A fry­ing pan is one of the main ele­ments of kitchen equip­ment. Regard­less of your culi­nary skill lev­el, her pres­ence is invalu­able. Almost any­thing can be cooked in a fry­ing pan, so choose a fry­ing pan that lasts a long time. What do you need to pay atten­tion to?

Choose the right model

If your kitchen lacks a fry­ing pan and you start look­ing for your ide­al, first think about what exact­ly you are look­ing for. The stores offer many types that dif­fer from each oth­er in size, coat­ing and the lev­el of dif­fi­cul­ty in main­tain­ing the pan. For you to be sat­is­fied with your pur­chase, the fry­ing pan must match your needs, lifestyle and culi­nary pref­er­ences. Some­times it is worth choos­ing sev­er­al mod­els that will last for many years and become excel­lent com­pan­ions in every­day cook­ing.

Before you buy a fry­ing pan, think about what you usu­al­ly use the fry­ing pan for and what foods you process in it. If fry­ing only an egg for break­fast, bacon or sausages in a small amount, choose a small fry­ing pan with a small diam­e­ter. It cleans up faster and takes up lit­tle space. In addi­tion, such a pan heats up faster, so in a few min­utes it will be ready for use. If you’re a fan of sauces and stews, a taller sided pan will be more use­ful in which you can cook your favorite dish­es. Fans of pan­cakes, omelettes and flat­breads will find the larg­er mod­el with low­er walls eas­i­er to maneu­ver and con­trol fried foods. If you need a stan­dard fry­ing pan suit­able for dif­fer­ent activ­i­ties, choose a uni­ver­sal one with a diam­e­ter of 26 cen­time­ters.

Which cover to choose

The most pop­u­lar pan coat­ings are ceram­ic, teflon, and enam­el. You can also opt for steel or gran­ite pans, but these come with a high­er price and weight than the pre­vi­ous­ly men­tioned ones, which can make cook­ing dif­fi­cult for some peo­ple. Both ceram­ic, Teflon, and enam­el pans have advan­tages that you should be aware of before choos­ing one.

Teflon coated pan

The Teflon coat­ed pan is very easy to clean and heats up quick­ly. The added ben­e­fit is light­ness and a price that your wal­let will love. It is ide­al for quick food prepa­ra­tion as its light­ness makes it easy to maneu­ver. Such a fry­ing pan is adapt­ed to var­i­ous types of stoves, such as induc­tion, which are now being cho­sen more and more often. You do not need to pour a lot of fat into a Teflon pan — its sur­face prac­ti­cal­ly does not stick. The down­side to Teflon pans is that they are easy to scratch, so use sil­i­cone or wood­en spat­u­las and spoons when mix­ing or mov­ing foods in the pan.

Ceramic pan

A pan with this coat­ing is resis­tant to very high tem­per­a­tures and heats even­ly, so that the ingre­di­ents of the dish will be even­ly fried. This coat­ing is also more durable and, more­over, does not react with the food being cooked. Like the Teflon pan, it is afford­able and light­weight. Thanks to the uni­form and high tem­per­a­ture that can be achieved over the entire sur­face, you do not need to use a large amount of fat dur­ing fry­ing.

enamel pan

This type of cook­ware has been known from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion. Hav­ing decid­ed on this type, it is worth choos­ing a mod­el coat­ed with enam­el both inside and out. Such a fry­ing pan does not require impreg­na­tion and is resis­tant to rust. After pro­longed use, a pati­na appears on its sur­face — an addi­tion­al pro­tec­tive lay­er. A smooth enam­el pan is her­met­ic and hygien­ic, which is its undoubt­ed advan­tage. In addi­tion, this mod­el is resis­tant to abra­sion and cor­ro­sion and is very easy to main­tain.

Storing and washing dishes

It is equal­ly impor­tant to prop­er­ly store and clean the pan. The more we take care of it, the longer it will serve us. Don’t try to scrub the sur­face with a hard sponge or steel wool, as you can dam­age the del­i­cate sur­face, and the bet­ter the fin­ish, the bet­ter your food will cook. If you have a dish­wash­er at home, care­ful­ly check whether such dish­es can be washed in it. This is an impor­tant fac­tor that you should pay atten­tion to before buy­ing. Some items may be dam­aged dur­ing such wash­ing, which will short­en the time dur­ing which you will enjoy a new pur­chase.

Stor­ing the pan is just as impor­tant. Almost all of us keep a lot of items, pots and uten­sils nec­es­sary for cook­ing in our kitchen cab­i­nets. Putting a fry­ing pan blind­ly between them would def­i­nite­ly not do her any good. If you have sev­er­al pans, stock up on spe­cial felt tabs. Putting the dish­es on top of each oth­er with their use, you will make sure that there will be no scratch­es and chips on them.