un-warping rondeau pans

[chef-t]

Recently took over a new job for me, but older bistro type place. even the cookware is "worn!" So, anyone have a good method for un-warping large aluminum rondeau pots?

[oldschool1982]

Well???????

The next time you feel the need to "release some frustration" turn the pan right side up on the floor and jump up and down inside of it.

Believe me it does work. (In both respects. Just make sure you're alone in the room. Hehehe)

[foodpump]

Aluminum... Take them ouside, find a cement filled steel post, place the pot upside down using the post as an anvil, and beat on it with a hammer. Mind you as soon as you heat up the pot on the stove it'll probably warp again. Such is the nature of aluminum, especially "naked" pots, the one without sandwich or laminated bottoms.

A less futile but more frustrating method would be to approach the powers that be and ask them for new cookware. Best way to do this would be to put together a proposal, outlining why you want new cookware, aprox cost of the stuff, amount of money/labour currently wasted with burnt food, incorrectly cooked food, labour in cleaning burnt pots, and then the evils of aluminum: ie oxidization, grey discolouration of cream based liquids, tainted tastes with acidic ingredients, roly-poly bottoms, spilled messes on the stove etc. Good luck.

[Plongeur]

We use the smaller copper saucepans to correct the larger aluminium ones, just beat the **** out of them until they learn not to warp. Scares the **** out of anyone who doesn't know what's going on, relieves stress too.