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She always says I don’t help out enough with the dishes, now I’m taking the initiative and doing them while she’s at work! - them (probably)
Oct 30, 2023 3:36 PM
DadOnTheInternet
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She always says I don’t help out enough with the dishes, now I’m taking the initiative and doing them while she’s at work! - them (probably)
marsgoose
Do yourself a favor and pony up for a multiply stainless.
whovars
you have succeeded in making me angry. good job
NeverMetAGoodMod
DeadWhiteMale
It's the thought that counts. What were you thinking?
Travelcedric
C110PR
thegreatninjaman
how are you suppose to clean them? surely everyone's not just letting food buildup on their cast iron?
janda58545
Hit it with some water and a non abrasive scrub. Quick rinse re-oil heat and go.
elbowdeepinagoose
SithElephant
I mean, wipe the cleaned pan with oil and put it in the oven...
gablestout
(re-) seasoning a cast iron pan isn't quite that simple. The amount and type of oil combined with the temp of the oven, and the number of coats is what counts to get a pan seasoned correctly
kidonanescalator
deozamn
lol
CaptainTypo
BlackfoxBane
dickblack12
I'm happy people get this.
Sidewaysgts
When you say people get this- you talking about those joking that shes single because this would destroy the pan, or the people who realize iron pans were literally dragged across the wild frontier of America and held up just fine- and that a simple wash in a modern dishwasher with modern soaps that don’t contain lye or vinegar wouldn’t do anything to the seasoning coating of this pan, let alone harm the pan- and WORST case scenario a run through the oven with some oil would make it 100% again?
dickblack12
Why do you want to know?
Randomice
So, she single now?
TsubakiTragic
... and she has a skillet, so win win.
wheresthetone
I’ve lived with two partners over the years, the pre-moving conversation always has (starts with?) this.
l8rrose
Probably in prison for murder.
MechaNinja
It's not that hard to re-season.
ShoulderDeepinGhost
If anyone touches my cast iron, my cast iron will touch them
lovehandlesmessiah
SnakePliskinIThoughtYouWereDead
You are a monster
RealTurdFerguson
The cast irony!
GlenL
Have you met her grandmother yet? She's about to show up at the door whoop your ass
Jawesome19
It's completely fine to do that every once in awhile, just dry it off and give it a good oiling, just like any non stainless metal
SergeyPrkl
I hate you all who says "it is easy to re season it.". Yes, it is easy but it isn't same thing as years of daily use. Plus the detergent impregnates in the cast iron. It tastes even after re-seasoning. Takes long time to burn it off.
marsgoose
Someone "helped" me with dishes right after I had a baby. They also stayed in the dishwasher for a while, got nice and rusty. So half my pans out of commission for 6-7 months until I got time to fix them up. And then few more months until they were really decent again.
SergeyPrkl
This is exactly what i mean. I had similar situation but mom and wife ended up hospitalized and wifes mom helped me, and ruined them... :D They are now fixed, and stored in a secret place. Btw some of my pans are over 150 years old. A 1862 Made in Sweden and another that is Imperial Russian army pan from the Crimean war. The war from 1850's not 2022....... Well i wish russia looses this time also.
marsgoose
Damn Putin can't even send them in with some cool cookware.
SergeyPrkl
Well, even those 1850's wares were mainly made in Poland and Sweden :D Nothing new that Russian army borrows from the west ;)
thesameasyours
Maybe she need extra iron in her diet
HerrBisch
Why are Americans so obsessed with cast iron skillets?
sciguygobyebye
Nonstick pans are nonstick due to a plastic that gradually breaks down and is likely getting into your food. It is not recommended for high heat cooking like searing or making something like pan pizza in your oven. If you need heat retention, it's slower to heat up but also keeps your food warmer for longer without needing constant heat being applied (think like you have another part of your meal to finish, but don't want your main dish to cool, nor burn it by keeping a burner on).
ucmlost
They're awesome to cook with. One of the best non-stick pans you can get. Though I might be a little biased. I've restored over 100 cast iron pans over the past year. I've had other non-stick pans, but the coating flaked away or found out it was toxic. A good cast iron pan can last generations of use.
SimpDaddyDee
I noticed my gf was doing laundry so I helped out without being asked. I put all her bras in the dryer for her. <3
manhands
I bet he’ll make her put it away, too.
madeejit
She should be able to get a good firm non-slip grip on it when she decides to hit you over the head with it. It's nice to do things together.
waspentalive
Well, If she loves you more than the pan, she will explain gently why this was not a good idea. Then she will teach you how to properly season the pan for next time.
