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> The reality is they've been used for hundreds of years for cooking, without complicated maintenance routines. But they have been used routinely: They seasone
by jlg23 5y ago
> The reality is they've been used for hundreds of years for cooking, without complicated maintenance routines.
But they have been used routinely: They seasoned themselves just by being used and they never saw strong detergents. "Iron rusts" was obvious to everyone because one was confronted with it every day and thus the drying for the night or oiling/greasing to protect against humidity was a natural task.
Nowadays, when we don't use our one cast iron pot every day, we need to replace the routinely usage with a maintenance routine.
- avs733 5y agoWe have three cast iron skillets that see nearly daily use. You are exactly right on this. Ours get, scrubbed, wiped, soaped, and cleaned as needed but just use and constant reseasoning is all it takes to make them look and cook gorgeously. Our parents (in particular) are terrified of the damn pans. Of caring for them of using them. They have this trope in their heads that is just a feedback loop… they see them as fragile so they treat them as fragile so they become fragile. Just cook at home more, preferably bacon. Lots of mechanical things are meant to be used, pans, cars, homes. Letting them sit unused causes more decay