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@@mba849 it's the darto n20, so 20cm or around 7.8 inches. It's great I love it. Considering getting a larger one, but it's hefty just FYI!

@@kingsleychan I've got the Darto n27 so yeah... I know how heavy it is 🤣🤣🤣 I'm trying to sell it to get the Darto n25. N27 is toooo big for me P.s if you live in Toronto hmu if you want the pan 😁

@@mba849 ah haha gotcha. Darn no I'm in Vancouver. But for me I just use my cast iron for my big pan, I find the dartos so heavy it's almost cast iron weight ha. Hows your seasoning going?

@@kingsleychan I don't really like cast iron cuz I think they're a bit more rough (texture wise). I love how smooooooth carbon steel is, which is why I bought that hehe For the seasoning, my pan has turned blue so it's great. I haven't used it much (I literally cooked steaks a few times lmao) but I ended up getting a matfer 8 inch pan. It fits in my air fryer (it's a mini oven) and the seasoning on that is sooooo easy (literally just oil and put in the air fryer oven).

@@mba849 Heh true true. But.. Check out smithey cast iron pans, they're smooth as well. Also hella expensive tho =/. Nice nice matfer pans are beauty. Good choice. I don't rly like the de buyer coz the rivets gonna get sooo dirty over time

@@weasellyone2 that's a good trade, avg annual for asm 252 and others. I love the 252 cover. Poor man's af 15! What do you think of the PSA entering the comic book slabbing game?

@@kingsleychan I'm going to send some books to them that I already slabbed by CGC and see how the sell compared to CGC. How the sell price wise.

@@weasellyone2 Oooo that's a good experiment. I do wonder if the psa brand will commad higher prices. But I guess cgc is still the OG of slabbing. If I had a choice, not taking value into consideration, I think cbcs for comics and bgs is the best for cards. The inner sleeve makes a huge difference imo to protect the collectible

@@kingsleychan I have used CBCS in the past and the quality and durability are definitely better. But they still look clunky beside a CGC slab and sell slower and for less. With the issue currently happening at CGC with the inner wells bending the books is a real problem and they better solve it fast. I've been lucky not to have any books damaged but there is a definite bend happening. I have a box of 12 coming back and noticed they have placed a support along the back of the spine like they used to have in the past. I'm hopeful it helps.

@@weasellyone2 yeah the cbcs slabs just don't look as good or as official. I agree with you. One thing I like have cgc slabs is the handle on the back of the top part, so it's easier to pull them out of bins. The cbcs ones at flush. Yeah this banana gate issue for cgc is pretty serious. Hope none of your books coming back have issues The spine support sounds scary tho, if it presses into the book it might cause further damage. Unless it spans the entire length of the book?

@@dominicdesouza2609 hey Dominic ah superb! Good to hear I made a good choice. I really liked the finishing on the knife. It's so comfortable to hold. Do you have many of his knives?

@@cameronmccoy5051 wow thanks for the detailed explanation Cameron! Very interesting. So my understanding is a big part of eggs make up is water, and hence why I thought butter, a fat, and water don't mix. Making the egg not stick the the pan. If oil is just oil, how come butter still is better than oil at making the egg not stick to the pan?

@@gmgq wow I legit just was at Costco ytd and got a bottle of avocado oil!

@@weasellyone2 haha hey Russell! I must admit the pan fried eggs cooked on this carbon steel pan are quite crispy and tasty!! Night and day between this and a non stick pan. What do you use in your kitchen.

@@kingsleychan stainless steel. I bought a really nice set 30yrs ago when I got married and still use it. But if I'm in a hurry I use a nonstick pan.

@@weasellyone2 Yah true true. Non stick is much easier. Nice the stainless steel pans def do last a life time! Now you got me looking at stainless steel pans online haha

@@kingsleychan the rabbit holes are never ending 😂👍

@@weasellyone2 Hahaha secretly we all just wanna spend some money and buy things! =p

@@irronthagr8113 hey there thanks for stopping by! No one loves getting a 9.6, it's like getting silver getting gold in the Olympics. But in all honesty, 9.6 and silver is pretty dam good too!

@@Ak-zf5rb def agree with ya, there's tons of things I dislike about cgc. But in some sense they bring a bit of order to the madness. Haha I just rmb back in the days getting a copy of wizard and looking at prices that way. What era of comics are you into collecting/reading?

@@kingsleychan copper age my friend... Love the 80s stuff! Tmnt etc

@@Fryn_Hayn Hey Fryn! Nice nice. Which size darto pan did you get? I find mine the 20cm alrdy so heavy, almost cast iron like haha. Make sure you season it a few times and baby it at first cooking simple fatty stuff! Are you coming from nonstick or did you use stainless steel?

