/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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And nothing stuck. What an amazing piece of cookware.

>>12742794
Pam user detected

>>12742794
Shame you burnt the fuck out of it.

The pan is a cast Iron , of course it didn't stick.

>have carbon steel wok
>try to season it
>can't do it properly because it smokes too much and everyone in the house complains
>try to make fried rice
>rice is still sticky even though I washed it thoroughly and added oil to it before cooking, let it dry in the fridge all afternoon
>rice immediately forms a solid layer of gunk on the bottom of the wok
>have to use a copper wire scrubbing pad to get the shit off
>still can't season my fucking wok

I am so fucking mad

I can't even use a nonstick pan because no one in my family knows how to not abuse the fuck out of them and they aren't remotely anywhere near nonstick now

Fuck

>>12743031
You can heat to a little below the smoke point

>>12742851
No sir, I used peanut oil. You can see the container in the upper left.
>>12742864
It's red and crispy, not burnt.
>>12743031
You're supposed to cook the rice separately, brother. No shame in using a rice cooker or a pressure cooker (pressure cooking makes the tastiest rice imo). Cook it, then let it cool in your fridge before attempting to fry it in a wok. Fry everything in the wok with lots of oil before adding your rice. Best results with non sticky rice like basmati.

>>12743056
It's fucking burnt nigger, eggs are supposed to be cooked not seared

>>12743165
I don't like my eggs brown either, I find the smell revolting, but some people do prefer it and saying it's burned is just an incorrect overreaction.

>>12742864
Oh man, you would hate my eggs then whoo

>>12743031
Sounds like you're putting way too much oil in the pan to season it. It should be a very very thin layer of oil when you heat it, just enough that the pan looks wet.

>>12743194
>but some people do prefer it and saying it's burned is just an incorrect overreaction.
The only way you'd ever be served eggs like that at a restaurant would be if you literally said "I want them burnt to a fucking crisp."

>>12743246
Imagine being this mad over eggs.

>>12743056
I did all of that, but my rice was just too sticky. I used jasmine rice but I must have put too much water in it. Next time I'll just have to put less water in it to make sure it's as dry as possible beforehand.

>>12743259
Bruh, Jasmine rice is sticky they use it in sushi. You won't get good fried rice out of it.

>>12743237
I did that, but I couldn't get enough layers to do a thorough job of it because everyone kept complaining about the smoke. I'm just going to have to buy a burner that I can use outside or something so I don't have to deal with it anymore.

>>12743252
I'm not mad at all. That was my first post in the thread. The eggs are burnt, bruh. Deal with it.

>>12743266
Really? The Serious Eats article I read said that jasmine worked well.

>>12743246
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10etP1p2bU

Wah

>>12743312
Lah

Over easy

Nothing stuck

>>12743319
And it only took like 2tbsp of butter!

>>12743259
>>12743056
I never cool my rice when I do fried rice. I just start with bacon and sesame oil then saute my onion, garlic, ginger then I sweat my carrot/sweet potato and peas then add hot cooked rice to the wok then I crack eggs on the sides.

>>12743322
If you don't murder your food in bacon fat and butter I don't know what you're doing.

>>12743339
Nice

>>12742794
Disgusting

I just put 4 layers of seasoning on this little cast iron skillet. Now I'm cooking a sliced onion in it to test it out. Let's see how it goes.

>>12743500
>>12743500
Hmm, looks like a bunch of burnt-on onion juice. It should clean up pretty easily, right? I put 4 layers of baked oil on the thing. It should be as nonstick as a new Teflon pan. I hope I didn't waste 4+ hours of my life seasoning a piece of garbage.

>>12743510
Even stuff like that will build up on Teflon. How you can tell if the seasoning is right is if it washes off easily.

>>12743510
>It should be as nonstick as a new Teflon pan
Not really. You want a little bit of sticking for good searing and deglazing. It should deglaze easily though.

