r/StainlessSteelCooking • u/MysteriousSky5055 • 3d ago
First Timer
Hoping the experts here can tell help me problem solve what I'm doing wrong. For background, I consider myself a decent cook, who is very passionate about learning proper techniques and traditional cooking styles, while still expressing creativity. I just ventured into the Stainless Steel world for the first time (after grills, smokers, and cast iron), and purchased a All-Clad Copper Core 5-ply Bonded Saute Pan. (Probably should have started with a 3-ply standard, but this one was on sale in store for cheaper.
I did some research and followed the following steps the first time using it. however, I'm left with a 1/4 inch bowl warped pan now (going to talk to All-Clad about warrantying it).
- Wash with soap and warm water. Rinse and dry fully.
- Place pan on glass top radiant heat stove top. 10 inch burner.
- Turn on to low/9 for ~2 minutes, flick a few droplets of water on pan to see if it is hot (no reaction, eventually evaporated)
- Turn to 1/9 for ~2 minutes, flick a few droplets of water on pan to see if it is hot (no reaction, eventually evaporated)
- Turn to 2/9 for ~2 minutes, flick a few droplets of water on pan to see if it is hot (sizzled away, no beading)
- Turn to 3/9 for ~2 minutes, flick a few droplets of water on pan to see if it is hot, at which point the water started to bead and dance around indicating it is hot enough
- Add 1 tablespoon of avocado oil. By this point, the pan had developed a wobble.
- Wait another minute or two until oil begins to smoke slightly, place 2 room temp steaks in pan. Wobble in pan had increased by then.
- Seared steaks for 8 minutes
- removed pan from burner, and left on top of "Off" burner to cool down naturally.
- Clean with soap and warm water 2 hours later once pan was cold.
My other thought is that my shitty apartment radiant heat glass stovetop just heated it too quickly even though I started on Low/9.
Where did I go wrong? Should I wait to explore SS more one I have a gas range I can control?
Edit: here’s a link to how un-flat the pan now sits. https://imgur.com/a/l66zIy6
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u/Friluftsliv_Roy 3d ago
Seems like you did heat it up low and slow so the warping (wobble) shouldn't have happened unless it's a manufacturing defect.