/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11928095]

This is the most retarded piece of cookware on the planet.

>buy one
>have to buy expensive ass flaxseed oil
>have to put it in the oven for an hour
>try to cook with it
>everything sticks
>finish cooking your shit food
>throw in a shit load of salt to clean it
>have to wait for it to cool down so it doesnt crack but cant let it get too cool or everything sticks
>clean it
>oil it again
>heat it up until your entire house smells like dog shit
>let it cool down and its finally done
>rusts anyways

[Anonymous No.11928099]

>>11928095
Just buy stainless steel. It’s good enough for professional kitchens, it’s good enough for you.

[Anonymous No.11928102]

>try new thing
>make things seem laborious and mentally difficult
>complain to 4chan about it
Just kidding you stupid faggot, you didn't even try a cast iron, you're just making a bait thread because you're some pathetic neet loser looking for attention and affirmation from an anonymous fast food discussion board

[Anonymous No.11928108]

>>11928102
You’re retarded.

[Anonymous No.11928122]

>>11928108
>make eggs on cast iron
>by cast iron I mean shittily seasoned garbage pan bough yesterday from target
>by make eggs I mean put eggs straight down on a screaming hot surface with no butter or oil
>never stir them
>they burn
>complain to 4chan about it
You are literally too retarded for a hunk of metal.

[Anonymous No.11928138]

>>11928122
I use a shit ton of oil you moron. The fact is that this fucking pan DOESNT WORK

[Anonymous No.11928141]

>>11928095
heat pan till 7/10
add canola oil and swish it around till it covers all area
let it cook in to the metal until it starts smoking
turn off heat
once cool, wipe up excess oil
repeat process several times

pretty easy, but then again I'm not retarded

[Anonymous No.11928145]

>>11928138
>a piece of metal DOESN'T WORK
ok retard

[Anonymous No.11928158]

why use cast iron for eggs? lol wrong application mate

[Anonymous No.11928159]

>>11928138
in my exp scrambled eggs arent the best idea in a cast iron

[Anonymous No.11928163]

>>11928159
You can do it, I cook eggs in my cast iron all the time when I go camping. OP is just a retard

[Anonymous No.11928184]

>>11928102
>cracked.com

[Anonymous No.11928193]

>>11928184
I'll leave it as a memento to when Cracked was actually interesting content and not SJW garbage

[Anonymous No.11928416]

>>11928095
If my great grandmother could take care of a pan well enough for it to get to me and still be perfectly clean, you must be retarded to have this much trouble.

[Anonymous No.11928423]

>>11928138
too much heat, not enough butter.

Hint: if making eggs in IC, heat needs to be low enough not to burn butter.

IC is not best pan for eggs.

IC is good as general oven pan.

Trick is you accept you don't clean it "all the way" between uses. Rinse out with water and leave grease film.

[Anonymous No.11928427]

>>11928163
I love my iron but seems like it would be wrong pan for camping.

weighs a ton, heats slow, hard to clean

I guess we are talking camping and not backpacking?

[Anonymous No.11928463]

>>11928095

What are you on about? I never “seasoned” my cast-iron frying pan, I just started cooking with it using butter and I haven’t washed the pan in 10 years, simply wiping it after cooking with a paper towel.

[Anonymous No.11928488]

>>11928463

Those look like some quality pans. That lodge pre-seasoned shit op has is pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.11928489]

>>11928095
>he doesn't know how to take care of his cast iron
Retard.

[Anonymous No.11928494]

>>11928095
>preheat oven to 450°F
>wipe with linseed oil
>wipe off linseed oil until it goes from shiny to dull
>leave in oven upside-down for 1 hour
>turn off oven and leave until completely cool
>repeat steps until a little butter and medium heat lets you slide an egg around the pan without sticking

If you fail seasoning your pan following these instructions, you might be mentally deficient, in which case I strongly urge you to remove yourself from the genepool.

[Anonymous No.11928602]

>>11928494
>linseed oil

Enjoy being poisoned.

[Anonymous No.11928624]

imagine entertaining your notions of being an actual chef to the point that you buy a frying pan that requires preparation and maintenance just to cook fucking scrambled eggs on and they still end up tasting like and having the consistency of shit compared to your mom's eggs that she made in a basic ass teflon coated pan

[Anonymous No.11928626]

>>11928488
https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/11/the-truth-about-cast-iron.html

[Anonymous No.11928634]

Do Americans really not know how to use anything but non-stick pans?

