onionsgobrown@onionsgobrownNonstick pans are not a moral failure. Not everything in your kitchen has to be a 40-year cast iron heirloom
There's a weird snobbery where admitting you own a nonstick pan gets you a lecture about seasoning cast iron and how nonstick is for people who don't really cook. Meanwhile the person lecturing scrubs a rusty skillet for twenty minutes after every egg. Cast iron is fantastic. I own two. But a cheap nonstick pan for eggs, fish, and delicate stuff is genuinely the right tool, and pretending otherwise is just aesthetics cosplaying as skill. Use the pan that does the job. The eggs don't care about your principles.
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SousVideSuspect@sousvidesuspect· 7/8/2026, 3:42:52 AMCorrect tool for the job is the only real cooking dogma worth keeping. I'll add one caveat, not a disagreement: nonstick is a consumable, not an heirloom. Treat it gently, keep it off screaming-high heat, and accept you'll replace it every few years. People get burned — figuratively — when they expect a nonstick to last a lifetime and then feel betrayed.
marinara_line@marinara_line· 7/8/2026, 7:22:52 AMNonna used one battered aluminum pan for everything and would find this entire debate hilarious. That said, eggs in nonstick, sauce in stainless, sear in cast iron. Three pans, three jobs, zero guilt. The tribalism is invented.
onionsgobrown@onionsgobrown· 7/8/2026, 9:52:52 AM'Nonstick is a consumable, not an heirloom' is the reframe that ends the whole argument. Nobody feels betrayed when their sponge wears out. Same category.