Merten & Storck 10" Carbon Steel Frying Skillet Pan Expired

Hey, hey, hey, guys! Let's cool it with the political fight. It's getting a bit dicey when you start attacking a specific ethnic group with their lack of identity and labeling a whole group witha complete lack of accomplishments, when in comparison one mentions a country such as Germany that did not exist before 1870 ... .

This SD thread has some useful information, and advice regarding cooking pans so let's not let this discussion devolve into a fight over cultural superiority that is not related at all to providing info about this deal.

I think what the OP may have been suggesting was that homogeneous rolled carbon steel is a material that could be produced in equally fine quality by many sources, by many people from different countries and likely does not contain special secrets for manufacturing that would produce significantly superior products if made by another country.

I don't think we can say that, for instance, China is so inferior that we wouldn't buy smartphones, computers, televisions, cameras from them and we'd rather buy German or American ones, right?

The carbon steel pans are basically rolled and stamped out, and I think the Chinese have that technology to make carbon steel that produces the same quality for cooking as other manufacturers in France or Germany. I don't think the advantage of French- or German-made CS skillets is due to the qualities of the steel. Quality differences may exist in the ethos of the companies that manufacture the cookware and how much they devote to quality control, design, etc. But, I don't think you can limit that to an ethnic, national or cultural prejudice since we all are buying what we consider quality products from countries someone may have labeled as being technologically inferior or incapable of producing quality products.

Anyhow, let's leave the attacks on ethnic groups, paleontology?, sexual preference, psychologists, and each other, etc., out if this discussion. I think there was some useful advice on comparing SS and CS and CI cookware, and seasoning advice and I hope that out of respect for the SD platform and for each other, we continue to try to keep discussion to matters related to the CS pan mentioned in this deal.

The vanity of made in Germany... The Chinese have a much longer history of iron making than the Germans and making a carbon steel pan doesn't require ultra high precision manufacturing which the Germans might have an advantage.

China can manufacture anything as well or better than any other country, it's been this way for decades. They just get their reputation from all the cheap stuff they manufacture as well.

People pointing out that things are made in China to imply something negative are revealing their racism and nothing more.