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Disclaimer: I am an avid cast iron user. It seems like cast iron fails on electric cooktops, or in the case of much of the thin modern cast iron cookware. In a
by Neliquat 10y ago
Disclaimer: I am an avid cast iron user.
It seems like cast iron fails on electric cooktops, or in the case of much of the thin modern cast iron cookware. In an effort to keep weight down to compete, they ruined the product. Gas flame mostly solves this, but is increasingly uncommon.
- OnACoffeeBreak 10y agoAvid cast iron user here as well... I've been using heavy cast iron skillets and pots on an electric stove for over a decade and enjoying it with no issues. Could it be an issue with an induction-type electric cooktop? I never tried cast iron on one of those.
- rando444 10y agoAn induction stove would work several times better than a standard electric stove with cast iron, as well as heating the whole pan more evenly.
- kbrownlees 10y agoCan confirm this, my previous house had a conduction cooktop and it worked perfectly with my cast iron skillet.
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- colanderman 10y agoI'm sure part of my problem is that the pan was a large square, and I was trying to use it on a smaller round electric element.
- logfromblammo 10y agoI cook with cast iron frequently, but I have been unable to find any recently-manufactured cast iron cookware that is actually worth buying. I think I last checked around 2006, so maybe the quality of available product has improved since then. I do know that "pre-seasoned" pans are just a complete waste of time, because you have to remove that spray-on crap before seasoning it properly. So I pretty much just use the one Wagner pan, manufactured before 1996. The nonstick PTFE coatings on my other cookware has always come off after a few years of use. I can't refresh the coating in my own kitchen, so the pan is basically useless after that. So I'll stick with the polymerized vegetable oil seasoning, even though the cast iron cookware is not as idiot-proof as more modern cookware construction. I like being able to keep something for 20 years, and not have to continually discard and replace crap that's not even 5 years old. It would be nice if I could laser-sputter AlMgB14 + TiB2 onto a 12" round BAs wafer, and cook on that, but that's not likely to happen in my garage--or anywhere else with an oxygen atmosphere.