@@krindall8971 Yah I def find butter better than oil. What kind of tools do you use to cook eggs? My simple spatula no good?

@@TheEasyLifee nice good call. Amzn prices def fluctuate all the time. I ended up liking the sfi ones the most! Which one do you use?

@@jennyn9933 Hahaha best! What monitor stand do you use Jennerz?

@@r_cab314 haha right on! That's honestly all I use it for as well. Thought about buying a larger one for other foods but it's quite heavy. How's your seasoning? Do u still cook Ur eggs with butter or can use oil now and it's non stick?

@@kingsleychan i go between olive oil and butter but prefer butter for the flavor…i have still had some occasional sticking , but may be from the temperature, but for the most part it has been great. I have even melted cheese and scooped it off with a piece of toast for a crust. Took some time to get used to but i have enjoyed the journey with carbon steel.

@@Panholistic hey Pan holistic! Love the name btw. Awesome great tips! I was a bit bummed out at first but I kept cooking with the pan, and only simple stuff with fats to baby the pan. I think I'm getting the hang of it now. I wish I wasn't so rushed and did what you said, as in do a few more coats of cooking seasoning then it wuld be nice. Right now I got a lot of odd looking spots here and there on the pan coz I scrubbed it so hard after things sticking to the pan. But yes if I had to do it all over, I'd def be doing what you mentioned! Thanks for the views and watching my 3 part vid! I appreciate it. Maybe I'll do one more using your tips =D

Hey Russell! Oooo that is a good idea, put these and the OG jim lee ones on the wall. heh but im such a big baby coz id be so nervous about UV damaging the books haha. My books are in a BCW bin, and recently I've had this big thing about humidity to protect my books. NICE. Silver ink on Wolvie #17! Sick. I love that cover. Did you get the custom label to match it as well? heh i rmb there was one artist, I think Jim Starlin, that is allergic to metallic pens. So he always signs in black. But I was lucky I got a white ink sig from him heh. so happy

@@kingsleychan i get the UV worry, but rotate them out after a few weeks and my books are in my basement and no sunlight and just soft LED lighting. I want to see them so changing them up keeps me happy and I'm over 500 slabs now so they don't come out very often. We spend so much on them it's nice to look at them from time to time. Wolverine 17 by Byrne for me is the best wolv cover. I did get the custom label on it and you have to with that book. lol

@@weasellyone2 wow nice! Up at 500 slabs now cray! Yah that Wolvie is a nice cover. My personal fave Wolvie cover gotta give it to Xmen #9. Hah I'm a Jim Lee fan =p

@@kingsleychan yeah it's out of control 😅. Jim Lee's Wolverine covers are fire also. I really like 27. I sent in a couple cheapo books to get slabbed for me because I really like the covers. Captain America 4(2024) it's a Kirby cover of all the different Wolverines and X-Men Legends 1 Andrews cover. They have no value above slab cost but I did them for me. Just like them lol

@@weasellyone2 Heh last night I was looking thru my slabs, and seeing which ones I'd keep as I'm trying to get down to 50 books. Boy it's hard. And def some of the ones I want are low to no value. So I hear ya. It's all about what you love at the end of the day!

@@aaricthewong5845 Hey Aaric, thanks for the view and comment! Appreciate you stopping by. So what I do is I have one monitor setup directly infront of me and my secondary monitor on the right. The only issue is the arm behind the screen only allows for a little angle. So it's while I wish my monitors would form a 140 degree angle, it's more like a 125 degree angle. It's not bad but not perfect. The ideal scenario would be two separate arms to perfectly adjust, but I'm finding the handle to move both monitors up and down when i go from sit to stand an awesome feature. It's why I went with this monitor arm vs the other ones. Let me know if you want me to do a 1 month review of the ergotron hx dual monitor stand! Happy to do that

@@kingsleychan legend again thank you so much, i think the one review people with dual monitors will definitely want to see is how the ergotron HX dual performs if people want different screen layouts and some of the downsides when trying to do so!!

@@kingsleychan i also agree with what you said in the last part about moving both monitors, I also love the idea both monitors are being held up by a single arm. So im currently stuck between this and the Secretlab dual monitor arm. The thing stopping me from buying the ergotron currently is the lack of video representation in youtube on the setup i’d like XD

@@aaricthewong5845 Hmm looking at the Secretlab dual monitor arm, it's two individual arms though. But yeah I think for my use the Ergotron is better, when I go from sitting to standing I dont want to adjust two monitors. For the Ergotron i can do it in one swift movement, it even has the handle. I think the Olin dual monitor arm has the handle thing as well, but that arm is soo expensive. I mean the Ergotron isnt cheap either. I personally would go with the ergotron vs the secret labs just given two monitors on one capability. It's a cleaner set up too imo, one arm vs two. Let me know if you want me to do a follow up vid review to show how I use my arms and stuff!

