Non-stick cookware
De Buyer non-stick pans have been designed for a professional and intensive use. As a result, pan aluminium body is thick to face frequent uses. This great thickness also guarantees a homogeneous heat spreading for a uniform cooking, and screens the coating from the heating source. Consequently, the non-stick coating is less exposed to high temperatures and non-stick properties are optimal longer.
Non-stick utensils are intended to be used for delicate cooking at medium and low temperatures. They are perfect for reduction cooking and ideal to simmer, warm up, maintain warm, and readjust pre-cooked dishes.
Non-stick aluminium pans spread heat homogeneously and are designed to simmer, warm up and readjust pre-cooked dishes. As a consequence, cooking on high heat is useless. What is more, medium and low temperature cooking preserves the non-stick coating that deteriorates when it is exposed to high heat.
Heating up a non-stick pan while it is empty is highly inadvisable as it would damage the coating.
Cooking with or without fat depends on your liking. Non-stick properties of de Buyer coated pans are optimal and enable to cook delicate food easily without adding fat.
You can heat a non-stick pan in a traditional oven from 10 to 15 minutes maximum to warm up or to maintain warm.
Non-stick pans are not suitable for microwave ovens as they are made of aluminium.
After each use, soak your non-stick utensil to remove possible residues. Then, clean the pan with some washing up liquid and a soft sponge. Dry the utensil with a kitchen towel or let it dry on your kitchen sink.
Avoid abrasive sponges and washing powders as they may damage the coating.
We strongly advise you against cleaning non-stick pans in a dishwasher.
Fix or removable bakelite and silicone handles don’t heat up and remain cold. You can indeed use your utensils freely and safely, without getting burnt.
Iron and cast stainless steel handles heat during long cooking or when they are directly exposed to a heating source. As a result, it is necessary to handle the utensil with a protection such as handle gloves, gloves, kitchen towels or oven gloves.
Using metallic or sharp-edge utensils is highly inadvisable since they damage the non-stick coating. We recommend you to use rigid or flexible round-edge spatulas made of synthetic material.
Non-stick coating used to cover de Buyer pans is multi-layer or reinforced, that way resisting to frequent uses. As a consequence, under normal conditions of use, there is no reason why your pan should wear out ahead of time.
A non-stick coating is no longer efficient when food starts sticking to the pan during the cooking. In this case, it is necessary to renew your pan.
Non-stick coating used to cover de Buyer pans is multi-layer or reinforced, that way resisting to frequent uses. As a consequence, under normal conditions of use, there is no reason why your pan should wear out ahead of time.
A non-stick coating is no longer efficient when food starts sticking to the pan during the cooking. In this case, it is necessary to renew your pan.
To preserve the optimal non-stick properties of a coated pan, it is important:
- not to over-heat the utensils,
- not to heat them while they are empty,
- to avoid thermal shocks by increasing the heating power gradually,
- not to clean the utensils in the dishwasher or with an abrasive sponge.
Eventually, using metallic objects in a coated pan is highly inadvisable.