/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14881826]

what is the big deal about cast iron pans and why are they being shilled so much here? i mean, aren't they dangerous due to rusting? also difficult to clean due to stickiness and all.

[Anonymous No.14881837]

>>14881826
a lot of neckbeards whose idea of cooking is hot pieces of salted meat and have no use for other kinds of cookware, which they can't afford anyway because they blew all their money on "manly drinks" like craft beer and islay single malt.

also cleaning makes you gay or something.

[Anonymous No.14881839]

oh look, it's this retarded bait again. fuck off, queef

[Anonymous No.14881842]

>>14881839
found one

[Anonymous No.14881939]

Ptheyre not dangerous, just brokefags first pan. All Clad and Le Creuset are what most people here use.

[Anonymous No.14881957]

theyre good but not great, i have one for meats and small portions of bread like pizzas and shit
but i dont know what youre one about with rust and stickiness, just maintain the damned thing

[Anonymous No.14882655]

I prefer anodized aluminum

[Anonymous No.14882667]

>>14882655

And i prefer women as opposed to men

[Anonymous No.14882684]

I like them for their heat retention
Also my range is small and of all my pans they fit the best so I use them just kind of by default because that's what's there

[Anonymous No.14882705]

>>14882684

>muh heat retention

what are you doing in your soi pan so frequently that you have to take this into consideration?

[Anonymous No.14882720]

>>14882705
steak and pizza

[Anonymous No.14882735]

>>14882720

>steak and pizza

[Anonymous No.14882739]

>>14882735
cool meme ifag

[Anonymous No.14882751]

>>14881826
cast iron is great for something that needs to be both stovetop and oven, without switching pans. steaks are perfect example.

they're just one tool among many

[Anonymous No.14882806]

>>14882751

>you cant put a stainless or aluminum pan in the oven

hun??

[Anonymous No.14882815]

How about just let people cook with what they like to cook with? If it works for them then it works for them.

[Anonymous No.14882816]

>>14882806
why do frying pans trigger apple users?

[Anonymous No.14882830]

>>14882816

>being a poorfag who seethes at the fact that other people arent poor

lmao

[Anonymous No.14882844]

>>14882830
>i have an iphone that means i'm rich
lol
nigger

[Anonymous No.14882900]

>>14882751
>they're just one tool among many
>>14882806
>you cant use other tools
huh???

[Anonymous No.14883352]

>>14882806
cast iron gives a better crust man plus i am pretty sure its not good for those pans to get in the oven not to mention alot of them come with those gay ass plastic handles

[Anonymous No.14883380]

>>14883352

If somethings 500 degrees its 500 degrees

>>14882844

>is so poor he has to use his great great grandmammys cast iron from when they saddled up and headed out west

[Anonymous No.14883393]

There is bullying on this page and I am a witness.

[Anonymous No.14883411]

>>14881826
I have 1 that I use for certain things like fajitas. I recently learned to clean it with kosher salt and that was a game changer

[Anonymous No.14883456]

>>14881826
At some point, staring into Reddit will have Reddit stare back into you, and you are clearly past that point.

[Anonymous No.14883575]

>>14883380
>having things passed down to you from past generations means you're poor
lmaoing @ this dumb consoomer nigger who knows nothing about wealth

[Anonymous No.14883639]

>>14881826
desu i got one for Christmas last year and I never use it because its such a pain in the ass to take care of. Get just as good of a sear with stainless steel and its easier to clean.

[Anonymous No.14883672]

>>14883639
You're not supposed to clean it. You eat out of the dirty pan and the built up bacteria put hair on your balls or something like that.

[Anonymous No.14883688]

>>14883672
>he doesn't season his steel

[Anonymous No.14883689]

>>14883672
if you watch any vid on cast iron youd know thats not true
keep shitting up the board retard

[Anonymous No.14883708]

it's good for some things like steaks and breads, i am planning to do a pie on one of mine, did anyone here try to do pie in a cast iron pan? I don't have a pie form

[Anonymous No.14883876]

>>14881826
For me they work well for campfire cooking

[Anonymous No.14883883]

>>14881826
its up there
yet to see a cast iron chad get blown out so...

[Anonymous No.14883906]

>>14881939
You do realise almost everything le Creuset sells is cast iron...! fucking idiots

[Anonymous No.14883990]

how do i clean my cast iron pan when im done with it? i just let the oil cool down and it coagulates into a solid block, then when im ready to cook with it again i just heat up the cooled oil and re-use it

am i doing this wrong

[Anonymous No.14883998]

>>14882735
>steak and pizza are now soyboy foods

[Anonymous No.14884011]

>>14883990
you should take a rag and wipe out your pan when youre done with it, you fucking heathen. run some hot water over it after you wipe it out to get the rest of the oil and foodstuffs. Salt and oil with a metal scrubbie will get the charred food off the pan, but dont scrub too hard. never let it air dry. always dry it off with a clean towel.

[Anonymous No.14884016]

>>14883998
steak is definitely cringe tier overcompensating beta food

[Anonymous No.14884017]

>>14883672
What are you talking about? Cleaning cast iron is the easiest:

Run sink until the water is very hot
Take hot crusty CI pan off of stove
Put it under the stream of hot water while scraping with a metal spatula
Put pan back on the burner and the residual heat will dry it (electric element bros only, otherwise use paper towels or rags to dry)
Apply a thin layer of vegetable oil to pan interior.

