Stainless steel, composite bottom, two rivets, well balanced handle. An inexpensive frying pan, used almost every day.
I formerly owned non-stick, but let’s face it, everything sticks, sooner or later. Stainless steel scours clean every time, no history, no knicks in the coating, tabula rasa.
Useful tools, pans take the heat – saute, boil, simmer – and when attention lapses, burn.
The value of a pan, holding the heat, cannot be seen, only felt. Food, mixed, transformed, broken down, no longer raw, can feed.
Pretty fancy trick – apply heat, cause change. Magic.
Putting a lid on it increases pressure, riles things up, sometimes speeds the process, sometimes makes it boil over.
Pans conduct – convey intent into expression, recipe into finished goods. There is a lot more to the process though, a cook, raw materials, and of course, heat. All food for thought.
Lots of expensive cookware out there, specialized pans for specialized needs. Mine? Quiet, shiny, used. It is good.
Non-stick is over-rated. It’s the sticking that adds the character (to the food, or to the life).