I hate cast iron so I am in favour of this.

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Just wash it with dish soap like everything else, use a scrubber like everything else.

If you have an actual polymer layer, it won't be harmed.

Dry it off, throw it on the burner. Get it hot, give it a touch of oil, and store it.

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You just pout oil in it, bring the oil up to temp, and set a timer when you drop the food in. Just like deep frying in a pot at home

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I bet I’d get this joke if I had ever used a dishwasher in my life

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Unless there is a literal hole rusted through it, grab some sand paper and sand the rust off of it. It's just iron. I've done it many times to rescue an old skillet or Dutch Oven.

Short of taking a sledgehammer to it, it's nigh on impossible to destroy cast iron cooking pans.

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What exactly is your argument here? I use Dawn; it doesn’t appear to affect my cast iron pan. Many people online use it to clean their cast iron with no ill effects.

I mean, they use the stuff to clean off ducks after oil spills. I suspect whatever concentration it has is not high enough to have any caustic effects.

So clearly it does take “much.”

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Look at Ol' Diamond Jim over there with his $100 skillets!

I got 2 cast iron frying pans, a 6qt dutch oven, a 2 burner flat iron, and one cast iron 2qt kettle. I ain't got $50 into the whole lot of them. Vintage cast iron is cheap because it will last for multiple generations and there is lots of it floating around to be had on the cheap.

And if you ain't got 5 minutes to clean a cast iron frying pan, then no $10 nuclear glow int the dark Walmart special is going to do any better in your care. I highly recommend you find someone to cook for you. Before you give yourself food poisoning.

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Everyone acts like enameled cast iron doesn't exist...

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Does this also apply to the caustic and corrosive ingredients in a soda?

It’s phosphoric acid, doesn’t make much, yet it’s safe to drink. See how fucking moronic that argument is you muppet?

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God I wish, food prep is one of my least favorite things to do lol.

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You're not special for washing dishes in a less efficient way that's worse for the environment. If you've just never had access to one, ignore me, but Ive definitely known a surprising number of people who have dishwashers in their apartments but refuse to use them. If that's you, you're probably doing life wrong.

Anyway there's nothing that special about the dishwasher itself, washing cast iron in hot soap and water and then leaving it to air dry will strip the protection of the polymerized oil and then trigger the pan to rust. Nothing to do with dishwashers as a technology except if you wash a pan by hand you're likely scrubbing it less effectively and not willing to spend 1-2 hours spraying it with hot water. If you stick the pan into the washer for 15 mins, immediately rinse, dry, and re season, it's not particularly different from washing by hand.

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I mean it's a lump of iron it still won't be harmed you may just need to scrape some rust off and reseason.

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If you don't care why post on a thread to tell people how little you care?

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As long as you don't scrape off the protective layer and then leave it in water.

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Clearly making a fun joke about my cookware ineptitude. Also I didn't say I didn't care, I said I didn't know.

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It wasn't an argument, it was a statement of fact. Go stick your hand in an extremely weak lye mixture for a few minutes, get back to me.

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Oh wait, we aren't doing "no lye in it" now? Huh.

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"The caustic ingredient in a soap is not to aid in cleaning" You, that's you, demonstrating a single digit IQ.

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All the blather you morons make about disinformation, and then you try argue chemistry on how you feel.

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Well, yes, but let's not be intentionally obtuse eh?

"Harm" in this case refers to the seasoning (polymer layer), which takes time and effort to repair if it's significantly damaged.

In the same way that scratching a wood floor is harming it (you can just resurface it), or denting your drywall is harm (you can just repair it).

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Maybe get off the Internet and touch some grass if you're going to get this upset over a cast iron pan discussion. There's no excuse for name calling and insults.