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Xander Calasahan
Denmark
Приєднався 4 жов 2013
I'm a geek at heart and have many interests and passions. Therefore I have videos of all sorts.
Відео
Diving in Kisimkasi Zanzibar - DIVEVOLK SeaTouch 4 Max with iPhone 14 Pro
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Main reason for not having uploaded any pan videos is because I currently work and live in Zanzibar
Review: IKEA Vardagen Carbon Steel Pan + De Buyer CS Pan Comparison
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I am doing a review of the IKEA Vardagen Carbon Steel Pan, which comes pre-seasoned.
Fried Egg No Butter or Oil
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Wanted to see if it was possible, but probably wont do it again.
REAL french omelette in carbon steel pan attempt 1 million. Not quite there but almost
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I have been attempting on making a real french omelette for a long time. It is a lot harder than it looks. I am not there yet, but I am definitely getting close . Why not share the progress instead of only showing the end result.
Danish Crispy Pork Roast
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Made this beautiful oven roasted Crispy Pork. A very traditional roast here in Denmark Scandinavia, especially during the holiday season. This is just a teaser, so let me know if you want to know how to make it.
Scrambled Eggs On Carbon Steep Pan - No Butter Or Oil
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As you can hear, I was surprised! My well seasoned pan is really working well!
No Oil! Carbon Steel Pan Seared Salmon, possible??
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Just wanted to try and see if I can pan sear fresh salmon without using oil. Not saying it is the way to do it - Butter is heaven!
30 second omelette in carbon steel pan
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30 second omelette in carbon steel pan
Fixing slow playing Rega RP1 turntable
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After a lot of attempts to fix my record player I finally got the right advice. Since it took me a long time I decided to share my experience on how to fix my Rega RP1 turntable.
Reseasoning a used rusty DeBuyer carbon steel pan - ends with sliding egg
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Showing you how to reseason a used rusty pan. Also contains a quick size comparison between a Matfer and DeBuyer pan. Also contains the classic sliding egg test
French omelette attempt
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Lately I’ve been trying to master the French omelette. There are many different kinds of omelettes, but the French one is hard to make, because it should be yellow and smooth on the outside and a little runny on the inside. It is important that there are no brown burnings on the outside. I have not mastered it quite yet, but I am getting close
Cleaning gooey and burnt food on carbon steel pan
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How to clean a carbon steel pan after gooey or burnt food is stuck to the pan. I suggest not wiping oil on the pan afterwards, as it can soften the old seasoning.
The egg saga continues! Hangover omelette on carbon steel pan, with fried onions and crispy bacon
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I decided to show you an improvised hangover omelette, as I was still feeling hung over from the day before. I do not claim to behold the ultimate knowledge to cooking with carbon steel pans, but I have experimented a lot with seasoning and general cooking. Royalty Free Music from Bensound
Replanting San Marzano Tomato Sprouts
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Replanting San Marzano Tomato Sprouts
Small Carbon Steel Pan - Not French Omelette, But Fluffy Scrambled Eggs (with cleanup)
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Small Carbon Steel Pan - Not French Omelette, But Fluffy Scrambled Eggs (with cleanup)
Carbon steel pan scrambled egg from start to finish
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Carbon steel pan scrambled egg from start to finish
Bose Soundsport in-Ear headphones why I can't recommend them
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Bose Soundsport in-Ear headphones why I can't recommend them
Which brand is that ?
im noit completely sure, because I have both a De buyer and a Matfer in this size. They are both very similar, but usually the de buyer pans are just a tiny bit thicker
Horrible omelette skills. You are the fifth attempt I’ve watched using carbon steel. Not one successful. All the great chefs use nonstick. Mine are perfect with nonstick.
send me a video of how to do it. So you don't have to sit there and watch people who you think are horrible at doing it. even worse feeling the need to comment on it :)
@ I’m trying to learn. Watching “content” of failed attempts is a waste of my time. Is that a worthy reason for posting. I’m not moved to post for gaining clicks. Do you think I searched for failure? That’s what you offer.
