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Why do you people say "carbon steel", when all steel has carbon? Is this the new "nation state"?
by idlewords 3y ago
Why do you people say "carbon steel", when all steel has carbon? Is this the new "nation state"?
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- vluft 3y agofor cookware generally it's used to distinguish from stainless
- tptacek 3y agoI don't know, but that's what the pans are called.
- ebuck 3y agoThey'd call it metallic carbon metal steel if they thought it would sell better. All steel has carbon, if it doesn't it's not steel. It's like saying that pure salt has "no added sugars or preservatives" Of course it doesn't, it's salt, not a salt-sugar mixture, and you don't need to add a preservative, it is a preservative.
- tptacek 3y agoOk, but they're still called that.
- cpach 3y agoWhy is “nation state” weird? AFAIK a nation and a state are two different things?
- tptacek 3y agoPeople use "nation-state" to mean "sovereign country", when it is in fact a specific kind of entity: a coterminous political and cultural/ethnic territory. Colloquially, the word "nation" can mean something as simple as "country", but when you use the term "nation-state", you're going out of your way to invoke the technical definition. On the other hand, "carbon steel pans" is just what they're called. Can't dunk on me for my metallurgical naivete; gotta take it up with Lodge.
- idlewords 3y agoI will, just as soon as I'm done with 'oven-baked'
- wheels 3y agoIt's a shortening of "high carbon steel" and has a technical definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_steel