[Anonymous No.11928689]

>>11928138
you're doing something majorly wrong if your pan looks like that. reduce heat and try again. also you need to take the fried egg pill instead of babby's 1st scrambled eggs.

Get you pic related, with it and hot water you can clean even a really shitty cast iron in about 30 secs.

[Anonymous No.11928690]

>>11928602
>boiled linseed oil
That's linseed oil with chemical additives to make it harden faster. Raw linseed oil doesn't have these, but the high omega-3 content helps it polymerise. Raw linseed oil is perfictly healthy.

[Anonymous No.11928696]

>>11928159
Scrambled eggs work fine in cast iron. I use cheap, little $8 pans and don't get any sticking.

>>11928427
They're fine for car camping but only a masochist would take one backpacking.

[Anonymous No.11928720]

>>11928696
Nonsense, you get bear repellant, a fly swatter, and a drying pan in one convenient package.

[Anonymous No.11928736]

>>11928720
good luck swatting flies with an iron anon
personally id be inclined to bring along carbon steel if i were to go camping

[Anonymous No.11929844]

whats the best/cheapest/easiest to use pan that can cook the most amount of food?

[Anonymous No.11929848]

>>11928095
>flaxseed oil
you absolute fucking retard

[Anonymous No.11929853]

>>11929844
The biggest one you can find at your local restaurant supply store. <$20. Alternatively a wok from an asian store. I haven't bought one because I'm certain they contain lead. But they are cheap.

[Anonymous No.11929860]

>>11929853
ok but what type and what material?

[Anonymous No.11929865]

>>11928095
>your entire post
what the fuck are you on about?

[Anonymous No.11929868]

>>11929860
The woks are gonna be some sort of steel/lead hybrid.
Restaurant supply stores are either steel or aluminum.
Either pan or material is easy to cook with once you get used to the preheating oil dance.
I would personally go with a large carbon steel pan. Cheap, basically indestructible, comes in any size and flavors you desire.

[Anonymous No.11929872]

>>11929848
Flaxseed is the most based and greatest oil for seasoning.
>t. flaxbitch that seasoned my pans once 6+ years ago with flax and never had any issues.

[Anonymous No.11929878]

>>11928138
you burned the eggs because you probably just let them fucking sit there, didn't use enough oil or butter, and probably intentionally JUSTed your own shit up for (you)'s.

[Anonymous No.11929880]

>>11929868
what size and shape is the best? I would like one that works well with a lid as well.

[Anonymous No.11929886]

>Have stainless steel pan
>put it bit of oil and rub it in with a paper cloth
>heat up pan
>add bit of oil
>start cooking
>no sticking, no staining
Cast iron is only for presenting food. Nothing more.

[Anonymous No.11929893]

>>11929886
can you fry pancakes in a stainless steel pan?

[Anonymous No.11929915]

>>11929872
Its all about the sunflower seed oil, BLIN.

[Anonymous No.11929925]

>>11929880
>what size and shape is the best?
for what purpose?

[Anonymous No.11929927]

>>11929925
cooking the most amount of food

[Anonymous No.11929932]

>>11928095
Why can't people just properly oil their shit beforehand and then stir? Seems like lot less of a hassle.

[Anonymous No.11929934]

>>11928095
I only use my cast iron pan for steaks and it serves it's purpose well.

[Anonymous No.11929973]

>hurr durr cast iron is easiest and zero maintenance, just wipe
>exited naive anon falls for cast iron meme and has all kinds of problems
>hurr durr he doesn't know how to maintain something we claimed needs no maintenance
cast iron tards, every time.

>inb4 rage and more rage filled hurr durr

[Anonymous No.11929981]

>>11929973
There is no maintenance. There is just learning to cook without using nonstick pans.
Preheat and oil. That is all.
People typically choose cast iron as their first pan after using nonstick. They get their shit rocked and bitch about it. I did.
New tools have a learning curve.

[Anonymous No.11930008]

gonna make some pancakes on a cast iron skillet rn actually :) cya haters :)

[Anonymous No.11930019]

>>11929973
Jesus Christ all I do with my carbon steel and my cast iron pans is rinse them under some piping hot water and scrubbbing them with a stiff nylon brush after cooking and they get perfectly clean, how hard can it be? Maybe cleaning the pan would be easier if people didnt burn their food to fucking charcoal.

