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Default Frying pan bottoms

On 10/31/13 12:34 PM, Helpful person wrote:

>>>> Metal expands when heated. It will sort of push the sides out and
>>>> flatten. Some pans are designed that way to allow for the expansion.
>>>> A metallurgist can explain it better.

>>
>>> Rubbish.

>> You say rubbish, yet you offer no better explanation. What does that
>> make you? Explain or STFU

>
> A physicist. I cannot explain what you state without observation, but your
> explanation is incorrect.


OK. I have two pans, one Griswold cast iron and one All Clad, which have
warped -- viewed from the bottom, the cast iron is concave, and the All
Clad is convex. Both flatten out on the cooktop after about five minutes
of medium heat.

???

-- Larry