After a couple of month with this DeBuyer, I can sympathise with Pjs experience. It's just not been as non stick as the Cast - which is about as non stick as a non Teflon pan gets. I chucked the cast in the BBQ with the hood down and it went black and has been brilliant since. Eggs slide around, cleans easy as etc. Nothing better for steaks, snags, chicken too. All for $15. Everyone should have one at that price.
But I've had sticky spots on the DB. The seasoning on the bottom just wouldn't take very well. Always plenty of patina on there, but even the odd snag would...snag and eggs were hit and miss. Every use, I saw flecks of black in the pan - the seasoning just wouldn't harden. Then I realised, unlike Prof. Vollrath, I don't have commercial grade stovetop. The pan just couldn't get hot enough to fuse the oil. So I threw caution to the wind, rubbed on some canola and shoved in the BBQ on full bore. That blacked it. It improved, but not long after this I threw a tomato sauce over some meatballs and realised I made the basic error of throwing an acidic sauce in a seasoned pan. That fucked the bottom again, with metal showing through. So into the BBQ again. Blacker than before. Hopefully this will sort it. If not, it's still passably NS. It's just that the cast is better.
But I've had sticky spots on the DB. The seasoning on the bottom just wouldn't take very well. Always plenty of patina on there, but even the odd snag would...snag and eggs were hit and miss. Every use, I saw flecks of black in the pan - the seasoning just wouldn't harden. Then I realised, unlike Prof. Vollrath, I don't have commercial grade stovetop. The pan just couldn't get hot enough to fuse the oil. So I threw caution to the wind, rubbed on some canola and shoved in the BBQ on full bore. That blacked it. It improved, but not long after this I threw a tomato sauce over some meatballs and realised I made the basic error of throwing an acidic sauce in a seasoned pan. That fucked the bottom again, with metal showing through. So into the BBQ again. Blacker than before. Hopefully this will sort it. If not, it's still passably NS. It's just that the cast is better.
