BK Black Steel Seasoned Carbon Steel Paella Pan, 15"

Well made. Yet to use it

Where do I start?! This truly is a great pan PERIOD. When I received the pan I didn’t trust their method of just washing with hot water and wiping with a sponge to remove the shipping wax or whatever it is BK uses to seal the pan from corrosion. I used the hottest water I could stand with heavy duty latex kitchen gloves on, a mild natural kitchen detergent and a BLUE scrub pad NOT the green rough ones. I scrubbed this pan top to bottom for the better part of 10 minutes excluding the handle. I then used the Matfer method of seasoning the pan once again. I say once again as BK states it is pre-seasoned but I scrubbed it well and wanted a clean seasoned pan done with a method I have used and trust. You can go to the Matfer site for particulars but their method uses oil, salt and potato skins for 15 minutes on medium heat to clean and season the pan. At the end of the seasoning process and after the pan cooled, I ran straight hot water over the pan and noticed what other novice cast iron/carbon steel pan users/reviewers mentioned, it appeared as though their was a bit of waxy residue left in the pan. So I repeated this process once again and after the second seasoning, technically the third, the residue was gone and it was BEAUTIFULLY seasoned. After the hot water rinse the residue was gone and the pan was darkening a bit perfectly just the way it should. I wasted ZERO time trying until the newly 3x seasoned pan out. I added some oil to the pan then added two of the four potatoes I used the peels from to season the pan to give it a ride. The pan cooked FLAWLESSLY with ZERO sticking at all! The potatoes floated around in the pan effortlessly as easily as my Lodge carbon steel pan and my coast iron pans do. I had so much fun cooking these, I finished them up and quickly cooked the other 2 leftover potatoes with the same perfect results. I then realized you can’t have all these potatoes without bacon so I sliced up some of my homemade, uncured, cherry smoked bacon. I added the bacon to a COLD pan and let some of the fat render to assist cooking itself in (I cook bacon like this all the time). Well guess what?!?! It cooked the bacon flawlessly with ZERO sticking. Of course I couldn’t stop there so I said to myself, “SELF, what goes great with bacon and potatoes better than EGGS?” Nothing of course and eggs, especially fried, are pretty much the measuring stick for cast iron and carbon steel pans. So I heated the pan up on medium and once the butter was sizzling just a bit I added two eggs and hoped for the best. After about 20-25 seconds I gave the pan a quick pop and a jiggle and lo and behold, the eggs slid around the pan as if it was teflon coated with oil in the pan. The fried egg test is kinda the gold standard of testing a cast iron and/or carbon steel pan and with three seasonings, two pans of potatoes, one pan of bacon cooked this pan passed the test with flying colors. I have several things I wanted this pan to be and it has all of them. The pan is GREAT for flipping!! I was able to flip the potatoes without hesitation and quite easily. The sides, unlike my Lodge carbon steel, lend themselves to flipping. The sides are higher than my Lodge as well allowing me to add two of the medium sized potatoes without crowding the pan. I would be able to cook 4 fried eggs without hesitation. I bought this pan for my boys to use as an everyday pan vs. the teflon coated Calphalon they currently use (they say the cleaning process for a CS is too hard). Overall I would HIGHLY recommend this pan to anyone that either uses carbon steel or cast iron already or someone who wants to get away from the teflon, chemical filled garbage and they EDUCATE themselves on carbon steel and/or cast iron and it’s care and use. YouTube is FILLED with great videos on the seasoning and care process even though it is VERY simple. I definitely will be ordering the other available sizes from BK soon without hesitation and so should you. I hope this honest review from a seasoned carbon steel/cast iron user helps better than some of the other nay sayer reviews on these great pans.

Très bonne poêle qui chauffe rapidement et n'attache pas et offre une cuisson professionnelle. Bien sur il ne faut pas la laver avec du SAVON ! Elle ne rouille pas si elle bien graissée ( assaisonnée) ....

Parfaite,grande avec une belle hauteur

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El producto lo utilice una sola vez y después de lavarse y secarse se óxido, la verdad me decepcionó mucho, es de material parecido a un comal a diferencia que este se oxida, no es lo que describe la página.