Seeing as you have two, that’s one each for any domestic arguments you may be having in the future :)

Otherwise, take the handles off (there’s usually a screw underneath) and use them as bird baths or saucers under pot plants.

If you have a BBQ, use them to put cooked food in to keep warm.

Take the handles off and use them in the oven as a water bath (when cooking souffles etc, recipes often say to put the ramekins in a dish of water)

You could like make a bird feeder out of them. Or a bird bath.

Teflon will kill birds very quickly. You’re not supposed to feed birds anything cooked in non-stick anything.

I fear the bird feeder/bath ideas are just going to end up killing.

I’d suggest potpourri and water, throw it right back on the stove.
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Melt old wax from burnt out candles in it, (on top of another pot with water, same as melting chocolate), get cotton string and recast candles.

If you wire wool off the teflon and get a second life out of it either way, let us know.

Buy some ping pong balls and put a net across the kitchen table, take one old pan each - hey presto table tennis!

Wire wooling off the Teflon DOES work - I did it with a griddle type pan and it’s now the best pan I’ve ever used!
While I’m here I’d endorse the “don’t use it for the birds”

If you wirewool off the teflon & you are left with a bare aluminium pan, this is the worst thing to cook with a real health hazard, you should not use any sort of aluminium pot or pan unless it is teflon coated.

I’ve got some old saucepans that I use in the shop to store misc. hardware and screws that don’t fit in my organizer boxes.

I’ve also considered drilling holes in the bottom and using them as flowepots…

You could send them accross the pond to be re-coated @ www.frypanman.com

Perhaps a silly suggestion, but I would totally buy/make a fake fried egg, attach it, and hang it on my wall.

Because I am just THAT COOL.

LOL! I’m making that this afternoon! Will post a picture when I’m done!

-Louisa

Here we go.

John wanted to plastinate a real egg but I figured knitting it would be more fun. I used some leftover wool from old projects, some stuffing from an old cushion and some cardboard from a cereal pack for the base of the egg.

It’s just sitting in the pan at the moment - I need some velcro to stick it in properly — and I need to knit the accompanying sausages, of course :)

(There is a bigger, close-up shot of the egg on my personal blog)

A) I believe that if the naked pan is filled w/water and left to sit there to be used as a bird bath…plus, exposed to the outdoor weather/environment; that it would rust and corrode — poisoning the birds/animals — leaving a mess that could kill or damage an unvaccinated kid if they were to some how get the rust into their broken skin.

The extreme heat of the sun could also somehow put toxic Teflon and/or paint fumes in the air…as quickly as eggs can fry on the hood of a scorching car.

B) I agree with Mitch about getting them (old Teflon pans) recoated through www.frypanman.com

However, I think I’ve seen materials advertised in catalogs, etc, to be able to recoat damaged old Teflon pans yourself. This option is probably cheaper than having someone else do it for you.

C) In the meantime–while I search the net to see if these do it yourself recoating materials are attainable–I will continue using my flaky, old Teflon pan to boil potpouri (on low-med), hard boil eggs, put nut shells in while I’m eating nuts…and to also place potato peels and apple cores in while I’m peeling for fries or sauce.

Have you ever thought of selling them as metal scrap???