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

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Teflon also should not go in the dishwasher. Anything with exposed aluminum should not go in the dishwasher. Even stainless steel cookware recommends against dishwasher

Buglefingers

Rust (clean) is actually perfectly safe to eat! And can add extra iron content to your diet if necessary!
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(Most sources assume tainted rust, or large quantities, but small amounts of "clean" rust are fine, just don't over eat iron quantities)

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LOL at cherrypicking something I said to do instead of throwing the pan away

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I don't have a horse in this race but everything is carcinogenic to some degree, burnt toast isn't going to make any real difference. And why would cast iron have a polymer coating? Unless I'm missing something wasn't the whole point to avoid that?

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So another way of saying reseasoning.

I haven't had to do that since I switched to a less abrasive sponge. The green Scotch brand ones tended to take off some of the seasoning but the blue ones only take off the food.

Victor

I don't like using it because of the maintenance and manual cleaning, but I do use it because of the iron rich food it makes, and the longevity of the cookware.

Also I heard Teflon is literally freaking poison for you, like one of the worst things to consume. And pots and pans always tend to flake Teflon after a while, from general use. So we got rid of everything Teflon.

I don't know how true it is but it feels good. Doing some manual labor isn't a bad thing either.

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I do nothing to my cast iron, it's rusty and shit, it's fine.

hypnotoad

I also try not to use much if any soap there too, because, porous wood

To each their own my friend, you do you. Not trying to get into a fued over soap preferences lol

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I'm English, don't forget to downvote me!

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Well that's blatantly what they're doing, isn't it. Must have found a shitty pan or something.

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What do you think carbon steel is made from?

Cast iron and steel are largely similar materials, cast iron just has the carbon precipitated out of solution instead of trapped in a crystalline structure

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These are instructions for those who are picky about stuff.

Just cook in it. After cooking, wipe it out. If its bad, when pre-heating I pull it off to put some water and rub with a pad with minimal soap, rinse that off, and back on the hob. Wow 15s of work before cooking. The horror.

The instructions rumba gave were "if you absolutely fuck up, here are easy ways to fix that so you don't have to buy a new one"

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Detergents are basic because that works wonders on greasy stuff. When oil polymerises it won't be susceptible to basic substances anymore but will react to acids. (Unlike acid and oils which don't really react with each other – think vinaigrette separating in the fridge.)

Washing a cast iron pan with detergent will clean it from unpolymerised oil.

Cooking e.g. tomato based sauces in your cast iron pan will strip it of the polymerised coating (might impart flavour too).

Cleaning kitchen tiles near your stove is sometimes easier with acidic cleaning solutions as well. Just be careful with the caulking which will brittle over time from using acids.

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You have those prices reversed though. My cast iron collection, as noted further down, cost less in total than my one really good stainless steel pan, and guess where some of that cast iron was purchased? For $10 at Walmart, LOL. And at thrift stores and Target.

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I used to think so, then I just started using them on the reg and it turns out to be super easy.

It's just a pan.

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The cast iron "purists" are silly. We just wash ours with soap and water and use it like any other pan. I only know of stuff you can do with cast iron, use metal spatulas, scrub it out with salt, and/or put it in the oven. Not sure what you can't do.

Granted, I don't put any pots and pans in the dishwasher. Maybe y'all have bigger dishwashers than I do, but if one item takes up half the space, what's even the point?

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Yup I usually just dry scrub with a little chainmail scrubber to get all the bits off with. Then I wipe down with a little veg oil and it's ready for next time.

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I wash with soap and add a little oil every cook. Works great.

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Tbf the cast iron i'm cooking out of was found as scrap in the woods. I wash with soap regularly, and use normal oil/butter qty's. I just don't dishwasher it, not that i have a dish!asher XD. I've seasoned it one single time which is right after i found it. It's been a year.