When To Add Oil To Every Type Of Pan, According To Experts

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Food editor Taylor Ann Spencer breaks down when you should add oil to a pan before heating on the stove, and when it's okay to wait until the pan is hot.

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00:00When should you add oil to your pan?

00:02Depends on the type of pan you're using.

00:04Let's start with stainless steel.

00:06There are a lot of conflicting opinions

00:08about whether you should heat a stainless steel pan

00:10with or without something in it.

00:12However, if you're using that medium-low heat,

00:15you should be totally fine to heat stainless steel

00:18without anything in it at all.

00:20To gauge the heat of the pan,

00:21you can just flick a little bit of water into the pan.

00:24It should dance.

00:25And that's how you know that your pan is heated.

00:28Cast iron is the same as stainless steel.

00:31You can heat it without anything in it,

00:33but you will probably want to heat it longer

00:35than two minutes to get heated through

00:37just because it's a denser material.

00:39You absolutely need to have something in enamel cast iron

00:43when you heat it up

00:44because that enamel coating will contract

00:47and could potentially crack and ruin the beautiful pan.

00:51Non-stick.

00:52Most of you probably know this already,

00:54but you absolutely have to heat a non-stick pan

00:57with something in it.

00:59Otherwise, that non-stick coating will vaporize

01:02and release those good old toxic fumes.

01:05Nobody wants toxic fumes in their food.

01:08I'll see you next time with us.

01:09I'll see you next time in the next episode.

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