Carbon Steel

Hello, I have recently seasoned my CS pan using the stove top method with multiple layers, i did quite alot of them until the bottom of the pan became completly black, without any blotchy/sticky pa...

Context: have an electric ceramic stove top. Looking to buy a Carbon Steel (CS) wok, specifically the model linked below. I've gone down the rabbit hole of researching how to properly season a CS w...

I've postponed this post for a very long time in hopes that I would find the answer on the web. Much to my dismay, I must now seek this community's experience and advice. I have been considerin...

Hi Everyone, Yesterday I ordered this JB Prince 9.5" black steel pan, and I was wondering if anyone knows how it compares to the De Buyer line of carbon steel pans. http://www.jbprince.com/bl...

I want to buy a carbon steel crêpe pan. I was at a local kitchen supply store yesterday and they had two different de Buyer crêpe pans in stock. One was the Mineral B Element, 2.5 mm thick. The oth...

Pics here: http://imgur.com/a/Uy1le Found at a second hand store and wondering if anyone could help me date and/or price this piece. From what little I could find online about the hallmarks, I b...

Was just trying to figure out, what I would have to have to make everything perfectly, without having any extra cookware to store. Anybody know what a "bare bones' set would look like? I am mea...

Hi! I've just bought my first mauviel pans, and eagerly started to follow the instructions comming with the pan... i've put the pan in the oven over a cloth a a layer of baking paper at 200C. The...

Hello all, I have a cast iron wok. It is not a light Chinese model, but a huge, heavy flat-bottomed model. I chose it in the hopes that its heat-storing capacity would help compensate for the...

About a month ago I got a small carbon steel pan. I've been cooking eggs in the every day and occasionally have tried cooking things like scallops or a steak. I've tried seasoning it with the p...

I've been reading around a lot on Chowhound about how to season carbon steel (CS) frying pans as I recently got one from De Buyer's Carbone Plus line, but I suppose the same applies for users of ca...

I've been having a hard time finding a carbon steel wok, but I got one at a discount store the other day. It's the Joyce Chen flat bottomed one. (Yes I know it's not authentic or very good, but i...

So I just received a set of De Buyer Mineral frying pans in the mail today and set out to season them. I followed the instructions in the attached booklet: clean with hot water, heat a cm of oil f...

How does one store seasoned cookware like carbon steel frying pans, woks etc? I'm hesitant to put them in my cabinet as I think the oil in seasoning will ruin and make the interior of my wood ca...

by GlassOfCab 8 months ago

Does anyone put these pans in a hot oven and, if so, how hot, and was the did the coating on the handle survive unscathed? I called the manufacturer and they had no idea what temp levels the han...

by arielleeve 6 months ago

Need help! We bought this Joyce Chen wok recently. Did the whole intense scrubbing to get the factory oil off — boiled water in it, scrubbed with steel wool, heated until it turned blue, then silve...

Hello, I've been eyeing a Carbon Steel pan for a while, but in Romania they are quite hard to find, but what I was thinking of getting is a deBuyer 28cm Carbon or Mineral B one... altho I'm not sur...

I saw these a while ago and thought I would post a link to them.

I just got my first carbon steel wok and followed the instructions to remove the coating. I was able to get to the point where, once wiped, the napkin would turn out clean. I noticed, however, that...