"Good Chef's don't burn pans ! " Lee, kitchen Pot Technician, Treehouse, Alnwick Gardens, Northumberland.

Well I never said I was a good Chef ! Unfortunately as much as cuts and burns are a part of everyday kitchen life so is the ODD burnt pan. So today instead of cutting myself or burning myself I thought I would totally take my eye of the ball and burn, no sorry incinerate a pan. Now its very easy to blame someone else in situations like this so I will. Ha ha.
I was making a delightfully, silky, delicate, rich little blueberry and cardamon compote number. I placed my pan of the wonderful ingredients of Blueberries, caster sugar, Cardamon pod seeds and a squeeze of lemon juice onto the stove top and went round the back to my section to carry on with other prep. After a hour the TWO top experienced chefs working on the section where the compote was reducing informed me that my compote was ruined and the pan was a "knacker job ! "
Well you can imagine the mickey taking I have had to put up with but what got me was that not one of the highly trained noeses of the top chefs on that section could smell it burning until it had completely frazzled .
Unfortunately as the kitchen code goes that if you put it in the oven or on the stove you have to take full responsibility for it end of conversation.
Its poor Lee I feel sorry for. The highly skilled pot technician had to put his Racing post and sausage sandwich down to clean it. Sorry mate !

Scrubbed 3 times, through the dish washer 8 times and we finely got to see a bit of the bottom of the pan !
Photo courtesy of Kelvin ' the gaffer ' Gallaugher.