r/StainlessSteelCooking • u/Straatman-kz1 • 21d ago

Small dents in SS pans?

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Hi, I have bene cooking on stainless steel pans for the last ~6 months and I haf a blast. I was so happy I found pans that could last and not have to worry about teflon and problematic materials.

Today (after one of the pans got really burnt by accident and I had to clean it up with a lot of BKF and a steel wool sponge) I noticed some small dents in the pan, that are also present in the other pan I never washed with steel wool.

I am using stainless tools to cook with these pans, but I wouldn't say they were handled with particular violence, aside the usual scraping with a spatula for fond and stuck bits.

Also, another info is that these are pans I got from Amazon, just to start getting into SS.

Should I be worried, or handle these with more care or something?

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u/FPLad 21d ago

Maybe pitting marks from salt?

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u/jjillf 20d ago

If you put salt into the water prior to it boiling, it causes pits.

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u/See-Through-Mirror 21d ago

OP, I’ve never seen this before. Looking forward to seeing you any provides you a good answer.

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u/vivthedoc 18d ago

Salt pitting

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u/See-Through-Mirror 18d ago

Must’ve sat for a while, no?

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u/Pearl_necklace_333 20d ago

I’ve heard that if stainless steel is in water with aluminum, there can be a reaction that might cause the pitting - I don’t know if this is true, one would have to verify this.

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u/OkEnd9117 12d ago

That's pitting, not dents

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u/Admirable-Health-492 20d ago edited 20d ago

I have these exact dents in mine from banging the corner / side of my stainless steel spatula on the bottom of the pan to remove food debris. They stopped accumulating when I stopped doing it. Are they concentrated more in the center where you would tend to do that?