>>12743510
Well, shit. I scrubbed it with a sponge (no soap because the delicate seasoning can't handle it) and now there's a giant unseasoned dry patch in the middle of the pan. Well, so much for the cast iron experiment. Back to nonstick forever. What did I do wrong? I coated it with a thin layer of canola oil and baked it in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour 4 times. Maybe it's because I didn't use a boatload of oil. I thought it was supposed to be nonstick at this point, so I just used a thin coating to cook the onion.

>>12743559
I don't think 350F is hot enough to really turn the oil into "seasoning". It just kind of gets sticky. In my experience it needs to be closer to around 450F or even higher, but then smoke becomes an issue.

>>12743565
I've tried using a higher temperature, but my house got so smoky that my alarm system automatically called the fire department. I felt so stupid when I had to explain that my house was full of smoke because I was trying to season a cast iron pan. The firefighters had no idea what I was talking about. I immediately threw the skillet in the trash.

So, it seems like the only way to properly season it is to smoke up my entire house. Cool. I'm definitely not wasting any more time with this garbage. Have fun babying your trash iron just to prove a point on an anonymous internet forum, fags. I'll keep cooking my eggs on nonstick for the rest of my life. NEWSFLASH: it's called nonstick for a reason. Professionals use nonstick to cook eggs for a reason.

>le seasoning pans meme

The best seasoning is using you fucking retards.
Stop wasting your time on useless meme's designed to look good on youtube but does absolutely nothing.

Just jerk off in your pan bb

>>12743595
I had the same issue. Put the pan in the oven and when I went to check on it after the hour, house was full of smoke. No idea how the alarms weren't going off, which is probably a little disconcerting. Some people will only season cast iron on a grill outside though because it's the only way to really get the right temperature without smoking up your house.

You can even just do temporary seasonings on stainless steel, and it won't create much smoke. Just need to heat the pan over medium-high, and add a little bit of high smoke point oil or fat, then wipe it out. It'll be pretty much nonstick until it gets washed with soap and water.

>>12743595
>>12743559
Dude chill.

There's supposed to be dryness after you clean it. You're supposed to give it a wipe down with oil after cleaning it.

>>12743259
Use rice left over from last night's meal. After a night in the fridge almost all the moisture is gone.

>>12742794
Burnt and ugly. Great job.

>>12743270
I seasoned my carbon steel pan on the grill on my porch.

>>12743644
By "dry", I mean "unseasoned". There's shiny, smooth, seasoned parts, and a big, rough dry spot.

Time to throw this piece of garbage in the trash where it belongs

>>12744122
Whatever. I'm telling you the rough dry spots are normal. Just rub with oil after cleaning. Unseasoned spots would show the bare grey iron and quickly rust.

>not cooking your bacon first so you can fry your eggs in the bacon grease

>>12743031
I used day old rice, but it doesn't matter if your stove is hot enough (like Chinese restaurant jet engine stove). What you need it proper heat control. Add a decent amount of oil and don't add too much rice. There is a reason chink wok dishes are usually for one person at a time. I didn't use a wok for this though, used my cast iron but it worked fine. For your specific problem it seems like you didn't heat your oil high enough and you need to use a spatula to stir constantly.

>>12745152
this dude knows what's UP

>>12742794
Fake

>>12742794
WOW! I can do that in a stainless steel pan made in 1967, what's your fucking point?

>>12745437
What is this and how do I make it?

>>12745891
Hi fat fuck. Those are vegetables. Something you've never eaten in your life.

>>12745894
You did nothing to earn this (you), but it looks like mostly mushrooms.

>>12743510
If you put oil on that and then get the pan fucking hot and then pour some liqour on it that shit will come up.

>>12742794
Nice paper plate, faggot.

>>12742787
>Wa
ha ha

>>12746048
activate your windows, m8

>>12743339
Yes and that's why it's a gloppy, sticky mess on the plate.

>>12742787
>>12742789
literal shit
>>12743312
>pic

>>12742787
*pomf*
what are we going to do on the pan?

>>12746145
Found the pubic hair. Wear clothes when doing eggs, man.