Foodies will be very familiar with this common cooking pitfall. When heating anything in a pan – whether it be a fried egg, delicate fillet of fish or breakfast pancakes – it's all too easy for the food to get stuck.
This can cause it to break up or burn, which can make dishes look messy and create an unpleasant bitter flavour. Then to add to the stress, it's a nightmare to banish fried food when you're washing up.
Thankfully though, there are techniques you can use to stop this carnage from ensuing. And a handy hack has swept viral on TikTok, where it's proven popular with home cooks.
Proclamation Goods revealed how to ensure food doesn't get stuck – and it's all to do with the temperature you put pans on. The page recommends heating your pan on medium at first, then testing its readiness with a drop of water.
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