/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18781573
You will always and forever have to baby cast iron. That's why true chads use stainless.

>>18781573
Until you throw it in the trash and get Teflon

Captcha AY0XD

>>18781573
Two weeks

>>18781573
you get to keep oiling it until you die and your children inherit it
but lol this is 4chan, some faggot at a yard sale will profit from your labour

Just use it its fine

>>18781573
people with stainless steel or nonstick pans just buy them and use them and then wash them while your lives revolve about that fucking meme pan, you have to pamper that shit more than a pet

>>18781761
>pamper more than a pet
You just wipe it, dry it, and oil it. Same thing you do with your bootycheeks homeboy.

>>18781790
that's why people make threads all the time being confused about what to actually do with their meme pan?

>>18781799
No, it's because people keep using the wrong oil.

>>18781799
It's a wonder those people manage to breath

>>18781573
>oil it up after i'm done with it
You don't need to do this, and if you don't cook it it soon enough after oiling it, the oil will go rancid and your cast iron will be sticky.

>>18781734
What will we call you? The dude who burns his eggs in a cast iron saucepan and then shares photos constantly? Your eggs look literally disgusting.

>>18781579
>stainless
ugh. i can't imagine having to wash my pan every time i use it.

>>18782117
eh, could be worse. there for awhile he was constantly showing pictures of his pan that he had stripped the seasoning out when he chiseled off his burned bacon.

>>18781573
This is a meme. I don’t do shit to my cast iron and it’s literally perfectly fine. Do you think peasants worried about all this shit? No.

>>18782117
Post ur teflon eggs

>>18782122
Pretty sure Saucepanbro has never stripped the seasoning out of his pan. Have you taken your meds today?

>>18782134
oh, it's the autistic retard again

>>18782158
That's not Saucepanbro. Are you stupid?

>>18782158
>>18782225
Every single thread, regardless of relevance.

Autism

>>18782225
>Doesn't stick if I add oil (or fat as it were)
>Bit on the side sticks
Oh no pansissies.

>>18781761
I barely wash my cast iron though
It just sits on the stove and gets a paper towel wipe once in a while unless something really gnarly happens to it
Litetally the lowest maintenence kitchenware i own

>>18781573
>papertowl
already fucked it up

>>18781573
depends on how often you use it, but I can confirm that you eventually don't have to oil it. I don't even dry mine after washing and it doesn't rust.

>>18782283
wait why? i use a paper towel. what do you use instead? a cloth dedicated to drying the pan? also what's wrong with a paper towel

>>18782225
All I see is that you can't cook an omelette to save your life.

>>18781573
we used one for 20 plus years and never did anything special to them. just never put them in a dishwasher

>>18782518
He's messing with you about paper towels, but if you don't have a stack of small, cheap towels for your kitchen, then you are doinitrong

>>18781579
>That's why true chads use stainless.
I always cringe when I see clips of people cook a ribeye (or any steak) on stainless steel.

>>18781573
It'll be long as you dry it on the stove after each wash.

My pan has gotten truly non-stick after 2-3 years of monthly steaks with butter. I don't really cook anything else on it. But I can even wash it with dish soap now.

>>18782655
n oo

>>18782655
Butter wasn't giving me a very durable seasoning coat. I had to build up a good layer of seasoning with oil before I could fry burgers and steaks with butter.

>>18782225
>immediately detect american kitchen
>minimize webm

>>18782682
I thought seasoning is mandatory. That what I do with all my new/very old cast iron.

>>18782699
Not every oil is equal in how well it polymerizes.

>>18782699
nobody born and raised before teflon pans EVER worried or put all this effort in to "seasoning" their pans, or cleanings them.

and the whole don't use soap to clean them is because 100 years ago the only soap available was lye soap which would strip the seasoning.

modern soap will not do that.

we used SOS pads and plastic scrub pads to clean them back in the 70's.

>>18782722
>He fell for the "polymerization" scam

>>18782725
Not true. Your grandparents' generation *did* know about seasoning. It's just the boomers who were raised wrong and never learned how to use anything.

>>18782731
Try removing the penis from your mouth and try that again, you retard.

