I can’t wait to see her face. She honestly deserves it after all she’s done.
MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT CRUFT!!!
Watched a video years ago of someone doing this before re-seasoning and baking the pan in the oven.
The end result was actually pretty fabulous.
It’s actually better if you do this on new pan you bought, it strip away the pre-season and smoothen the surface a bit before you apply the seasoning of your choice.
Yeah, this is the first step in properly refurbishing cast iron.
The only path left is combat. Tonight, her iron shall be re-seasoned…in blood.
That’s the moment you learned she’s a sorcerer, she Cast Iron on you.
Sorceress ;)
That dang masculine -er
This is why people get hit with a frypan.
I got hit with a frying pan when we were trying to replace my wife’s mother’s non-stick pans that were starting to flake. My mother-in-law is legally blind, and after we gave her the new pans she showed me the old one, saying, “look at it, it’s perfect!” My response of, “it’s even worse than she said!” was the wrong thing to say to an elderly woman holding a pan.
Yeah, right, haha! I can’t wait to see her face after such a stressful trip!
seeing this will almost certainly top whatever stress she thought she had before.
Thanks! I hope you’re right and that this takes her mind off all that other nonsense! ❤️
Please someone explain!
Cast iron is “seasoned” to make it nonstick. That means many layers of oil build up as a sort of polymer. The point is to keep it “dirty” in this way. Cleaning it down to bare metal means she’d be forced to re-season it, which can take considerable time/effort depending on frequency of use. A true disservice.
Yes, but missing the nuance that seasoned cast iron that has been cleaned by dish soap has the black polymerized layer while a bunch of morons are opposed to actually cleaning and think burnt on food other than the polymerized oils is ‘seasoning’ and recommend just wiping it out with a towel.
My cast iron isn’t anything special but it sheds more water than my non-stick ceramic when turned sideways while cleaning and wiping doesn’t leave any black stains on a paper towel.
I never figured out how this is reconciled - it just sounds dirty AF (and I’m no clean freak at all!)
you’re supposed to wash cast iron with water, then soap then water again. then you dry, put it on a hot stove, and once all the water evaporates away, you rub it down with some oil on a cloth/paper towel, and get that real hot. then you can turn off the heat, and wipe off excess oil before putting it away. It’s not as straightforward as just tossing it into the dishwasher, but it’s not as complicated as some would have you believe. also, you can wash cast iron. soap doesn’t hurt it.
Isn’t the “seasoning” PFAS?
No, and nor is the teflon in the pans you’re thinking if. PFAS is a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon (or was, I thought they’d stopped now) not teflon itself. The problem with PFAS is accidental release and dumping.
That’s the stuff on standard non-stick pans (teflon). You don’t make PFAS by burning in some oil at home.
Seasoning is just oil baked onto cast iron through a process called polymerization. It gives your cookware that classic black patina. Seasoning forms a natural, easy-release cooking surface and helps prevent your pan from rusting.
- Lodge (as I understand it, they’re the gold standard for cast iron cookware)
In the case of non-stick stuff, it’s less that they’re seasoned with PFAS and more that they don’t need seasoning because they have PFAS (at least in theory).
The seasoning is plastic. That’s what polymerized means. The F in PFAS stands for flourine which I don’t think you’ll have in your seasoning
Plastics made from petroleum aren’t the same thing as heated up vegetable oil.
Did they sayil it was?
No, that’s the opposite
You can season nearly anything with oil. Except aluminum, which needs a Teflon coating or it gets nasty very fast. Except Teflon is non reactive to nearly everything
Except pfas. You can dissolve Teflon in pfas and spray it onto aluminum
? Teflon is a PFAS
PFAS vs PFOS
Cast iron pans have to be burned in with oil to create a non-stick patina. If you use aggressive cleaning agents or steel wool, this patina gets stripped, and the process has to be repeated
Could do with that on mine tbh, seasoning starting to flake in patches. Shame as it was getting pretty good.
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