recoating non-stick pans

[jancolls]

I recently bought my mum a set of non-stick pans and although the saucepans are fine, both the frying pan and the omelette pan, have damage to the non-stick coating.

As far as I know they're not Teflon, as this would have lasted longer. No idea what happened, poss use of metal implements?

Can anyone tell me where I might be able to get them recoated, as they're driving us both mad!

[BBWCHATT]

I would take them back to the place I bought them and ask for replacements.

[jancolls]

Not possible I'm afraid, as I bought them from a mail order catalogue. I'd have to return the whole set as faulty and I don't have the box any longer and they'd claim as they've been used, they can't replace them.

I just wondered if there would be somewhere that we could take them to and they would get them recoated for us. I know it can be done, as my late father once took some pans into his workplace [he was an engineer] and got his colleagues to do a Teflon recoat.

[heathfield]

There used to be non-stick re-coating aerosols on the market, but I haven't seen any in ages. The coating they gave was never as wear-resistant as the original.

Non-stick coatings are OK up to around 230 degrees Centigrade, and any more than that will damage the surface. Frying temperatures very often exceed this. I gave up using non-stick for frying, and use a big cast-iron pan instead. Treated right, this is just as non-stick as any coated pans.

[CheekyChops]

Were they cheap pans or expensive and how recently is 'recently bought'?

At the end of the day you get what you pay for - I bought some lovely non-stick pans on offer from Woolworths a few years back, a bargain at`�25. They lasted maybe two months before the non stick started peedling off and that would be a generous estimate!

[diode dug]

I am sorry to say i gave up on dear pans a while ago, what i mean is I now buy a couple of pans with a single good lid and just use them. I dont buy high cost pans any more.
I think Tefal are about right for every day cooking and if they are damaged by over heating you have lost very little.

My Le Creuse set have done me good, i have now damaged one when i had a new hob fitted a few weeks ago and it heated up very very fast (my fault)
My tefal pans are the same age and have done me good.

[diode dug]

I have just had a look at the tefal web site and quite a few sets seem to be some how now connected with "Jamie Oliver" (eh) Even though i said like tefal pans I would now like to say i would never buy a brand connected with a second brand name !!.

A brand name is also Jamie Oliver.

His book costs 32 quid !

I like to think any quality product could do with out this.