Comments on: All hail All-Clad (and Macy’s) http://www.thispile.com/archives/all-hail-all-clad-and-macys One Woman, Many Piles, Much Grace. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leah http://www.thispile.com/archives/all-hail-all-clad-and-macys/comment-page-1#comment-28294 Leah Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:39:19 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/archives/all-hail-all-clad-and-macys#comment-28294 Non-stick = evil. Not only do they give off nasty chemicals, but they make it impossible to get real cooking results. I didn't realize the reason "deglaze the pan, scrapeing all the cooked brown bits into the mixture" sounded so weird to me is because I was using non-stick. Only with "real" pans can you make a good reduction sauce. My reduction sauce will make you weep and beg for more, baby. My newest can't-live-without is enamel-coated cast iron. Oh. My. Word. Now THAT is some cookware! Non-stick = evil. Not only do they give off nasty chemicals, but they make it impossible to get real cooking results. I didn’t realize the reason “deglaze the pan, scrapeing all the cooked brown bits into the mixture” sounded so weird to me is because I was using non-stick. Only with “real” pans can you make a good reduction sauce. My reduction sauce will make you weep and beg for more, baby.

My newest can’t-live-without is enamel-coated cast iron. Oh. My. Word. Now THAT is some cookware!

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