Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating?

• amio@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cast iron is nice, I recommended stainless because I assume someone who treats pans like this would ruin cast iron too.

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  • Perfide@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • amio@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It depends. I ruined my Teflon, but my cast iron is great. Mostly I just hate plastic spatulas.

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• HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Putting a seasoned cast iron pan in the dishwasher isn’t a great idea, in my experience

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    • Perfide@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dishwashers can have some pretty high pressures involved, I wouldn’t be surprised if it can literally chip the seasoning off.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I might be wrong, but I think if your “seasoning” is thick enough to chip off it means you did it wrong and failed to scrub away the excess food residue.

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  • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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      • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I cook for a family of four every day and taking 3 minutes to clean my cast iron pan is the least time consuming part of it. You’re being dramatic.

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  • Thavron@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Afaik you can’t put the non stick in the dishwasher either?

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    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Been doing it for years with no apparent ill effects

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t see why not? They won’t rust in their like cast iron would

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      • Thavron@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not about rust, but the chemicals in the detergent can harm the coating iirc.

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