>>18782739
wrong my family used cast iron pans up until some time in the 80's.

not once did my mother or grand mother ever tell me
>on no be careful with that pan don't use soap
no I was told just scrub the shit out of it. I still have one of those pans.

I made the mistake of re-seasoning it, and it will never be like it was, it had 40 years of seasoning on it.

>>18782739
Meds. Now.

>>18782746
>not once did my mother or grand mother ever tell me
>>on no be careful with that pan don't use soap
>no I was told just scrub the shit out of it. I still have one of those pans.
This doesn't address the fact that the pans were shipped from the foundry unseasoned and someone seasoned them before using. You're just telling me that your family understood that modern soap doesn't contain lye, which is good, but not a statement that they never put effort into seasoning." They probably didn't "just cook in it" to start with, since you need to season the outside and the handle or those will get brown patina instead of black seasoning. Of course, by the time you were born, they didn't have to worry about the seasoning *any more,* but that doesn't mean nobody ever did.

>I made the mistake of re-seasoning it, and it will never be like it was, it had 40 years of seasoning on it.
I mean, it's not magic. There's no reason it can't be non-stick again. You just need to put more time and effort into it.

>>18782753
Tranny retard.

>>18782763
Meds. Now.

personally i gave up after i followed every instruction, built a nice coat of seasonning, and first time i cooked something on medium heat it just disintegrated instantly and gave me a side of black flakes with my meat
no thanks, i'll stick to stainless steel that shit takes everything and i can scratch it with the sponge if need be and give zero fuck

>>18782225
Why is the "butter" white, is it margarine?

>>18781573
i’ve never oiled up my cast iron after using it, i also wash them with soap.
never had any problems with them.

>>18782731
>>18782753
>>18782767
Jannies? She is clearly underage.

>>18782684
now if only you took that approach to this site and fucked off forever
the less obsessed nonamericans here the better

>>18783269
you're hallucinating again

>>18781573
My cast iron keeps getting this weird grey/silver/black discoloration every time I'm done cooking with it and scrubbing it with a sponge, am I doing something wrong?

>>18782225
Bro that shit is overcooked to hell

>>18783833
that's the mold growing on your "seasoning"

>>18782225
>>18782158
I'm going to call you Rerun. You keep posting these fucking webm's in every one of these threads as if anyone on the website hadn't seen them already or cared anymore.

>>18781734
I will call you Cleetus. Now you're posting the potato-cam photos of your fried eggs in your chicken fryer. They appear to actually be new photos every time, and you're always ready to post them, so one can only conclude that you regularly document your egg cooking for some reason. You seem like the type of person who posts photos of the bunions on your feet to facebook.

>>18783777
>>18782767
>>18782753
>>18782731
I'm going to call you Sheila. You seem to be attracted to cast iron threads for some reason, even though you appear to hate the subject with a passion. Sometimes you try to dredge up drama from a past thread. Here, you tried to deny that seasoning even exists and got triggered when people told you to fuck off. Repeating the same bizarre insult "meds now" is something very low IQ people do, like black people, although the logical conclusion is you're projecting. The very poor taste anime shit that no one ever asked you to post is further proof that you have some sort of disorder.

>>18784233
>unmedicated fingers typed this post

>>18782645
you can season stainless too anon.
not all stainless suck at retaining heat also.

>>18782645
you can get a great steak from steel if you know what you're doing. the problem is most people who haven't cooked in a restaurant don't really know their way around steel.

>>18781806
everybody knows to use mineral oil, because iron is a mineral

>>18782117
Use a saturated oil, and it won't go rancid because science.

>>18784285
A saturated oil is solid at room temperature. Most of the ones in your pantry are going to go bad if left out, though.

>>18782117
this is exactly how i like my eggs. little crunch around the edges but not black.

>>18782127
Same here. Works fine. People really oil their fucking pans lmao wtf

>>18781573
it takes 10 seconds why are you bitching
>finish cooking
>add water to deglaze a lil
>wipe it out
>add some fat
>wipe it in
>let it cool down on the burner

ez

>>18784307
I use avocado oil, I've never had this problem

>>18781573
https://youtu.be/P4zW-C010oc
This is all you need to know.

