Rosy potatoes with onions and mushrooms, fish baked with vegetables, fried meat, thin pancakes, magnificent pancakes ... We will not continue further for safety reasons and because the best recipes from the chef are not the topic of this article. Enumerating only these culinary delights is enough to understand that it is impossible to cook them without having a good frying pan in the kitchen. We hope that the article will be useful to both novice cooks, experienced housewives, and cooks in their own cafe or restaurant, since its theme is an electric frying pan.
The second word in the phrase is key. This is not just a stainless steel kitchen set. And not an expensive titanium frying pan for an electric stove. When choosing this assistant, the type of stove in your kitchen does not need to be remembered at all. This is a dream come true for parents of students in a dormitory of the seventies who are trying to queue up for a common gas stove or some other stove in the kitchen to quickly fry the fried eggs on a hot iron in order to catch the evening at the club. Home appliances, powered by the network, allows you to cook healthy and tasty dishes quickly and easily.
An electric grill pan, for example, will fry meat in nature at any time of the year in a cozy kitchen. Believe the experience - the result will please both you and your guests.
Design features
The main difference between the device is that the electric pan is equipped with a heating element, thermal or infrared radiation, operating from the mains. Elements are hermetically poured into the pan body and cannot come into contact with food. There is a one-sided installation of PETN, only in the bottom or cover, or two-sided. An electric grill pan is an example of the second type. Both surfaces are heated in it. Modern electrical appliances necessarily have a built-in thermostat. This is convenient because you can set the desired temperature of the frying surface. It is maintained uniform and stable over the entire area, which eliminates the danger of burning products or violating the temperature of the food. The shape of the frying surface may be rectangular or round.
The sizes are also different. Household pans produce a volume of three and a half liters. Industrial models have bowls over ten liters. Accordingly, the power of the devices is different. There is a hole in the lids of electric pans to remove steam. Another obligatory feature of high-quality models is the similarity of pens made of materials with low thermal and electrical conductivity, which ensures safety and ease of use.
Pros and Cons of Materials
Cast iron pans are still the most popular. This is the most wear resistant material. Even when overheated, it does not emit any harmful substances in food. So that the cast-iron bowls do not begin to rust, when caring for them, it is better not to use any detergents, but simply wash with clean water and then calcine. The only minus is a lot of weight. They do not recommend to leave cooked vegetables from vegetables in a cast-iron pan for a long time , they can darken.
Stainless steel as a material for the production of electric pans began to be used relatively recently. With many advantages, the most significant of which is safety for health, the stainless steel has disadvantages. This is low thermal conductivity and low non-stickness. The invention of a multilayer bottom with aluminum-copper inserts helped partially eliminate these shortcomings, but significantly increased the price of products. Stainless steel pans require gentle care, as do their aluminum counterparts. The first domestic electric pan “Miracle” was made precisely of aluminum without additional coating. For appearance it was nicknamed the flying saucer. In general, well-polished aluminum has high non-stick qualities. To improve these properties, coatings are used: Teflon, ceramics and other alloys.
Cons of coatings
With a plus of non-stick coatings is understandable. And the main and very dangerous minus is that aluminum and its alloys do not tolerate overheating. If the thickness of the frying surface of the pan is small, then non-stick coatings evaporate from high temperatures, substances harmful to human health get into the food. For the same reasons, when working with aluminum cookware with coatings, it is not recommended to use any metal knives, blades, so as not to damage the surface. They can only be washed with soft sponges with special detergents.
If you follow all the recommendations, the service life can be extended, but still it is not so great when compared with frying pans made of stainless steel or cast iron.
Almost a slow cooker
Modern models of household electric pans can be used for frying, stewing without fat or using a minimum amount of it, which is good for health. They are good at baking pancakes. An electric frying pan will delight lovers of homemade pizza. Without problems, it is possible to heat ready meals to the desired temperature or defrost foods better and safer than in a microwave. According to the set of possible functions of the electric frying pan, according to reviews, this is an economical mini-crock-pot.
Characteristics of electric grills
A special place among electric household appliances is occupied by electric grills.
Models of modern leading brands are open or closed. Closed grills are actually compact desktop electric furnaces, which have a special working chamber. The heating elements and the engine are in special compartments. They are isolated from the products, but are quite tight to them. Thanks to this, meat, fish are fried quickly, evenly, without smoke and smell. Products do not stick. Cafes and home restaurants often use open grills. They are larger in volume, they do not have a camera, they work on infrared emitters. The heating elements are mounted on the grill lid. Smoke and smell can not be avoided, so they are used outdoors.
Electro-frying pans of industrial type
In many ways, an industrial electric tilting pan is the best option for large and small catering enterprises. To improve the quality of dishes, frying surfaces in industrial models are often made of stainless steel or cast iron in the form of bowls with special lids equipped with gutters for condensate drainage. The density of their closing is regulated by a spring mechanism. Fast heating and a high heat transfer coefficient in industrial pans is ensured by the fact that the heating elements are connected directly to the heat-conducting material of the bottom, the thickness of which in quality models is from fifteen millimeters. The internal surfaces have a relief, which speeds up the cooking process at low cost of fat. Bowls can have several heating zones with separately adjustable temperature. In one zone, you can quickly fry, and in another, keep the dish hot. Large frying surfaces are mounted on special supports or tables. The name of the electric tipping pan indicates the presence of a tipping mechanism for the bowl to facilitate the process of emptying and caring for the product.
It can be manual (mechanical lever) or electric (at the touch of a button). The second for convenience and safety is interlocked with a mechanism for lifting the lid. Bowl operations are only possible with the lids open. Industrial models are equipped with control panels with temperature controllers and alarm indicators. Temperature limits range from twenty to three hundred degrees. When a
frying surface is heated above three hundred and fifty degrees, an emergency shutdown of the heating elements heating it is triggered.
To serve long
The service life of both domestic and industrial electric pans depends on how the rules of operation and maintenance are followed, and, very important, safety measures when working with electrical appliances. In addition to detailed instructions for compulsory reading, manufacturers of high-quality brands attach recipes to their miracle pans. Before experimenting, cook on them. You will like it, believe me!