Perpetual stew vibes
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“if you cooked, you gotta wash the dishes!”
I'm sorry, what? That's how you ensure that nobody ever cooks for you again. If you cooked for you and your housemates, everyone else who ate your food has to wash the dishes, excluding whoever bought the food. What fucking backwards culture did this guy grow up in?
Yeah, I wouldn't have minded if we'd all washed the dishes together. iirc I never cooked for them again; I brought take-out once for a special occasion, but I told them to eat out of the containers bc I wasn't doing their dishes.
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You forgot the first step of turning off your smoke alarm, and also leaving the room unless your a pack a day smoker with lungs of steel
Eh, just turn up your stereo and open a window. You'll get used to the smoke.
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I mean, iron is a part of our nutritional diet.
I have the h&h of a Sherpa after a marathon. I breathe three times a minute. Sometimes i rust a little if I don't put lotion on right after the shower.
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Fuck. This isn't true?
Every time I see an older person's cast iron, it's covered in that charcoal black garbage that they think is seasoning. Hopefully whoever inherits them strips and reasons them, but so many people have this "wisdom" passed down to them that I kind of doubt it.
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That pig was already bacon Jerkface. Delicious delicious bacon... okay! You've won this round! But next time!
no i'm pretty sure you have to personally kill a new pig any time you want bacon
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This book is so informative. I got his other cookbook, The Wok, and now sing the praises of that versatile cookery ever chance I get.
I have that ond to soon as I saw it.
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PSA be careful buying lye. It has other uses than soap making, including stripping of carcasses to the bone, and then turning the fat into soap. If you order enough you might get a visit from your friendly government agent.
Corrected as to what it does.
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Afer work, I once made dinner for my housemates. After the meal, one of the housemates was like: "if you cooked, you gotta wash the dishes!" ok, so I washed the dishes. After the dishes, the housemate was like: "If you used the cast-iron pan, you have to 'season' it with oil!" and I was like: wtf I worked all day, I cooked, I did the dishes, now I have to cook again just to make the pan happy?!? So I never used a cast-iron pan again.
In my world, that housemate would quickly become a houselessmate.
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Clean it, don't clean it, oil it, salt it, water it, "season it", season it by not cleaning it so your french toast gets all that good hamburger flavor from the night before...
I've read so many different ways to treat cast iron that at this point I'm convinced that it's all just superstition.
At first you're gonna boil them. And after tha t you're gonna mash them, then you can choose to stick it in a stew.
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Don't let water touch it or it will bring you 7 years of bad luck
If a black cat crosses its path food will stick to it for the next seven years.
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I wash mine with soap and hot water, then dry and rub a bit of cooking oil on it (high smoke point oil, not olive oil).
I’ve built up a pretty substantial amount of seasoning on mine though. One of the ways to recognize that is that when you’re rinsing it out after washing the water should just bead right off, not wet the surface. Any areas where the water wets the surface could use some touch up seasoning. A well seasoned pan should be nice and hydrophobic.
high smoke point oil, not olive oil
Olive oil has about the same smoke point as many standard cooking oils. It's a common misconception that it's not suitable for frying.
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Honestly, depending on the specifics here, not the worst. If they're using an oil that will polymerize, then as they oil/heat/cool cycle it, the seasoning will further develop over time, as long as they're somewhat scraping off remnants of their cooking as they finish, leaving it as clean as it can be without actually washing it, and then heat cycling it to sanitize any bacteria that might be there, I don't really see a problem with it....
It's not exactly up to modern hygienic standards, or social standards.... And I'm pretty sure if any restaurant or food joint did the same they would get shut down by the health inspector before long.... But you do you buddy.
For anyone not in the know, the thing with cast iron and cleaning is no longer a problem. Clean your cast iron. When cast iron was just about the only cookware, soaps included lye. Lye will erode the non-stick "seasoning" on cast iron. Modern soaps do not contain lye, so go ham.
Cleaning, however, introduces water.... And water causes iron to rust, so it is generally advisable to clean your cast iron cookware, then immediately heat it up past the boiling point for water, to vaporize any liquid water and carry it off the surface of the iron. Once past that temperature, let the cookware cool, then treat it with a thin layer of oil. This will protect the surface from atmospheric moisture and allow the cookware to work over much longer periods of time without needing to be "re-seasoned" (which is removing the layers of polymerized oil on the cast iron, and then re-applying it using a slow method of oiling, then heating the cookware, allowing it to cool, oiling then heating again)...
Don't be afraid of cast iron, it needs a little more attention than other cookware, but it's a joy to actually cook with.
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Clean it, don't clean it, oil it, salt it, water it, "season it", season it by not cleaning it so your french toast gets all that good hamburger flavor from the night before...
I've read so many different ways to treat cast iron that at this point I'm convinced that it's all just superstition.
It is, I literally just cook in mine, don't baby it, scrape the hell out of it with a heavy stainless steel spatula and use a paper towel to get out anything. If stuck bits of food, they get scrapped, then water and soap. Then just oil the pan and rack it again. None of that silly shit. Just use the damn thing.
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That's not it, we have no issues any other time cooking, just when doing cast iron.
wrote last edited by [email protected]But cast iron is iron. It doesn't smoke.
Oil makes smoke. You can use oil on steel, that is not an issue for you?
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I wash mine with soap and hot water, then dry and rub a bit of cooking oil on it (high smoke point oil, not olive oil).
I’ve built up a pretty substantial amount of seasoning on mine though. One of the ways to recognize that is that when you’re rinsing it out after washing the water should just bead right off, not wet the surface. Any areas where the water wets the surface could use some touch up seasoning. A well seasoned pan should be nice and hydrophobic.
As a hydromomie, i always die a little inside, when i read the word hydrophobic.
TIL it's even worse when actually typing it out.
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high smoke point oil, not olive oil
Olive oil has about the same smoke point as many standard cooking oils. It's a common misconception that it's not suitable for frying.
Only if it’s refined to remove all the suspended solids. When most people think about olive oil they think of EVOO which has a low smoke point and turns very bitter if overheated.
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Only if it’s refined to remove all the suspended solids. When most people think about olive oil they think of EVOO which has a low smoke point and turns very bitter if overheated.
Again, this isn't true. Extra virgin olive oil of decent quality has a smoke point similar to canola oil.
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In my world, that housemate would quickly become a houselessmate.
Weird that he's still your mate though. And not just somebody that you used to know.
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Again, this isn't true. Extra virgin olive oil of decent quality has a smoke point similar to canola oil.
Do you have a citation for that claim? It’s pretty well common knowledge that EVOO is a lower smoke point than typical refined cooking oils.
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So if you just wiped it out with a paper towel, how many years do you think one could go before getting actually sick? I'll volunteer to be a test subject if I find a cheap cast iron. Apparently I'm supposed to get away from my non stick pans anyways
I mean your average Griddle is not cleaned to the level of an indoor cast iron and yet we do not get more sick from them. And the average indoor cast iron is going to be more dirty than your average skillet.
The only way years would change anything would be in how immunocompromised are you at your old age?
