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Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Cast iron? My eggs slide around great every time, and I scrub it with Dawn and a sponge after every cook (it is a myth that you cannot do this)

I’ve never seen eggs not stick to cast iron.

Same here. Judging from other answers, I wonder if it is because we are not dropping them into hot oil?

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Just cook with stainless steel, it's not that hard. Add and warm fat before adding your other ingredients to prevent sticking or if you don't want additional fat, then add liquid to reduce at the end (the same way you do a wine reduction you can just use a bit of water) if your food sticks and you need to scrape it off the bottom.

This - its super easy. I use an IR temp gun and once the pan is 170, add 1 tbsp. of butter, and it never sticks. I've showed friends and they still insist on their nasty Teflon/non-stick crap.

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That's not the kind of spatula they're talking about, I've rarely seen that kind be black. I'm pretty sure they mean the flat offset kind you'd use to flip eggs or pancakes.

Indeed. Look here instead, perhaps: https://www.seriouseats.com/best-nonstick-silicone-spatulas-... But if you’re cooking on a pan that tolerates stainless steel, this one and its smaller cousin are excellent: https://www.oxo.com/large-stainless-steel-flexible-turner.ht...

I was a professional cook for a long time so dexter 6.5 fish spat 4 lyfe.

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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https://www.target.com/p/oxo-silicone-spatula/-/A-80221533 Here you go. Replace it with this one.

That's not the kind of spatula they're talking about, I've rarely seen that kind be black. I'm pretty sure they mean the flat offset kind you'd use to flip eggs or pancakes.

OXO makes a flat silicone spatula too (I think they call it a turner or something), I've got one and it's been a great upgrade from the black plastic kind.

Plus it won't scratch anything enameled or nonstick etc.

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Cast iron? My eggs slide around great every time, and I scrub it with Dawn and a sponge after every cook (it is a myth that you cannot do this)

I’ve never seen eggs not stick to cast iron.

Let the eggs develop a crust on the bottom before doing anything with them.

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Anyone know if I should ditch this thing before thanksgiving? Oxo makes great stuff, this is food grade plastic but who knows what that’ll really mean in 50 years… https://a.co/d/3IND56X

ALL my black plastic utensils are OXO and I'll be damned if I'm throwing them all out. They'll have to pry them from my room temperature dead carcinogenic fingers.

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I threw out all my pots and pans that have non stick surfaces and replaced them with stainless steel.

Same with most kitchen cooking implements.

Stainless steel pots and pans are much cheaper, last longer, you can scrub and scrape them and the big upside is you don’t have to consume DuPont non stick chemical coating nor feed it to your children.

Despite all the celebrity chefs in the world attempting to sell you their name brand chemical coated fry pans.

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Why would GP suggest that spatula if it was the one they're saying is bad in the article?

in english in america, can't speak for other lanuguage/locales and too lazy to look, the word spatula is used for two different tools: one tool is for scraping food (generally solid) inside a hot frying pan the other tool is for scraping foods (generally liquidy generally cold) from the sides of a bowl or other container. in the first case you want to flip your pancake and it's sticking to the pan in the second case…

We have the same word for both in France, like you.

However we have an extra word for the silcon one to get all the pancake batter: marise. It is not used very much, though, outside of some cooking books or shows.

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