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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I used to love cast iron but carbon steel has stolen my heart

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

it's just a pan

You can take care of your pans anyway you want. But it's telling when people treat neglect like it's an ethic.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I love cast iron for cooking. It's also very forgiving. Depending what I am cooking it gets treated carefully for the seasoning, or scrubbed with dish soap. The beautiful thing is I can take it camping, come home and scrub all the 'seasoning' off, then re-season with 30 min in the oven an a bit of olive oil.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I wash my cast iron with normal dish soap and steel wool, and if I'm too lazy, I put it in the dishwasher. I've been doing this for 20 years. I don't "season" it. It's a pan, no more, no less. The main advantage is that you don't need to worry about scratching the shit out of it.

Needs a tiny little bit more fat than a non-stick if you want to make an omelette.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Same here, though i don't use steel wool and i do season it every now and then
The pan handles it like a champ

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can wash Cast Iron all you like, I wouldn't suggest the dishwasher, just don't use soap, scrape with a plastic paint scrapper under hot water, heat until smoking, rub some oil on it, let cool. Easy peasy. After knowing we're all poisoning ourselves with the nonstick coating and have been for decades, the Cast Iron is a great nonstick alternative.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Use "soap" if you want. Modern dishwashing liquid doesn't have lye in it. It's the lye from old school rendered soap that damages the seasoning.

Don't use anything with an abrasive more than the rough side of a sponge, and even with that, don't rub super hard or in the same place for too long.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 days ago (9 children)

It’s insane to me that people don’t wash them and call it seasoning.

It’s apparently a different story when someone seasons their underwear.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just FYI, you do wash cast iron, you just don't use detergents on it. One common method is to dump a handful of salt and a tiny splash of water into the pan and start scrubbing. You can use a gentle dish soap, but I'd avoid using the dishwasher, because those detergents will be a lot stronger and will actually ruin the seasoning (as well as linger on the surface and end up in your food, which is also bad).

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Modern soaps/detergents don’t contain lye, which is what ruins the seasoning. It’s the humid drying of a dishwasher that causes it to rust. Nothing to with the detergent.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I just wash it as normal, you just need to re-fry/season it once in in 3-5 months or so. People that don't wash it usually let it become rusted and dirty as well.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Whatsa matter? You don’t like your pancakes to taste like last nights steak?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

You would probably like cast iron more if you stopped committing war crimes against it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

its just a fry pan

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