OrGreenic cookware - Thinking of buying some

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BTW anybody who likes the OrGreenic, please don't take offense from my negative comments about the product, and in any case I have not tried OrGreenic so I did not address their performance at all. My main issue is the aesthetics of an ugly green pan. For a $30 class item I'd rather buy perhaps the Cuisinart 11-1/2" for $24.99 (also a metal handle). If I wasn't buying economy stuff for temporary use I'd move up to Calphalon or one of the other pricey brands, and I probably will do that in the next several months. Of course I'll need a kitchen and place to store pots and pans first. :)

BTW I cooked dinner last night on the 12" Invitations (sauteed fish) and breakfast this morning on the 10" Invitations (fried egg) and enjoyed using both pans. Both are better than the junk I've been using. I think a trip to Goodwill is in order for my near future. :)
 
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The newer cookwares are leaning to multiple coatings of titanium particles to achieve their non-stick surfaces. They are so far the best non-stick surfaces available. They are not inexpensive and require careful handling to maintain as do all other non-stick surfaces. I have a wonderful skillet that I have had for 10 years (forget the brand name) made with 7 different metals. While the interior of the pan gets as hot as I like on my gas range, the metal handles on both ends of the skillet do not get hot. We are the guinea pigs for all of these products. It's kind of like drugs. Who knows what health issues this space age technology may reveal in the years to come.
 
It definitely is ugly, but for my purposes it doesn't have to look nice. :cool: I haven't had any trouble with the handle getting hot, except of course when I put it in the oven, but that is to be expected.

A little side note -- When I do put a pan with a long handle in the oven, I throw a pot holder or towel over the handle after I remove it from the oven. I do this as a reminder that it is hot, as I have stupidly grabbed a hot handle more than once! :mellow:
 
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Barbara, I do the same thing with the pot holders. I leave one along the edge of any hot pan that comes from the oven. I have a few burn scars myself. Not fun.
 
I've grabbed a hot metal pot handle more times than I can say. It's obvious to me that I just won't learn from experience to not grab it. So I'm fixing it earlier in the process, by not buying stuff with metal handles. (Okay, maybe a car...)
 
I recall someone posting about the little shaped to fit handle potholders, they slip on the handles before you heat up the pan. Work on stovetop or in the oven.
 
Thanks to my first husband and Son #2, I have a couple of restaurant pans that have metal handles. I won't have one with a so called safe-for-the-oven black handle. I don't trust them. I just have the feeling that they will melt in there. Call them what you will, to me they are plastic. Even my DO has metal handles. :angel:
 
Andy M. said:
They look like this: Pan Handle Sleeve in Kitchen Helpers | Crate and Barrel

I have a couple and one is always on my CI skillet handle except in the oven.

Yes! That's it.

I would think they'd be easy to make from old potholders too, just split and stitch. Or even old Kevlar glove fingers, which should be ovenproof. Cut off a few fingers, thread them on the handle, and leave the fingertip on the last one.
 
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Yes! That's it.

I would think they'd be easy to make from old potholders too, just split and stitch. Or even old Kevlar glove fingers, which should be ovenproof. Cut off a few fingers, thread them on the handle, and leave the fingertip on the last one.


...or you could buy one for as little as $0.99 and up. These sleeves are more heat resistant than the average retail pot holder.
 
Dawgluver said:
Yes! That's it.

I would think they'd be easy to make from old potholders too, just split and stitch. Or even old Kevlar glove fingers, which should be ovenproof. Cut off a few fingers, thread them on the handle, and leave the fingertip on the last one.

I have had crocheted handle protectors. They look like little Mexican hats when they aren't on the handles. They are so cute. Mom had them when I was growing up. Grandma made them with spare yarn.
 
Thanks to my first husband and Son #2, I have a couple of restaurant pans that have metal handles. I won't have one with a so called safe-for-the-oven black handle. I don't trust them. I just have the feeling that they will melt in there. Call them what you will, to me they are plastic. Even my DO has metal handles. :angel:

Yeah maybe you're worried about it, but have you ever seen one melt? Not me. None of my pans have had melted handles in the oven whether they were advertised as oven safe or not.
 
Yeah maybe you're worried about it, but have you ever seen one melt? Not me. None of my pans have had melted handles in the oven whether they were advertised as oven safe or not.

I agree. Pans with plastic handles are typically OK in the oven to at least 350ºF.
 
The handles are made from thermo-setting plastics, the kind that just get harder, and stronger when they are heated. Thermosetting plastics, such as bakelite, and epoxy, exhibit great strength, electrical resistance, and heat resistance.

