Adam and Bridget discuss the best pans for making paella at home.
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Need a longer version. 🙂
well it's currently $105 US on Amazon.
I do t k is rep. Cruz was a paella expert
Thanks, but I will stick with my Garcima Pata Negra pans.
The Matfer paella pan looks like it would also make a superior deep dish pizza pan….. Or even thin crust.
At that point you may as well use the Matfer Bourgeat Black Carbon Steel frying pan. You’ll get more uses than just paella’s out of it, if you can lift it. Traditional Paellas (that’s what the pan is called as the dish is named after the pan) typically use a thinner carbon steel, similar to woks, so they’re lighter and easier to handle. Cheeper too.
What about using a paella pan for frittatas?
$80 dollars on AZ.
I have this pan coming as a replacement for a pan I used to make tacos. I like the huge surface area to cook up ground meat fast. I got mine for $55 at a local restaurant supply store. Not everything needs to come from Amazon.
It would have been beneficial to talk about using a Braiser pan
and why a thin walled has traditionally been favored over the enameled heavier cast iron.
This doesn't tell me why I should invest in a Paella pan. over other large wide cookware
$110 dollars at Amazon.
Good food does not require a lot of special cooking pots or instruments – but it certainly helps. About prices – think of the target audience. Rachel Ray appeals to harried moms who want to throw something from the pantry together fast and cheap. The PBS audience is overwhelmingly white, older, educated, political and most importantly, wealthier than Cooking Channel viewers. They dine out frequently at gourmet restaurants and can afford expensive ingredients and tools. They have time and (let's face it) the inclination to care about paella pans.
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That said, my paella pan is a prized possession (I have the large one on the right).. Both my gas and Green Egg grills were bought with it in mind. Paella is, without a doubt, the best entree for a dinner party. It can feed 8 hungry folks and presentation is "wow". Ohers have noted it's use for other things – lots of meat or veggies or thick sauces
but, as a plus, if you leave the winning pan hanging in your kitchen, you have a good weapon against intruders!
The black and white color flashback is awful 0.0 normal colors would be nicer imo
I don’t know if you’ll see this or not but I sure would love it if you could do an electric skillet review
Love Adam! Always being so serious with the tests but always throwing in abit of a punt.
I think the key in this video i the word, ‘grill’, to describe the paella pan. I bought a paella pan once, and it was warped as soon as I brought it home. It would have been great for the grill, or a gas stovetop. But it was not good for the electric stovetop I had. So sadly it did not get much use, and went bad b/c i didn’t know how to take car of carbon steel at that time of my life — so i threw it away.
I’m unsubscribing. I don’t like the new review video format. Bring back the other person.
for those complaining about the price increase of the pan, you can thank mr trump the tariff man for that.
I've never seen that size for that price, and I've been looking on and off for a couple of years.
But what kind of unimaginative, white bread view is this that this is a single use pan? You just used it on a grill, for crying out loud! This pan's sides are sloped enough that it can double as an effective griddle. You roast chicken and beef and pork and even bake rolls in cast iron skillets in the oven, and your own Lisa McManus has a video about carbon steel pans performing on par with cast iron. These sizes will fit into an oven, this could be a crowd-feeding roasting pan, not just a crowd-feeding paella pan. I mean, I can't see how those applications aren't addressed by this pan.
My flat bottom wok works very well and the lid comes in handy.
So the winning pan is now $107.95 on amazon. Lol I guess i won’t be clicking buy now anytime soon.
A most important requirement for any pan—excepting cast iron—is that it not rust. I do not want to take it out of storage to find oxidation occurring. A good paella pan needn't be single use cookware either. Various foods can be cooked in it.
I see many complaints about the prices. Seems like most people would know by now that these videos originally aired on public television. This episode called "A Spanish Affair" first aired June 2017 so was probably filmed in early 2017. There's probably going to be a price increase, yes?
Can you please may be test some juicer next time? Thank you so much!