/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19784164
>be me
>fall for the cast iron meme
>$150+
>"Made in the US from humanely sourced, cruelty free, grass fed metals, fair trade, vegan, support small businesses, etc."
>oil this, clean that, brush this
>taking care of the skillet takes almost as much time as cooking itself
>EVERYTHING
>FUCKING
>STICKS
>fuck that, go to nearest shartmart
>buy a $20 skillet
>made from chinesium-teflon-lead alloy by a child slave in some cancer village
>the lid and the skillet don't match, search engines throw blanks when I input the company name
>looks like someone tried to run a nuclear test in it after decades of using it as a cricket bat
>nothing sticks, cooks like a beast
How? Why and how the fuck does everything stick to cast iron, a material that predates the industrial revolution?