StarryPlough
It's not real bro it's a joke
dryrunner
Modern soaps do not contain lye, and are safe for seasoned cast iron. You don't want the grease, just the black seasoning. That being said, I just quickly clean mine with hot water.
arrbos
I keep a bottle of dilute dish soap by the sink with a bottle pouring top in it. Super handy for that kind of task. I never need the full-concentrate soap since doing that. A tiny splash of soapy water and a quick scrub cleans it perfectly.
FrogBotherer
Dishwasher detergents are usually strongly alkaline, and will damage the seasoning. Hand washing soap is fine however - basically anything that's safe to use on your bare skin won't hurt your seasoned cookware.
Sfingks
I've occasionally washed my cast iron with a small amount of soap, and it always ruins the seasoning. I don't like cranking my oven up to a high temperature, and making my kitchen smell smokey too often, so I don't use soap on them anymore.
dryrunner
You are doing something wrong then, a little bit of soap will do nothing to a seasoned iron pan. Some people think the fat on top of the pan is the season. Which it is not.
Sfingks
It's likely because the only occasion where I use soap on my cast iron is when my wife uses them improperly, and she burns something that she shouldn't have cooked on cast iron, like something with tomato sauce. So it requires a fair amount of scrubbing.
LostCaterpillar
Soap was never *supposed* to contain lye. It's just that it's hard to calculate the chemistry by hand whereas now we have computers.
Fargus57
This isn't true. Many old soap making recipes specifically have lye as an ingredient. It was very much supposed to contain lye.
LostCaterpillar
All soap recipes, new or old, contain lye as an ingredient. It's what busts the oils apart to turn them into soap. If your soap contains lye you've fucked up the recipe by adding so much lye it can't all react with the fats.
nonetoowitty
Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.
LostCaterpillar
Really? You think a lye calculator is hard to use? Well, I guess there's no accounting for intelligence... http://soapcalc.net/calc/soapcalcWP.asp
meauho
It's really not that big a deal because it is not that hard to season cast iron.
trinxter
But it's funny, and some people are going to have a fit about it either way.
lovehandlesmessiah
That’s like saying setting fire to Action Comic #1 isn’t a big deal because in 100 years another will be worth as much. My late grandmothers cast iron pan has 60 years of cooking in it.
Eiladar
The issue is more that some of the detergents used can cause a patina of rust to form. Doesn't really damage the thing, but you might need to break out the steel wool before you can reseason.
Lynkfox
Idiots downvoting the true statements. Chef for 10 years. We put them through industrial dishwashers every night. As long as they are properly rinsed and then dried before being put away the seasoning is just fine. Scraping rust off also scrapes off the layer of metal that's properly seasoned.
hardytardigrade
It's not hard to start re-seasoning it, but it takes a while to get it well-seasoned. And if you don't put it in the dishwasher, you don't have to re-season it at all.
Karilyn
I truly don't understand why these people are wasting their cast iron. Even if they reseason it, why bother? At most I wipe it out with a dry paper towel. Never felt a reason to do more, and the seasoning is thick and hard like diamond.
dascypriot
I found the guy who did this IRL!
Lynkfox
It's stupid. We threw our cast iron pots through the industrial dishwasher sin every restaurant I've ever worked in. The seasoning doesn't come off in the washer. If you take a wire brush to it, yes. The danger of the dishwasher is *rust*
IFoldlyGo
And with winter coming up, you can re-season the cast iron and enjoy the heat produced at the same time.
xj4low
Nothing undone that can't be reseasoned.
iRecommendBooks
If ya don't know: Cook bacon in your cast iron and it'll tend to season itself. Otherwise, you can spray it down with a high smoke point oil (I like avocado oil) and put it in the oven at 300 for an hour- let it cool gradually. Heavier cast iron is easier to work with - carbon steel (cast iron, but generally thin) is tougher because it has less thermal mass.
xj4low
I prefer crisco shortening.
iRecommendBooks
Lodge has great cast iron cookware for pretty cheap - you don't have to go expensive. One thing you can choose to do (if you're a crazy person) is get your cast iron sanded or shot peened. https://www.solidteknics.com/aus-ion/ has a basic outline of it but they're an Aussie shop so you're hosed if you want to buy that in the US - it's not worth importing.
xj4low
I have a 100 year old Erie that has a permanent home on our stove top. It gets used several times a week.
