THE VIDEO SHELF · pan heating technique
How to Properly Heat a Pan
A two-minute Rouxbe cooking-school demo of how to heat a pan properly before cooking. It uses the Leidenfrost effect, where water beads and skates across a hot pan, to show when a stainless steel pan is ready.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people cite it as a practical test for pan temperature and as the way to get a stainless steel pan relatively non-stick.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Rouxbe
- Topic
- pan heating technique
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Leidenfrost effect is how you test if your stainless steel skillet is at the right temperature for cooking. If you are into cooking, I must insist you check this out - [VIDEO]
abcd_f on Hacker News · 2014-03
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