Posted on 12/26/2023 12:50:58 PM PST by Red Badger
Gents, you may think this is funny, but I assure you, this man's life is in danger for even joking about this.
[Warning: May induce cardiac arrest in people who like to cook]
AND NOW FOR THE REACTIONS:
Even the people who knew he was trolling them felt deeply unsettled in their souls:
Then there was the AKSHUALLY crowd:
Feel free to chime in below!
I'll be over here giving my cast iron skillet a good scrubbing with some steel wool to get all the black stuff off.
Ping!..................
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I’ll be over here giving my cast iron skillet a good scrubbing with some steel wool to get all the black stuff off.
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I find sandblasting to be very effective for the task.
On the same level as throwing out bacon grease.
A sacrilege is nothing to laugh about!
Steel wool takes way too long. Oven cleaner first, rinse and dry, then use a palm sander for the really hardened stuff.
“Actually”...I doesn’t really matter. You CAN wash your favorite cast iron skillet a few times a month, using mild soap and warm water. You won’t kill that skillet.
My cast iron skillet is tough. I stand before you all today to openly admit using a Brillo Pad to remove stubborn food debris.
I don’t over scrub, just enough to do the job.
And guess what?
This same Joy Liquided, Brillo Pad pink soaped skillet has been used later, this morning, in fact, to cook my breakfast of Jimmy Dean sausage patties, followed by raisin pancakes.
All is well with my cast iron skillet.
It ain’t delicate!
I don't understand the aversion to a little soap and water on a well-seasoned cast iron. Clean it up, heat it up and rub with a little oil. (I use beeswax for the outdoor gear)
Flourine is a highly corrosive gas that almost combines with anything. It is stored in Nickel containers that have been seasoned with the gas to form a NiF₂ layer. If one were to scrub that layer away and then reintroduce the Flourine you’d get to see what burning metal actually looks like.
I hope he didn’t do it in the south.
It’s a police thing . . . or at least a southern thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5tqE293T_8
(Slaw and Order episode)
One of my first jobs as a teenager was at a restaurant.
I was the janitor.
One day I ‘cleaned’ the cook’s egg flipping pan.
I thought he was going to have a heart attack.....................
Most of the ppl responding on twitter prob never cooked with cast iron.
OMG.......he even scrubbed it.......with a soap pad......(fainting)
I have zero idea what this is all about. What’s so bad about cleaning an iron pan? Rust?
You remove the cast iron pan’s seasoning if you do this.............
The whole idea of a cast iron skillet, or a dutch oven, is that by cooking with oil a layer builds up that makes it non-stick. You can do this with a new pan or dutch oven by putting canola oil or flax oil or something similar on it and baking it in the oven with nothing in it for a couple of hours. After that, each use makes it just a little bit better, according to theory.
Soap will destroy all of the work of the ages. Supposedly such things as tomato sauce are also not good.
Yes, I don’t do it every time, but I do occasionally use a bit of Dawn and my tuffy pad once or twice a week.
I use it every day, often two or three times.
It’s probably over 100 years old. And if there were an emergency and I could only save one item out of the kitchen it would be the skillet.
(The wife would be a close second.)
How dare you!
Well, he’s out of the will.
I have many old cast iron pans and a ditch oven. I have cleaned them with many detergents over the years including steel wool.
There tends to be a “grunge” that develops at the edges where the wall meets the floor. It’s ok to clean this off and I prefer Castrol Super Clean degreaser for this task.
As a rule, I like to clean/degrease the pan(s) every couple of years or so, and then re-season them with peanut oil or safflower oil. This reduces the smoke when you use high heat.
Those who have a stroke because this person washed a pan are misguided.
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