It's called seasoning you uncultured swine.

The phrase "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is in order of most-to-least good for the environment.

That’s when it’s most useful because now it’s nonstick.

this pan will outlive me

Why? What's wrong with it?

By 'let it go' you mean simply clean it? Why would you throw it away?

But the pan is really just a hot place to put parchment paper, so who cares.

you can take it from my cold dead hands

what? it's still perfectly good.

Naw that one heats up faster

"Say hello to my little friend!"

I've never seen a virgin baking tray.

I'm 40

That is the pan for chicken strips and burritos and corn dogs.

That’s just the tray that holds the rack I put the bacon on, it’s supposed to be seasoned in grease

And replace it with one half as thick that warps the first time you use it? No thanks.

nah bro that shit an artifact from 100 BC

Nah, these are always the best for some reason.

Look at Mr. Moneybags with pan replacing money.

just throw some bartenders friend in there and very lightly scrub it, it’s not the pressure it’s the action, and you will see metal again in no time

A bit of Bar Keeper's Friend and some steel wool will have that baby shining like new.

its seasoned

I can wrap it in tinfoil still!

No, I use it all the time. I just used it today to make French Bread Pizzas. I actually have two.

But mine are cast iron. Why would I ever get rid of it?

It's only getting good now. Time to put it in the will for the favourite child.

I have the same model

No. Fuck you.

Can't you just wash it?

IDK, any used pans are now in the garage, for holding or soaking bits and pieces of car parts.

It's finally perfectly seasoned!

WTF! Did you sneak into my house?

No.

How did you get this photo. This is an invasion of privacy.

It's not black and leaving charcoal diamonds in the food yet though.

Had a stainless pan go like this after a bout of the big sad, all it took to make it into a mirror was a bit of elbow grease, a scourer pad and some bleach.

i love that patina more than my firstborn

I think they thought this was rust.

I had a nonstick coated pan that looked like this... It was definitely time to throw it away and I keep having to wait for my prince in seasoned aluminum pan comes my way

I have that pan

How did you break into my house to take this photo?

Leave the pan in the oven and set it to self clean. When you take it out, that stuff will literally blow away leaving a shiny new pan. Nevermind that self clean costs more than a new pan. Your oven needs a cleaning anyway if your pan looks like that.

I just hate the insistence on using non stick on all of them. Dish washers ruin the coating. What’s the point of convenient inconveniences?

Not under my watch!