly like when it gets damaged, it can't be repaired as much, whereas with steel it can just be bent back or rewelded?

heard good things about red wing I think for boots, might get a pair myself eventually

I'm assuming you mean the Weekenders. Those are great boots, I own a pair myself. I really like that they have more of a wedge sole than an actual heel. For some reason I just don't like how I look in heeled boots.

hey community linker bot, not sure if a human will get this but this may be an upstream problem with the lemmy code itself, as when I typed "!" + the community, it autocompleted mostly to the link that I used (or for any humans reading)