/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14409951
This is what unseasoned cast iron looks like. If it doesn't look like this, then it's seasoned, and soap won't strip it off.

Stainless steel can be just as nonstick as cast iron or actual nonstick pans if you give it a "temporary" seasoning. Just heat the pan up until it's quite hot, put a tiny bit of oil in, spread it around with a paper towel then wipe it out. It'll pretty much be nonstick until you wash it, even if you use it at a lower temperature after.

>>14409967
>This is what unseasoned cast iron looks like. If it doesn't look like this, then it's seasoned, and soap won't strip it off.
wow im dumb, all this time i thought cast iron was always black but i guess it makes sense that retailers will only have seasoned cast iron just so braindead people like me won't have to worry about maintenace

guess I'll just keep doing what i do.

You can use soap and a sponge to clean it, just heat it up after you’re done to evaporate the water so it doesn’t rust. Also don’t scrub too hard and avoid acidic shit, you should be good.

These are amazing and helped my cast iron cleaning become braindead.

Just after you finish cooking (while it's still fucking hot), scrape down the bottom with a metal spatula to keep anything from sticking as it cools.
After it's cool, use the lodge scrapers for the crusty stuff, then a brush with soap to get it 90% clean, then a quick once over with a soaped sponge.
Dry with cloth towel, finally dry with a paper towel to remove the last bit of moisture.

I have stainless steel chain mail when things get extra bad but luckily I don't need it often.

Most modern dish soaps aren't "soap", they're "detergent".

It doesn't strip away the seasoning the same way.

Wash, dry well, wipe with oil after drying, done.

>>14409951
Rust is actually nutritious, the concern with rust is it causing tetanus when stuck under the skin after an injury

>>14409982
That's a shitpost idiot, modern cast iron pans not being smooth should have tipped you off.

>>14409967
>>14409982
Thats not cast iron you absolute imbeciles, thats machined steel

No, seasoning is completely a meme. Notice how it has never made a difference ever

>>14410082
>wipe with oil after drying, done.
Wait. Really? Won't that go rancid?

>Lodgemfg.com
>Rub a very light layer of cooking oil or Seasoning Spray onto the surface of your cookware. Use a paper towel to wipe the surface until no oil residue remains.
Well shit. Guess I'll start doing this now.

>>14410165
>>14410150
You absolute fucking morons. So confident when you know nothing.
It's cast iron. You can machine cast iron. They're two separate manufacturing processes often used together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmNyOCzpC8

>>14410333
is there an actual advantage to this or is more for enthusiasts just like the whole idea of raw jeans?
i just want something that works. I'll stick to pre seasoned

>>14409951
>but i don't want stainless steel because shit sticks too easily to it.
I don't have stainless steel but I've heard that you can season it similar to cast iron too.

also what does /ck/ think about aluminum pans? Like OP I want to be able to cook at high temperature (so no non-stick since apparently cooking above medium gives you cancer) but I also don't want to have to spend 15 minutes pre-heating every time I want to cook anything (so no cast iron).
That leaves stainless steel, but the problem with that is it's so expensive. Looks like aluminum is half the price of stainless steel, so can I use that instead?

>>14410333
No shit its fucking cast iron, i assumed you were shitposting about commercial cast iron pans looking like that because they don't fucking machine commercial pans

>>14410416
Smooth cast iron pans have significantly better non-stick properties to normal commercial pans, and it used to be a standard. Modern pans not being smooth is purely sn economical decision from the producers.

>>14410651
>Smooth cast iron pans
oh that is true. I'll definitely make sure to put that in my wishlist for the future

>>14410432
Aluminium seeps into food and is SERIOUSLY toxic. Only restaurants use that, but since you eat twice a year in a restaurant it doesn’t matter.

>>14410432
Aluminum is poisonous retard, its almost as bad as lead

>>14410813
WTF I eat at restaurants all the time, a lot more than twice a year. How the fuck is that shit legal then? And why would restaurants need aluminum, can't they afford stainless steel? What advantage does aluminum have?

>>14410826
Elmao, learn how to cook you fucking retard. Aluminum heats up super fast and cools down just as well, it’s perfect for cooking because of how reactive to temperature change it is. But it’s also seriously toxic.
You want stainless steel 3 ply, single piece.

>>14410150
Tetanus comes from bacterial spores that can be found in rusty, not rust itself you dumbass.

>>14410839
I do know how to cook you "fucking retard"
And does this mean that cooking in aluminum foil is bad? I go camping a lot and will do things like bake a potato wrapped in aluminum foil in the campfire.
Or even in the oven, I line my baking sheets with aluminum foil and I'll cook something like that in the oven at least once a week. Should I not do that?

>>14410944
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/6390-is-aluminum-cookware-safe
You’re both retarded

>>14409951
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5820-the-ultimate-way-to-season-cast-iron

>falling for the meme pan

Why do people keep doing this? It is so obvious how retarded cast iron is. a stainless steel pan does everything a cast iron can do but requires like 1% of the effort to use and clean.

