Kitchen saucepans

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Robson Valley

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Assume that you need to cook food. Fire is your friend.
I can see fry-heating foods on sheets of slate stone at the fire's edge.
Not some roaring freakin' joke of a bonfire, a serious food fire.

Paleo practice to heat liquids is to pull cooking stones out of the fire and with tongs,
add them to a container of liquid. Repeat to heat to cook.
Haida bent wood boxes are often waterproof.
They don't leak so cooking in hot liquids ( water or oolican oil) is easy.

>The cedar boxes really have only one open corner which is stitched shut with spruce root fiber.
> The bottom sheet is so finely crafted into a kerf that any water swells the edge shut to be waterproof.
> The boxes are so useful that they are being made in this very day and time. BIG money.
> A single sheet of western red cedar , say, 16" x 96" x 2" for a box is easy to split out of a log.
> I can cut any of a dozen different patterns for corners. My steam bending skills are terrible.

Off we go into the world of clays and pottery. Got clay?
Not on the west coast here, geologically so young that there's little clay suitable for working.
In front of my house (glacial flood plain), there's clay about 2m down but it won't rope well at all so its pot-value is bad.
Look at the museum collections.
Get east of the Rockies and the proliferation of clay pottery is breath-taking.

What did paleo peoples in the UK do for pots? Have you lots of useful clays?
 

Keith_Beef

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Cool.

But to be frank, I think it is quite difficult to do. Not something you do in your garage or garden!
And the initial cost must be very high.
I think it can be done, using charcoal and a blower of some kind. Especially if you can dig out the clay and make your own refractory bricks. Plenty of videos on YouTube of people smelting iron from black sand (haematite) or other ores; melting down scrap iron should take even less time and energy. There's a good film made by RTÉ in the "Hands" series, about a family run iron foundry. A bigger scale operation, but I can imagine doing something smaller to cast just a few skillets and saucepans.
 

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Yes, I certainly have inspired debate....

Still dont know what pots are best. Im just cranky that I recylced my old ones...still, they were getting beat up.

These new are absolute pants.

Im not so houseproud to need copper..but I am tempted
 

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I'd love to know whether any of these bright ideas on making your own pans have been accomplished and produced a good enough product to use every day in a normal kitchen scenario. Making clay pots for use on an electric hob might just be a teeny bit problemanic don't we think.? Tengu I kinda want to agree with Robbie. Aldi and liddells do some great pan sets. Just buy the best you can afford and don't stress about it. Food taste the same made in a £10 set of pans as a £200 set. Go get some pans and cook up a storm !
 

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Just thought trago mills isn't too far from you they do a great selection of pans at discount prices. Fix a budget and have a day trip out there. Ask the assistant for their best pan set in your price range. I can heartily recommend stainless steel with copper base. I love mine to bits.
 
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Woody girl

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Do they still make the copper bottomed pans?
Have not seen a new one in ages!
( not looked closely, to be truthful)
Yes they are everywhere. Being a chappie I guess kitchen pans are not as high on your list as other things. Some things are boys toys..:emoji_football:. some things are girls toys.:emoji_stew:
 
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Robson Valley

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Lots and lots of guys are professional chefs, Woody girl.
Some of us guys get the priviledge of raising children, too.
I learned to buy it once and buy it for life.
Buy from open stock and always buy pots & pans that make the work a pleasure.
 

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I know RV . I was making a slightly jokey comment but I forgot to put a smiley face. There's not a lot of room on my phone screen to see the whole message sometimes! I love to see a man who can cook well and I'd never put a chap down who could put a plate of good food on the table and who insisted on washing up his favourite and precious pans..:)
 

Robson Valley

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That's OK. I get it now, I'm kinda slow. I needed to be quite good at it.
If I say that some dish is kid-tested and kid-approved, it most certainly is.
I was most fortunate to have two professional chefs to help me over the hard spots.
 
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Janne

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Yes they are everywhere. Being a chappie I guess kitchen pans are not as high on your list as other things. Some things are boys toys..:emoji_football:. some things are girls toys.:emoji_stew:
I am the ‘cook’ in our family, and son is also very interested.
I confess, I have not looked at replacing our pans, so do not know what is out there.
I use S/s mainly, have one large cast iron oval huge casserole, i do goose, ot two chicken/ duck in it. Made by Staub, so chraper than Creuset. Frying pans - three cast iron, one s/s Teflon, one Alu Teflon.

I really do not need any more here, but I think I will order a shallow pan and that copper fomed Tagine.

Do not make a misstake, I love guns, knives and cars too!
In both my parent’s families, the men cooked well. So it comes naturally.

Edit; Clay? Does the German clay pot qualify? Had one of those. Broke it.
Was it as fantastic as they say? No.

I love my Aluminium Trangia and Optimus outdoor pots. Light. Does not break.
 
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