Now that the dust has settled, cast iron or non stick?
>>22055937They both have their uses. Nonstick or stainless are better for quick sears, such as frying an egg, while cast iron is better for longer, more even cooking, such as vegetables.For things like steak, I like to use the cast iron to cook the inside to medium rare, then get a nice quick sear on it with a nonstick or stainless.Its like comparing hammers to mallets imo.
>>22055943Cast Iron is Better for EggiesThat also isn't what a quick sear isYuckt synthetic plastic has to business being Cooked upon
>>22055937To me, someone using cast iron is like driving around in a 1920's roadster on the highway with a helmet, goggles, driving gloves and a scarf. Like, ok we get it, you like old shit because it's old.
>>22055962Cast Iron makes the Best Steakes and BurgesAccept no substitutes
>>22055963maybe for convenience if you need to stick something in the oven after the stove top. But otherwise I challenge you to get 5 people to guess which is cooked in which, maybe a chef can tell the difference but most others won't appreciate it to that level
The amount of women who put they want you to do all the cooking in their online dating bios is real.Women dont know how to cook and their parents refused to teach them, while having them do all aspects of the cooking "for them" as that was their job.Ive been fed eggs that taste like plastic spatula, food with Teflon flakes, seen meat fused to a pan because she didnt turn it off and instead stared at it.....so when I build my house its going to have two kitchens, one for her, and one for men only, no females.
>>22055937neither, stainless steel
>>22055967Most people are tastelets, I knowI challenge you to cook 5 Ribbieyes as Humbly Perfect as picrel in a fuckin nonstick kek
>>22055937Nonstick for delicate things like fish, eggs or some vegetables; cast iron for actual sautéing. Personally i prefer carbon steel over cast iron.
>>22055971Came here to say this
>>22055975nice sear
>>22055949Bad technique. He should train harder.
>>22055937It dependsCast Iron Pros:>better heat retention so hard sears are easier>relatively cheap new, incredibly cheap used>last basically forever>pretty versatile for everything other than long acidic braises/soups. You can use it for meat, bread, veg, deserts, works on the stove, in the oven and even outside. Incredible value for money if you're the type of person to do all that.Cast Iron Cons:>heavy>acidic foods discouraged>slightly more annoying to take care of than the avg panto that last point, i feel like people overestimate cast iron care. i just cook with it normally, wash with soap and a metal scrubber, then dry and put it up. only have to get really nerdy about it if you wanna fry eggs with barely any oil every single day or something.Nonstick Pros:>easy to use>very cheap brand new>lightweight>sometimes dishwasher safe, but very easy to clean even if not, due to the nonstick coating>great for delicate foods, like egg and fishNonstick cons:>basically disposable, the coating flakes off quite easily with regular use even if you stick to the correct utensils.>less heat retention makes really hard sears more difficult>teflon specifically is bad for the environment and releases bad gasses if you heat it up too high in the oven, or on an open fireforced to pick between the two personally i think cast iron is the way to go, unless you cook eggs and fish 24/7. Just not a huge fan of having to replace the pans every few years, and its convinient to take my pan from the stove to the oven whenever i want. Outside of those two though, enamled cast iron is a little easier to deal with while retaining many of the qualities of cast iron, just with a lower temp ceiling, and stainless strikes the best of both worlds, good heat retention, easy to take care of, long lasting, etc. an enameled cast iron dutch oven or stainless pot with similarly tall sides and a heavy bottom will take care of 99% of cooking tasks anyone will have.
>>22055937cast iron is nonstick though?
>>22055962Ironically you're the hipsters faggot here. I use cast iron, along with normal pans, because I don't want nonstick poison in me.
>>22055937cast iron for sure is more pleasurable to cook with.
>>22057234this, a hot cast iron pan just feels right.
>>22057231Retard
>>22055937The dust never settled, we're just beating a dead horse
>>22057231
>>22055937cast iron feels so good to cook with
>>22057326Hell yeah brother
>>22057326yep, something primal about cooking with a hot slab of metal.
>>22057348I tried cooking on rocks once and nearly got blinded because they explode.
>>22056734>i feel like people overestimate cast iron care. i just cook with it normally, wash with soap and a metal scrubber, then dry and put it up. only have to get really nerdy about it if you wanna fry eggs with barely any oil every single day or something.Finally someone says it
>>22057353kek, I make pizzas on slate
>>22057231>woman coded shill postLooks like the brain damage is permanent. X
>>22055971>>22056574this
I own birds so cast iron wins immediatelyPlus if nonstick can kill my birds I don't want to find out what it does to meHave a cast iron from the 1940s that basically takes care of itself, no need to baby it
>>22058403> 1940sThat’s sickAnd i love birds, it’s cool that you have birds :3It’s so strange that people know teflon pans will kill birds but act like it’s totally harmless to humans. It’s like killing your own intuition to accept that.
>>22055937Cast iron is non-stick
>>22059386>tried making a macaroni-groundbeef-egg-milk casserole thing in cast iron potsure didn't feel very nonstick
Stainless steel
