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The pan is most likely made from cast iron . They are generally heavier than most other pans . They take an oil finish , meaning that one can bake or heat them slowly and then oil and season . I use garlic and olive oil in mine and never use soap on the pan as soap will remove the oil . A well seasoned pan is better than teflon , to me . One must be willing to keep the surface oiled or if you wash it , use water and ascrubbie . If you use soap , fine . Dry on the stove over a flame slowly and zap it with some oil and let cool - then wipe it out . Same process is involved with carbon steel knives , as least as far as finish goes . But carbon steel can just be wiped out after use . Well worth a try . if you find an old rusty one , BUY it . You can sand out the rust , wash well , oil and wahla !! I love making soup in my stock pot , but if I use tomatoes, do not leave sitting in the pot . Aproveche'

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/trade/chile.pdf I would avoid stuff like this . Chinese factory fisheries rape the seas and are beyond any laws . It is like eating rhino cheeks or tails - or any other rare animal from a place that is under great pressure from all sides . Perhaps the person in charge of buying the fish knows for sure it's source , but I would bet not . This is an excellent PDF on good afe choices. http://www.fishonline.org/information/MCSP..._Fish_Guide.pdf

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-Fact/5000/5353.html This link pretty basically covers it . I peel fruits that are non-organic and wash my hands after peeling a non-organic banana , etc. Viner or soap wahs removes alot though . I try to buy organic but have a hard time with the super cost of it . But since I have a 7 year old , I have to bother with alot of things , I normally would just blow off . The non-organic fruit producers, seeing how much $$ is going to organic farmers , push them to convert to less spray or to organic . The more $$ there is in organic , the more producers will lea towards that . So I use my $$ to sort of vote not so much for organic but for NOT polluting our fields and streams with poisons . We all know this is so and feel helpless to do anything about it . All the Round Up and pesticides and insecticides sprayed anywhere winds up in our water supply - and for that reason alone - one should use ones precious $$ to push for change in food supplies . It is the least I can do for my 7 year old who deserves clean water when she is an adult . It is hard for city people to conceive the amount of spraying and chemicals that go into food , but the good news is that the word os getting out there thru places like e-gullett !!

Poor Japanese translation - it is a 5-6 inch in between knife - not a paring knife and not a board chef's knife . see http://www.japaneseknifecompany.com/knives...ultry-knife.htm Very useful unit .