Why do you need a grill pan in your kitchen?

Grill pans are those square-shaped, turned corners, non-stick pans with visible indentation or ridges on their cooking surface to give you the best food grilling experience without using an actual grill. From cooking shrimps, grilling lambs, sizzling a steak or making grilled vegetables, you can make pretty much any food on a grill pan.

What makes a grill pan different from a conventional pan is the ridge or raised edge on the surface of the pan that leaves grilled marks or indentations on your food. But leaving grilling marks on the food isn’t the only function of those ridges. While sizzling a steak on a grill pan, the raised edges or ridges let the juices of the food trickle down and season it well, giving you the juiciest flavour of the steak. Another great benefit of a grill pan is its convenience. Imagine having it snow or rain outside, and you wish to devour a steak. A grill pan makes it easy for you to grill food without actually going out and using a conventional grill. And if your house doesn’t have a backyard or an outside space, a grill pan is your best choice for making grilled food.

While a grill pan is widely considered an alternative to an outdoor grill, it’s actually not a real substitute. The woody flavour and the aromatic smell of charcoal are missing from the food made in a grill pan. Moreover, not all types of meat are actually easy to cook on a grill pan. Grill pans are also quite difficult to clean, considering the ridges and the fat from the food form up a greased layer.

If we look at the benefits of a grill pan and also glance at its cons, the former seems to outweigh the latter. So if you have an undying affinity for grilled food and also don’t have outside space to place a grill, a griddle, or a grill pan is your friend in the kitchen.