@@kingsleychan that’s fair enough brother, i think a follow up video wound be great to demonstrate how the ergotron looks with the screen layout in looking for, in my case my primary monitor in front and the secondary on the LEFT side of the primary monitor, if it’s as good as i imagine it then i’ll be copping the ergotron

@@liudmilavalls2390 wow great great tutorials and thanks for all the tips! I'm def a noob in the carbon steel world so working to learn more about how to cook with it! Since I posted that last vid, I've gotten better at getting eggs to not stick, but only when I cook with butter. I really want to get to the pt of being able to cook with Olive oil or avocado oil, just feels a bit healthier. But I'll check out Ur vids and keep learning! It's a lot of fun for sure

That Wolverine 1 9.8 is now an expensive book with all those signatures. Congrats.

@@berkfamily54 thank you thank you! I thought prices are going south coz of the whole prescreening for 10 and stuff? I haven't been following but good to know!

@@kingsleychan all signed copies of that book are expensive

@@berkfamily54 ah that's true. Did you see that recent post floating aorund in some forums, the $2,200 Jim Lee sketch on the gal gadot wonder women. Jesus that was not worth it for that poor guy. Basically Jim Lee drew a portrait using black ink on a dark cover comic

@@kingsleychan yeah man it’s insane what these artists want. I saw Brett booth wants $8k for a commission

@@piratemousey hey hey thanks for the view and comment!! Appreciate you! Have you had experience selling big value books? I'm a bit nervous things are gonna go south, I read so many horror stories on reddit about buyers just being unethical and saying the item isn't as described etc

​@kingsleychan thanks fella.

@@Jordan-yg5xb hey Jordan! hit 365? Gratz man welcome to the club! Hmm I don't think they asked me for size. I don't rmb tho tbh. But also I've seen other ppl's 365 package and they're all kinda different. Makes it More fun and limited I guess!

@@leogao6929 gotcha, I've been applying the good ol stainless steel cooking methods to this and turning the heat down def does help. Thanks for the tip!

@@CADO7311 hey Cado, ah cool you got both the solid teknics and darto but like the darto better? I'm glad I made the right choice. Yeah I'm gonna clean this up, re season and try again with butter. I've done a lot of reading and everyone says, eat bacon for a week before attempting to pan fry an egg. Haha. Lots to learn but having fun!

@@helencraw thanks for the encouragement! I wanted to cook another egg right after, but that's enough cholesterol for me for a day Hah. Gotcha gotcha. I watched a lot of vids online where ppl use a crap ton of butter, so obvious for them it'll be non stick since they're essentially deep frying the egg! But yah will keep that in mind the same technique as cooking the egg on a stainless steel pan! Thanks

Although avocado oil is a much healthier alternative and has a nice high smoke point, its fibrous nature is not conducive to being used on iron pans (carbon steel and cast iron). Because it is a fibrous oil, it can degrade and damage the seasoning which you don’t have to worry about on stainless and non stick pans. I found your Canadian countryman Cook Culture to be an excellent resource.

@@th6252 Ohh neat I didn't know that. How about olive oil? Is that ok for carbon steel?

@@kingsleychan yes, as long as you stay below the smoke point (around 400* I think which is good enough for most stovetop cooking). Also, if you add a bit of clarified butter to it, it’ll raise the smoke point some.

@@pewX3 haha man my vids are nothing to the level of your quality Heh. But ty ty. Big fail on the non stickness. I gotta lot to learn about how to use carbon steel! What do you cook with?

@@kingsleychan waiting for the vid when you figure it out , I want to properly season a pan too , still using the non stick ones

@@pewX3 Yah I really wanted to get away from eating so much teflon and also the Teflon pans are pretty bad for the environment. Will keep learning and post a follow up vid when I figure it out!

@@helencraw hey Helen, oh I should have tried boiling water. I have heard bar keepers is solid to use. Do you still use that even after seasoning?

@@kingsleychan i havent had to. I only had to use Bar Keepers friend to get off that oil coating. The seasoning on my pan just keeps getting better as I cook. Havent had anything stick much. I just wash out with hot water, bit of soap, with a nylon dobie pad. Have a bigger n30 Darto pan to clean and season. Know its going to be a job. Waiting for the wx to cool off to season it. I like to oven season with at least 4 very thin coats. Hope your first cook went well.

