/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20181543
What is your oil/fat of choice? Remember this is a blue board, so use the appropriate code names for any illicit lipids.

Nice seasoning, OP. I think you can tell a lot about someone by how their seasoning looks.

>tfw will never be the guy on reddit that has 100 seasoning coats on his cast iron
why live

>>20181571
nta but flax seed

>>20181579
Way to ruin the thread. Please post a less offensive image next time, like a Coinslot.

>>20181581
>Using flaxseed oil to season cast iron pans is a growing trend. Flaxseed oil has a very low smoke point—at just 225 degrees F—which means it's quick to polymerize into a layer of seasoning. But, it can be quite expensive and difficult to find. It also has a strong smell to it.
Sounds like the Reddit option desu (speaking as a hotsauce-swilling fedora'd sir).

>>20181571
I use olive oil I like olive oil

>>20181571
Bacon fat or Pic related.

>>20181685
no olive oil you idiot
no, olive oil you idiot

>>20181581
>>20181593
I used flax seed oil on one of my pans and while it initially looked good the seasoning flaked off horribly. I built up enough seasoning just by cooking in it that the pan works fine but it is quite ugly

>>20181543
Your seasoning looks like actual trash, gtfo

>>20181967
go back

>>20181969
You can't tell me to go anywhere, especially when you're letting all those damn illegals across the border and into our neighborhoods so they can sell meth and fentanyl. Liberal scum like yourself will be eradicated in the next revolution.

My carbon steel seasoning looks like this after a month, is it really fine if it looks like this or should I start over?

>>20181999
Looks perfect to me

>>20181999
looks fine. keep cooking.

>>20181571
Sunflower oil

High smoke point and does not go rancid

>>20181803
Flakey seasoning is due to using too thick of a coat of oil. You want to wipe off basically all of the oil before seasoning it. The layer of oil each time you season it should be microscopic.

>sneed owl
for me its lard

>>20181579
The twat in the middle ruins both pans.

>>20181571
Erm... Long-pig fat?

>>20182057
how the oil go rancid its seasoning not oil you make it hot into seasnoning not oil you idiot if it can go rancid you didnt actually fucking season it you just slathered oil on it!!

>>20181543
You are actually a retard that has fall for a shitty trend made only for visual.
Seasonging is brain dead retarded and it's no use.

>>20181543
Seasoning is a meme, the pans come presaesoned, just cook in it. And dont cook acids in it.
But for science I foudn it was good the cook a whole package of bacon chopped up to make crispy bacon bits. It seasons the pan nicely, and then you have bacon bits to sprinkle on everything, and a small jar of lard to save to cook with later.
For the lurkers: Don't fall for the cast iron cult extremism. Just cook with it, then scrub with picrel, then keep it dry and oiled so it doesn't rust, the end. You don't have to clean it with enchanted chain mail and salt from the unicorn sea.
And it's normal for food to stick, just wait until it's done cooking and it'll "release".

>>20183965
>it's normal for food to stick
only for you cast iron faggots.

if cast iron was so good it wouldn't need seasoning to work
cast iron is shit

>>20181706
I can not go rancid i use it every day, often multiple times.

>>20182376

>>20181571
I use lard. I will never let seed oils touch my pan (I sanded off the factory bullshit).

>>20184119
yes yes yes good
if it goes rancid you're not a real cook you're just lying and pretending you are a liar

>>20182066
this is liar bs straight from the mouth of satan
he wants to trick you into having a bad experience with cast iron and seasoning so you swear off it
don't listen to his lies
if you dont use a good amount of oil, it won't become smooth and flat and truly nonstick

>>20184126

>>20181999
jesus christ thats just a dirty pan. scrub it down with a stainless steel sponge and soap until the soap runs clear. "seasoning" should be a translucent glaze that seals the raw iron, preventing oxidation.

>>20183965
kek chain mail scrubbers is the most reddit shit ive ever heard of

>>20183965
Chainmail leaves the seasoning in the divots of the cast iron, giving the new layer of seasoning more "grip". Steel wool can strip the pan completely. Salt absorbs oil and grime but is really only needed for gummy stuck on debris. The process is OLD and it works best.

>>20181579
The pan in the middle is looking kinda rough.

