Alan in Durham
Assistant Cook
Hello. Nice to meet you.
My beloved midcentury Sunbeam CONTROLLED HEAT electric frypan hath the dust bitten.
The centerpoint of my whole week is the eggs and homefried potatoes I make on Sundays, so this is serious stuff. Especially since there seems to be no reasonable replacement available for the Sunbeam.
All the electric frying pans I've encountered have no-stick surfaces of one sort or another, which is useless for frying potatoes because you want them a little greasy, and the oil just beads up on the modern pan's surface. Does not work.
I might be persuaded to use a plug-in hotplate and a regular pan but the pan would have to be maybe eleven or twelve inches in diameter, and the hotplates top out at seven inches. And the fancypants induction cooker I saw had a coil that was even smaller. And I doubt that they'd have enough power to melt a candle in a pan that big.
Does anyone have any actual experience (and hence legitimate advice) that might allow me to continue the meal that, weekly, makes life worth living?
Thank you kindly.
.
My beloved midcentury Sunbeam CONTROLLED HEAT electric frypan hath the dust bitten.
The centerpoint of my whole week is the eggs and homefried potatoes I make on Sundays, so this is serious stuff. Especially since there seems to be no reasonable replacement available for the Sunbeam.
All the electric frying pans I've encountered have no-stick surfaces of one sort or another, which is useless for frying potatoes because you want them a little greasy, and the oil just beads up on the modern pan's surface. Does not work.
I might be persuaded to use a plug-in hotplate and a regular pan but the pan would have to be maybe eleven or twelve inches in diameter, and the hotplates top out at seven inches. And the fancypants induction cooker I saw had a coil that was even smaller. And I doubt that they'd have enough power to melt a candle in a pan that big.
Does anyone have any actual experience (and hence legitimate advice) that might allow me to continue the meal that, weekly, makes life worth living?
Thank you kindly.
.