@@helencraw haven't had the chance to cook with it yet. I'm excited tho! Will do a cook and vid this sat!!

Chainmail scrubber under hot water with some dish detergent works like a charm.

I have used goo gone for sticky spots before seasoning and it worked well.

@@Hugotinnemans nice nice. Kudos to Hugo! On your way to fitness at your convenience. I hear you, waiting for weights or a bench at the gym kinda gets old sometimes. Did you get the stand too? Or just the mx55s?

@@kingsleychan no I got mx85 with the stands. In my opinion it’s an absolute must. And I need the extra weight for bench and shoulders etc. Yeah it looks really solid and it looked way sturdier than the other ones they had on sale

@@Hugotinnemans ooooo nice nice. Solid choice. I really want the mx with the barbell. For squats and stuff. Ah one of these days when I have more space Heh.

@@Universalclipsforyou hey there! Hah there's a lot more Wolvie #1s popping up for really great prices recently!! Great time to buy. I think I'm tapped out for now =D thx for the view and comment!

Now that is a good pt. Hmm I didn't think about that. I probably didn't Wait too too long after getting in. But I have also read in other posts that all the fuses on the inside are always hot. I ought to try this test again after waiting a few mins being inside the car.

Thanks Nathan! Appreciate the love and support. You a big carbon steel cooker?

Yeah things are so darn expensive nowadays. But I guess if it lasts a life time, or so they say, I guess worth it? Hah Which carbon steel pan brand are you rocking?

@@kingsleychan I have the Made-In Carbon Wok, De Buyer Fry pan, and Ballarini

@@theOGabcduong nice nice. I haven't read up on Ballarini before, gotta check them out!

Hey Russell! Wow 1944! They weren't joking when they say cast iron pans can last forever, not even a life time but legit forever. Haha Hmm mine is quite heavy, I don't have a scale tho, but holding it in my hand it's quite heavy. Prob lighter than your 2.2kg cast iron tho, but I think it'll be challenging to cook with Esp since I'm coming from the world of stainless steel!

Hey Brent! Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I Know right so so wild to open this box with all these top tier players. Was super super happy =D Have you been getting into the Star cards as well?

Nice nice! I shld re read it one of these days, I forgot the story line.

Lolol love the pun! Hahahah. Yah I love this knife block, an art piece in my kitchen haha

Whoa I totally missed that. Hahaha wow hilarious. I guess quality control was far from great. Haha

Ohhhhh right right. That totally makes sense. It looked like a collar but ya now that u pt it out that it's his mask, that makes a lot of sense! Hah thanks

Haha yah lucky on that one to keep the 9.6! The cgc Gods were nice on this one

Yah super surprised and happy to get this! A lot of the fleer cards were from his personal collection when he pack pulled them too! So cool

Thank you thank you!! I was quite nervous and excited for this one. Glad it came back same grade. Altho now, 10 is the newest thing! Haha

Hah thank you thank you!! I do love that 20th anniversary X-men, its just like the OG but better! The wolvie #1 I was soooooooo happy to get back 9.8SS. Was quite nervous about that one with all the sigs, and the previous slab had no inner well. So i was double nervous that the sigs might have colour transfer when it got unslabbed. Phew

Hey John, haha thanks for the words of encouragement!! Yah I need to get out of the concept of 9.8 or recycled paper =p 9.6 is def a respectable grade! Are you big on Xmen comics? Or what do you like to collect?

These ones were from a long time ago, these are the Mexican variants. But nowadays, for newer foil books you can prob get em at your local comic book store. Or check out Archrival comics on FB They often get the foils at the launch date and can get em signed too!

@@kingsleychan Yeah I just got xmen 24 foil for 38 shipped

@@Scorch904 Ooo love that gambit rouge cover. So iconic

Hey Wayne, Hahaha. It's like being an addict, can't put it down =p But yeah I def am slowing down. Saving up for a big purchase. Yeh that green label was shitty. Oo nice nice, I think I saw Jim Lee doing a signing again at cgc. I think worth doing coz he only keeps hiking up his autograph fee!

Yes, so the back story is that this is Les Chroniques de Spawn 6, which is the French reprint of Spawn 149&150, limited to /666, so they hand numbered the back. Then I sent it to CC to get Jim Lee to sign it a while ago, but the slab was damaged in transit to me, so this box just came back from getting reholdered. I really liked this sketch by Jim, but on the regular Spawn 150 he drew, this sketch was on the back cover. So I found this French version that used the sketch on the front.