The Prep Mistake That's Causing Food To Stick To Your Pans

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One Simple Mistake Is Causing Food To Stick To Your Pans By Ben Hillin Nov. 1, 2025 8:00 pm EST

Learning to cook on a cast iron or stainless steel pan can be a bit daunting. These days, cast iron pans have an almost mythological aura around them, with thousands of Reddit posts with comments also numbering in the thousands about how to use and care for them. Stainless steel seems a bit more straightforward: they're lighter and heat up fast. But heaven help you during your first attempt at making scrambled eggs in a stainless steel pan — or a cast iron for that matter. Try as you might, somehow your food just fuses to the pan like glue. There might be several reasons for this sticky situation , but the most likely culprit is actually one simple thing: failure to p