Wala

[Anonymous No.14884036]

>>14883990
That's kind of okay. You can also just scrape the coagulated oil in the trash, and (optional) wipe with a clean , non-soapy cloth.

If you want to really clean it, scrub it with oil and course salt and wipe it off. Just takes a few seconds.

You might not want to perpetually reheat the oil, cause it gets grimy. I use mine a few times (especially if it's something like eggs or pancakes) before cleaning. I just use the spatula to scrape whatever egg or batter is on it into the trash.

Or just do what other Anons say:
>>14884017
>>14884016
That's all good too.

Basically, you just don't want lots of grime and crumbs sticking to your next meal. Seasoned cast iron is naturally not stick, so grime comes off really easily. A bit of grease or oil on the surface is fine and good.

[Anonymous No.14884097]

>>14884016
>steak is definitely cringe tier overcompensating beta food

[Anonymous No.14884158]

>>14884016
I love eating steak. How cringe.

[Anonymous No.14884266]

>>14883883
>Ja/ck/ only made it to #7
Damn.

[Anonymous No.14884350]

I wash my cast iron and carbon steel pans vigorously with tons of soap every night and their seasoning has never been stronger. Soap destroys lipids, your seasoning is not a lipid anymore if you seasoned right. I also never re-season, if you just cook in them with enough oil their seasoning self regulates. I do avoid cooking acidic ingredients for a long time, eg I'd reach for my stainless pans for a tomato sauce-- that really does destroy the seasoning, but small amounts like vinegar seasoning is fine. The no soap thing is a total myth though, left over from the fact that soaps used to have lye in them that would destroy the seasoning. Modern soap doesn't have that.

[Anonymous No.14884382]

>>14881826
They last a long time if they are cared for correctly. They only rust if they are put away wet or left to sit in a wet environment. They are not difficult to clean. You wash them in warm soapy water, dry them immediately, and then rub oil on them and put them in an oven for an hour. Easy. They also add iron to whatever you are cooking so if you are lacking iron, then they do help with that. I inherited several sizes of skillets and a dutch oven and I enjoy using them. My favorite cast iron pan is actually a pizza pan but I use it as a griddle and baking pan too. Le Creuset is just an enameled cast iron version of the same thing, I have those too. The only thing I don't really like to cook in them are eggs because they take on too much of the skillet's seasoning flavor. Great for a steak or piece of fish though,

[Anonymous No.14884495]

>>14881826
They're good for searing and you can get away with not thoroughly cleaning them

[Anonymous No.14884510]

>>14883883
roll

[Anonymous No.14884616]

>>14884382
>You wash them in warm soapy water, dry them immediately, and then rub oil on them and put them in an oven for an hour.
>have to spend an hour cleaning them every time you use them
fucking scam

[Anonymous No.14884661]

>>14884616
>taking care of your tools is a scam
back to your walmart tier teflon coated pans brainlet

[Anonymous No.14884672]

>>14883883
rolling

[Anonymous No.14884674]

>>14884616
>>14884661
unless you intentionally strip your seasoning or do something extremely retarded like let it burn dry for an hour, you don't need to oil it after every wash lol

[Anonymous No.14885244]

>>14882705
the heat retention is the only thing that makes my shitty electric stove cook evenly.

[Anonymous No.14885326]

>>14881826
Gets consistently high heat everywhere
Stays hot for longer
Minimal maintenance (soap, water, scrub, dry, oil)
If it gets rust, scrub it off and re oil for temporary solution, or look up how to cure a cast iron on youtube. Takes several hours so don't cure your pan unless its is rusty all over or mad fucked.

Keep it dry

[Anonymous No.14885375]

>>14883883
>act like a clown
>whine about being regarded as a clown
Americans are pathetic.

[Anonymous No.14885631]

Why use a cast iron pan over a George foreman grill? No reason I can see.

[Anonymous No.14886360]

>>14885631
i cant make pizza on a grill

[Anonymous No.14886724]

>>14886360
Sounds like a personal failing to me.

[Anonymous No.14886972]

>>14884016
https://youtu.be/tR1nHnEL3PM

[Anonymous No.14886985]

>>14883906

He means the enameled, good stuff not their broke bitch collection.

[Powerlines No.14887068]

>>14881837
I like Islay single malt, I drink maybe once a month and have 2 bottles of the stuff. I don't use cast iron anymore because stainless steel is superior, cleaned my cast iron all the time with soap and water lol just put it on the burner for 3 mins after it isn't hard. I don't drink beer anymore because it's carb water, used to drink Budweiser though.

[Powerlines No.14887078]

>>14887068
To be fair I like all whisky but Islay is cool, I like the smokey flavors, it's not my personality by any stretch. I figured if I am going to drink better a no carb beverage with good flavors.

[Anonymous No.14887141]

>>14881826
They're very convenient to cook some things on.
>rust
If you've supremely fucked the seasoning.
>difficult to clean
Not really. You scrape off whatever sticks with a bit of hot water, which generally comes off really easily. Then you dry it off, put a very thin layer of oil all over, and bring it up to a smoke and then you're done.