If you’re like me, when you think of frying pans, you think of them as weaponry – not like, I’m gonna “own these eggs with this frying pan,” but more of a blunt weapon used upside an assailants head – a la Jason Bourne in any of the Bournes, John Cusack dispatching goons in “Gross Pointe Blank,” or the Marx Bros smacking each other around in Duck Soup. But lo and behold, gents, you can prepare food with it too. Handy – kitchen combat and pancake maker in one. When it comes to cookware, I keep it dead simple and high quality. I mean, let’s say you whip up some morning eggs or a a late-night steak au poivre (not hard to make) for your lady friend (or special lady – your pick), producing a busted up Ikea pan of questionable metal origins just ain’t a good look. I am fortunate enough to own an All Clad Stainless Steel 10” frying pan.
It’s so choice, you guys. It heats up in a snap and the weight on the handle is such that you feel like a bonofied shhhtud when you’re making a repast for two. If she sees you use All Clad, most likely she’ll think this isn’t your first sojourn into the kitchen, and that you’re just kind of an interesting fellow that has good taste (which you are) and doesn’t make a big fuss about it. And if food isn’t the way to her heart, maybe wielding the thing like a pro should some would be assassin swoop in for brunch will be enough to blow her hair back.