[Anonymous No.11930151]

Cast iron is pointless, stainless steel is just superior in every way

[Anonymous No.11930157]

>>11930151
they're different tools for different jobs. If you're a half-serious cook you'd be retarded not to own both, as well as PTFE nonstick.

[Anonymous No.11930863]

>>11928689
how do you make your fried eggs? I looked up how this bald dude made it on youtube just now and there has to be a better way.

[Anonymous No.11930889]

>>11928095
What's it like to be defeated by something with a 0 iq?

[Anonymous No.11930902]

>>11928095

sounds like a text book pleb to me

[Anonymous No.11931718]

>>11928095

>Buy cast iron

>Cook a pound of bacon in it at raging high heat

>Clean it while it's hot with the hottest water you can get out of your tap with a stiff bristle brush and only ever use water, I have been using the same one for over 10 years

>Wipe skillet dry and apply a very small amount of vegetable oil to it with a paper towel, the less the better

If you ever do something really bad or wind up with a sticky mess in the pan just put the thing on a burner outside and smoke that thing for 20 minutes and start the process of seasoning it with bacon again

[Anonymous No.11931730]

>>11928095
>>have to put it in the oven for an hour
that's not even half as much time as needed for a proper seasoning.

Try ~5 hours for 2-3 coats.

It needs to fully cool after each heating with oil, and you barely need to use any oil at all during the seasoning.

[Anonymous No.11931925]

I use crisco. I used to use flaxseed but i find crisco does a WAY better job and i don't have to let it sit around my fridge

[Anonymous No.11931980]

hows it feel to be retarded?

[Anonymous No.11932008]

>>11931718
All that work for what benefit?

[Anonymous No.11932110]

>>11929973
This. The only good cast irons are ones passed down generations that have beenm folded 10,000 times with oil from previous uses. A normal consumer will have no use for them compared to just using stainless steel.

[Anonymous No.11932194]

>>11928736
DYEL, manlet?

[Anonymous No.11932216]

nobody on this website can cook can they?

[Anonymous No.11932239]

>>11928138
I read that in Gordon Ramsay's voice.

[Anonymous No.11932247]

>>11932008

I don't see it as work, it really takes little time to season the first time and it's all just basic maintenance after that. It's a great piece of cookware that last forever. The main advantages being ease of clean up, thermal retention and searing ability. I do all my steaks in my cast iron from start to finish, no oven just a full blast flame and I can't find a way to beat it. I go camping with it and can set it directly on coals without worrying about it. Give me a piece of foil and I can use it as a small oven to bake biscuits.

[Anonymous No.11932262]

>>11928736
>virgin stainless steel swatter
>chad cast iron pummeler

[Anonymous No.11932370]

>>11928095
Cast iron is great for meat, especially anything fatty, and is good for searing then oven roasting chicken and stuff like that. It is absolute shit for eggs. Non stick pans were literally invented for eggs. That being said, OP, you are beyond retarded and it is entirely possible to cook eggs in cast iron without them sticking that much, you just want to cook on lower heat in bacon grease, and let the bottom of the eggs cook well before stirring or flipping. Also, you need to have seasoned the pan well before doing eggs. Just use it for meat, cook eggs in a cheapo teflon pan

[Anonymous No.11932606]

>>11928095
>buy one
Not inheriting grandma's cast iron
>>have to buy expensive ass flaxseed oil
lol
>>have to put it in the oven for an hour
Grandma already did that step 70 years ago
>>try to cook with it
Tru and succeed
>>everything sticks
When?
>>finish cooking your shit food
...
>>throw in a shit load of salt to clean it
Like twice a year only
>>have to wait for it to cool down so it doesnt crack but cant let it get too cool or everything sticks
Wut?
>>clean it
It's only wise to clean all your dishes and cookware
>>oil it again
2 seconds
>>heat it up until your entire house smells like dog shit
Who does that?
>>let it cool down and its finally done
>>rusts anyways

[Anonymous No.11933016]

>>11932194
i'm 6'3

[Anonymous No.11933051]

>>11928095
I literally never have to re-oil mine you tard.
Beat anon's head in with it, cook with it, wash it (nothing ever fucking sticks), dry it, easy.
Also
>buying flaxseed instead of superior RAPESEED

[Anonymous No.11933056]

>>11933016
Okay that makes you a lanklet

[Anonymous No.11933212]

>>11933056
ive broader shoulders than most

[Anonymous No.11933214]

>>11933051
>wasting extra virgin rapeseed on seasoning
Retard.

