/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8951315
They have a large thermal mass - terrific for searing and the like as the temperature won't drop from contacting a cold steak.
They don't break easily.
After a good deal of use, they become nonstick due to polymerised lipids, with no need for gimmickly teflon.
Also contrary to belief, far easier to clean. Case in point, i was camping in a cave and cooking some pheasant in my le creuset pon a large open fire. When finished, I was asked by the missus how to clean it, and suggested that she throw it first in the fire, then the sea.
Cast iron dutch ovens are fun.

>>7888350
Shouldn't be a problem. It's one thing to make poultry using the same unwashed utensils for hundreds of people a day, but completely another to just make a mistake once. Chances of getting salmonella through cross-contamination is extremely unlikely, though it could happen.

As a man who has gone through a salmonella week, don't listen to >>7888367 and be a pussy.
He has no fucking idea.