| Geek's dream... First, instead of providing tools, one could help people to develop taste. Many accept overcooked chicken or fish because they just catch the spices flavours. They can't judge what a well cooked dish is. Dry chicken is an abomination... 2/ The thickness of a salmon filet is everything but regular. So cooking it correctly involves a bit more than temperature handling 3/ As said, you don't cook "a steak", you cook "this steak". That's the thing. Cooking a good steak involves so many thing : quality of the steak (forget about supermarket), quality and handling of the fat (Gordon Ramsay once made a very good explanation on how to use butter on youtube), make sure the steak rest enough time off the heat before serving, cook for steak's colour first (so it is beautiful) and then cook for bloody/well done/cooked. Cook long and not short. Don't use a fork to manipulate the steak. Don't turn the steak upside down to often. With an autoamted pan you may sure cook a steak but you won't know why you did it right... 4/ If your problem is overcooking or undercooking a steak, learn to touch the steak. Hard means overcooked, soft means undercooked. With a bit of practice you'll be able to make good steaks, not 3 star michelin ones, but good ones. 5/ For steaks (not fish) you can buy cast iron skillets. These are super cheap (15 euros here !)and they live forever. But you have to learn to master/clean/season them (that's your old grand ma stuff, but knowledge is lost so it's pretty hard) 6/ The salmon on the web site looks super over cooked to me (it s top side is super borw and just below it's all white) 7/ said before : a fryin pan that doesn't go to the oven is useless. Countless times where I fry a piece of meat and finishes it in the oven where I can get the temperature righ everywhere. 8/ will the pan stand the "deglaçage" ? That's when you throw a cold liquid in the pan to grab all the softly burned piece of meat/fat. that's super important to making sauces. 9/ Will it stand the dish washer ? 10/ Where's the fun ? I mean, if you buy this because you can't find the time necessary to learn to cook, and thus, learn to appreciate good cooking, what's the point ? Do yourself a favour don't buy the pan, look for a good restaurant (and at the price of the pan you certainly can find a good one) and ask the chef to prepare a good steak for you. You'll learn something. |