/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13800537
i just keep it in the trunk for slapping punk bitches like you across the head with when you get to uppity about how "stainless isn't as good as meme iron"

>>13800537
who is holding that pan? she has nicely shaped nails. i bet her feet look nice

>>13800537
Use a dish washer for best results.

Handwash with soap like any other pan
Unlike other pan:
grease with a light layer of whatever cooking oil
throw it back on the range to cook that off
done

If it's rusting, you need steel wool to scrub it off

>>13800537
Scotch brite pad, Dawn Platinum detergent and cold water. Sure to make it gleam for decades to come.

>>13800537
Cast iron is a /ck/ meme, there's a reason nobody uses that old shit anymore now that we have good non-stick pans.

>>13800611
>>13800629
thanks

>>13800656
>>13800602
bad bait

>>13800671
I've always heard you should never use any soap on cast iron
check this video out
https://youtu.be/PDTCgxvmShc
he's a pro

>>13800671
can u post ur feet ? id like to see ur toes

>>13800712
It's not my picture. It's from reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/bcdmzq/boyfriend_put_skillet_through_the_dishwasher/

>>13800537
I scrape the oil out of mine after use, light oil, wipe it out, oil it, wipe it down, back in the oven until I need it or the oven.

>>13800725
u fucking nigger

>>13800729
dilate

>>13800729
I would rather be an African-American than a degenerate who gets excited over a woman's hand, good sir.

>>13800738
i was more excited to see her feet 2bh

>>13800537

Rub your preferred oil all over it. I use pork fat.

Bake it in the oven at 375° for an hour upside down.

Repeat a few times to get a good coating on there.

>>13800537
Only light surface rust. Half a cup of coarse kosher salt or quartz sand, enough vegetable oil to torn it into a slurry, an old rag, some elbow grease and ten minutes of your time will make that like new again.

>>13800725
lmao all the hot sauce collecting neckbeards going "dump your boyfriend"

>>13800677
>I've always heard you should never use any soap on cast iron

Bullshit. I've done it every time I've used my pans for ages, now. No issues, whatsoever. If it gets washed away by soap, it wasn't polymerised to begin with. Myths like these are what make people thinkt hat cast iron is a meme.

CI needs just a few things:
-Clean with soap
-Dry with heat
-Lightly oil
-Leave to cool

Oil it, bake it, wash it. Do this repeatedly. Never stop. Just keep oiling it, baking it, and washing it. Whatever you were going to do--fuck that--just keep oiling, baking and washing. Fifteen years from then, you will be able to cook your first meal. After which--you oil, bake and wash the pan again.

>>13800677
>no soap
You can use soaps today. Old soaps had lye in it, new soaps don't. Lye is bad for cast iron.

>>13800677
(((Weissman)))


Fuck off

>>13800548
Based.

>>13800537
>Fry stuff in it.
>wipe clean with paper towels afterwards

If it's really dirty rinse with hot water, then wipe. Never use soap.

>>13800725
Seriously though, that's fine. Just wipe off the rust and give it another seasoning and it's as good as new. The nice thing about cast iron and carbon steel is that you can always fix it. It's not like coated pans that are ruined once the surface gets scratched.

>>13800725
>there's a subreddit for cast iron

>>13806051
Very based post

>>13806458
newfag

>>13806516
I'm not only a newfag. I have never actually used that site.
I've seen a few screenshots of come to the conclusion that I would hate having to use the UI there.

How do you use cast iron without stinking up your place?
>wash with mild soap
>heat dry
>rub oil and heat until it smokes
>now your place stinks like oil

>>13806392
thank you

>>13800537
Don't fuck it up, that's #1. #2 is get a proper patina on it. #3 is never use metal on the thing. #4 is remember those first three and don't be a moron.

>>13806888
Open the window

Pretending that cast iron requires special care is a psyop by the nonstick pan industry to get people buying their delicate garbage.

Just cook with it.

It's like how crisco pretended that their vegetable shortening was modern and awesome to get everyone to ditch lard but in reality crisco is trash and lard was great.

>>13802947
>Clean with soap
Only if you want to. Not necessary.
>Dry with heat
No. Not necessary. Just towel dry.
>Lightly oil.
No. Not necessary. It gets oil on it when you cook.
>Leave to cool.
Skip the unnecessary heating and it will be the same temperature as the water you washed it with.

>>13800537
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2KKOnIzkBE

>>13800537
Steel wool and hot soapy water then reseason it then never use hot soapy water on it again unless you are going to season it again. Then cook with it. Cooking with cast iron is one of the best ways to maintain seasoning.

why does carbon steel not get the love cast iron does here?
wouldn't a smoother surface mean better seasoning?

>>13807017
You don't let yours cool before washing?

>>13807017
>No. Not necessary. It gets oil on it when you cook.
That's to prevent rusting, doofus. But I suppose it's not as much of a concern if you're using it constantly

>>13800537
Belt sander and the oil from my thousands of finished cans of /deenz/

>>13800656
Shitty cast iron (lodge, amazon basics, etc) is a meme. The older stuff that they used to grind and polish down until it was smooth is terrific though.

>>13800671
My seasoning is so much better on my skillet now that I’ve totally stopped using soap entirely. Highly suggest never using it.

>>13800738
I'd rather you were neither cunt