- Hi, I'm Parris and I saw a late night TV
commercial for the Gotham Steel Pan.
They were cooking everything is this,
they were even burning things in it
and it just wiped clean.
So, out in the kitchen I've got some eggs,
I've got some meat,
I've got some peppermints with the wrappers on.
Let's see what happens.
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This is the As Seen On TV Gotham Steel Pan.
No oil or butter needed to cook.
You can use a mixer, you can use a spoon, a fork.
You can't easily scratch it they say.
Nine and a half inches diameter.
I picked this up for just over $20 at our local Fry's,
I'll put a link to it right down below this video.
Now, it is lightweight and they say it's made of a
combination of titanium and ceramic.
They even have a special name for it "Ti-Cerama,"
which is trademarked,
but I don't see any mention in there of a patent.
This seems to be a reasonably sturdy $20 fry pan,
but they claim you can actually use it in the oven as well,
up to 500 degrees, make lots of claims for this.
Now my professional cooking experience is limited to
a few months at a Wendy's restaurant in the early 1980s.
So, I think I can still cook a pretty mean hamburger
but for the rest of it, I'll just have to wing it.
On the back of the inset, there's some information here
that says you can use oil or butter
but do not use cooking sprays.
Hmmm, I don't know why.
Also it says, it's dishwasher safe,
which is pretty cool for a fry pan.
Over here is the warranty, if it's ever
found to be defective and not working correctly
you can send it back to them for a repair or replacement.
Keep in mind this is a $20 pan, if you send it to them
you need to send them $9.95
to cover shipping and handling,
plus you have to pay to send the pan to them.
This is a $20 pan, I think most people
would just buy a new one.
Here you can see that the surface of the pan is pretty
reflective, as I remember regular ceramic isn't reflective
unless it has a glazed finish on it.
So is it possible there's a glazed finish over the ceramic
and that's what actually provides that non-stick feature?
Well, enough talk.
Time to go burn some food, that's something I can do.
Here we are in the kitchen.
Let's get this fire going.
Okay, I have decided to let the pan
warm up with no oil and no butter.
And grab an egg, break it right into it.
Try to scramble it using a fork directly in here,
and see what happens.
It's been about a minute, should be plenty warm.
I did wipe out the pan with a wet paper towel,
that was it, just in case there was some residue in there.
Time to break this egg, and let's see what happens.
(cracking)
(sizzling) (scrapping)
I don't like using metal utensils in a pan,
it just feels wrong.
Not quite scramblin' how I would expect.
Temperatures probably a little high.
Okay, on a medium heat.
I'm surprised it's sticking worse
than this, honestly.
It's not quite like I can grab the handle and slide it,
well it actually kinda is.
Okay, that's actually pretty good.
I think my scrambled egg, turned omelet, is ready.
Special treat for Pierre right here, our dog.
It's not like I made this for Uncle Pierre.
Wow.
Kind of impressed there.
The heat's been off for a couple minutes now
and I want to mention picking this up.
If I grab it by the end of the handle here, no problem.
It just starts to get warm about where my thumb is,
but go much past that and try to grab it
and it is really hot.
Pan is now cool to the touch, took about 10 minutes or so.
I'm going to see if I can wipe this out with
just a plain, dry paper towel, without even getting it wet.
(pan rattling)
Well, I mean it's just going around in circles
'cause the paper towel wasn't wet (laughing)
so the stuff isn't coming out,
but I think it's all come loose without any scrubbing.
I mean, I need to get a wet paper towel
to pick up all these pieces,
but they're just going around in circles here.
Let's see if there any scratches though, to the surface.
I see a little residue from the egg on there
but I do not see a single scratch.
The Gotham Steel Fry Pan is back to room temperature here
and I've got the chicken for the oven test.
Going to take this chicken that still has skin on it.
Toss it in here with no oil, no butter, nothing.
Now, there's only one substance known to man
that you can put chicken in and it will not stick,
and it is this Reynolds Wrap Non-Stick foil.
It's amazing, you just line a dish with this
and none of the chicken, or even
the chicken skin will stick, it's amazing stuff.
Can this be equally amazing?
I'm not going to test out the limits of the pan
by putting it up to 500 degrees.
