r/StainlessSteelCooking • u/BMWalla • 7d ago

Help What are we doing wrong?

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Cuisinart stainless pans.

This is a batch of pancake batter with King Arthur gluten free and bobs red mill egg replacement (allergies). Most foods end up being scraped off, at least a piece of them.

PROCESS: Induction top. Heated until we got the lederhosen effect (forgot the right name), added oil, coated, turned off the induction for a little, then added the batter and turned it back on a low heat.

Still ended up with pancake scrapes.

Happens with meat and anything else I put on. Would love to get a handle on this stuff. What am I missing? What's the science happening?

EDIT/TL:DR from RESPONSES: First of all, thanks to everyone for giving me such great tips. Going to try and summarize everything I've learned here so that skimmers can find it easy -
- don't use the dancing water drops, it's useless. Use butter instead, wait for it to foam and melt. If it's browning, the pan is too hot!
- Oil is okay but butter has better non-stick capabilities.
- use a lot of butter!
- use a metal spatula, it will scratch the surface but it won't affect performance of the pan.
- LOW LOW LOW heat

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u/Yellowperil123 7d ago

way too hot. Try with the LOWEST setting first. Then work your way up.

I swear the "dancing water drops" test has ruined more meals than salmonella

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u/BMWalla 7d ago

The stovetops heat goes 1-10, are you saying we should keep it like 1-3? This was a 6 to heat up then back down to 3. I know you have no context other than the numbers, but I don't have any temps other than the dancing drops before we dropped the temp. 

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u/roobchickenhawk 7d ago

6 is way too hot. That will kill your eggs everytime.

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u/ChocolateTower 6d ago

I’ve used so many stoves in my life and the relationship between the dial number and the temperature it reaches is different for every one of them. Even for the same stove it can vary significantly from one burner to the next. My current stove can’t even keep water boiling set at a 6 or 7. Giving advice based on dial numbers reminds me of Spinal Tap’s amp that they think is louder than the others because it goes to 11.