Do You Use Non Stick Pans Or Traditional Pans For Cooking?

During the early period of my married life, I used the ordinary frying pan to do my cooking. It never occurred to me that using a non stick pan would be very much convenient. After many years, I bought a non stick pan for the purpose of preparing pancakes. Before that I never made any pancakes because the process is so tedious and it always stick to the pan. Then I thought why not using the pan for other purposes such frying chicken, eggs, and making chili and everything. So I started using the non stick pan and I found it is very easy to cook. I can cook many types of pancakes, fry chicken and fish with very little oil and this is healthy indeed. I also grill fish and chicken using the non stick pan because it is a lot faster than using an oven. Moreover the price of non stick pan is very cheap nowadays. I can get a medium sized pan with only RM13. I think I am going to find a new pan which is smaller and lighter so that it makes my cooking job easier.

We use non-stick pans at home but the "non-stick" never seems to last for very long for some reason? We used the recommended sponges to clean them etc but after a few months they seem to end up having food stick to them. Maybe if we were to buy a more expensive brand of frypan things would improve but given our track record so far I am reluctant to fork out a higher amount of money for one.

i use a steel and non stick pans. But it depends on the food that i use to cook. it is more easier to a non stick if i cook fried food on it. and also non stick pan is very easy to clean.

Hi AKRao, my mum used to have the traditional pans, and I remembered that she had to scrape and scrub very hard once cooking is done. Nowadays we use non-stick pans; washing is very much easier.

I use non-stick pots, but for frying or cooking meat, I prefer my cast iron pan. I love my cast iron pan, it's about 50 or 60 years old. The non-stick ones are nice for clean up, but they don't last very long...only a couple of years.

I use both because sometimes you just have to have a non stick one for frying eggs. Other times the cast iron frying pan is the only one that would give the consistent heat and sturdiness for the amount of heat needed.