/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11527044
Level 1: warm water
Level 2: warm water and kosher salt
Level 3: warm water and a little dish soap
Level 4: warm water and baking soda
Level 5: soaking and lots of dish soap
Level 6: oh fuck you're sanding

With the exception of level 6, let dry and then rub a thin layer of shortening or high smoke point oil all over it.

If you need to season it that involves oil and lots of time in the oven.

>>11527120
untrue

salt and peanut oil

>>11527044
that should tell you that there are many different ways and they all work. looking after a cast iron pan isn't as complicated or difficult as it first seems.

>>11527044
What the hell, man? I swear the average IQ of the modern human is 20-25 points lower than all preceding generations of humanity. Just scrub the thing until until it's clean. You know it's going to rust so you take anti rust measures. Just wipe some oil all over it. I've also heard that you can bake the crap out of it if you don't want to use oil but I'm too lazy for that.

>>11527548
>he doesn’t know either how to clean a cast iron.

Just end yourself.

>>11527044
1. Use water + salt to scrub rust off
2. Cover entire pan in high smoke point oil
3. Bake in oven at 350F for 1 hour
4. Wa la

>>11527044
My cast iron was completely fucked a few days ago from sitting unused. The bottom was all shitty and various shades of orange. I just used it today to make gravy and the bottom is completely stick free and clean. Literally all I did yesterday to get it to this usable good shape:
>scrub with rough sponge (scrub daddy brand) in hot water until stuff stopped coming off, no salt used
>dry with paper towel
>coat inside bottom with grape seed oil, didn't rub it in or anything, just covered the bottom
>put in oven for like an hour or something at 350
>take out of oven and let sit overnight
>wipe off the oil today like 24 hours later
wa la back to new

>>11527044
buy a vegetable brush and just scrub it under warm water that will clean off 99% of everything you can throw at it. soak it in some hot water if you need to but not terribly long. if that doesn't work you likely need to reseason it because you fucked it up.

>>11527562
How is that any different from what I just said?

>>11527044
let your dog lick it clean, store it wrapped in a salty wet rag

>>11527562
u dont even have to bake it in oven, juust heat it on the stove till dry

After use I just clean it with lukewarm water until clean.
Then I wipe it a bit with a dry cloth and heat it until dry on the stove top

>>11527044
Context: A cold pan previously cooked in the previous night, sauce crusted to the pan.

Put the pan on a burner set to high, wait till it gets hot enough to sizzle water. Add 1 cm of water to the pan, let it sizzle and scrape away the crusty bits with a metal spatula. Once confident nothing is still stuck to the pan, I bring it to the sink and rinse it off, maybe scrubbing it with a brush (no soap) under the water to get it clean. Shake the pan off as much as I can then I put it back on the heat to evaporate off the water. Once the water is gone I put a little oil back on the pan and let it cover all the now-bare surface. Done

>>11527593
make sure you tie it up real good or you will lose it when the tide goes

>use this meme pan you can't clean like any other cooking utensil or tool you own
stupida facking skillet

>>11527592
>bake the crap out of it if you don’t want to use any oil
Nigga do I need to explain annealing and tempering don’t have an effect on the coating of the cast iron lattice? Fucking brain let here.

>>11527044
in the trash

>>11527734
>selective reading/quoting to make an imaginary point

Boil water in the dirty pan, scrape it off with steel wool, coat it in oil. It's not rocket medicine.

just like you would wash a plate with warm water, dishwashing detergent and a standard dish brush.
polymerized oil is resilient enough to withstand plastic brush bristles and detergent

anything else is trying too hard and retarded tier
many misinfo retards itt

>>11527044
3M Cubitron Flap Disc
7" Makita Angle Grinder

store it in the trash and buy a nonstick

>>11528001
enjoy eating teflon flakes in ur omlette anon

>>11527044
What is it like to constantly be dabbed on by a slab of cast metal?

>>11528419
>eating teflon flakes
Teflon is one of the most chemically inert substances known. Nothing is going to happen if you swallow microscopic amounts.

Basic way is take kosher salt, a bit of water and a corse steel wool pad (or alternately a half a potato use the flesh side, ommit the water) and scrub until no rust remains. If things are really bad a wire brush or wire cup brush attachment on an angle grinder are good.


