Millions of people wake up every day and pretend to enjoy cooking on cast iron
Stainless steel >>> cast iron >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> feces >>>>>>>> nonstick
>>21785866I don't pretend.
>>21785956I prefer nonstick over the rest
love cooking with it but cleaning it and oiling it every time is a pain in the balls. I've thought about just going the scumbag route and leaving the dirty, oily pan on the stove 24 hours a day but can bring myself to do it yet
>>21785966skill issue
Cast iron is easy and practically bulletproof and I'll never understand how people have trouble with it. For all the shit /ck/ gives Jack I'd bet a lot of people are on his level.
when i bought my stainless steel i realize how much my cast iron pan negatively affected me in my enjoyment of cooking i have no use for that thing anymore besides maybe one day baking a pizza or something similar in itnow it just sits in my oven being an annoying bitch to take out every time i want to bake something
>>21785966You don't have to do that, I use mine like a normal pan, wash it with dish soap every time, and leave it to dry like anything else. Everything including eggs cooks fine in it without sticking, although you need to use more fat than you would in a nonstick to cook something like eggs, but that's fine because cast iron isn't for eggs, it's for steak and burgers or whatever else you're meant to use a lot of heat at once on.
>>21785866>Millions of people wake up every dayyou should strive to be different
>>21785966>wipe off>scrub with a little bit of soap if needed>dry thoroughly with a towel, in the oven, or on a hot stove>optional: apply oil to season and throw in ovenPeople who think cast iron needs an elaborate arcane ritual to be functional are gay. It’s a fucking pan. It’s good because it’s durable, retains heat well, and doesn’t have teflon poison.
>>21786035It's morning in America and more people are waking up than ever
>>21786172you can use literally any other pan besides cast iron or teflon and not have an issue with this cleaning ritual or poisoning but whatever
i only do it because its incredibly convenient to not use soap and rinse and repeat
>>21786299You are correct and I mostly use stainless steel which is the best option. I mostly use cast iron for throwing stuff in the oven or steaks where I care about heat retention
>21786302>mmm carcinogens
>>21786309My stainless steel fucking rusts. And it's a debuyer pro
The more you use your cast iron, the better it works. I grew up with an old Wagner on the stovetop and no nonstick bullshit, so if you wanted a skillet you used the Wagner. Its interior is broken-in to a flat glass texture and you would have to deliberately try to stick food to it. I have a Lodge cast iron skillet and I buffed out the interior and re-seasoned it with oil to break it in. I think a lot of the meme about 'cast iron is too hard' is from people getting brand-new Lodges that have a lot of internal texture and not breaking them in. Once you break the pan in it's pretty much indestructible. Mine gets put on campfire coals to sear steaks and I also use it for stuff where I want heat retention like baking cornbread or making stir fries.
>>21785866>pretendThis is where you are wrong.
>>21785966I just burn the shit off and swirl some water in the scalding pan, then dab with a paper towel
>>21785866My sister gave me one of these recently and it's easily the best wok I've ever used. Despite it being used and washed several times, not a hint of oxidization on it. Side note, if your cast iron ever looks like the one in the OP, you're not ready to be using cast iron yet.
>>21786377Lol also if someone's cast iron looks like the one in OP's pic, I question whether they are able to use a nonstick pan without destroying it and eating pieces of scratched-up teflon. Which I do not use anyway, all my shit is either cast iron, stainless, or titanium
>>21785866Every day you wake up and think anyone cares about your faggot opinions on /ck/.
>>21785866every time I go over to my parent's house I find the cast iron I restored for them soaking in the sink, all the seasoning I layered on during my previous visit scrubbed off and the pan as bald as my dadi think i'm gonna stop bothering to fix it. literally all they have to do after cooking with it is run a little hot water in it and maybe scrape out whatever food is left off with the wooden spatula, but nooo, we gotta scrape it down to the bare metal with baking soda every time we cook with it, don't we? then they complain food sticks to it.
