Tuesday, June 23, 2009

How to Clean Cooking Pans

By Glendalyn Shaburt

A new set of cooking pans is possibly some of the best culinary crafting in the world. Providing a home style taste and an easy way to craft masterpieces in your own home, this type of cooking pans are decidedly versatile, requiring a little time learn how to use.

Cooking pans need to be handled slightly different from most other cooking equipment. Your pans will need some important steps before you cook you first meal. This is called seasoning and it ensures that your pans will last a lifetime.

Straight Oiling. When you use this method, to prepare you cooking pans, you smother fat in the pan, and then slightly remove it. This should leave behind a thin layer of oil. You will then use then pan to prepare intensely greasy food the first couple of times that you use them. Bacon, Sausage, and other similar food works great. You should repeat this at least 5 to 7 times before you cook anything else.

After you have seasoned your new cooking pans, you can now cook basically anything you desire. Most cooks with use their cooking pans to do everything from frying chicken to corn bread and biscuits. You seasoned pans are ideal for stove-top cooking as well as baking.

Now that you have cooked your masterpiece its is time to clean up. You will find that the style for cleaning seasoned cooking pans a bit unusual, Instead of tossing it into the dishwasher or scraping it your, you must use a much more delicate approach, to ensure that you never lose the seasoning.

To clean your new cooking pans, it is recommended to use good amount boiling of water in the pan. Once you have boiled the water, remove it and wipe the pan out. It's that simple.

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