Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating?
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoEverything I heard about cast iron pans was either “This is the hot shit!!” or “They are horrible to maintain and you can’t keep food in them overnight because it destroys the patina you built for weeks”.
Since I am lazy as fuck I’ll pass…
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m also pretty lazy, but they are a lot less difficult to maintain than most people say. They can take a lot of abuse, and it’s fine to use soap and water on them, including rough sponges. In fact, some companies sell a kind of chain mail you can use to rough up the surface more since it actually helps.
I’ve left food in them overnight many times. The only times it’s hurt the seasoning is if it’s been acidic, like a tomato sauce. But then I just wash it off the next day and oil it again and it’s totally fine, and will build up seasoning naturally with more use.
The only really bad thing you can do is get it wet and forget to dry it. Rust is bad. But then, all that means it you’ll need to remove the rust as best you can and reseason. It isn’t ruined, and you can fix it. Just better and easier to dry it off well.