/ck/ - Food & Cooking

can't you fix it by reseasoning it or whatever

I don't know anything about castiron btw

also how do you clean cast iron pans after cooking something?

also what are the benefits of a cast iron pan?

>>6466303
I can fix it, but still. Some people say it adds more flavor, I just bought it to see what I could do with it, but most of the time I ended up using the non stick.
Also, if taken good care, they might out live you.

>>6466303

Food tastes better in cast iron.

>Hey m8, keep those jars instead of throwing them out, I can use them
>sure thing
>THEY KEEP THROWING THEM OUT

Back when I was a teenager me mom used to empty all the water out of the pots I was soaking only to wait to wash them the next day while complaining how hard they were to clean.
Also my mother had a fairly cheap but good set of knives which my younger brother fucked up by sticking them into chopping boards and other edgy shit when he was done chopping whatever awful dish he felt like wasting the ingredients of.

>>6466424
To be fair, I know people that say they're saving these giant cups from fast food restaurants with "yea I'll use them over and over" YET there they sit unused for months. I throw them out and they don't even notice.

also
>mom always leaves sopping wet dish rags and sponges in sink
>never wrings them out
>never rinses them out
>always complains when it gets sour smelling
Since I've moved out, I've had to check on my pets whenever I go out of town. She ALWAYS leaves a wet sponge in the sink. MAA STAHP. My brother is the same way at his house. Luckily his new girlfriend is on top of that shit. I was so tired of using the bathroom and drying my hands off on a SOUR towel hanging there. What the fuck is wrong with people? How can they stand the smell of sour mildewy hands after touching that shit UGH fuck

>>6466446
Why aren't you wearing rubber gloves while touching and cleaning dirty dishes?

>>6466488
I'm someone else, but why would you? I don't even use soap or a rag unless something is really stuck on, my hand works well enough to remove any residue or debris.

>>6466497
Why wouldn't you use at least soap? I guess I have OCD. I wanylt soap to touch a dish after someone else has eaten off of it.

Gloves because my hands start cracking and peeling after being in a sink full of water for a half hour washing dishes.

>>6466518
I've developed a severe lack of faith in anything and everything, but most specifically humanity's knowledge and capacity for intelligent engineering. I don't like natural soaps nor conventional ones, so I just don't bother. In truth though, on a deeper level it has its root in habit, which developed out of something I don't really want to go into.

We're more bacteria than self cells to begin with, and I suppose my immune system has proven reliable enough. If it was on my plate and made its way into my stomach to begin with, the worst thing forming will probably be yeast. It's on;y my own health on the line, so I suppose I'm willing to take that risk.

>>6466531
To answer >>6466488, I have a dishwasher. My hands don't get soaked long enough to warrant a pair. The rags/sponges are more to just scrub stuck on items and cleaning down the sink.

>>6466531
but like, soap breaks down fat and oil residue on your plates.

>>6466547
All I eat is turkey, which is fairly lean meat. Don't use oils to cook either.

Cheese will occasionally create something oil-like, but it comes right off. It's pretty much two extreme with not much in the middle for me, either it readily comes off well enough or with a bit of persistence, or it's outright baking soda/vinegar soak and scrub later level.

>>6466561
ur a weird dude

>>6466563
Probably.

>>6466446
Yeah I don't hoard them, but these people literally eat the lemon curd and dried tomatoes and other such things I have stored in old crappy jars and then throw out the jars I've reminded them to not touch. I even put them on the established 'needs to be washed' side of the sink rather than the recycling side.

On a somewhat similar vein to wet towels, my bloody mother had a thing about only ever having one tea towel in the kitchen for some ungodly reason. It was so ingrained that it remained that it took commercial experience to realize how horrid relying on one tea towel is. One fucking towel between two people working when I'm used to three or so hanging off me at all times.
Fuck

>>6466561
I understand the sentiment, I cook a lot of different things and I wash them almost immediately after using them. Usually just with a blast of scalding hot water. Anything that cultures on the miniscule remains is going to be absolutely pathetic compared to what already insignificant food carried bacteria isn't destroyed in cooking.
I do use soap after cooking with a lot of oil but that's just because it lifts off with fewer rinses.

I feel your pain.( a famous Clinton (Bill) saying). and a registered Pub myself. Cast iron is heavy as you get older, very. and reworkable. I mostly use thick bottom stainless, And like cast, it takes a while for the minute cracks to "fill in". I do use cuisenart or other thick, quality. But... I have a little beat up fry pan, wore off most of the coating, use it for everything, and some well meaning relitives were scrubbing it with steel wool and soap. It takes a while to build that up. I was outraged. They were not a child. Just a beat up old fry pan. You don't do that. I know this is not pol, and the Clintons are not perfect (like me, of course) but barring anything terrible, Hillary has got it.Yeah, not perfect, like I am. DON'T SCRUB OLD PANS IN SOAPY WATER.. yOU may not like what you find. Thanks Ck.

>>6466303
you dont use soap to clean cast iron, i had one, its a bit hard to accept not using soap to clean, but you will get used to it

>>6466298
Yeah, the seasoning on my Lodge pan got ruined a few years ago by a lazy room mate who went into my room, grabbed by pan from my kitchen shit I keep in there so they don't use it, used it, and then dumped it in the sink full of his other dirty dishes and filled it with water.

I told him it was ruined and made him buy me a new pan for all that shit. He knew he wasn't supposed to be using the stuff I keep in my room but he did anyway because he was too lazy to do his dishes.

>>6466823
>I told him it was ruined and made him buy me a new pan for all that shit.

I really hope you intended this as a lie to get another pan. Please tell me you didn't throw the old one away.

>>6466446
i know what you mean anon. nothing like gross stinky dishcloths
i refuse to use them and i dont want to wash them with my clothes so i have found a solution..

i just use bounty paper towels. a few work as a dishcloth for a day or two then into the trash. if i clean something really bad or used with raw chicken etc i just chuck them right away.
they dont rip or tear and you always have something clean

>>6466303
Benefits: easy to clean, best non-stick properties, indestructible. But that's only true if you know how to use and clean cast-iron.