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

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People make this shole "cast iron cult" thing out to be a much bigger thing than it actually is. Cast iron is a durable material and has been used as a tool for cooking in the harshest of conditions for centuries, but to be able to use it in those harsh conditions it needs to be properly taken care of just like any tool.

The reason people seem so neurotic over taking care of cast iron is that cast iron cookware is an investment. Year after year a cast iron pan (and this applies to carbon steel pans too) becomes better and better the more the thin layers of oil polymerization into the seasoning. A fresh off the line Lodge dutch oven doesn't have the years of layer after layer after layer of polymerized oil on it as the same mode Lodge dutch oven my grandmother used when back she was half my age.

Cast iron is easy to take care of, there's nothing special about how to take care of it, but the ways to take care of it are specific because of the nature of the metal used. Hell I spend less time cleaning my cast iron pans and carbon steel wok than I do cleaning any other pan type.

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I leave mine sitting in water all the time. It still works.

dustycups

But apart from that, what have ~~the romans~~ ceramics done for us?

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Oddly enough when there are fuck the mexicans or fuck the poles posts, people are vaguely interested.

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You son of a-

Noxy

the aquaduct?

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Someone doesn't know Sodium Hydroxide is Lye

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it's fucking lye, doesn't take much

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no. Teflon pans are just the worst. silicone utensils only and never turn the burner over half or your budgie dies.

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"basic chemistry" linseed oil is acid resistant so stfu.

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shut the fuck up

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Okay but this one time I did exactly that thing I'm not supposed to and exactly what was expected happened so obviously cast iron bad?

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Even if it does rust accidentally, can't you just scrape or buff out the rust and then reseal/reseason it again and it's fine?

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The obsession with cast iron like it is some kind of magic ritual is honestly really weird. After you cook with it, wash it with water and dry it with some paper towels, that's it, no need to make it more complicated than it really is.

If things are sticking to your pan, use more oil in your pan; with enough oil, you can cook on a rock and make it nonstick.

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cast iron is basically steel, but has it's own name because it's brittle. roughly between half a percent to 3 percent carbon (among other things) is the base of many steels. "cast iron" is about 4 percent carbon and pretty much no ductility

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good lord. steel is iron and carbon, just not so much carbon it becomes brittle

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Are you a bit or just fucking retarded?

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Yeah, but it's a lot faster to dry it after use/cleaning.

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Once my colleague's dad threw gasoline on a fire and got 3rd degree burns, so oxygen is bad.

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I do, the lye is not to aid in cleaning and it doesn’t have enough to ruin a seasoning.

There’s a difference between knowing something is in it, and why it is in it and what it can do.

Soda has caustic and corrosive ingredients, it doesn’t mean it’s going to dissolve your intestines lmfao.