To season the pan take oil ( vegetable oil works well) and coat in a thin coat on all of the pan. Put in a 400f oven for around an hour then take out let cool and and repeat once more. You and a soild black coating.

If you put too much oil on you will end up with a a rubbery coating on the handle and other places that is no good.

Hope this helps

>>11528446
kys shitsack have u ever heard of teflon flu?
well I'd certainly avoid 'eating plastics' by any means even if theres nothing wrong with it

What's wrong with just scrubbing it with dish soap until all the food is gone, drying it, and storing it like any other pan?

Whenever I'm done cooking with mine, I deglaze it with cold water immediately. Even if I'm not making some kind of sauce, I just pour a cup or two of cold water and stir it around while it's on the heat. All the burnt crap that was sticking to it immediately releases and dissolves.

After that, hot water + a brush to clean it. Wipe dry before storing away. I don't need to oil it or season it again since I'm not using detergent to clean it.

>>11528509
It's iron, it is like carbon steel it will rust when left with no protection.

Scrubbing it with dishsoap removes the protective seasoning on the pan and leave bare iron which will rust very fast.

Stainless steel pans have rust inhibiting metals added to me them more resistant to rust and corrosion.

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Simple act of leaving a cast iron pan to dry can make it rust like mad.

Using soap is one of the worst thing because cast iron is so porus that it traps all that dishsoap in and makes your food taste like soap Everytime you cook In it.

>>11528550
absolute idiot

>>11528509
Dish soap remove the seasoning on the pan and defeats the whole purpose of using cast iron. You can just use stainless steel instead.

You CAN use soap every now and then, like once or twice a year but then you have to season your pan after.

>>11528574
>removes the seasoning on the pan and defeats the whole purpose of using cast iron
I don't see how removing an unrelated 'seasoning' would detract from the pans ability to be put in the oven.
Still don't understand why I would have to 'season' it after cleaning it.

>>11528550
>Simple act of leaving a cast iron pan to dry can make it rust like mad.
Perhaps my anecdotal experience is uncommon or rare, but I haven't experienced any rusting problems with my pan so far.
I've also never experienced a 'food tastes like soap' problem; even if I've made something right after cleaning it.

>>11528609
>Still don't understand why I would have to 'season' it after cleaning it.
Why the fuck are you even using cast iron?

Iron is very porous. Food will stick to it like crazy. It's also prone to rusting. The reason why you season the pan is to put a non-stick coating on it and to prevent it from rusting.

What seasoning refers to is rubbing it with oil or animal fat and heating it to a high temperature for longer periods of time. Just google cast iron pans and read up on them because you're missing the whole point of using cast iron.

If you're not going to properly season it and maintain the seasoning then just stick to stainless steel or non-stick pans.

I use a dish soap soaked sponge with a scrubby side (rough). the key to cast iron is to dry it all over carefully and oil it lightly with a neutral oil every time you clean it

>>11528786
>Why the fuck are you even using cast iron?
How about you try reading the post you're responding to.

>>11528509
Nothing

>>11528550
>Simple act of leaving a cast iron pan to dry can make it rust like mad.
If you're talking about a bare iron pan that's not been seasoned, then sure.

A properly seasoned pan will not spontaneously rust. Proper seasoning will not be removed by ordinary dish soap either.

Methinks you are unable to season your pans properly so you choose to keep them perpetually oily instead. You should fix that.

>>11527044
https://youtu.be/KLGSLCaksdY

I know, it's a fucking buzzshit channel, but once in awhile their content isn't complete shit.

And no, you can't use olive oil instead or something. Follow this to a tee.

>>11528574
>Dish soap remove the seasoning on the pan
Only if the seasoning was improperly done.

>You CAN use soap every now and then, like once or twice a year but then you have to season your pan after.
If your pan is properly seasoned you can use soap often, and you do not have to re-season afterward.

>>11528796
>carefully and oil it lightly with a neutral oil every time you clean it

If your pan is properly seasoned you don't have to waste your time doing silly shit like that.

>>11529683
>And no, you can't use olive oil instead or something. Follow this to a tee.
Any and all food-safe cooking oils or fats will work just fine, anon. Did you fail chem 101 or is there some other reason you're parroting bullshit?

