• superkret@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    I wash my cast iron with normal dish soap and steel wool, and if I’m too lazy, I put it in the dishwasher. I’ve been doing this for 20 years. I don’t “season” it. It’s a pan, no more, no less. The main advantage is that you don’t need to worry about scratching the shit out of it.

    Needs a tiny little bit more fat than a non-stick if you want to make an omelette.

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      6 days ago

      Same here, though i don’t use steel wool and i do season it every now and then
      The pan handles it like a champ

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      I know you’re a troll but the idea of cooking on a dish soap infused cast iron is filthy lol

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        6 days ago

        I’m not a troll. But the amount of magical thinking around cast iron amuses me to no end.

        “dish soap infused” lol. Tell me, are your kitchen knives “infused” with soap, too?

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          Yeah he’s a panoisseur. I wash mine with soap too lol. But I use the lemon scented shit so my soap infused food is always citrusy fresh.

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          Yeah, soap doesn’t hurt a fucking thing, If I just cooked with a seed oil or bacon or something I’d be inclined just to let it burn off, But if I cooked noodles or pasta or garlic or anything fragrant on there, I’d soap and scrub the piss out of it. I just make sure to throw it back on the fire and get it past 212 if it’s been wet.

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          Lol I’m not religious about it or anything, but it’s porous unlike other cooking materials, so yeah, I don’t put soap on it

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              5 days ago

              I also try not to use much if any soap there too, because, porous wood

              To each their own my friend, you do you. Not trying to get into a fued over soap preferences lol