/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11773500
>t. millenial

>be lodge
>have a business on the verge of going out because nobody really wants old heavy pans
>suddenly reddit
>people want these pans again because muh sear muh heat retention
>lodge realizes people are retarded and will never season their pans
>lodge changes the molds to make the surface of the pans to be course so the factory seasoning sticks better
>they literally design a pan that will have food stick to it EVERY TIME unless you modify it with a grinder


Daily reminder to spend your money on a stargazer pan instead of a worthless piece of shit

>>11773506
Millenials are the ones who use cast iron the most because it's so rustic and authentic and shit. Everyone who has a brain put their cast iron pans in the garbage long ago, stainless steel is infinitely superior in every single way. Only redditors, nu males and trannies still use cast iron

>>11773500
Learn how to take care of nice things, asshole.

>>11773526
Bullshit: The Post.

>>11773529
Is carbon steel ok?

>>11773529
Wasn't steak a masculine thing? For now it's too gay? I'm really confused.

>>11773526
I actually bought a lodge combo cooker to bake bread in. It was recommended by the very best home bread making literature available and it does churn out flawless loaves. I've only used the skillet part of it twice and the food didn't stick, and I never applied any oil to it.

>>11773537
its literally what they did. They changed the molds so the factory "season" would stick to it. Now the pans suck ass and you have to modify them to get them to be as good as "grandmas old pan"

>but i can get my lodge pan to be non stick

nobody fucking cares a smooth cast iron wipes the fucking floor with nu-lodge every time with no exceptions.

>>11773529
and are completely befuddled by something an illiterate dropout in alabama had mastered by the age of 5

>>11773554
When did this supposedly take place, because the Dutch oven I bought for my godson works great. Though I had to tell his dumb fucking mother not to put it in the dishwasher LOL.

I don't know why you guys seem to have problems with these things, I'm stupid and don't know if I'm even doing it right but they work well enough for me.

>>11773549
shitty supermarket steak burned to a crisp on the grill and drowned in A1 sauce is masculine

locally-sourced free-range cruelty-free grass-fed steak delicately handled on a cast iron for le perfect sear is cringe and soy

>>11773500
>need to cook on it to make it nonstick

wrong. """people""" like OP should be executed

just did a steak in the reddit pan about an hour ago
looks like someone did a tire fire in here. smoke detector went crazy and i had to pull it out of the ceiling and it was a bitch to get it back in place
the steak was perfect though

>>11773565
Not sure exactly when. But you can tell the difference between old lodge pans and the nu-lodge with factory coating

New lodge feels like shit on the inside. Old lodge is smooth

>>11773572
So you have to have the tastebuds of boomer wojack to be cool now on 4chan /ck/? Good luck with that retard.

>>11773539
I use it, so yes.

>>11773577
that's inaccurate and bad advice but it accomplishes a legitimate end
cooking in cast iron will see fat go into the pores in the pan, leveling them out over time
you can do this with any fat source
i dump oil onto a paper towel and rub my cast iron with it after ever cook
certain shit will still stick but cast iron is objectively better for a whole lot of shit

>>11773539
I don't know, if you enjoy the seasoning autismo that comes with cast iron go for it. It's also cheaper so if you are poor get one I guess otherwise stainless steel is better
>>11773549
It was a masculine thing but nu males and soys have ruined it and with steaks they have ruined cast iron. The almost sexual, faux masculine rage redditors enter when discussing steaks has put a stigma on it forever. That's why some meat afficionados (myself included) have put steak to the side and learned to enjoy superior meat and poultry such as duck and lamb.
When I see a cast iron pan I see re ddit, as simple as that, I see faux masculinity and lack of cooking knowledge, I see a mustache twirling twink praising the 'heat retention' and how they only season beef with 'salt and pepper' religiously as some kind of pavlovian response at the sight of a ribeye.

>>11773554
how are you preventing the seasoning from filling in the roughness in the surface and turning it into a nice smooth surface? are you washing it with soap or some shit? my nu-lodge only took a few days to get nearly as smooth as the Wagner I bought at Academy in 1986.

>>11773591
Can't it be, possibly, that every single guide back then, and even some today, will tell you to scour the pan with steel wool and other very powerful abrasive tools in order to remove impossibly stuck bits and pieces off any pan but especially cast iron? Wouldn't that even be likely considering the level of information and general home cook knowledge forty years ago? What are the odds that the older pans you encountered were simple scoured smooth with prolonged use?

>>11773675
no lodge use to machine the pans at the factory to a smooth finish
>>11773670
How about instead of making an inferior pan they just machine the thing like they used to.

Not only is my nu-lodge a pile of shit that has food stick to it religiously. I have seasoned it multiple times , with different season techniques. Each failing miserably.

The fact of the matter is the surface is not smooth enough for cooking

>seasoning the pan
what u gonna eat the pan lmao

>>11773688
millenials are too poor to afford a decent cast iron pan anon. buy a griswold or wagner or old lodge if it means that much to you.