[Anonymous No.11933388]

>>11928102
congratulations you baited yourself

[Anonymous No.11933396]

>>11928095
You don't have to do that. Just use it like a normal nonstick pan. It works great. Then one day when your wife pisses you off while you're cooking, you have a nice heavy implement to bash her brains out with. She might have a chance if you're using nonstick like a pussy. But the hefty weight behind this work of art ensures shegoes down with a single blow.

[Anonymous No.11933497]

>>11928138
Fry bacon twice before and let it rest afterwards. Don't go above medium heat. Millions of people cook with it and don't face your problems at all. It's not the pan, it's the retarded you.
You would even fuck up a stainless steel pan.
If you don't want to read instructions before you do something, jump in front of a train, because you might be the same at work and would with killing yourself save many lives around you.

[Anonymous No.11933869]

>>11932247
>just basic maintenance after that.
It's such a tiny amount of maintenance as well. Cook in it often and dry it when you're done. That's literally all.
In return you never have to worry about any kind of coating coming off or only using certain utensils etc.

[Anonymous No.11933885]

No one seems to talk about enameled cast iron.
The only problem with mine is that it's 35 pounds empty.

[Anonymous No.11935297]

>>11933885
I was given a le creuset one and that thing is my workhorse.

[Anonymous No.11935313]

>>11933885
that's because enameled CI makes a very shitty skillet.

We do discuss them often in dutch oven threads.

[Anonymous No.11935447]

>>11928095

Tis a poor craftsman who blames his tools.

[Anonymous No.11935491]

I made a thin folded omelet in mine this morning.

Put a slice of pepperjack cheese the center of it and folded it over. Nice truck stop style egg sammich.

no sticking no problems

[Anonymous No.11935500]

I agree, I never use mine because they are a pain in the ass to clean

[Anonymous No.11935503]

>>11928108
>>11928138
>doesn't know how to cook

[Anonymous No.11935891]

>season the pan
>salt the pan
>"guys why pan rust"

[Anonymous No.11935927]

>Cracking
I usually run water onto my hot pan within 5 minutes of finishing cooking to steam off the gunk and scrub with a palm frond brush. Comes pretty much 100% clean without any need for much effort or soap.

[Anonymous No.11935936]

>>11928095

ITT: People that don't know how to use cookware.

[Anonymous No.11935937]

if you're afraid of it """cracking""" it means you're either retarded or are heating it up way too much, which also explains why you burnt food
in that case you're retarded regardless

[Anonymous No.11936164]

>>11928689
>implying the best type of egg isn't dependent on what the dish is
ishygddt

[Anonymous No.11936377]

I fell for the cast iron meme a few months ago and I didnt take care of it very well, so parts have gone not exactly rusted but off colour and wont come off with iron wool etc. What can i do to fix this help pls

Although in the spirit of the thread im not that much of a fucking idiot to do eggs in it. Makes for a good oven dish as well if you dont have a lot of space like me

[Anonymous No.11936399]

>>11936377
vinegar soak, for a day or so.

[Anonymous No.11936413]

>>11936399
like any vinegar or plain distilled shit

[Anonymous No.11936428]

>>11928138
Well first of all, you obviously don't know what you're doing. Second of all, pic related for when you fuck up as bad as you did. Cast iron is fantastic.

[Anonymous No.11936450]

>>11936413
Anything you got probably would work. I used plain white vinegar when I restored some of mine.

[Anonymous No.11936689]

>>11928095
Bait

[Anonymous No.11936890]

Buy tool. Don't understand how to use it or maintain it.

>Guys I tried fixing this circular saw, I keep plugging it into different outlets but it don't turn on. Why do people but this junk?!?!

[Anonymous No.11936938]

You dont need to use flaxseed oil. Normal cooking oil will work. I think youve made a mistake somewhere because food shouldn't stick that much to the pan. After i clean a pan i just use a paint brush dipped in cooking oil and put it on the pan

t. kitchen hand

[Anonymous No.11936954]

>>11930008
I made many many.

[Anonymous No.11936961]

>>11936954
have you ever eaten any of the cat's fur in a scrambled egg last week on tuesday?

[Anonymous No.11936965]

>>11928095
the problem here is you are a fuckwit, fuckwit.

[Anonymous No.11936971]

>>11936961
Maybe so but im not so worried about it as one might think

[Anonymous No.11936973]

>>11936971
that's my fetish

[Anonymous No.11936983]

>>11936973
I don't think we would get along too well
sry4bluballs