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Yeah i dont wanna bother having to sort through all the misinformation and contradictory advice on cast iron pans at this point. Cuz I'll read someone say "I wash it all the time" and then the next comment will be "I washed mine and it rusted instantly"
I just use carbon steel and it treats me right.
I mean, carbon steel is basically the same thing in terms of how you care for it.
Even with rust, it can be fixed with a decent scrubbing. Small trace amounts of rust shouldn't harm you either, just give you more small metals than usual.
Of course it's going to rust instantly, that's why you hit it with the brillo pad and then re-season it immediately after.
Eh, a little extra iron in your diet ain't the end of the world. I just boil some water in it, pour it our, hit it with the chain mail, then rinse and smear around a decent sized dollop of pig fat in it and call it a day.
Ain't nobody got chain mail and pig fat lying about!
Really??? You can get a chainmail scrubber at most places that sell cast iron pans, and pig fat is leftover Bacon grease. Lots of people have that, right?
Had to Google the chainmail scrubber, that's really cool. Maybe they haven't made it over to Ireland yet haha. I want one.
:-)
You need to really be into cooking before something like cast iron versus whatever else will ever be an issue in your life.
I yanked my set of cast iron out from under an abandoned single-wide trailer in the desert next to a junk-yard, they were partially buried in an ant mound. Over the last couple decades I have abused them hard, both in restoration and in cooking/cleaning, they're just work-horse cookware I don't have to be too concerned about, but if I put a little extra effort in I can use them to get a perfect crust on a ribeye when I cook meat for friends and family. If that kind of thing is important to you... well don't worry, you can also get that with steel!
People who obsess about their cast iron just either really, really enjoy micromanagement in their lives, or have nothing else that makes them feel special.
Hallelujah!
Yeah except it only rusts instantly if you royally fucked up lol. This is not rocket science. It's not even slightly challenging. A six year old can do it.
Well all that other than lift it