DorkJedi
it is annoying to do so often.
machinelogic
Cast iron is a fucking tank. It can take whatever you throw at it. It's fine to wash it as long as you oil and reseason it after. One trip through the dishwasher won't ruin a patina unless it's ridiculously fresh, anyway.
bigthoughtshappen
Most things won’t unless it’s a brand new pan that isn’t even properly seasoned. Most come basically seasoned anyways. After a couple months of regular use it takes.. a lot to ruin a pan
THExPILLOx
Cast iron is one of the things in this world that people believe have ghosts that must be appeased by the rituals from the old country. It's not true, but you ask 1000 cast iron users which rituals they use and you'll get 1000 different answers, and about 20 that were on a BuzzFeed "how to care for cast iron" list.
bigthoughtshappen
Seriously. I have several cast irons and they’re… easy as fuck to take care of. A properly heated and seasoned cast iron is also generally non-stick. Key is you really want to bring cast iron up to temp. But they’re not hard to maintain and easy to reseason if you actually need too. Most see soooo much use it takes a lot to need to totally re season It
Karilyn
Seasoning is easy enough, but the season improves over time. Someone scrubbed my cast iron with steel wool, was pissed as hell. I reseasoned it, but it took over a year before the pan got to be truly 100% flawlessly nonstick again. Now I can't make stuff stick to it even if I try.
bigthoughtshappen
… how hard did they go with steel wool….? Spot cleaning with that or a green scrubby usually is fine here and there. Even mild soap use. You just… don’t use hella soap and vigorously scrub every time. What cast iron is losing the entirety of that level of seasoning from one and wash?
vegivamp
Have you tried steel wool?
kilgoth1
Lol
nonetoowitty
Putting a good base seasoning on raw cast iron takes about 2 hours for 4 layers. However, a great thick seasoning takes years to build up.
AzbyFinch
And more than one dish-washing to ruin...
nonetoowitty
I purposefully stripped a 10in Lodge skillet of it's factory seasoning, 4 coats of my own initial base oven baked on seasoning, and 2 years worth of post cooking stove top seasoning with one run thru the dishwasher. It was down to bare metal with flash rust covering it. Modern dishwashers and detergents work very well.
miraclemaxcoc
Honestly that pan looks very well seasoned so I'm not sure the run is going to affect it anyway
hardytardigrade
Seasoned cast iron can be hand-washed with soap and water just fine without losing the seasoning. Dishwashers use different and stronger detergents though. I think it would probably ruin the seasoning pretty good.
LordSithis
Just don't let it sit through a heat dry, take it out after the rinse cycle and properly dry the thing or it'll rust
trinxter
It's just posed there for the effect.
SpinkyKrindleman
vegivamp
You don't say.
Hyndisfox
People dragged cast iron pans outside a wagon along the Oregon Trail and the pans survived just fine. A cast iron pan is probably the most durable item anyone can own. If the Earth explodes, the pan will remain. Some people are overly concerned with how fragile the pans are.
arajad
We managed to break a 10" cast-iron skillet. TBF, we were seeing who could throw it the furthest across a schoolyard...
ThePastmaster
It'll survive, sure, but that doesn't mean I want to spend hours getting rid of the rust spots.
SaltyDitchDr
My house burned down and my cast iron was one of the few things that survived. My car rims and guns did not. But the pan did.
Affray
Not that the heat is quite comparable, but I "clean" my pan when camping by sticking it in the fire. Cast iron is very heat resistant.
epistlero
I tried to crack a coconut with a cast iron pan, coconut was unscathed but I cracked the pan
DorkJedi
there are limits to physics, you know.
freezingpilot
You can bring back Cast Iron from the dead too.
Snuggelapolous
One time when I was a kid I dropped my mom's VERY old cast iron skillet on our terracotta tiles floor and I shit you not, the handle of the pan snapped off. Floor was fine. Craziest thing I've ever seen.
Totallynotarealbear
honestly thats not that crazy. when you constantly heat then cool iron it gets more and more brittle, the handle is the most fragile part it makes sense it would snap off where it meets the rest of the hot pan.
ryry1237
The pan will survive. The seasoning will not.
lovehandlesmessiah
nero4ty2
luckily that is easily remedied
JohnSatclaire
That's a bit like saying rewaxing a car is easy. One coat, yes. Many years of careful seasoning, retaining thin, even coats without gunk? Not easy to replicate.
TheThoughtIThoughtWasntTheThoughtIThoughtIThought
Yeah it’s a pan, dawg. I have to season that shit all the time. It’s a pan. Don’t be all like “we need to gently lather the Pan Lord and lick its ass too so that it may bless us with a meal that does not stick”. It’s a pan.
JeanLucguizamos
nonetoowitty
Its not about breaking the pan, it's about ruining the built up seasoning.
OriginalSyn
Its still not a big deal it only takes a couple hours to re-season a pan.
nonetoowitty
Putting a good base seasoning on raw cast iron takes about 2 hours for 4 layers. However, a great thick seasoning takes years to build up.
SergeyPrkl
Yeah, couple hours. to basic. it still is lost time. 2 year buildup is far better.