>>20185160
Chainmail is stupid, it doesn't even work sometimes if the stuck-on debris is the wrong size/shape. And I still read people saying chainmail damaged their seasoning anyway. And why are you are going to waste salt when dish soap is cheaper. Gummy debris... just wash it off with soap and sponge.
Steel wool works great, just don't scrub hard. Over time cooking with the pan and scraping it with metal tools the pan becomes more and more smooth. new layers of seasoning on CI don't need grip, you make things more gay and complicated than they have to be. Then people come in these threads like "cast iron is so complicated and finicky!" Just fucking cook in it and after you wash it dry it. That's it. THATS IT.

>>20185180
>>20185160
this is bs literally just cook in it, wash with soap like anything else, dry and put away. no weird metal shit needed

>>20181543
Just use a fucking steel pan with lard (never sticks) or with a a tbsp spoon of seed oils right after it starts smoking.

steel > cast iron.

>>20181543
You're just wasting oil.
Does it stick? Does it have exposed iron?
No? Then stop fucking around.
>>20183965
From factory they are seasoned just enough not to rust during transport. Oil is expensive.
>scrub
Don't, unless you've fucked up big time and there is a piece of charcoal stuck to the thing.
>>20184096
Sticking is non-binary property.
Fresh PTFE pan - pretty good, let's say it is 100% on the non-stick scale.
Used PTFE pan with scratches and idk what - eh maybe, 80% on the scale.
Cast iron, with good layer of filth- seasoning - 90%
Polished SS - 50%
Scratched SS - 25%

I'd say cast iron (and prob carbon steel, same shit to me) are the best out of this list, since filth and usage makes them better over time, while others get worse.

>>20185185
but sir i need to consooom

>>20185185
Your shit is rusty

>>20185180
>New layers of seasoning don't need grip
Yes they do, otherwise they flake. Scrubbing with chain mail SHOULD flake off the seasoning on the high points, exposing the cast iron, requiring a new layer of seasoning. Scrubbing with the chain mail is only needed every other month or so, with typical household usage. Eventually, after years of use, the seasoning is really tough and doesn't come off with the chainmail as easily or as much. The oil molecules are all polymerized and bonded to the metal molecules. Weak seasoning has unpolymerized oil pockets that don't bond to the cast iron. It's not fancy magical bullshit, it's really simple chemistry. It's not possible to get the oil to completely bond with every surface molecule of cast iron. This is why you have to do very, very thin layers of oil when you season.

>>20185076
Jews consider pigs and their meat unclean, they would never use lard.

>>20185441
>you have to do very, very thin layers of oil when you season.
Or, you know, don't season and just cook with the thing. But I suppose that's not autistic enough.

>>20184300
You want to use a good amount of oil spread out over a half dozen or more coats. VERY thin coats.

He's right that if you just slop it on it'll chip and flake off in large bits if/when damaged.

>>20185663
So basically do the same thing but far less consistent. Wow great advice.

>>20185752
seasoning once is enough to slide an egg like a hockey puck. just cook with the thing, wash with soap, and dry. it's that simple

this is cast iron trannies version of dilating

>>20181543
Mine isnt this nice but the seasoning has finally built up enough to give me a clean release on my breads. Picrel, the bottom of my latest loaf

This is a ceramic nonstick pan. I never have to think about it and I just cook food in it. Instead of seasoning a pan I spend that time jacking off into a kitchen sponge.

>>20181593
you sound like you know a lot about reddit and what their users are into. maybe you should go back there

>>20181993
Illegals work harder than us, and pay their taxes. Oh, and they cook better than us too.

>>20181993
>next revolution
when's that coming? 2 more weeks?

>>20181571
my wife is extremely based so avocado oil, butter, peanut oil, or lard

the following are disqualified:
sesame/olive oil (low smoke point)
sunflower/canola/safflower oil (sneed)

>>20186497
enjoy your cadmium boomerboy

>>20186581
Closer to a fortnight.

>>20186625
the revolution will be a fortnite stream

>>20183844
Speak English

>>20181543
how is my seasoning?

>>20188238
Looks good. Any tips?

>>20186508
Faggot spotted. Go watch Maddow, disgusting simpleton.

>>20186508
As long as you still acknowledge they're illegal

>>20188283
cook food