I’m a chef and swear by an a ingenious way to make your stainless steel pans non-stick… it’s so easy
A CHEF has shared a super easy hack to make every stainless steel pan non-stick – and all you need is some water.
Kelly Scott took to her TikTok page to post a video explaining the trick, which she said was called the “mercury ball test or water test”.
“Heat up your stainless steel pan and then add a few drops of water,” she said.
“If the water immediately evaporates and sizzles out, it’s not hot enough to be adding oil.
“Test every 30 seconds, and once the water dances on top like a mercury ball like so, it is hot enough, and then you can add the oil once the water is gone.
“Because now it’s hot enough and will basically not stick.”
Demonstrating with some scallops, she added: “So here you can see my fish isn’t sticking, whereas if I added it any sooner, it most definitely would have stuck.”
Kelly captioned the video: “All stainless steel can be non stick by using the mercury ball test to know when it is ready!”
People were quick to weigh in on the hack in the comments section, with one asking: “Do you cook everything on super high heat then?”
With Kelly replying: ‘Nope! This pan actually heated on medium heat, it just takes time to get to this level and then once you add food pan temp decreases.
“I almost never cook on high.”
“Ohhh I needed this!” another wrote.
“Very cool,” someone else praised.
As another person commented: “I feel when I learned to properly preheat a skillet my cooking went to the next level.”
“This too is gonna stay with me for life! Thank u,” someone else said.
While another added: “OOOOOOooooooooh. Oh Kay. Took me 35 years.”
Others couldn’t resist calling Kelly out for referring to her scallops as “fish” in the video.
“A chef calling scallops fish LOL,” one wrote.
To which Kelly replied: “Y’all chill it was a subconscious mistake.
“I know they aren’t fish lol.”
“Good chef tips, but I think we might need a marine biologist to tag in here,” another joked.
“Ahhhh I really like your video but I feel so badly because it bothers me when you called the scallops fish,” someone else wrote.
“A subconscious error,” Kelly responded.
“I WISH I COULD FIX IT LOL!”