@@alexandermayer2026 Ah, I see the confusion! You stumbled into a video titled ‘Not quite there, but almost’ and expected Michelin perfection. My bad for not slapping a giant neon warning: ‘PROGRESS IN ACTION, NOT A MASTERCLASS’! But since you’re here, let’s talk about your claim of making ‘perfect French omelettes’ with nonstick. You’re clearly leagues ahead of us mere mortals. Share the glory-show us your perfect omelette! I mean, you’re trying to learn, right? Maybe you could teach us all with a tutorial that outshines Jacques Pépin himself. And hey, your glory and perfect omelette skills clearly entitle you to comment on videos from us amateurs. It must be a great boost to your ego-watching us struggle while you bask in your own omelette superiority. Who could resist such a pastime? Until then, I’ll keep working on my ‘failures,’ and you can keep enjoying videos by people who’ve already nailed it. Everyone wins, right?
I wish I had seen this three years ago, I just tried your method and it worked as advertised! I have always used too much heat and oil to get it to work, but it's obvious that heat management is the key with a well seasoned pan with room temp ingredients.
@@avidavid9237 I’m so happy it helped you. A good tip for knowing when your pan is ready is to throw a few drops of water on your pan. If the water slides around like a puck before eventually evaporating it is ready
IKEA just released a Lyionnaise style carbon steel pan, mimicking De Buyer, essentially, but has a colder handle. It's still more of an IKEA shape to it, despite being a true Lyionnaise pan. 3mm thick, too! Just as De Buyer
Yeah! I saw it! If the quality feels right im going to get one. I live less than 500m from an Ikea :)
wow!
this is amazing, dikdn't know no oil is possible.
@@idaeinjaw2139 the need for more oil is a myth. It is all about heat control. And another fun fact is, you can actually wash your pan in liquid soap
Where did you get this wooden spatula from?
I bought it at a small wood shop on an island called Fyn in Denmark
Can you please explain to me why my eggs WITH oil often stick?
Yes! I can! Don't put fridge cold eggs on your pan and don't heat up the pan on too high. These pans contains the heat a lot better than a normal pan which means it doesn't loose heat when you put something cold on it. Heat up the pan properly. Go on your lowest to mid low and let it heat. If you throw a tiny bit of water on the pan the droplets should pearl up and slide around on the pan. Take out the eggs about 20 minutes before or just stop putting your eggs in the fridge, as they never do in many cultures. Let me know how it goes :)
As soon as you did that first lift of the egg, I literally gasped. Awesome job. I will try to do this on mine. What pan is that? I have a 8 5/8" Matfer that I'm working on now.
Thank you! I always enjoy when someone else shares my excitement. Yeah it looks like it is my matfer pan, but im not sure what size it is. It is good with a seasoning, but it is really all about heat control and not putting too cold food on the pan
damn I wanted to see the skin
Sorry. Next time :)
Did you do much seasoning of the pan? I spent days on mine and the eggs still stuck.
No, not at all. It is actually not so much about the seasoning. It is more about heat control. Firstly if you keep your eggs in the fridge take it out a good 20 minutes before you are going to cook them. Secondly, heat the pan using less heat than you are used to. Try using the midsize burner and turn it on the lowest, let it heat for 5-10 minutes along with the eggs not being fridge cold. let me know how it goes :)
What kind of sorcery is this?
@@jakubantkowiak1903 haha it’s all about heat control and not too cold an egg
I find it difficult holding the fork in my left hand
Im a lefty, so my issue is more my right hand :)
35 seconds actually
👏🙄
That's a handsome looking pan
Kæmpe fan!!!
Terrible job
A really good effort! Suggest you do two eggs in that size pan, they will firm up faster. Also invest is a “fish flipper” style egg lifter. The pan looks perfect for this.
Thank you for the advice. I still haven't mastered it
Its all about temperature
Is it required to be seasoned every time you want to cook?
Nope :)
Crazy
What is the size of this small pan?
I can not remember. I gave it away to one of my friends, but I think it is around 8 inches in diameter
Godt forklaret og vist 👌
Anyone can stir fry 4-5 spring onions in oil in the steel pan until onions are charred then discard onions and oil. Clean and dry pan. Now they can cook the egg just as shown. I used to fry onions about once per week then use pan daily to make my morning omelet.
with all due respect, it does take a liiitle but more of a seasoning to be able to cook eggs like shown in the video. after one seasoning you can cook eggs like this with oil, but not without oil. It takes a better seasoning
@@xandercalasahan1799 Yes it takes proper technique and room temperature eggs,. However in the past, I had made this successfully after a seasoning session with oil and potato peels in the manner Matfer instructs. In the process of such seasoning, it also removes any film of grime from prior cookings, resulting in a gliding surface. Once a layer of grime builds up over, it would be more difficult. The green onion technique most likely produces a similar result. I even used folded paper towels held by a tongue, spreading the oil during seasoning, and it had worked.
