Best material for roasting pan

[Hustle_]

Having a cull of cheap nasty baking trays and roasting pans. Bought for about a tenner probably, and within months shedding black flakes of god knows what onto my chips.

Fed up of cleaning fussy non-stick coatings on a Le Creuset roaster too. Anything that gets really baked on and not shifted in the wash becomes permanent. Unable to go at it with a scourer or a Brillo etc.

So what’s the best direction to go for roasting joints, getting good roast potatoes etc? Stainless plus a Brillo pad? Enamel coated mild steel? Glass?

Or is the move to buy a really good non-stick pan?

If anyone wants to fire me suggestions I’ll gratefully receive but please- nothing with sticky up handles which I’ll burn my flipping hands and forearms on during manoeuvres!

[Bill]

Stainless every time IMO.

[Badda]

Bill said:

Stainless every time IMO.

Agreed. Any non stick has a limited shelf life. We’ve only got stainless now and have done for years.

[Jer_1974]

Bill said:

Stainless every time IMO.

I have a Stainless roasting pan and it's great.

[sean ie3]

Stainless, had ours for years and probably some time yet.

[Mobile Chicane]

Anodised aluminium. It will outlive you.

[sherman]

IKEA koncis.
Stainless steel roasting pans. Will take alot of abuse and cheap
Comes in Various sizes.
2 of the small ones fit nicely side by side in the oven.
A medium will take a full leg of lamb.
A big one is just huge. Probably get 2 large roast chickens side by side in the one tray.
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/koncis-roasting-tin-s...

[jules_s]

sherman said:

IKEA koncis.
Stainless steel roasting pans. Will take alot of abuse and cheap
Comes in Various sizes.
2 of the small ones fit nicely side by side in the oven.
A medium will take a full leg of lamb.
A big one is just huge. Probably get 2 large roast chickens side by side in the one tray.
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/koncis-roasting-tin-s...

Stainless all day long

I have similar to that link (might have been Lakeland ) - the handles burn your pinkies though

[JuanCarlosFandango]

Stainless is good, but I prefer cast iron.

[Audis5b9]

Stainless steel.

[fttm canada]

JuanCarlosFandango said:

Stainless is good, but I prefer cast iron.

How do you lift a full cast iron roasting tray , you built like Popeye ?

[omniflow]

Not 100% sure what they're made of, but I bought a few different sizes of Mermaid Roasting Trays as recommended by Delia Smith. I've had them for about 30 years and they're in very good nick still. They will definitely outlast me.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

fttm canada said:

JuanCarlosFandango said:

Stainless is good, but I prefer cast iron.

How do you lift a full cast iron roasting tray , you built like Popeye ?

This sort of thing :



It's a little bit more than SS but no spinach required.

[Mobile Chicane]

omniflow said:

Not 100% sure what they're made of, but I bought a few different sizes of Mermaid Roasting Trays as recommended by Delia Smith. I've had them for about 30 years and they're in very good nick still. They will definitely outlast me.

Anodised aluminium.

These have fallen out of favour somewhat since you shouldn't put them in the dishwasher and stainless steel is cheaper. But they are non-stick, light and extremely durable.

[Cotty]

I have three glass ones in different sizes. Largest one came from Ikea over 25 years ago, mid is Pyrex and don't know where the little one came from.
I lhave never had any issues using glass, they clean well in the dishwasher.

[Bill]

I recently stayed in a place with a range of pyrex dishes, I did use them when I couldn't avoid it but it felt so, so wrong. (Plus, how would you make gravy in one?)

[Cotty]

Bill said:

I. (Plus, how would you make gravy in one?)

Thats one of the issues that you can't use glass on the hob, for gravy or searing before putting in the oven.

[Hustle_]

Went for a stainless roaster from Procook.

Was hoping it'd be thicker gauge to be honest but it was a hit in the kitchen.

Somebody might've accidently chucked out / lost the yorkshire pudding cup tray too but we had a massive mono-yorkshire made in a pyrex dish which turned out to be the most successful yorkshire pudding ever made in this house? I'm guessing because the thick ceramic holds onto heat very well

[vladcjelli]

Hustle_ said:

Went for a stainless roaster from Procook.

Was hoping it'd be thicker gauge to be honest but it was a hit in the kitchen.

Somebody might've accidently chucked out / lost the yorkshire pudding cup tray too but we had a massive mono-yorkshire made in a pyrex dish which turned out to be the most successful yorkshire pudding ever made in this house? I'm guessing because the thick ceramic holds onto heat very well

Using our largest Pyrex dish was the key to our toad in the hole success.

Previous metal tinned efforts stuck all over the place.

Can lift the whole thing in one if desired after switching to the glass.

among various baking/roasting equipment, we have a Scoville baking tray. Will replace all our others as they fail with more Scoville. Totally non stick and appears bulletproof.

[DoubleSix]

Hustle_ said:

Went for a stainless roaster from Procook.

Was hoping it'd be thicker gauge to be honest but it was a hit in the kitchen.

Somebody might've accidently chucked out / lost the yorkshire pudding cup tray too but we had a massive mono-yorkshire made in a pyrex dish which turned out to be the most successful yorkshire pudding ever made in this house? I'm guessing because the thick ceramic holds onto heat very well

We recently replaced all our kitchen gear and i looked at the ProCook ones but i thought they were really poor. Stamped sheet material without rolled edges…

I bought one really lovely, very heavy one from John Lewis for about £80(!!!) and also four from Ikea which are in fact very well made and finished. The Ikea ones are definitely where the value is at and im normally an Ikeas snob that considers their stuff to be tat.