If Cool The Pan Be, A Lousy Breakfast For Thee
Defector | The last good website. [Unofficial]
March 10, 2026
Scrub kosher salt into the surface of your stainless steel pan, says Wirecutter, citing the French Culinary Institute: This is "a hack to create a slippery surface," by filling in all the little microscopic cracks and ridges in the surface of the pan, so that you can cook eggs in the pan and they will not stick.
> This method is truly a boon for frying and scrambling eggs, though mastering it requires a bit of patience. Nailing it took me three tries, but once I got it down, I was shocked by the results.
Three tries! To master the technique of buffing kosher salt onto a pan! So that you can cook some eggs! This is lunacy.
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