What is the most based and heterosexual cookware?

[PipTheAlchemist]

A heckin' based aryan tradwife, of course

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

While I want to "return to monke" objectively the heavier shit is, the less like women and gays are likely to use it. Therefore cast iron gets the vote

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

I would say commercial stainless from a restaurant supply store is the best balance between practical and 'heterosexual.' No need to mess with heavy cast iron, fancy Le Creuset or All Clad, just stuff they use in a commercial kitchen, stuff is designed to last forever and get beat up.

 

[Puff]

I like baking a nice hotdish

Is that yankee for casserole?

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

all cookware is for pussies. real men roast the whole cow over an open flame.
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Now we're talking!

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

stainless commercial cookware

heavy cast iron,

lol wtf it’s a frypan not an engine block

 

[Susanna]

Enameled cast iron cookware...preferably by Le Creusette.

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Don't let the bright colors fool you...this stuff is a workhorse. It has all of the advantages of cast iron in terms of durability and thermal conductivity, but the heavy, enamel coating prevents it from rusting and it is also teflon-coated on the cooking surface.

The downside is that it is heavy as hell and expensive as fuck, but it can last indefinitely.

I have a bunch of these, and the weight really can’t be stressed enough. They’re ridiculously heavy, especially loaded up with a stew or soup. Makes cooking a two handed job.
Other than that, though, they’re great. Last forever and would be easy to clean if they didn’t weight five million tonnes.

 

[indomitable snowman]

Cast iron. Good enough for cowboys, good enough for me.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Ideally you'd be cooking using a stick and an open flame but assuming you MUST have some sort of actual cookware then my vote is for cast iron and carbon steel. A well seasoned cast iron pan is basically as good as Teflon, the bullshit about cooking acidic foods stripping the seasoning is mostly bullshit or if you have a weak layer of seasoning. There's plenty of people who have cooked tomato sauces in cast iron with no issues.

 

[Meiwaku]

>men cooking

Lol. Lmao. GAY

 

[HarblMcDavid]

A good heavy stainless dutch oven. All my best cooking comes of throwing shit in a dutch oven and nothing else. I then let it cook for varying long periods of time as I get drunk in the kitchen.

It's the ultimate do-all for the lazy cook, and requires only a good flat edged wooden spoontula to complete the equation.

Of course this is assuming of course you're handy with adapting recipes to remove steps that require additional pots and pans. So far I haven't found one that couldn't be simplified that way.

 

[Sumptinsfuckey]

Cooking your meat on a stick over an open fire. Anything else is for wimmens, fags, and fags who wants to be wimmens.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Is that yankee for casserole?

AFAIK the Yankees also say "casserole." "Hotdish" is a Minnewegian term. I think the difference is cream of mushroom soup.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

As long as you're not a hoarder about it, you can have different kinds of cookware.

I like cast iron plenty, but as stated upthread, you gotta bake your Authentic Hotdish in Pyrex, or inherited Corningware with the 1970s flowers on the side. Let that cast iron pan sit this round out and come in when it's time for chops or burgs.

And then just a regular stainless steel pot for boiling things, because you don't need rocket science for some good, efficient noodles.

Late, but I literally use my mother's 1970s CorningWare (Blue Cornflower pattern) lasagna* dish to this day, and it is wonderful (idk if I am lead-poisoned or not). I've had it for decades - she'd even forgotten she gave it to me until I opened my big mouth last month and she got a look in her eye that was something between "huh?" and "I'll have that back by June, my pretty!" Changed the locks, all's good.

* afaik, I have never actually had hotdish. We had (disgusting) casseroles from time to time growing up**, but despite having spent a significant amount of time in a Hotdish Regional Center of Excellence tm, I don't believe I ever actually had a certified hotdish.

**tuna casserole is an abomination, and there was little more depressing than sitting down to tuna casserole and canned French green beans. We probably had canned pears on big iceberg lettuce-leaves and sprinkled with cheddar cheese for dessert, too. My mother is a wonderful cook, but so much 70s/80s food was pure struggle food.

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I echo all the pro-enameled cast iron (LeCreuset and similar) votes in here. Use them all the time.

Otherwise/for pots and pans, I like nonstick cookware because I hate scrubbing them, and even more hate when even scrubbing doesn't make all the use indications and visible scratches or scrapes go away. I recognize I'm making a huge tradeoff in durability, and probably capping my ability to finesse my skills, but I'm OK with it.

 

[Meiwaku]

AFAIK the Yankees also say "casserole." "Hotdish" is a Minnewegian term. I think the difference is cream of mushroom soup.
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>Minnesota

The American Midwest is extremely Heterosexual but also it's still gay as hell.

 

[8mm Cunningham]

The gayest cookware is silicone. Silicone mitt or heat pad? Fine. But the bread pans and muffin "tins" make me MATI. It insulates your food from the damn oven you are trying to cook it in! Also, in 20 years they are going to be saying "whoops, that gives you cancer too lol".

 

[Aunt Carol]

It insulates your food from the damn oven you are trying to cook it in!

Things don't brown in silicone; it's a objectively terrible choice for muffins!

Makes a good pie shield, though, since you take that off partway through.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

This is the answer.

You think you know how those are used but you don't. The scraper is a multitool, there are a hundred functions for it, it can replace a lot of knives, spatualas and kitchen cleaning equipment among other things. It's a flat piece of metal, you can do almost anything with it.
A rubber spatula is just nice to have, it is one of the most versatile tools in the kitchen if you ignore what they say(or you think) it should be used for.

 

[Muppetstudios]

Mess tins (square)

 

[SandyCat]

I regret not putting easy bake oven on the voting list