When they exceed their temperature limits, thermosetting plastics burn. Bu they never become soft, like thermoplastics do.

In kitchen ware of the 1950's, and onward, bakelite handles were very common on pots and pans. bakelite was also used as a material to house or contain, or support electrical wires. Bakelite is brittle, but very tough, with significant tensile strength, and heat and chemical resistant. Epoxy has these same traits, but is more flexible. Also, a chemical reaction in the two part epoxys creates the heat that cures the plastic, where bakelite is injected as a liquid into a mold, and external heat is applied to harden the plastic.

Bakelite handles on pots and pans are oven safe to the maximum, allowable temperature, at which point, they will burn. That temperature is 350' for up to an hour. Above that, you degrade the handle.

Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
 
I use Demeyere cookware, made in Belgium. It is all metal of the highest quality construction. Will outlast a lifetime. Handles will not get hot on the stovetop. Ever.

That reminds me of my second favorite wok. My third-est (is that a word?) favorite wok rusted out years ago because it wasn't stainless steel--there's a lot of those on the inexpensive wok market. You wash and dry them quickly or they rust. I didn't. It did. :)

So getting back to my secondest favorite wok, it cooks pretty good, it's got a non-stick surface that's really hard but it's the handle I'm remarking on. It has a really nice rolled stainless steel handle BUT it's open at both ends, so it perfectly channels hot gasses from the burner up through the handle and provides a jet of superheated gasses at the end of the handle.

I've learned to not grab the handle... most of the time.

That's why I don't like metal handles. At least with a cast iron skillet you know it's going to be hot. Other cookware varies.
 
That reminds me of my second favorite wok. My third-est (is that a word?) favorite wok rusted out years ago because it wasn't stainless steel--there's a lot of those on the inexpensive wok market. You wash and dry them quickly or they rust. I didn't. It did. :)

So getting back to my secondest favorite wok, it cooks pretty good, it's got a non-stick surface that's really hard but it's the handle I'm remarking on. It has a really nice rolled stainless steel handle BUT it's open at both ends, so it perfectly channels hot gasses from the burner up through the handle and provides a jet of superheated gasses at the end of the handle.

I've learned to not grab the handle... most of the time.

That's why I don't like metal handles. At least with a cast iron skillet you know it's going to be hot. Other cookware varies.

Most professional woks are high carbon steel. They are tough, sturdy, and will last several lifetimes. But like cast iron, they need to be seasoned. Once that is done, they will outperform all other woks made from other materials.

Wok cooking is usually done at temperatures that will destroy non-stick coatings. And cast iron woks are so ridiculously heavy as to eliminate
the possibility of hand manipulating them.

As steel, like any ferrous metal, is a poor heat conductor, it is ideal for wok cooking. Only the bottom gets sizzling hot. The food is rapidly cooked in the wok bottom, and moved up the sides to hold at a lower temperature. The hand-hammered wok is especially designed to do this. The little indentations hold the foods that have been pushed up the sides, on the sides. When all of the ingredients are cooked, they are all mixed together, or poured into their own containers.

Yes, High carbon steel woks will rust like crazy if not seasoned. But so do mineral pans and cast iron. Even aluminum and stainless steel will corrode if not taken care of.

I have a high carbon steel, flat bottom wok that I've been using for better than 20 years. It has no corrosion on it, and makes everything from chili to pop corn perfectly.

Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
 
The handles are made from thermo-setting plastics, the kind that just get harder, and stronger when they are heated. Thermosetting plastics, such as bakelite, and epoxy, exhibit great strength, electrical resistance, and heat resistance.

When they exceed their temperature limits, thermosetting plastics burn. Bu they never become soft, like thermoplastics do.

In kitchen ware of the 1950's, and onward, bakelite handles were very common on pots and pans. bakelite was also used as a material to house or contain, or support electrical wires. Bakelite is brittle, but very tough, with significant tensile strength, and heat and chemical resistant. Epoxy has these same traits, but is more flexible. Also, a chemical reaction in the two part epoxys creates the heat that cures the plastic, where bakelite is injected as a liquid into a mold, and external heat is applied to harden the plastic.

Bakelite handles on pots and pans are oven safe to the maximum, allowable temperature, at which point, they will burn. That temperature is 350' for up to an hour. Above that, you degrade the handle.

Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North

I worked on the edge of Chinatown in Boston for a short while. One day I went to the supermarket that the Chinese shop in. I was looking at their cooking untensils. They had woks by the piles. You could see that they were handmade. And for the average Chinese family, these are often passed on down through the years. Like we pass down our CI pans. They tresure these woks. And they take care of them with love. :angel:
 
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