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Hey, I'm Jocelyn and today I am unboxing a carbon steel pan from Blanc Creative
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I have been questing for the best pans in the world all of my adult life and I have found that I love carbon steel more than anything else
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And I have one already. Mark got me a roaster last year for Christmas and I went ahead and bought myself a frying pan this year and it just came
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I want to say that Blanc Creative is just one of many different companies, but I like to support small, local sort of things
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And this is a group of artisans that make these by hand, and they are beautiful, and they're amazing
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So I'm going to go ahead and open it, and then I'll talk kind of a little bit about why carbon steel is such a great thing
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So we'll just open it. Of course, I use my bartender's friend as my way of opening pans or boxes
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Alright, so here we go. I love the way these come all in wood shavings It really beautiful So here comes my pan I so excited
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Alright, so the pan comes in a lovely little bag. You can use that for shopping and whatnot
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But there it is. This is a carbon steel frying pan. And right now it's sort of a greenish color
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but after I season it, it will be nice and black and perfectly non-stick. So that's one of the great
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things about carbon steel is that after it's seasoned, just like with cast iron, it's perfectly
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non-stick. You also take care of it like you do carbon steel or like you do with cast iron. Just
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wash it and scrub the stuff out with just water. You don't use any soap or anything because that
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kind of mars up the non-stickness. But these, you see them a little differently, and I'll have a
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video on how to do that. One of the reasons that I love carbon steel is that they're lightweight
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more lightweight than cast iron, but they have a lot of the same properties. This is 99% iron
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and 1 carbon So it makes it lighter but it still retains a lot of those great things like quick heating It very even heating These are a lot more durable than cast iron pans If you ever
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had one, you know that they can actually crack or be broken. This is a lot more sturdy. It's an
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heirloom pan. And I know I have heirloom pans, cast iron from my grandmother, and they're amazing
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And I love that I'm going to have these to pass on to my kids because they are even more durable
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than the cast iron ones. These are also oven safe so I can cook things on the stovetop like maybe
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sear something and then throw it in to finish it in the oven. So you can totally sear a steak or
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fry an egg on this once it's seasoned it will slide right out and that's one of the things about
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these is that they do have to be seasoned and that sometimes for some people is a drawback
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I find that it's really easy and re-seasoning as you go along makes it even more non-stick as time
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goes on. And you really want to do that when you're cooking acidic foods. So acidic foods
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especially with a newly seasoned pan, can kind of mess up that seasoning. So I tend not to cook
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things in my carbon steel or my cast iron for that matter. I don't want to cook acidic stuff
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early into the seasoning process I kind of do that once more seasoning has built up in the pan So to take care of this I wash it and then I will put it on a warm burner and just let all that
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water kind of, you know, evaporate. And then I'll put a little more oil on it now and again to just
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add to the seasoning. And I'll go through all of that in the seasoning video, but this is such an
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amazing pan. So in my opinion, these don't really have much drawback. I can, I can refrain from
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cooking acidic foods in these for the first few seasonings and things like that. And I do have to
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season it. And washing and drying is a little bit different than with other pans. But once you do it
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and you see how well this cooks and just how nonstick it can be, you'll absolutely fall in
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love with these pans. And I have to say that part of why I did this in my research on pans, I found
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an article, actually several articles that talked about so many top chefs loving carbon steel pans
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one of whom was Julia Child, and if it's good enough for Julia Child, it's certainly good enough for me
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So I am going to season this in another video, and I will show you how beautifully that nonstick stuff works
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and how nice and even the heat is on these pans. So that's a carbon steel pan
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and I hope that you guys all learn a little something from this video
