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My grandmother has some cast iron pans (one of which came from her mother) that are so smooth to the touch that it is hard to believe they are the same material
by jlkuester7 4y ago
My grandmother has some cast iron pans (one of which came from her mother) that are so smooth to the touch that it is hard to believe they are the same material as the gritty Lodge pans at the store. This is what I love most about these pans! It completely flips the script on our disposable culture and gives you something that just keeps improving as the decades go by!
- dmitriid 4y agoDoesn't this also mean you ingest all that wonderfully scraped material?
- sneak 4y agoIt's just polymerized cooking oil. There is worse stuff in tap water.
- willismichael 4y agoWell, it's that and iron. If I understand correctly, cat iron cookware is sometimes recommended for people who are anemic.
- robocat 4y agoI would be interested to measure what impurities are in cast iron cookware: I presume they use the cheapest recycled iron possible? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9287087/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9287087/
- jdougan 4y agoIn the old days, they finished the pan interiors more than they do now. I've known people who buy a modern cast iron pan and have a machine shop smooth out the cooking surface.
- na85 4y agoI just used an orbital sander on mine. It does scrambled eggs no probt.
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoYup, it's this. Lodge pans are good for the price but part of that price is they skip the polishing, so the surface is basically just what comes out of the sand cast. The old griswald pans are prized by bargain hunters because of their near glass like smoothness. I dated someone that had a huge collection she'd found via craigslist and the like. Cooking with the smaller pans was really fun.
- wyclif 4y agoI highly recommend these pans for that reason: https://fieldcompany.com/products/field-cast-iron-skillet https://fieldcompany.com/products/field-cast-iron-skillet