Perpetual stew vibes
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You don't like your cornbread to taste like fish?
Old rancid fish even!
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Without it being alive it should just pass through the body though right? Because any of the stuff in the pan was killed during the cooking process. Itd be hard to cook anything in a pan that's not heated
Poisons don't have to be alive to hurt you.
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If you use regular dish soap (i.e. dawn), you most certainly can (and should) wash it. However, the trick is that you absolutely must dry it, put a light coat of oil, and then bake it to keep it from rusting. I preheat the oven to 450°F and then turn off the oven, and let the pan sit until it’s cool enough to the touch to put away.
I just dry and lightly oil mine. I only bake them if they need it.
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Bacteria that can not grow can not produce anything.
That would require more than a quick wipe to stop from haopening, though.
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If you use regular dish soap (i.e. dawn), you most certainly can (and should) wash it. However, the trick is that you absolutely must dry it, put a light coat of oil, and then bake it to keep it from rusting. I preheat the oven to 450°F and then turn off the oven, and let the pan sit until it’s cool enough to the touch to put away.
I just cook bacon any time I need to re-season it. Lol.
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I took my cast iron camping and it got left under the kitchen pop-up during a rainstorm, so it's a bit rusty. I need to figure out how to strip and reseason it (and my pie irons
). Need to figure out how to season without using an oven (gives migraines) or a gas grill (don't have one)Edit: oven is electric, no issues when using the oven for anything else, so it's probably not the oven or ventilation.
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I took my cast iron camping and it got left under the kitchen pop-up during a rainstorm, so it's a bit rusty. I need to figure out how to strip and reseason it (and my pie irons
). Need to figure out how to season without using an oven (gives migraines) or a gas grill (don't have one)Edit: oven is electric, no issues when using the oven for anything else, so it's probably not the oven or ventilation.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Wait, how does an oven give migraines? Legitimately curious
Edit: I forgot Americans have inferior electricity and often use gas ovens at home lol
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I had a roommate that did this. Except their reason for not cleaning it was that they thought all that stuff leftover was what is called seasoning. AND they wanted the cast iron seasoning to flavor their dishes.
I tried to gently explain the misconceptions, but they believed their grandma instead of me.
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If you use regular dish soap (i.e. dawn), you most certainly can (and should) wash it. However, the trick is that you absolutely must dry it, put a light coat of oil, and then bake it to keep it from rusting. I preheat the oven to 450°F and then turn off the oven, and let the pan sit until it’s cool enough to the touch to put away.
It's easier than this. Wipe/scrub the excess off, then simply put it on the stove for 2-3 minutes and wipe oil onto it.
Saves you some gas and time. So far it's worked perfectly for me for over a year.
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For those who don't know, you can wash cast iron with modern detergents, and as long as you dry it properly you won't have any problems.
It used to be that dish detergents contained lye that would strip the seasoning off of cast iron cookware.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yep, which is why of you ever want to strip and re-season cast iron, you use a lye bath with some electrolysis magic. Do that once and you'll see why back in the lye soap days, you
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If it's seasoned you don't have to oil it. Just make sure it's dry.
Depends how well you clean it, and what you cooked.
If you made bacon, sure. Perfect seasoning and water and a sponge won't dry it out.
That's not how many other foods work, though. I almost always put a bit of oil back on it, then heat it up to preserve the pan. I can cook eggs, pancakes, or really anything on it any time with this treatment. It's literally better than any non-stick pan.
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I had a roommate that did this. Except their reason for not cleaning it was that they thought all that stuff leftover was what is called seasoning. AND they wanted the cast iron seasoning to flavor their dishes.
I tried to gently explain the misconceptions, but they believed their grandma instead of me.
Which is apparently why burritos from old-school eateries taste so good: they don’t wash the griddle, and the secret sauce is the essence of the entrails of generations of pigs and chickens
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Yall need the The Food Lab better cooking with science book by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. He has a whole section on proper cleaning and seasoning of a cast iron skillet.
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Depends how well you clean it, and what you cooked.
If you made bacon, sure. Perfect seasoning and water and a sponge won't dry it out.
That's not how many other foods work, though. I almost always put a bit of oil back on it, then heat it up to preserve the pan. I can cook eggs, pancakes, or really anything on it any time with this treatment. It's literally better than any non-stick pan.
I have cooked on a cast iron pan daily for decades at this point. I never oil it. It's fine.
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I took my cast iron camping and it got left under the kitchen pop-up during a rainstorm, so it's a bit rusty. I need to figure out how to strip and reseason it (and my pie irons
). Need to figure out how to season without using an oven (gives migraines) or a gas grill (don't have one)Edit: oven is electric, no issues when using the oven for anything else, so it's probably not the oven or ventilation.
The oven or grill is just for heat. You could just as easily use a charcoal grill, or even a hole in the ground with a fire in it as long as you don't get it too hot too fast.
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It's easier than this. Wipe/scrub the excess off, then simply put it on the stove for 2-3 minutes and wipe oil onto it.
Saves you some gas and time. So far it's worked perfectly for me for over a year.
This is the way. People make cast iron sound hard to maintain, but I’ve been doing this for a decade or more and it works great
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Personally I usually just clean it with a paper towel, and put it away. Mine is almost exclusively a cornbread pan, though, so I'm mostly cleaning excess oil unless I fucked up and it stuck.
Occasionally I do give it a proper wash like you've said, but not very often.
Yeah just wipe it with a damp paper towel and it’ll be good. People overcomplicating things.
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Wait, how does an oven give migraines? Legitimately curious
Edit: I forgot Americans have inferior electricity and often use gas ovens at home lol
He needs a CO detector...
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I just cook bacon any time I need to re-season it. Lol.
how do you know when someone abuses animals don't worry they never stop telling you ha ha ha
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Wait, how does an oven give migraines? Legitimately curious
Edit: I forgot Americans have inferior electricity and often use gas ovens at home lol
Not OP but mine is natural gas and definitely produces trace amounts of noticeable gases when run. It gives me a very mild headache
