Seasoning a carbon steel pan with a potato?! #kitchenhacks #cooking

[FlufferNutterSandwich]

I don't see the potato method as seasoning so much as pulling toxic coatings off the pan initially. Mafter still recommends the potato method, but I don't know anyone who uses this method to regularly re-season any pan. Most French chefs I knew used just oil and salt on new pans, then just oil to re-season.

[KaKaRoT]

try using coconut oil it has a higher smoke temperature

[cd-zwtt]

potato would add carbohydrates to the oil coating, which would just burn and cause food sticking. the salt might make sense tho

[nickh]

The potato method is what matfer recommends, you cooked the sticky egg with no oil! The non stick egg had a lot of oil in the pan. Pretty shady

[randomx]

Salt first to remove anything stuck to the pan. Remove everything.
Then season with oil.
Idk what the potato is for but you don't need it.

[NeilFiertel]

All steel pans are carbon steel alloy... steel IS iron and small quantities of carbon in the alloy which might also have other metals but essentially a steel pan needs very high starting temp to prevent sticking an egg. The sizzle test with a drop of water dancing on the hot pan is a good suggestion. The only reason to use a steel pan really is to get the mallard reaction which cannot happen with Teflon garbage. I use now a granitestone pan and an eggs with oil/butter is perfection itself.. no seasoning..just making perfect eggs.

[phrx]

The potatos and salt is for taking the protive wax and coatings off when you freshly purchase the pan. Your pan was already seasoned 😂

[ksuen]

Your can frozen fries/chips, and pan fry them with corn oil/salt. Then you have a treat after seasoning

[DeadMan-cr]

Ill stick to baking my steel and iron, do them all in a big batch. You should try the potato method again but soak the potatoes to pull some starch, would be interesting to see if it changes the result.

[TheGroke-qkti]

I might be doing it wrong but i just do the same method as cast iron, in the oven

[BreadHarrity-wn]

Maybe they did it with a “gas burner medium high” which is way hotter than an electric medium high.

[BRAD]

It's your flat top stove combined with a slightly warped pan is your problem

[Dionisio]

Test the sticky egg test with butter AND you dont need to season Any carbón Steel pan

[seancoyote]

Carbon steel pans are not stainless steel pans. Lower temps work with carbon steel. That egg is being cooked way too high of a temp. A lower temp is ideal, unless you are trying for a fried egg, ie the only way you can really cook an egg without sticking on stainless.

[patrickcoyne]

no oil in the pan to cook that first egg. last egg has enough oil in it to bake brownies…

[googlespynetwork]

Thin layer of Sunflower oil. Wiped dry and throw in the oven for 1 hour at 500f. Repeat two or three times.

[pottsworth]

This isn’t an ATK technique, it’s Matfer’s recommended technique.

[Theultrabean]

4th And merry Christmas hope you guys have a great time

[mattd]

I don't understand people that come up with alternative methods when they're OBVIOUSLY not as straight forward, even if the result was the same.

[PlanetAlex]

I’ll have to try it but just to eat lol