Seasoning Carbon Steel

[rotuts]

ive been doing that

 

w a glass cover , for the visuals of the action

 

for quite some time.

 

but I do it fond-less-ly

 

in this :

 

 

prices going way up I see !

 

BTW , 

 

 

 

[SLB]

I stopped using it for eggs, so I don't know.  I have been using it for meat, meat, and more meat.  

 

I'll do my eggs in it for the next few days, and report back.

[weinoo]

12 minutes ago, gfweb said:

I'll sometimes cover the pan and put a tbsp of water in to steam cook the eggs

 

Oh - you've been watching Jacques!

 

 

[SLB]

59 minutes ago, btbyrd said:

Looks like accumulated burnt on gunk. Scour the pan with kosher salt and a paper towel, rinse, and reseason.

I know; the thing is, tho -- the pan was brand-new at the time, hadn't accumulated anything.  I scoured and scoured, greased and regreased, and gave up using it for eggs.

 

Blanc Creatives asked me to send it back for them to inspect and try to figure it out; I never got around to sending it, tho.  Which is kinda dumb, and not really like me, I'm normally a religious returner.  

 

But it has been working beautifully for non-eggs, for real.     

[rotuts]

@SLB 

 

see if their send back offer still stands .

 

then do it.    

 

I wont tell you how I do eggs , 

 

 

but the eggs get done perfectly

 

Im a Sur-le-plat  person these days.

[btbyrd]

8 minutes ago, SLB said:

I know; the thing is, tho -- the pan was brand-new at the time, hadn't accumulated anything.  I scoured and scoured, greased and regreased, and gave up using it for eggs.

 

Blanc Creatives asked me to send it back for them to inspect and try to figure it out; I never got around to sending it, tho.  Which is kinda dumb, and not really like me, I'm normally a religious returner.  

 

But it has been working beautifully for non-eggs, for real.     

 

Weird. Strange forces are definitely afoot.

[Toliver]

2 hours ago, gfweb said:

 

I'll sometimes cover the pan and put a tbsp of water in to steam cook the eggs

That's exactly how my mom used to finish her fried eggs.

It gave her the "over easy" without the turning the egg over part. I think she kept breaking the yolk on the flip part and water/steam-in-a-covered-pan did the trick she was looking for. You're not steam cooking the eggs...just finishing the cooking of the yolk and any "jiggly" white parts.

[gilbertlevine]

Aka steam basted eggs as you would get in any breakfast place or diner

[gfweb]

4 hours ago, weinoo said:

 

Oh - you've been watching Jacques!

 

 

Actually, I am he

[rotuts]

@weinoo 

 

Oh Wow , Oh Wow , etc

 

to review :

 

Oh Wow , Oh Wow  etc

 

it the Great Master , the Very Great Master

 

JP !!!

 

using a Fond-Less-Pan ?

 

similar to what I do ,

 

not being any sort of Master 

 

My Self 

 

but I do have a similar cover

 

see though 

 

reviewing 

 

Only Once More :

 

Oh Wow  Oh Wow , etc

 

just won't review any more times

 

out of Sleep Respect

 

to the Master

 

JP

 

unless the Crowds Insist !!!!

 

as before

 

I wont sleep at all tonight

 

but will be smiling ,   

 

 

 

Edited October 8, 2020 by rotuts (log)

[weinoo]

1 hour ago, gilbertlevine said:

Aka steam basted eggs as you would get in any breakfast place or diner

 

Nope...

 

 

You're getting them sunny side up, over easy, or over hard. From the griddle. At any "breakfast place" or "diner" I know. Real ones.

 

1 hour ago, rotuts said:

using a Fond-Less-Pan ?

 

Why would you want a fond when you're making fried eggs?

[gilbertlevine]

Unless you order them basted!

[weinoo]

48 minutes ago, gilbertlevine said:

Unless you order them basted!

 

Lemme tell you something - I've been eating at "breakfast places" and real diners (sadly, very few left - the one above is in Worcester, MA, the home of the diner) for a long time.

