Cast Iron

[Anonymous No.12157286]

cast iron, meme or magic?

[Anonymous No.12157317]

>>12157286
bait topic, but they serve their purpose.

[Anonymous No.12157318]

Just got one for the first time this year. It's amazing and some how Sears food better than ever, but IF you're a pleb and accidentally clean too rough and get the seasoning off, it's annoying to get the seasoning back on.

Easy to do so, but if you have roommates, it can get on their nerves.

[Anonymous No.12157323]

>>12157286
It's fine for teaching neckbeards how temperature control works and stuff like that. Some of them get Dunning-Krugered up and think they're god's gift to cooking because they made a hamboigah all by themselves on a shitty crippled antique pan, but normies mostly just keep them around for oven use. And even for that it's not the greatest, I prefer heavy copper in an oven.

[Anonymous No.12157329]

>>12157286
>meme or magic
neither. Its a tool that is useful in the right situation

[Anonymous No.12157336]

Its literally impossible to keep it in a good condition if you live with a normie

[Anonymous No.12158271]

>>12157286
Heavy and annoying to wash.

[Anonymous No.12158283]

>>12158271
It's literally the easiest thing to clean I have. Hot water and wipe down with paper towels. Oh so fucking difficult

[Anonymous No.12158291]

POLYMERIZED OIL
POLYMERIZED
MEANS YOU CAN WASH IT WITH SOAP AND ITS FINE (unless u didnt season it properly)

[Anonymous No.12158299]

>>12158271
>heavy

Lol pussy

[Anonymous No.12158471]

>>12157286
Complete meme. Just buy stainless.

[Anonymous No.12158474]

>>12158291
My gf found a way to rust my old one.

[Anonymous No.12158492]

>>12158271
>Heavy
haha

[Anonymous No.12158508]

>>12157286
I like mine. Versatile as I can use it to bake or pan fry. I make fritattas and chicken breasts in it easily.

[Anonymous No.12159539]

>>12158271
>heavy
lol
>annoying to wash
you just run water over them. the only thing simpler is not washing the dishes at all, which it sounds like is your usual strategy. enjoy your food poisoning.

[Anonymous No.12159774]

>>12158508
My frittatas tend to stick quite a bit, mind posting your recipe?

[Anonymous No.12159785]

>>12158271
>heavy

/ck/ amirite

[Anonymous No.12159787]

>>12159774
oh frittata

[Anonymous No.12159794]

>>12158471
>>12157323
/thread

[Anonymous No.12159810]

>>12159774
I'm not that same anon, but I often make fritattas in mine. Here's my recipe:
cut bacon into lardons
dice some sweet potato and some onion or shallot.
put 3-4 eggs in a bowl and beat with a fork.
Put the bacon in the skillet and cook on medium until about the bacon is about halfway done. Add the sweet potato and the onion. cook until the bacon is crisp and the potato/onion are cooked. turn on the broiler in your oven to Hi. Add the eggs to the pan and mix a little. Keep the pan over the hob for a few moments to make sure the bottom cooks. I normally shake the pan a few times during this process to make sure there is no sticking.
After the eggs have been in for about a minute or so then transfer the whole pan under the broiler (which by now should be fully pre-heated). Keep an eye on it until the top browns lightly. Take it out, shake it one last time and the whole fritatta should come right out of the pan. Garnish with freshly snipped chives, homemade salsa on the side.

[Anonymous No.12159812]

>>12159774
The only preparation I do to make sure it doesn’t stick is spray the bottom with canola oil and I like to rub butter on the walls

The recipe itself might be why. 6 eggs, bacon, ham, veggies, and cheese as desired, and bake at 400 F for 20 minutes (my oven is old as I am so yours might be done sooner)

[bruce No.12160313]

>>12157286
Neither meme nor magic. It's just a cast iron pan. Your grandma used them. Her grandma used them. They're durable as fuck and are great for certain kinds of food, but give me a cancer inducing Teflon pan for eggs any day.

[Anonymous No.12160374]

>>12160313
>Teflon pan for eggs
your grandma used cast iron for eggs, like her grandma before her. teflon is a great way to ensue you don't have grandkids. also sucking cock, so I guess you're doubly safe.

[Anonymous No.12160697]

>>12158271
>heavy

[Anonymous No.12160703]

>>12158471
I'd only use stainless for cooking tomatos

[Anonymous No.12160710]

you see the problem is most cast irons today aren't finished the way the old ones were
they have a bunch of little bumps all over it which defeats the non-stick attributes
the only way you are going to get a real glossy mirror finished one is to
inherit it
pay over $100 for it
or buy one of the cheap ones and take a sander to it yourself

[Anonymous No.12160872]

>>12160710
the old ones weren't finished like that, they got that way due to generations of being scraped with metal spatulae and daily cleaning with steel wool or sand.

[Anonymous No.12160886]

>>12158271
>heavy
I don't even lift and it's not heavy. What are you made of, limp spaghetti?
>annoying
Easier to clean than almost any other cookware I know of, as long as you don't go full retard and let shit crust on.

[Anonymous No.12161168]

>>12158271
the absolute state of (You)

[Anonymous No.12161194]

>>12160710
>which defeats the non-stick attributes
Nope.
Bumps that are large enough that you can see them don't affect non-stick attributes at all. Some teflon coated pans even have textured surfaces deliberately added.

It's the microscopic cracks and fissures which make food stick, and that's what seasoning addresses. If a bump is big enough for you to see it, it's far too big to trap material and make it stick.

>>12160872
This person is not a moron.

[Anonymous No.12161217]

>>12158471
Cast iron is good for cooking outdoors because of how absurdly durable it is vs house cookware. Especially over an open flame. Otherwise yeah, you're better off using mostly stainless steel in the home.

[Anonymous No.12161240]

>>12160313
I dunno anon but I made some great over-easy eggs in my meme pan this morning. I mean I did make them right after frying up some bacon but cooking eggs in cast iron is possible.

[Anonymous No.12161287]

>>12160313
>there are actual retards on this board that can't cook eggs on CI

jesus, please tell me you fags are just pretending to be retarded

[Anonymous No.12161467]

If you can't cook eggs in a cast iron, I doubt you could cook eggs in stainless steel either.

[Anonymous No.12161772]

[Anonymous No.12162530]

>>12157286
Cast Iron triggers incels and Californians.