Ive used the same cast iron for 5 years and soap/ scrubby sponge like I would any other pan. There isn't a spec of rust on the thing. Maybe once a week I'll retreat it on the stove by chucking in some oil and getting it to its smoke point

Srsly don't know what all the voodoo behind cast iron care is. Just don't be a retard and simmer acidic sauces in it for hours and or leave soapy water in it all night

>>11529699
>Srsly don't know what all the voodoo behind cast iron care is.
A combination of gearfags and morons causing confusion among noobs.

>>11529699
>once a week
you must have a lot of free time if you can commit time to caring for a pan once a WEEK. Seriously, some of us have social lives/girlfriends

>>11529684
sounds like you're not really washing it then

>>11529712
If you're got time to shitpost on 4chan then you've got time to season a skillet, especially since the seasoning process is hands-off and it can be going on while you are doing other things.

>>11529713
>sounds like you're not really washing it then
Nope. It sounds more like you are using a perpetually oily pan instead of one that's actually been seasoned.

You will never remove proper seasoning from an iron pan without lye soap and a LONG soak or abrasives like a power sander or a sandblaster. Proper seasoning is rock-hard and is not harmed by normal dish soap.

>>11529697
Olive oil has a low smoke temp and will burn to shit if you try and season a cast iron pan with it

>>11529724
not him, but any oil you use is going to be passing its smoke point when the pan gets that hot to polymerize the oil

>>11529724
>Olive oil has a low smoke temp
EVOO is not the only kind of olive oil, anon. Refined aka "light" olive oil, which is by far the most common at the market, has a very high smoke point.

Of course it would be dumb to use EVOO, but the post stated "olive oil" in general, not EVOO.

If scrubbing your pan with soap makes the "seasoning" come off, then it's not seasoning it's fucking grease that's caked on because you didn't wash your nasty pan. Seasoning is polymerized and it's stuck on there, it's not going to come off unless you sand it off. You wash your Teflon pans without worrying about the polymer coating washing off, right? It's just a regular ass pan, wash it. Not washing your pans after you cook with them is disgusting. Just dry it off really well over heat when you're done so it doesn't rust.

>>11529915
scrubbing pads WILL remove seasoning, but you're right that soap doesn't

The easy part about cast iron is when they get dirty you just take an angle grinder to it

>>11529970
No need.

>>11529970
It would probably be a good idea to do this to any cast iron that isn't old since they're not as smooth.

>>11530089
The smoothness makes no improvement.

>>11527044
chain mail

>>11530139
But how do you clean the chain mail?

Last week I was retarded and accidentally melted a microfiber dish cloth on the bottom of my pan. It's got caramelized plasticky bits all over the bottom. Should I be safe scraping these off, washing with vinegar/baking soda, and re seasoning, or should I just scrap the pan? I've heard of how porous iron is, don't want plastic or fumes in my food.

a decent quality pan will clean itself

>>11530148
dishwasher

>>11527607

>>11530148
Blood of the infidel

>>11530160
>>11530449
In retrospect the answer seemed obvious.

Chainmail and hot water
Google would tell you this.
Why the fuck do we have this thread every goddamn day
Fuck

Just get a Teflon pan, cast iron is just such a hassle

>>11531403
They're good for different things, I use both. Cast iron zealots are just really vocal and obsessive about a cheap simple fucking pan.

>muh chainmail
This works just fine and saves you the fedora cringe.

Stainless steel is easier to clean.

>>11529712
I guess it takes a bit more time than a teflon pan you can chuck in the dishwasher, but it doesn't take that much time to throw some oil in it and let it heat up while you load the dishwasher/clean up.

>>11527044
Or, if you want really good maillard reactions, don't season it.

>>11531485
How do you figure?

>>11531657
Let me guess, you're one of those morons that think seasoning is burnt food that you never wash off.

>>11527124
>(X)SHAWWWWN

>>11531596
Do stainless teflon coated pans even exist? All the ones I've ever seen are lightweight aluminum garbage, which I hope you're not putting in a dishwasher.

>>11531707
or, you could try it yourself and learn something..

>>11531718
Tefal has a line with nonstick pan and stainless steel exterior. It's not that uncommon I reckon.

>>11527044
I slather mine in soap and hot water, works well.
Can do over easy eggs rather easily.

>>11527044
Wash it with water before it cools down. dry it.

use this>>11531478

>>11527044
You give it away for a stainless steel one.

you can use soap as long as it's detergent-free. Detergents definitely do fuck cast iron seasoning