 

At any single one of them, if you ordered your eggs steam basted, you'd get laughed at, have the crap beaten out of you, or been told to fuck off. Maybe all 3 at the same time.  All with a smile, of course.

[weinoo]

True story, slightly related to the diner and steam basting.

 

I was at Arturo's with a friend, and he wanted to see the pizza ovens. Which at Arturo's are generally fired up to like 900℉. So we'd finished dinner (delicious, by the way) and we walked into the back to the pizza ovens. Asking one of the pizzaiolos if we could have a look-see at the ovens, he first laughed, next asked me if I wanted to go in head first or feet first, and then told me to fuck off and go eat some steam basted eggs.

 

 

Arturo's. 

 

Edited October 8, 2020 by weinoo (log)

[gilbertlevine]

Maybe depends upon who’s doing the asking

[weinoo]

Just now, gilbertlevine said:

Maybe depends upon who’s doing the asking

 

Doubtful.  

 

On a need to know basis - name a place you've been to, asked for steam basted eggs, and got what you ordered.

[gilbertlevine]

Having worked in this industry for more than 40 years in both diner types and high end manhattan restaurants 

if the customer orders. Basted eggs that’s what they got

[weinoo]

2 hours ago, gilbertlevine said:

Having worked in this industry for more than 40 years in both diner types and high end manhattan restaurants 

if the customer orders. Basted eggs that’s what they got

You haven't answered my question. Where?

[weinoo]

Oh, I forgot.

 

I always go to high end manhattan (sic) restaurants for my diner style steam basted eggs, just so you know.

 

Name a diner. And a high end manhattan restaurant.

[kayb]

FWIW: I have been known to make steam basted eggs. But I generally lean toward high-temp fried (over easy) eggs, because I don't be liking egg white, and it is more palatable if it's crispy.

 

I have also  been known to cuss when I break a yolk flipping an egg. Which I do, sadly, more often than not. Which is why I don't fry eggs much. And why I keep my son-in-law (well, he's a good kid, and I keep him for other reasons), because, damn, that boy can fry an egg.

 

Carry on. I'm going to scramble eggs tomorrow, because I have fresh pear preserves, and they cry for scrambled eggs. And, thank you very much, while I want my fried eggs over easy, I want my scrambled eggs HARD. Go figger.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

5 hours ago, gilbertlevine said:

Unless you order them basted!

 

During the last century's New Jersey salmonella scare (it was more than a scare) we took two customers from Switzerland to breakfast at the Nassau Inn, a local hotel in business since 1769.  Fried eggs were illegal.  However the waitress informed that all the hotel's eggs were basted, and so were permitted to be served.

 

[weinoo]

So I gather people have made steam basted eggs at home.

 

And I gather some godforsaken hotel in Jersey in the 1800s 1900s was forced to serve allegedly steam basted eggs to George Washington and @JoNorvelleWalker et al.

 

But has anyone here ever actually ordered steam basted eggs for breakfast, at a place such as Denny's, IHOP, Bickford's, The Kiev, Odessa...

[gfweb]

43 minutes ago, weinoo said:

So I gather people have made steam basted eggs at home.

 

And I gather some godforsaken hotel in Jersey in the 1800s 1900s was forced to serve allegedly steam basted eggs to George Washington and @JoNorvelleWalker et al.

 

But has anyone here ever actually ordered steam basted eggs for breakfast, at a place such as Denny's, IHOP, Bickford's, The Kiev, Odessa...

 

I tried at the Iron Sheik Diner.

He told me to go fuck myself.

[weinoo]

24 minutes ago, gfweb said:

 

I tried at the Iron Sheik Diner.

He told me to go fuck myself.

 

The Iron Sheik told many people that!

Was he smiling?

[gfweb]

 

5 minutes ago, weinoo said:

 

The Iron Sheik told many people that!

Was he smiling?

When he called me a jabroney he was