Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating?
amio@kbin.social 10 months ago
What did you do to the poor thing? Looks like you've been stabbing it with a fork 24/7 for years. Toss it, and be (a lot) more careful with the next one - or skip nonstick entirely. They already have a finite lifetime when not abused, and if you manage to ruin the coat in one spot that's a hotspot for "scaling off" more.
Stainless steel can take a beating, though, go nuts.
Terevos@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Cast iron is non-stick and so much easier to clean
amio@kbin.social 10 months ago
Cast iron is nice, I recommended stainless because I assume someone who treats pans like this would ruin cast iron too.
Perfide@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Cast iron is nearly impossible to “ruin”, the idea that you can is nothing more than a huge circlejerk. Even a completely rust covered cast iron pan can be made basically good as new with a little effort.
Obviously restoring your pan every time you wanna use it isn’t practical, so you still wanna take care of it, but actually permanently ruining it? Good luck.
amio@kbin.social 10 months ago
I wasn't really referring to permanently mangling the iron. Taking care of seasoning is an extra thing, is all, and the seasoning can absolutely be ruined.
Terevos@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It depends. I ruined my Teflon, but my cast iron is great. Mostly I just hate plastic spatulas.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
Unless of course you want to use a dishwasher. Even manually it really isn't 'so much easier to clean' and you have to spend time seasoning it.
KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Once you season cast iron you can clean it however you want. Even with soap. The oils you bake on there at such high heat causes polymerization.
You don’t have to continue to season cast iron after cleaning it, unless you’re cleaning it with a fucking angle grinder.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
Putting a seasoned cast iron pan in the dishwasher isn’t a great idea, in my experience
Perfide@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Dishwashers can have some pretty high pressures involved, I wouldn’t be surprised if it can literally chip the seasoning off.
PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I have a cast iron pan that I’ve used for almost 10 years. I seasoned it when I got it. To clean it, I scrub it with steel wool, dry it off then rub a coat of oil on it. It still looks and works perfectly. Cast iron is extremely easy to clean and upkeep.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yeh,
Scrubbing it with steel wool, drying it and then rubbing in oil doesn’t sound as easy as ‘put in dishwasher’. I couldn’t be doing with that, cooking for a family every day
Thavron@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Afaik you can’t put the non stick in the dishwasher either?
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
Been doing it for years with no apparent ill effects
0ops@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t see why not? They won’t rust in their like cast iron would