>>11773703
if you are going to buy a cast iron (a pan that will exist after you are dead) buy a good one

>>11773697
this

>>11773706
I did. what's your point?

>>11773721
what did you buy

>>11773570
they got too popular so 4contrarian now says they're bad

>>11773572
enjoy your nitrates you heart-diseased boomer

ITT: bunch of dumbasses.

Cast iron is the best. I'm not even going to attempt to explain it to you idiots.

>>11773526
I agree with you. I got super mad every time I cooked with my memelodge pan.

I found a Threshold brand skillet at a Marshalls which had a very smooth pre-seasoning. I never had problems. Now I tell everyone to get a pan that is smooth as possible. Any bumps or rough surface means it will inveritably suuuck to cook on. Friends of mine who don't listen to me basically cooks and burns shit to the bottom - leaves the shit on the bottom of the pan unwashed, unscrapped. And literally makes it "non-stick" by leaving old crusty food residue on the bottom of lodge pans to get the smooth texture. Disgusting.

Even some of the cast iron fags in this thread are acting retarded. Proper seasoning doesn't 'fill in' the sand mould grain. Watch how a wok is seasoned. Cast iron is the same principle. (flax) oil polymerizes with the metal and forms a thin coating when heated over its smoke point.

>>11773643
>letting reddit influence your life
>>>reddit

>>11773500
>cook bacon for a week
>never have to season it again

i swear you people must have double digit iq's. how can you fuck up using cast iron. it's cookware for retards

>>11775510
that's a lot of autism to just say that the pan is seasoned with the exact same burnt-on grease that you're trying to clean from your oven.

>>11773643
> how they only season beef with 'salt and pepper' religiously as some kind of pavlovian response at the sight of a ribeye.
This is the only correct thing to criticize
>cute anime girl pic
I know you're probably actually a hairy fugly man irl but that pic makes want to tongue kiss you passionately and viciously breed that boipuss

Best pan coming through

>>11776238
Yet it still scratches, or so my boomer dad says when i decide to cook anything other than eggs on it.

>>11773526
>reddit came along and then lodge stopped grinding down their pans
I mean, how young ARE you?

>>11775510
>polymerizes with the metal
>with
That's some reddit-tier science there. Perhaps you should have finished grade school before venturing out into the big world.

>>11773526
I don't know anything about the backstory bullshit, but I have both a new lodge I bought myself, and a pretty old pan I found at my grandparent's. The old one is definitely smoother and flatter, and I like cooking with it much more.

>>11776686
>>being this pedantic

Would it trigger you less if he said "polymerizes and sticks to the metal", captain pedantic?

>>11773500
You need more heat and more butter

>>11776718
>The old one is definitely smoother and flatter
wierd. its almost like they get smoother and flatter with use...

>>11776730
They were made that way. Newer cast iron is rough by design. It holds the seasoning during the seasoning process.

>>11776597
Its true tho. The market has changed and the demand is up for useless sticky pans because when redditors finally sand their pans and do all the season autism required to make them somehow functional they feel an unrivaled bliss and sense of superiority and can finally claim to have mastered the cast iron ritual which by the time they finally achieve it will be called 'the easiest thing ever' and they'll humble brag that 'even a caveman can do it' while being aware that it's a pointless pain in the ass that has no advantages over stainless steel other than making them feel 'friggin superior'.
To sum it up, redditors want non functional pans they can tinker with endlessly to feel better about themselves

>>11776735
>by design
you'll have to try harder, plebbit

>>11776749
Look it up on Lodge's website, you cockwomble.

>>11776754
>believing marketers
are you still in kindergarten? does your mommy know where you are?

>>11776789
HUH?

>>11773529
Literally retarded post here folks

>>11773572
>having shitty taste is masculine
Okay bud

>*A portly fellow in a flame shirt waddles into williams-sonoma*
>"Can I help you find something sir?"
>”I need a complete set of cookware, to handle any job”
>*The atheist squints around the store, his hands at the sides of his khaki shorts like he had two holsters. With one hand he expertly pulls out his wallet and with the other, he brings the tip of his hat down before the sales person can speak*
>”Just a cast iron pan, nothing else."
>*A hush falls over the patrons and staff. Middle-aged women gush in their panties as whispers from gay men can't believe what's transpiring. The clerk looks like she's about to faint, her grip on the pan handle furiously shaking as she slides it over the counter to our hero*
>*The cheetoh avenger slaps down a sticky williams-sonoma gift card with his hamhock fist before mumbling that he would like to see the remaining balance.*

you can probably find some at your local thrift shop, if you dont mind a little work to get it back in working order.

>>11776879
>asterisks AND quotation marks in greentext
I WILL HURT YOU YOU MOTHERFUCKER

ive been using cast iron for the past month or so.

i can properly handle it now, but slightly worried that it is affecting my health due to how much butter/fat i have to use.

>>11777261
just do keto, and it will be healthy

>>11777261
Fat and butter are good. Industrial seed oil is bad. Keep up