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What do you recommend for stainless steel and getting the water bead to form? It seems to get very hot.

Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)

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This event was on October 3, 2023

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Dan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

wendy morris

What do you recommend for stainless steel and getting the water bead to form? It seems to get very hot.

Answer

So stainless steel yeah, is great to be able to use for pans. The majority of my pans are stainless steel. Um, I do, um, yeah but uh, and the, you can do the water bead great on them. Um, they're easy to clean once you know how to, um, you know, but stainless steel pans are great. I do avoid aluminum pans completely. I don't use any aluminum pans. Um, even my non-stick pans are typically steel as well. Um, but yeah, so, uh, stainless steel, great pan, um, to be able to use, you can use 'em with oil without oil as well. Um, but they work great.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.