Jane Gillett wrote:

> Anyway, back to the topic, when the first non-stick pans came out, the
> suggestion was that you just had to wipe them out after use with a dry
> tissue (or maybe newspaper at that time) and I'm sure many people did
> that; IMV that would leave enough of a deposit to build up and kill
> the non-stick property which might have been one of the reason why
> why the early ones didn't last as non-stick.

In my experience with early non-stick pans is they didn't stay
that way very long because the coating would peel off if you
looked at it wrong. I stayed away from them for a long time
because of that.

> I wash my non-stick pans thorughly with hot detergent and don't use
> them for anything likely to polymerise, like the example given. They
> seem to keep their non-stick.

I need to replace one of my skillets (I have no interest in non-stick
pots) because someone burned sugar in it and it's never been the
same. Bad use of a non-stick pan.

nancy