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Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/24/2023, 7:13 PM

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frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe9/22/2023, 4:20 PM

Cast Iron Pan Tips

As someone that loves cooking & uses their cast irons alot I have some tips I've picked up over the years:

It's cast iron it doesn't care
It's cast iron it doesn't care
Flax Oil (the refrigerate after opening kind is best for this i think?), for me at least, is the best oil to use for putting on some seasoning.
It's cast iron it doesn't care
Do not leave in the sink - wash it and dry it and get it outta there asap
It's cast iron it doesn't care
Wash it with soap & water. "oh it'll strip the seasoning" you know what else strips the seasoning? Getting a hard sear on a burger or a steak. Making hotdogs. Day to day use of the cast iron pan. You are going to need to add a layer of seasoning sometimes and you just have to learn to live with it.
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That shit with the kosher salt, vegetable oil, and a paper towel? Don't bother. Soap. A scouring pad.

#cooking #food #it's a shitpost but there's genuine advice in here #cast iron #cast iron cooking #cast iron seasoning #cast iron pan

Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/24/2023, 7:13 PM

(if it comes off in the sink or dishwasher that's probably not seasoning and more likely to just be food grime. seasoning is a polymer reaction when you heat the oil enough. flax is one of the best. but food grime works in a pinch.)

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in reply to @micolithe's post:

Pendell @pendell9/22/2023, 4:48 PM

I did hear you're not supposed to bring soap near brand new, unseasoned cast iron cookware because it'll absorb some of the soap and then everything you cook will taste like soap.

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe9/22/2023, 4:56 PM

OK so unseasoned, yes you wouldn't want soap to touch it, but they don't sell them unseasoned because they would start rusting just from the moisture in the air.

If your cast iron is unseasoned, it's because you've actively done the work to remove the seasoning and start over fresh.

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe9/22/2023, 5:26 PM

Actually, thinking about it more, if you were to wash unseasoned cast iron with soap and then put on a layer of seasoning, that would in theory lock the soap in? But also I feel like that might push up the seasoning eventually if it's not totally dry and clean when you go to apply the oil and bake it on.

Pendell @pendell9/22/2023, 6:01 PM

Ah well nevermind then haha, my parents are just paranoid.

@secrets9/22/2023, 6:17 PM

If you leave a bunch of soap in there and don't wash it out it'll make everything taste like soap, and if you then dump oil into your soapy pan it'll bond to the soap rather than polymerizing into seasoning, but this is more an issue of someone's gross dishwashing habits than of soap being pan poison. Every wood utensil is way more porous than cast iron and nobody worries about them touching soap.

@secrets9/22/2023, 5:58 PM

Those little chainmail scrubbers are the absolute shit though, that bit is real everything else is fake

library of squirrel @keisisqrl9/24/2023, 7:55 PM

They're so good. Better living through metallurgy.

fictive @artemis9/24/2023, 6:43 PM

this might get me to buy a cast iron ngl

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