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Janet

In article >, says...
>
> On 2019-01-09 4:04 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 7:53:53 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 7:46:46 AM UTC-10, graham wrote:
> >>> On 2019-01-08 10:27 a.m., Nancy Young wrote:
> >>>> On 1/8/2019 11:50 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Notbob, there is another way to clean the polished stainless steel,
> >>>>> like the All-Clad frypan
> >>>>> my DIL was going to throw out because she let a silicone scraper melt
> >>>>> in the bottom.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I went out to the Harley-Davidson dealer and got a small supply of a
> >>>>> product that will take
> >>>>> melted rubber or a synthetic rubber-like substance off an exhaust pipe
> >>>>> (like if a rubber protective
> >>>>> pad from a cycle suit got up against a hot exhaust pipe).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It took a lot of elbow grease, but the scraper residue all came off.
> >>>>> And the finish looked like new,
> >>>>> and the pan is still as non-stick as it was originally.* Ta-dah!
> >>>>> Magic!* ;-))
> >>>>
> >>>> An All Clad pan is worth fighting for.
> >>>
> >>> Certainly true as All Clad is still being made in the US and not China!
> >>> All of my pans were made in Denmark, France or Italy. It's difficult to
> >>> find good bakeware these days that's not made in China but I have some
> >>> Chicago Metallic that is of superb quality.
> >>
> >> I'm not into brands but will look for beautiful design and execution and appropriate construction. My brother asked me if I wanted some of his pans. I chose a beautiful stainless steel saucepan with a lid. It's well made with a flared rim rather than a rolled one and has a solid steel slug bonded somehow to the bottom. I wanted to make some sauce last night and when I turned the heat on, I got a big fat zero. My induction range sensed that pan as not existing. That's
the breaks.

> >
> > Probably a big aluminum slug bonded to the bottom, then. Maybe with a
> > little stainless on the outside for appearance.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> There's "stainless" and "stainless". If a magnet will stick to it, then
> induction will work. My older S/S pots wouldn't work with induction
> whereas my newer ones will and have a symbol stamped on the base.

My ss pans have a copper base.

Janet UK