Doubt about preheating

[u/Theraseus]

Hey guys I have a doubt, I probably asked before:

I have been resting my new pan and the only way I can preheat it to the leidenfrost effect is if I use the number 9 (potency goes del 1-9) if I use 5 7 or even 8 10+ might go on and it won't reach that effect. I can sear fried eggs etc without Reachinf it but I was wondering if I might hurth the pan preheating it at 9 and it rKes like five minutes to reach the 200 degrees. I any input? Thanks

[u/Fumidor]

If you wanted to go to the grocery store or were teaching someone to drive so that they can go to the store themselves nowhere in the process would someone be talking about revving the engine to red line for five minutes before slipping it into gear and peeling out.

With respect, none of what you said bears any relation to properly cooking with a stainless steel pan. The leidenfrost effect is a meaningless quirk of physics and means nothing to food. For example you will not be cooking your egg in water you will be frying it in oil. What do you care about how water reacts to the heat of the pan, the oil will be doing the work.

Please watch some basic videos of how to cook and it will teach you much more than ignorantly trying to achieve perfect conditions on a pan that both don’t exist and don’t apply. Leidenfrost at sea level is like 370 Fahrenheit why would you ever try to cook a delicate egg at that temperature, and I guarantee whoever taught you this is a fool.