>>14411117
>In short: While untreated aluminum is not unsafe, it should not be used with acidic foods, which may ruin both the food and the cookware.
idgaf about "ruining the food" this sounds like those snobs who refuse to drink beer that comes in aluminum cans.
But as for ruining the cookware what are we talking about? Is it like, "cook with lemon juice one time and your cookware is ruined" or more like "if you cook with lemon/tomato/vinegar every week for several years your cookware will be ruined"?

just get a carbon steel skillet

>>14409951
>i stopped giving a fuck and i just clean my cast iron with soap and sponge.

Just wipe it clean with a paper towel. I haven't washed my cast iron frying pan in over 10 years.

>>14410432
50$ IS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR A PAN? FUCK RIGHT OFF NIGGER

>>14410290
No, it burns off when you heat up the pan

>>14409951
>i stopped giving a fuck and i just clean my cast iron with soap and sponge.
i even use the scratchy side. who cares? if it works, it works.

>>14411831
>be white supremacist
>be retarded CAPSLOCKFAG
go away
>>14409951
since this is the pan thread what does /ck/ think of titanium? Looking for a camping pan and saw this. I've never heard of cooking with titanium before, is it good?

>>14409951
Don't worry about it, just dry it off after on low heat, hell turn pan face down on the burner even on high heat to get rid of moisture in the actual pan itself, rub down with a little oil if you're not lazy.

>>14411933
Heat distribution is probably abysmal in that thing.

>>14411941
this. any pan will cook something but it might not cook evenly which will just fuck you over

>>14409951
Just dry it after done washing and add some oil to coat. There no more rust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suTmUX4Vbk

>>14409951
>soap and sponge
You dont even need to do that. Just get it hot, the run it under hot tap water and it will come out clean, the steam cleans it off.

>>14410651
>it used to be a standard
Lol no it wasnt. They were a little smoother than modern lodge, but nowhere near smooth. Those old cast iron pans are smooth now because of decades of metal spatulas scraping against the bottom.
I am old enough that I bought my wagner skillets new, and they were absolutely not smooth. They are now after 40 years of daily use. Second data point is my mom who's getting close to the end recently told me to go through her cast iron and pick what I wanted, these were all over a hundred years old, she had gotten them from her great grandmother after her death. You could tell which pans they used all the time and which ones just hung there on the wall. The pans with worn fire rings had smooth bottoms, the ones with barely marked fire rings had rough bottoms. The only exception was her omelette pan, which was smooth inside but not by machining, it looked like it had been lightly peened, and goddamn is it an amazing omelette pan.

so, in a related sense
is there a way to strip away heavy layers of polymerized oil?
i.e if you have a tick seasoning and it chips somewhere and you want to just redo the whole thing?

>>14412671
Wire wheel.

>>14410826
Aluminum heats up pretty much as fast as your stove can handle, weighs nothing, and is extremely cheap. I work in a restaurant and all of our pots are aluminum. We make all the sauces and meats in them and those things are seriously pitted. I cant imagine how much aluminum customers are consuming in their sauces and pastas.

>>14411933
>be tourist unfamiliar with chan parlance
>get unreasonably mad when someone says 'nigger' and assume he's a Nazi

>>14410290
It will go rancid after a long time, but that's irrelevant assuming you're gonna use the pan again soon. For long term rust protection (i.e. putting the pan in storage), rub it with food grade mineral oil which won't go rancid like cooking oils do.

>>14411776
10 years? Post that shit I bet there is chicken and steak calcified onto it at this point.

>>14413600
Bet there's not you fucking idiot. You've obviously never used good cast iron

>>14413623
I'm not saying the pan is bad I'm saying your upkeep of the pan is an atrocity to the point where food must of turned into elemental carbon with how long it's been on it.

>>14413455
even here you really only use nigger if you're a racist. fag is evergreen and doesn't mean you hate gays though

>>14413640
niggerfaggot
i hate you newfags so much
take your 13 yo ass back to reblit
fuck
better yet, kys

>>14413640
just to be sure and it warrants another post
I fucking hate you and your kind
i want to see you featuring in a rekt thread
drop, anus first, onto a chainlink fence pole

>>14409967
I am fully erect, or rather I would be if I hadnt jacked off two minutes ago

>>14411566
If I'm doing all that shit I'm sanding and polishing the inside first. The difference between the heirloom machined cast iron I learned to cook on and the modern one I bought made me leave that bitch on a shelf for two years until I got more into cooking and learned what was up. Yeah heavy use will smooth it over the years but nobody got time for that.

>>14410651
doubt it makes much of a difference
my carbon steel skillets have about the same amount of non-stickness as my 'rough' cast iron skillets, both cook eggs fine (if you use a little bit of oil/butter)

and I should also mention that neither match up to a coated alu non-stick pan (which really is only useful for delicate fish and eggs)

also all you need to do is let the pan cool down a little and pour in some hot water to deglaze
if it takes a lot more effort than that, you're probably just burning your food

take away points: 1. rough surface is fine 2. if you think cast-iron is "high-maintenance" you're probably doing something wrong

>>14413768
>>14413774
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