Be especially careful when you're doubling up on recipes without using a larger pan than you normally would. Mistake: Forgetting To Heat Up Your Pan — Or Heating It Up When It Should Start Cold.

Using too much heat can damage your pan and even ruin the food you're cooking. This metal heats up quickly and holds heat well, so there's usually no need to turn the burner up high.

Someone, even more suspicious about using aluminum pans altogether, inquired, “I still have yet to figure out why people use these pans for standard cooking anyways.” The Daily Dot has reached ...