🚀 go-pugleaf

On 30 Oct 1996 06:00:45 GMT,
jmiller@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () wrote:

>Buy a good quality non-stick pan, never use metal utensils, and
>the pan will last for many years of daily use.

In general this is true, but the operative phrase is "good
quality".  Coating a pan with teflon is just not especially 
good technology, no matter who does it.  I _never_ used 
any metal implement on my Joyce Chen-brand pan and 
the teflon still peeled right off within a few weeks of use.
That was the last teflonned pan i've ever bought, because
it wasn't the first with which i had that experience.

I'm currently using the Millenium brand, and although one
of the early-made ones is a bit scratched up from heavy use,
and tiny patches of the coating have actually popped off, it's 
still fully non-stick.  Supposedly metal utensils can be used,
but i decided not to push my luck and haven't used anything
but wood and nylon.  I'm quite happy with them so far--the
only thing i dislike is that they keep certain stains--but
it's only been a few years of the twenty they're guaranteed
so it'll be interesting to see how they hold up in the long 
term.
						=margaret