I've got the oven set for 360.
Normally I will cook in a larger pan.
These pieces of, hmmm, am I getting too much in there?
Ahhh, whatever.
(laughing) Gonna cook this for one hour at 360 degrees,
and see if it slides right out.
Forgot to mention, we always cover the chicken with
a piece of regular aluminum foil.
Keep all that moisture in there.
I expect some skin may peel off with the aluminum.
Yeah, that usually happens.
But what's going on in here?
Oh my goodness.
Wow.
Nothing stuck at all.
It just became chicken soup, mmmm, that could be delicious.
Nothing here.
No residue, no skin sticking.
Well you can't beat that.
Second substance known to man
to which chicken does not stick.
I cleaned out the top layer of oil, now that there's
not so much left, I'll try to clean it out with this
paper towel, again dry paper towel.
It's congealing.
But really nothing's sticking,
wherever I wipe it's coming off.
I wiped it down a couple more times with dry paper towels.
Didn't have to scrub, and it's pretty much out of there,
maybe a little bit of oil residue,
but really, nothing stuck to this pan.
Final test is about to be under way.
I'm heating the pan up again.
I'll get it good and hot like I did with the eggs.
Then, just like in their commercial,
I'm gonna throw some peppermints,
in the wrappers, into this pan.
I used to have more of these (chuckling)
when I started this video, but I was hungry.
Anyhow, we will see if they will
not stick.
I can't believe that they won't stick
when we burn them into the pan.
But let's take a look.
I kinda hate to do this because I like this pan now.
Nothing's sticking to it.
But the test is throwing these in, with the wrapper,
and seeing if they will scoop right out
once they've burned and melted.
Ohh, I hope this doesn't set off the smoke detector.
(clinking)
Ooof, it's meltin' fast.
Just like int the TV commercial.
What about the peppermint?
I think it's supposed to turn into a black, goopy stuff.
Don't recommend you trying this in a pan at home,
but I do have to say there's a very pleasant
peppermint smell throughout the kitchen right now.
Ohh, nope, now it's starting to smell burnt.
(sizzling)
Yeah, oh, we're getting a big cloud of
smoke here over the stove.
I'm gonna turn this off.
And...
I think that ought to be good enough to test it
to see if that black stuff is gonna slide right out or not.
10 minutes later the pan has cooled down
and this is what we are left with.
Will this wipe out with just a dry paper towel?
I can't believe that it will.
Here goes.
Oh, (chuckling)
it's, it's not wiping'.
(metal clanking)
It feels like it's one whole thing that's hardened on to it.
I did notice it was pretty liquidy
right when it was still warm
and it might of come off at that point
but now that it's had a chance to dry
(Parris struggling)
Back to the metal utensils.
Oh boy is that on there good.
(scraping)
Wow, if I heat it up again it may liquefy and come off.
But this one, this one was a mess.
Decided to heat this back up, liquefy it,
and then see if maybe it will
come out with just a paper towel.
But of course the pan is very hot now,
so I'm wearing oven mitts.
Now let's see.
Wow, well that was all that was needed.
It got all the stuff.
So that's it so far for the Gotham Steel Non-Stick Fry Pan.
It passed all the tests.
I didn't think it was going to pass with the peppermints
but once they were heated back up they really did clean out
pretty well, I didn't do such a good job of cleaning out
every little bit that was left,
but the little black specks here
(scratching) just come out with a fingernail.
So if it went through the dishwasher
I think it would be pretty much just like new.
And that is the question, how well will it still have its
non-stick properties after going through
the dishwasher once, five times, ten times?
Cooking meal after meal?
Does this last?
Does this, whatever this finish is in this, wear off?
Only time will tell on that.
Remind me in a couple months
and I will update what's going on with this pan.
If it has a catastrophic failure,
I'll let you know in the meantime,
but if it just keeps chugging along
this might be our new favorite pan.
Again, the Gotham Steel Non-Stick Fry Pan
goes for around $20.
We have a link to it down below this video.
And there is a larger version of the Gotham Steel Pan,
this one's nine and a half inch diameter.
The bigger one, I think, is 11 inches,
which would be a nice size.
Goes for about $10 more,
and you can check for those links down below this video.
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