@@xandercalasahan1799 The only point I wanted to make is the power 99.9% of cooks don't know is the power of a few spring onions. Cut 5-6 spring onions into like 2" pieces. Heat a skillet on medium heat (it can be stainless or carbon), add a little oil to skillet and continuously slide onions around in skillet until they turn brown. Discard onions in trash. You now have a really slick skillet. If you just wipe skillet clean with a towel or add water it needed, use no soap, the skillet should remain slick for the next 4-5 uses. I used to buy a bundle thing of spring onions weekly for 50 cents and keep my pan slick. If someone wanted to dedicate say one pan and make it your egg skillet, fine, but my carbon skillet is used daily and the likes of frying sausage and the likes really make it difficult to keep a skillet ultra slick
@@kimberly1567 Thank you for your advice :)
Can you tell me the brand of your carbon steel pan?
This one is my first pan, it is a cheap Matfer pan. The seasoning is solid on this one :)
i actually did this with my pyrolux carbon steel pan and oh my god it worked
Unless that is a DeBuyer mineral B Pro, that handle is not made to go in the oven for for then 10 minutes.
I address that in the video
This is really beautiful. I am right now transitioning from teflon pans to carbon steel. For simmering and for acidic food I have one stainless steel pan also.
I switched to Carbon Steel Frying Pans and my Wok 2 years ago once I learned how to season them. Ive never looked back since and my Frying pan only gets better and better in taste for doing Bacon and Eggs etc . i never wash them in soap and only hot water and thoroughly wiped dry later. 2 year on, , no rush and less and less stick. Ill never by Tephlon anything again.
Actually I wash my pans with soap. The reason there is a belief that you should not use soap dates back to old times where people used bar soap for dish washing and cloth washing, the soap was harsh and they used a lot of Lye in the process to make the soap hard and effective, lye is Base instead of acid, but is just as harmful to a seasoning as acid. Modern soaps for dish washing are much more mild and the concentration of Lye is much smaller than in the old days.
@@xandercalasahan1799 interesting. Thanks for the info.
Sure prefer Grenoble style...dredge in flour & pepper & fry in hot bubbling butter just starting to brown. Great way!
Thank you for this demonstration. I had no idea this was achievable 😮
Omg!!! ❤ this will be a life goal now. To season a carbon steel pan to this level!
haha I am glad you share the same kind of excitement as I had, when I did it. Good luck with your seasoning
Hello can you help how to maintanance vardagen pans? Ours got black dirt whenever we prepare food with it. Any idea of how to fix it? Or it is broken forever? Thankyou
If the seasoning is new it is quite normal, to build a stronger seasoning start with only using it when you cook non-acidic food. A pan like that is almost never broken forever, unless it has rust that made holes in the pan. With these type of pans you can always sand it down and re-season it. If it doesn't make sense please feel free to ask again :)
@@xandercalasahan1799 thank you very much for your answer but amateur here. I have no idea what to maybe because i did seasoning wrong? After each cooking i put cocinut oil on it but it still left black bad smelling dirt on next cooking? How do i know its not rust? Sorry i will really appreciate any advice bc i have no idea i dont want to throw it out thank you
@@martinabarborjakova5618 Sorry for the late reply. I was just in Italy exploring their amazing food culture. You should watch some of my cleaning videos, there I also explain how you patiently build up a seasoning. In general I would not recommend coconut oil for seasoning, because it is an oil suitable for moderate heat cooking. you want an oil for high heat cooking. There are a ton of different brands out there so I would advise you to experiment a little. But I have had luck with peanut oil and vegetable based oils. Your pan will not rust, even with a small layer of seasoning, but of course only if you keep your pan in a dry place.
@@xandercalasahan1799 thank you very much i will do some research!
Watch Jacque Pepin make one. He makes it look easy but it isn’t that hard to do. That said, I’d eat the one you made. Thanks for the video.
