Hi,
I have found my favourite kitchenware brand! I cant stop looking at it and
touching it 🙂
My first encounter with Scanpan was the Fusion CS5 series - Got a set of
two pots and a pan.
This copper/steel fusion is so beautiful! I was even more impressed with
the heat distribution! amazing how the top of the sides are burning so hot
that you can fry stuff there as well, even when I use a too small heating
sole for it. Pancakes, steaks and fried meatballs have never been so
pretty.
http://www.scanpan.dk/Produkter/Copper/Fusion%20CS5/Stegepander
There are some things to be aware of with this product. It is not
nonstick, so you are back to the old days of having to heat it up first,
put on food, and then wait for the surface of the food to be browned
before it releases from the pan. And there is no guarantee that it wont
warp (for nonwarp, you must get the other series). But even if it does,
the perfect heat distribution is still perfect, so it doesnt really matter.
And if you want the shiny look you have to polish it a lot. I decided not
to do that and it becomes matte brown on the outside, which is still good
looking after the entire surface has transformed. I use a steel polish on
the inside though. Watching butter melt on that shiny mirror surface is a
beautiful sight. I love it so much that I want to try the non-stick as
well, for those things that are difficult with do-stick pans.
I've become even more in love with the knives! They are really overlooked.
I see lots of web material on the non-stickpans, but nothing about those
beautiful knives!
I have the classic series, and I want to look at them first thing in the
morning, and they cut through everything like butter. My wooden carving
boards get ripped, and I get cut a handheld tomato into roast-beef thin
see-through slices. I am actually almost scared when using them. Certainly
makes Henckel (Have the Pollux series, not the high-end lines) and Global
knives look and feel cheap. The chefs knive weighs approx 11 oz! I still
have to get used to the dot from the rockwell tests when I admire the mere
beauty of these blades (downside of perfectionism, but then I just have to
remember that the dot is a sign of perfection in another way).
On the top of my list is the Damascus steel Santoku and filet knives.
They are folded 33 times, similar to the old samurai swords. I cant wait
to get my fingers on them!
http://www.scanpan.dk/Produkter/Knives_CuttingBoards/Damastahl%20knives/Japansk%20groentsagskniv
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