/ck/ - Food & Cooking

bacon fat has salt in it

it's illegal

>>16137539
i'm trans btw

>>16137539
It will get real smoky. Use grapeseed oil.

>>16137539
Seasoning cast-iron is a reddit meme

Do you think your grandma was rubbing flaxseed oil in thin layers on her cast-iron and then baking it over and over again?

No, just cook fatty meat in it regularly for a few weeks, works fine

>>16137720
This. Cook some steak, let it set a bit after cooking, wipe it out.

>>16137720
This anon is correct. Just cook semiregularly in the pan with some grease, don't worry about it. Im astounded the amount of autism people put into a 10$ hunk of cast iron

>>16137539
Yes. Polymerization. Some oil and fat do it, some don't ez-pz.

>>16137943
>TRUST THE SCIENCE OK

>>16137952
Highly unsaturated fats have trouble becoming totally polymerized and tend to leave a sticky residue instead of that slick coating you're looking for.

Can you do it with pure non hydrogenated lard or tallow?

>>16137977
yes but you may need a tad bit higher temps for a tad bit longer. I'd say, 400-424 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour and a half and see how it looks.

>>16137720
What's it like having a grandma that cooks you delicious traditional food?
I only met one of my grandparents and she couldn't cook anything at all. She still filled us up with food but it'd just be chips and deli meat.

>>16137987
Anything grandma made was comfy af. I miss her.

Both "nooooo you need special ugandan oils convection baked at precisely 436 degrees for 47 minutes" anons and "literally just cook in it" anons are autistic and lazy respectively
>Cook with it
>Clean it, soft sponge + dish soap is perfectly fine
>Wipe it off and warm it on the stove to dry it
>Wipe a thin layer of canola or grapeseed oil on it
>Throw it on the stove until it just starts smoking
wa la, less than 2 minutes active time to clean and season it on the stove

>>16138006
Do you call everyone who takes pride and enjoy some culinary processes autistic? That's not very cash money of you...

>>16137720
Some people don't wanna wait retard

>>16138006
>dish soap

nah. all you have to do is have water as hot as you can get and keep the pan as hot as it was while it was cooking. on a well seasoned pan, the reaction of the steam on the pan will blast EVERYTHING off. didn't work fully the first time anyways? heat it up again and repeat. fuck putting dish soap into a porous material i'm going to feed my family from. that's when you add your layer of fat to retain non stick status of your pans going forwards. don't use cold water when you do this, you'll shock the pan hard enough it will shatter and explode. having a kettle of water ready makes it easy

>>16138018
I have 6 cast iron pans and this process is literally optimal for both time and seasoning quality
It's also summer, I'm not running my oven on high for an hour to heat a pan

>>16138054
Absolutely, Your method is definitely suitable for light or home use and could probably do the trick temporarily in a professional kitchen in a pinch. But it won't hold it's own weight against a properly polymerize coating done by someone who knows his shit point bar. Stop pretenting it would and don't call people autist online.

>>16138018
nobody says cash money anymore

>>16138122
>nobody says cash money anymore
You're right. When she gives me some cash your mom calls it "baby daddy money."
Also, ITT people who don't have country-cooking grandmothers to teach them the basics.

>>16137539
that's the traditional way. with a new cast iron skillet you use it to cook bacon a few times, then use it to make biscuits a few more times (you can lube it with either bacon grease or butter). then you're good to go.