I have since mastered it, but never got to make a video before I moved zanzibar, where I didn't bring my pan. I am thinking about taking a pan down to zanzibar, because I miss my pans haha
I wonder why De Buyer does not sell its pans already seasoned. There are a lot of people, including me, who don't know how to do it or who have done it badly. So often we put them in the trash because we do not understand why the pan does not stay clean. Je me demande pourquoi De Buyer de vend pas ses poêles déjà culottées. Il y a énormément de gens dont moi, qui ne sait pas le faire ou qui l'on mal fait. Du coup souvent on les met à la poubelle car on ne comprend pas pourquoi la poêle ne reste pas propre.
You are right. Some companies sell them seasoned. Seasoning the pan is not so hard, but I often experience that people have a wrong expectation to how strong the new seasoning is. The first seasoning you do is not so strong, it does a little to prevent rust and it does become a little less sticky, but a good seasoning takes time to build. If you want let me know your problem and I will try to help you :)
That's the problem with those coated handles. De Buyer state that they are oven safe at 200 ºC, for ten minutes at most. IMO, the pan would be better without the silly coating on the handle. The coating does nothing other than prevent putting the pan under a broiler.
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Carbon is king
ineed it is
Try to add a bit of milk to your egg and scramble really good. Makes them fluffy
soften the seasoning? like putting it under a burning hot flame, taking it up to 500-600°F during cooking then dunking it cold water while its still warm....oh yeah, that wont "soften" the seasoning.....what terrible advice, especially for carbon/iron cookware novices....here is better advice: always warm your pans after cleaning on the stove to dry them off thoroughly, add some oil, buff away excess, let it start to smoke under the flame before removing from heat, then buff again all sides after 2 min to make sure rust does not build on the back side and that you maintain layers of seasoning inside the pan after each cooking....build up and HARDEN your seasoning with additional coats instead of soaking carbon pans in water to remove buildup because ur pans' "soft" seasoning sucks.
First of all, why are you coming here with this attitude? Personally I would never recommend dunking a hot pan into cold water, as it could warp the pan. I know your described process. That is what many people are saying, it is a process that is time consuming. What I am saying is. My method is less time consuming and it works really well, just look at my pans and their performance. They don't rust and has plenty of seasoning without all the steps you are describing.
@@xandercalasahan1799 wasting 5 min scraping ur pan in water to remove some grease or buildup (barely anything i can see), yes, very time effective....BTW for people who care about their carbon steel cookware (not mr season softener here) use kosher salt instead of soaking in water to clean away grease or buildup, especially on a warm pan....rub the salt with a folded towel, then rinse away under HOT water with a bristle brush, dry off, 1 min tops instead of soaking 5 min THEN evaporate any residual water on a warm stove, at least....soaking then air drying carbon steel without oiling or seasoning after is irresponsible, and terrible advice.
@@andresbarajas2863 Yeah yeah Mr. Know-it-all-with-no-videos-uploaded, obviously you are looking for a discussion, find it somewhere else. The seasoning on my pans are speaking for itself :) You on the other hand are just here talking, where are your videos? you are just a sheep haha You have your opinion, and I have mine. Mine works and is less time consuming, my build up on my pans is more than good. No one else has done videos cooking eggs without using any oil. Why don't you show your pans on a video, show me how you cook a fried egg, sunny side up, using no oil. I challenge you :)
This is just incredible!😍
haha...I love hangover omelettes <3
Excellent experiment 👍
Thank you! Still love my pans
What a video, I have never seen anything like it! You are the man Xander! I can only say thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart. Now I know what to do with my, once useless, pans. WOW!!!!
I am glad you appreciate my video :)
I know as a fact I can do that with both my cast iron and carbon steel. Only skillets in my house.
I'd argue that that's a haphazardly folded omelette. 😊
Nice review and compare on cs pans, anyway my eyes got caught on the square mesh piece you have on your stove, what is it? Thanks
Thanks. It is a toaster for gas stoves
Wow! Who would have thunk it! I have two Matfer pans but I'm not sure I'm ready to try that with them!
if they already have a good seasoning, why not try it? :) It really kills the myth about excessive oil, when using raw pans
do you wash the pan with soap?
Yes, I do use liquid soap
awesome
How high is the heat on this? Medium high stove setting?
I can't remember, but I imagine I would have it medium low on the big burner. Remember that the meat should not be ice cold when you place it on the pan