Stainless Steel Pans

[Guest]

I was wondering if all stainless steel pans are equal. I've noticed that quite a lot of stainless steel pans have a fraction on them, for example 18/10. What does this mean? Is it pure stainless steel?

 

Carolyn

[Guest]

I just wanted to bump this up to see if anyone knew the answer to this question.

 

Carolyn

[quan_daniel]

Carolyn,

 

http://www.kitchenfantasy.com/shopping_cart/stainless.htm

 

The 18/10 refers to the proportion of chromium to nickel in the stainless steel alloy. To be classified as stainless steel, an iron base alloy must contain at least 10.5 % of chromium. The presence of chromium enables the steel to form an invisible layer of oxide that protects it against corrosion.

 

I bought one that has a copper bottom to conduct heat better.

 

Daniel

[Andy]

I have an old cast iron pot that we cook just about everything in for our son. It weighs a ton and is not always easy to clean but Fe is suppose to be low in our kids anyway so I figure that would be the best thing to cook in.