I fucking hate cast iron pans. It’s way too easy to absolutely ruin one. But more importantly, it’s absolutely impossible to cool one down. If you determine that the pan is too hot and your shit is burning, sing your prayers, cus that shit is burning! What’s that? You can put it in the oven straight from the stove? So neat, but like, I have a pot for that. Also never ever made a dish that asked for such a maneuver.
Sticking to the thing is literally the intended way, its supposed to stick and create a natural anti stick surface, thats why you don’t wash these pans with soap.
With modern dish soap it’s fine to wash cast iron pans. I think “don’t wash cast iron with soap” is a throwback to old lye based soaps.
Nah, it’s because the taste sticks and you shouldn’t scrub the layer of burned in away. The longer a cast-iron is in use the more of a unique taste it develops by itself, you can taste which cast-iron was used for cooking when you know them.
I have three and can taste the difference.
And no, its not dirty, its the intended use of cast-iron.
Seasoning is not about taste. You’re just using a dirty pan if it has stuff burned onto it. Your pan should not be imparting any taste into your food.
Exactly. Lodge agrees with you
Most of this is true, I’ve never used cast iron in my life
Yes, I can’t say I’ve been terrible impressed by cast iron pans. The people gushing about them are pretty funny though.
call me lemmyml but I fucking love using a carbon steel wok to cook anything
Because they love everything from China. Woks, genocide, pollution, capitalism, murdering protesters, they love it all.