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Default Circulon pan help!

On Sep 10, 7:05*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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> > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:35:21 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:

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> >> Some years ago I was given a gift card for a store that I dislike. *They
> >> have a website online and I finally decided to order something there
> >> since I
> >> really don't like going in the store. *I don't know what it is about it
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> >> it makes me feel generally uneasy. *I think it is the lighting or
> >> something.
> >> It seems too dimly lit and dingy in there. *And I get annoyed when I see
> >> their high prices for things that I can get for much less elsewhere.

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> >> This store had a Circulon very large sauté pan on clearance. *I can't
> >> remember the price now but I think it was around $70. *I wouldn't
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> >> pay that much for a pan but I just wanted to use up the gift certificate.
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> >> think it might be a non-stick pan although it isn't a Teflon type
> >> coating.

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> >> Turns out that it was my favorite pan ever! *Was. *Then something
> >> happened
> >> to it. *I'm not sure when it happened. *Used to be that I could cook
> >> anything and everything in it and it was fine. *Then all of a sudden,
> >> eggs
> >> would weld themselves to the pan. *And now really anything and everything
> >> I
> >> cook is sticking. *And very badly. *I just did some chicken in the pan.
> >> Also did a couple of pieces in the new Orgreenic pan which is really too
> >> small to do more than *one whole breast.

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> >> The Orgreenic pan seemed to get a lot hotter a lot quicker. *It came out
> >> perfectly. *The chicken in my Circulon pan not only stuck very badly but
> >> burned. *I used a garlic and herb marinade on it.

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> >> The problem now is that I feel that the pan is not coming fully clean
> >> when
> >> try to clean it. *I have had to resort to using a wire brush which I am
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> >> has probably destroyed whatever of the non-stick coating was there. *I
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> >> scrubbing and scrubbing and black bits keep coming off. *I am pretty sure
> >> that the black bits are stuck on food. *I can't get the surface to get
> >> smooth like it one was.

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> >> So where did I go wrong?

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> > Cleaning a non stick pan with a wire brush - that's the coating coming
> > off, not the food. *And not knowing how to cook if you're burning
> > chicken in a pan in the first place.

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> Yes but I only resorted to a wire brush when it wouldn't come off otherwise.
> I was trying to find out what might have caused the food to stick to begin
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> I have since ordered two pans. *They cost less than I thought they would.
> The chef's and the saute from Overstock.com. *They may not match. *I don't
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> > But you already knew that. *You just wanted us to tell you that.
> > Nothing more to see here.

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> Well no. *I still would like some ideas as to what might have caused the
> food to stick to begin with. *I have only ever had that happen waaaay back
> when I bought cheap non-stick skillets. *They never worked very well.


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