>>18782731
>He failed high school chemistry

>>18784818
reminder that the whole "muh polymerized oil" lie was created by a woman who had done it exactly once, and had failed at it. reminder that everybody who tries the whole "muh polymerized oil" bullshit winds up with flaking pseudo-seasoning and has to deep fry their food to keep it from sticking. reminder that the only way to create a proper nonstick seasoning is to cook with the pan many times.

if you believe "polymerized oil" is the best seasoning then you're the sort of mindless drone who also believes that the best steel is made from pure iron without all those icky impurities like carbon or manganese or vanadium in it.

>>18785341
OK, Sheila.

>>18782645
I used to cringe when I saw people acting like cast iron was a good way to cook anything, but I stopped caring like 10 years ago. Some day you might learn, but most likely not

>>18785416
Gaslet detected

>>18785341
>reminder that the whole "muh polymerized oil" lie was created by a woman who had done it exactly once, and had failed at it.
Reminder that you haven't even tried it and you're a complete fucking retard.

>>18785468
reminder that everybody that has tried it has failed and come onto /k/ whining about their flaking "seasoning" and sticking bacon and eggs and why can't they cook fish on it.

>>18785341
>someone made a blog post that upset me
>therefore seasoning doesn't exist!

>>18785480
>I'm gonna pretend I can't read just so i can post my baby picture

>>18785476
Mine has worked just fine. Stop LARPing.

>>18785495
OK, Sheila. You were upset because the author of a random blog post that nobody cares about but you wasn't scientifically rigorous before publishing to her blog. That means that the oil molecules aren't polymerizing when they form seasoning, which literally anyone who has seasoned cast iron or carbon steel can see, the effect of which is predictable and independently observable. Sure, Sheila. You are really proving your "point."

>>18785476
People being too stupid to do it properly doesnt mean its not real

>>18785468
Fire is for men who own property

Childproof electric stoves (aka open face microwaves) are for little girls who rent like cucks

>>18785528
>i...i...it'll work someday!
lol. lmao, even.

My dad never did any of this stupid shit to his cast iron

>>18781573
leave it alone for a few days

>>18785735
I'm so sorry this is happening to you.

>>18781573
Can someone explain heat management to me, everyone users terms like medium and medium high to discuss stove output but after 5 minutes on the second lowest setting ghee smokes, I'm pretty sure my stove runs hotter. I bought an IR thermometer and everything what temps should my skillet be for certain foods?

>>18785650
Works on my machine
Sorry youre stupid

>>18785859
What kind of stove? Coil electric?

>>18785859
I dunno, maybe keep it below the smoke point of your oil? Just a guess.

>>18785882
Glass electric
>>18785890
I'll out myself here, I'm new to the world of cooking, I don't know if something like "below the smoke point of your oil" is what I should even be going for or if smoking ghee is a good temperature for say, chicken breast

>>18785870
may we see a timestamped video as proof?

>>18786091
>Scrape off the seasoning and do another one on video just to prove to an illiterate retard on 4chinz that chemistry works.

>>18786215
still pretending to be retarded, i see. it's not the winning look you think it is.

I've literally never had to "season" my carbon steel pan and never had any sticking issue.
Is it just a cast iron thing?

>>18781573
> take my CS pan with a beautiful blue-bronze gradient seasoning
> heat it up to leidenfrost point
> add ghee
> put a nice cut of meat into the pan
> the meat sticks
> manage to cook it perfectly medium anyway
> some stuff left stuck
> add water while the pan is still hot
> the pan is now clean, even the seasoning is stripped
Fucking piece of shit meme. Enamel just works, and thanks to copper mesh sponge it's easy to clean no matter how much crap stuck to it.

>>18785950
To get a good sear you want your pan 350 F or hotter. Pat the chicken dry first, salt and pepper it, then into the pan. That's the smoke point of butter, so using clarified butter is best. Then cook it until it naturally releases itself, flip and do the other side.

>>18786970
LoL idiot

>>18787500 (Checked)
Explain me what happened to the seasoning and I'll agree with your assertion.

leave the grease from your last meal in there, pansy. you are thinking too hard. you aren't going to get mice or cockroaches (that's a function of your general cleanliness). it's not going to go rancid. it's going to get beyond hot enough to incinerate any bacteria the next time it's cooked. quit "cleaning" it every time you use it.