Carbon Steel Frying Pan Showdown: Matfer vs de Buyer vs Mauviel

hi jed from cook culture today i'm really excited i'm going to take three of the world's best brands of carbon steel skillets put them to the test and see which one comes out on top [Music] okay so a couple of notes before we get started so this is three brands of carbon steel we've got the debyer mineral b we've got the mobile m steel and the mat for uh carbon steel so there are many other brands this is just a comparison between these three brands the thing that brings them into the same family is that they're all french they're all old french families making a handmade product from carbon steel uh in france and so i wanted to measure up which one i feel performs the best again uh the notes to the performance so i'm going to be doing some basic testing and this is going to be my opinion i'm not going to do anything scientific i'm not going to be doing any specific measurements i'm going to be using these pans and i'm going to see if i enjoy the pan and not be too worried about hey i paid this much so i do i like it better because it's a cheaper pan really it just comes pan to pan between these three which ones do i like what do i observe and which one would i go for so just in my humble opinion uh so this is not scientific whatsoever this is just about the the use and feel it's like getting in a car and do i like driving that car it doesn't matter about the miles per gallon or you know all the technical things in that car do i just enjoy driving the car do i enjoy using the pan and that's the point of this video so i'm going to strip them down i actually have a mineral that's that's just being stripped and i'm going to start from scratch with it i am going to take these two pans down to fairly raw iron i'm not going to be too worried when i strip the beeswax out of things like mineral b i don't take all of the beeswax off i actually use some of the the remainder as the seasoning agent so i'm going to clean these guys up and get them ready for seasoning in the oven [Music] so [Music] okay so here is the results of cleaning the coating off of this is the m cook mobile and it had beads wax so it still has some beeswax on the surface and it's a bit tacky but it was actually super gummy it had a lot of beeswax on it and it took quite a lot of work to get off especially some reason on the bottom so anyways um that's how it came this guy i had to take down with barkeeper's friend it took the seasoning or the the protectant right off and as you can see we've got raw metal it started to oxidize right away so that pin is oxidizing and we're basically at bare metal so it's going to be interesting to see the difference between these two pans of how the seasoning is going to work a little bit beeswax no beeswax so i'm going to get these guys onto the stove top and then we're going to apply the buzzy wax on these to get them pre-seasoned in the oven [Music] so okay so we're at the end of all three cycles we're gonna pull those two guys out [Music] and they are looking really nice and golden what i've come to realize is that there's some black marks on the movie all handle the uh rivets caught some wax the wax melted down the handle so that's what that is not a big deal but they're both looking beautiful golden brown ready to go so those are going to cool and then we're going to do some head-to-head cooking so here we go [Music] so i've been heating up these pans here for about three or four minutes on uh a seven [Music] and we're going to put in a teaspoon of uh grapeseed oil and half a cup of onions [Music] so we're at seven right now i'm gonna do seven's pretty hot see that is kind of a preheat i'm now going to bring them down to six so we have half a cup of onion and we have one tablespoon i'm sorry one teaspoon of grapeseed oil so we have here the uh mapper on the left or on my left we've got the mineral in the center and we have the mobile on my right so the the variable that we're dealing with here is that the stove is not exactly equal i do find that the middle cooks a little bit hotter on this stove so we'll see that but just knowing that uh is meaningful and uh so just you can feel the intensity just coming down just a little bit by going from a seven to a six so the other variable that we have is that freshly new seasoned is the divire so in the middle the process that we've done today is that we have done a three time one hour coating at 475 degrees for these two pans in the oven i've actually done the same thing to this one here but this was a pan in which was used and i stripped the seasoning actually in the oven using the oven cleaning method and then i've re-seasoned it so it was basically down to steel and i've reseasoned it the same way so in theory they should be relatively equal in freshness so it's not like this guy has a year of cooking on them and these guys are brand new everything should be pretty similar stuff i haven't said yet is the movie owl is actually really light so the gauge the simile the map fur and the buyer the gauge is very similar they're both a very heavy gauge it's actually if you look at the edges the mineral looks thicker as a heavier pan where the mobile is a really light pan if somebody's looking for a pan that's light to use this pan is definitely that so be interesting to see how it continues to cook up and what the difference is right now you know we seared a little bit there right at the beginning because the pans were good and hot after i had preheated them on the stove top now things have started to mellow out and now things are going to start to cook through so we'll let these cook here for a while and see what happens after a few minutes [Music] okay so everything's cooked through i am as satisfied as i thought it was going to be everything's done a fantastic job so what i'm going to do now is taste each one of these and see if there's any difference between the matte fur the mineral b and the thinner and lighter um which i'll talk about in a sec because i'm quite interested in that in the movie so when i when i look at them here they seem very similar the mobile maybe is a little bit blacker um the pan definitely has created more blackness um on on it as it's cooked uh it's harder to see but well not really the the job within the uh the mineral is is as expected there's really no marking um and the map for a little bit brown but again this guy is quite blocking from a process in the oven and these guys are still quite golden so we're gonna try these and see if there's any difference in uh in flavor [Music] put some salt on there and it's fantastic um sweet crunchy perfect ready to go into whatever you'd be putting that into [Applause] the same cruncher that could be the way they're cut though huh the smaller ones not as soft strangely so that's really interesting so i'm gonna grab the camera and show you the way in which these guys look up close and then talk a little bit more about that which is really interesting so there's the matte fur there's the pan it's got some you know browned on bits and pieces there's the mineral b you know it's actually got very little and then there is quite a bit more on the movie which is really interesting and strangely so they're a little bit more blackened a little bit but that happened at the beginning when i had the pants on a little hotter um but the thing that's really interesting with the mobile is that i find they're less cooked which is strange and you know i i've diced them pretty similarly in size um and they just don't have the same softness to them as what we got from the mafter and the mineral bee which really seemed identical the pans are the same type of weight they're the same sort of gauge and it makes sense that they are identical um and this guy here the movial who is lighter and i really like the lightness a lot of customers that we have ask for lighter pans however it's just not as cooked as nicely that's that's strange i'm going to try the taste test again but so far that's what i have out of these three is that these two are nearly identical and this guy here is less cooked less less finished through um the way in which the heat came through just cooked it differently so anyways uh i'm gonna empty those out and we're gonna take them to the sink and see how they clean up so first one that we're going to do and it's still decently warm actually it's hot to touch uh is the mafur so i'm going to put it under some you know coolish running water and i am going to use a field chainmail scrubby and i'm going to give it a once over the thing that's beautiful with chainmail is that it doesn't take your seasoning off but what's critically important is that you want to get the carbon off you don't want to start getting a carbon buildup or you're just going to need to strip your pan and we season it you want seasoning you don't want carbon so we're taking that down and that is looking really good so that's the carbon has come off of that really well so that guy is great now we've got the mineral v that it's a lot blacker so it's harder to see the carbon but what we want left over is seasoning and not carbon so that happened really nicely you can still see that it's beading that seasoning is fully intact same thing with the master so absolutely fully intact and great so now the this guy here so the mobile that definitely shown more signs of staining when i was cooking it's definitely a lot more stained let's see how it cleans up oh yeah you know interesting makes sense thinner pans um you know more heat directly through the pan so in there is definitely a space here yeah and it's actually the seasoning is degrading so really interesting here that as i'm scrubbing actually going through the seasoning so i'm taking some of that staining off but the seasoning is coming with it which that's uh that's an interesting result so lighter pan which is great really loves the lightness of it but it seems to me that this pan is not an equal to the other ones so you know that's that has to be re-seasoned it's it's smooth it can feel its buttery in there but that's not awesome it's taken away from that for me to get the carbon off i've had to take the seasoning off too so i'll get these dried up and we'll have a final review okay so that was a good time i really enjoyed putting these guys to the test and i'm actually quite surprised in the results i'm not overly surprised that the matfur and the mineral bee are almost interchangeable so i have seasoned a lot of mineral b from from new and the results that i got from the map fur were were exactly as i would get from the mineral b the the blame which finished i was i was a little bit curious on when i took it down to the raw metal and it was oxidizing what was going to happen with that but it seasoned beautifully it's a really nice finish pan like that the edge is soft it's packet welded on here so it doesn't have any rivets um it's it's a really nice pan i'm i'm really kind of in love with this pan i uh i'm a happy guy um so that's sliding into the collection for sure so this one is a disappointment the the movial and mobile i have a ton of respect for mobile they make tremendous quality cookware they're amazing company but they've tried to accomplish something here that doesn't seem that it's really worked and i guess that's the lightness they're trying to appease somebody who wants a lighter pan and i have learned over and over and over and over in my career that light is poor heavy is quality so if you're looking for cookware the heaviest you can you can manage you can pick up is the better quality two pans that look the same the heavier one is the better one i've learned that over and over and over and over again and this once again proves that this is a much lighter feeling pan and the seasoning degraded from the cooking it just didn't hold up it burnt through in that one spot from the element and this guy was actually on the cooler of the three elements as i was saying when i was cooking the mineral b was on the hotter of the three elements this was one on one of the cooler elements and it still burnt through too much right in this one area degraded the seasoning and it had to kind of come off to get the the carbon off when i cleaned i took the seasoning off and that'd be something that would be just laborious you'd be over and over and over and over trying to build your seasoning that would be a frustration so that doesn't work for me not being part of the collection however this is definitely a big win um this guy is a proven classic so i would say we're tied for first place here i really really enjoy um the the map for i didn't love the way in which it came with the coating i think a beeswax coating would be ideal um that was a bit of a pain in the ass it was unnecessary beeswax would be great but i do really love the no rivets that's a really really nice feature um and it's it's a great looking pan so uh there we go there's our uh number one and number one so thanks so much [Music] you

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Length: 20min 8sec (1208 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 25 2021