I watched many more youtube videos about people that seasoned their SS pans and supposedly made them non stick, and other that did not season their SS pan, but used various techniques.
I tried cooking eggs 2 more times yesterday. The first time was an omelet, I was going to copy a woman that seasoned her pan with coconut oil, let it cool, etc., and did an omelet with no oil at all, and at a low temperature, but I added a little oil anyway. The 1st side didn't stick but it stuck a little after I flipped it over.
Then later I tried just frying some eggs with a different technique a woman recommends, where she heats the pan until water dances around the pan (which I don't think I'm going to try any more), and then she only added 3 or 4 drops of oil. (That was wrong, because there needs to be more oil, IMHO). Those eggs came out fairly well (but my SS pan had been seasoned too, FWIW). I cooked 3 sunny side up eggs that way, and covered them after a minute or two. Then I think one of my cats ate most of the yolk off one of them when I left it on a plate on the stove after the stove was turned off. I'm just not a fan of high heat cooking and creating smoke to pollute my breathing air.
So I'm going to try it next time with oil and butter, low heat, and I may cover the eggs. I've seen people cover eggs and low heat and get no sticking and perfect sunny side up eggs with SS pans. But IMHO there has to be enough oil in the pan, and butter works good, and ghee even better, mixed with 1 TBS or so of oil. At low temp you won't need to worry about smoking. I'm going to get a pound of butter and make my own ghee again. I've made ghee many times over the years. They say ghee makes an excellent fat for frying eggs. Ghee has a high smoke point of about 480*F.
They also say, if you cook this way, at low heat with no sticking, and you wipe the pan out afterwards and not wash it in soap, the pan will season itself and make it more non stick in the future.