>>21785966>>21786003>>21786035>>21786363>>21786377>>21786395>>21786484THIS IS A TROLL THREAD AND OP SHOULD KHS
>>21786356its stain less steel not stain free
>>21786356are you sure its not their carbon steel?
>>21786500nigga i do not care, this is the stovetop cookware thread now
>>21785866of all the things you could have done today, and you chose shitposting. pathetic.
>>21786356I leave my stainless in the sink for weeks with no ill effects
>>21785866Cast iron cookware was invented by the jews to recycle their gentile killer factories after WW2 and make the gentiles at home pay a premium for the privilege. Just like canola oil. Cast iron has been known to be worse in every single way since the casting of iron has been invented. It is cheap, but makes inferior metal, as the cast molds leave the metal rough and brittle, leading to uneven heat dispersion and low corrosion resistance.
>>21786172I washed my mom's cast iron when I was a kid with tons of soap and it rusted pretty badly
>>21785866just needs a lil bit of linseed oil and some love hun!
>>21785956I dont think stainless steel is better than cast iron I just think they have different use cases. cast iron is better for searing steaks while stainless is better for making pan sauces its just science really.
>>21786356wait til you see how iron rusts
>>21786023hey exact same thing here except i finally bought commercial utility racks with the heavy gauge "wire" (nothing wire about it, rigid thing steel i guess) shelving , and hang up the pans on it rather than put them in the ovenactually...I still have a carbon steel griddle that is effectively cast iron and that fucker takes up space in the oven now instead of the pan
>>21785866Literally all you have to do is no cook acid stuff, don't wash it with soap, and dry it completely after cooking/washing. the best cookware ever made worth it
>>21785966I've had my cast iron for 40 years and i've always washed itDo you people really fall for this meme?
>>21788508Hey gramps
>>21785956Trying to cook bacon and eggs in my stainless steel pan is a real pain. Everything sticks. I think I might go back to teflon.
>>21785966temperature issue. only cook low and slow with a bit of butter and nothing can ever stick to your pan whether it's cast iron or stainless even if the pan is bare metal and hasn't been seasoned. med to high "browning" heat is the enemy.
Food cooked out of cast iron fed billions of people for hundreds of years. Enjoy buying a new pan every year and teflon in your balls.
Cast iron is old school stylish but there is one problem with it that makes me still use shitty standard pans from the supermarket : you can't make sauces with them. It's supposed to only cook meat, because sauces will remove the fat layer and you will have to make the whole carbonized oil shit again…So yeah every time I cook some vegetables with tomato sauce and meat, here goes the shitty pan. I never eat just one meat piece so in the end I never use a cast iron pan.
>>21785956>he didn't mention carbon steel
>>21788641There are non pfas nonstick pans these days
>>21790397Oh yeah? Link me one.
>>21785956sneed > stainless steel
>>21785966>leaving the dirty, oily pan on the stove 24 hours a dayThis is normal and fine if you cook often enough so the oil doesn't go rancid
ceramic is also trash btw
>>21788641PTFE is completely inert unless you overheat it. Just get an IR thermometer and learn to control heat correctly. Obviously you need cast iron if you want to sear meat or anything high temperature, but for eggs you can't beat non-stick.
>>21786172>have to oil and bake your cookware after every other usethat's pretty arcane
>>21790460Yeah, I just bought a new nonstick pan. It's supposedly "PFAS-free". I think the health effects of teflon are overblown.
>>21790386carbon steel is just cast iron for hipsters.
>>21790407https://misen.com/products/carbon-nonstick-panLiterally doesn't have a coating. It has a nitride treatment to the steel itself. Makes it extremely nonstick, nonreactive, and corrosion resistant. You might get it to rust if you just leave it soaked, all I do is wash and dry it no problem. Might also not be the best for simmering acidic sauces, use stainless for that.
>>21785866>>21785956
>>21786980cast iron cookware has existed for a very long time.
>>21785866Nothing a bead blaster won't fix.
