Among my purchases while equipping my new kitchen was a set of standard stainless steel aluminum cored pots (nobody likes teflon anyway). Not included in the set was the ever indispensable omelette pan, so I had to make a separate purchase. This being my first omelette pan, I made a naive decision and bought one that matched the rest of my pots. Stainless steel sticks to things. Things like omelettes.

There are a few ways around this of course: lots of oil, non-stick spray, etc. The traditional method is “seasoning” the pan, which I decided to try. I found some instructions here and went at it. Excited to try out my newly seasoned pan, I chopped up some onions, peppers, and cheese, tossed them into the pan with some eggs, and promptly scraped my sticky sticky omellete out of the pan. Upon further research, you can’t season stainless steel. Bummer.

Guess I’ll go buy one of those new-fangled carbon steel ones instead.