I wipe any fat or oil with a paper towel into the trash. then I rinse it with soap and water and I have a regular plastic brush I use to wash it.
After I dry it off with a paper towel and heat it up and add some avocado oil then wipe the excess all around
Yeah this person knows what’s up. Don’t fall into the cast iron cleaning cult bs
Modern soaps lack the phosphates that really mess with cast iron. I typically do this.
Little bit of water, heat on high until it boils most things off the pan.
Scrape with metal spatula and stick items.
Hit it lightly with soap and sponge.
Dry with paper towel.
Spray with oil.
Wipe oil all sides.
Only missing putting it back on heat after drying with a paper towel to boil off any residual water
Immediately after you’re done using it: rinse and scrub it like anything else. Let it dry, then apply oil to it.
Cast irons do really poorly if you don’t clean them out immediately but I just use a normal sink scrub brush for cleaning.
I use a green scotch brite pad and occasionally a modicum of dish soap.
So microplastics and soap embedded in your iron. Yum.
You should go back to reddit. ✌️
Probably a second cast iron skillet
If I am babying them, kosher salt and oil once it’s cool enough, then rinse & dry. Otherwise I scrape at it with the metal spatula then wash with soap and a scratchy sponge, it’s fine as long as you don’t soak them, and do dry them well after.
We do have a chainmail scrubber - my husband was soaking the skillets and killing the finish, he likes the chainmail scrubber.
haha tell him to stay over there with the washer machine
Umm, a towel?
I just put mine in the dishwasher. Generic soap. High heat, full cycle. Let it drip dry. No wiping out needed.
that precisely decribes my scenario yes
I’m yet to decide if that gut biome is a nerf or a buff.
When I bought my house I discovered a treasure trove of old cast iron pans in the (very modern) oven. They all looked like this and smelled like rancid oil. It was not fun to deal with lol
Sounds terrible but also awesome if they were good enough to be used after cleaning. I know that smell though… terrible.
Honestly, I may have gotten lucky because I didn’t need to do much rust removal. Took them outside and hosed them down, then got to work removing the burnt in bits and evening out the seasoning. Took me about two afternoons per pan. One of the pans is definitely an antique, so I haven’t used it because it might have lead in it
Wiping out? Like, entirely? Well, personal physical assault isn’t wise, so let’s take that off the table first. I wouldn’t suggest basic firearms, either: they’d likely just dent it or fly off and hurt something else.
Running it over isn’t likely to damage it too badly, and trying to drown it just leads to rust. I think it’d be hard to get an “accidental” fire to have a high-enough heat sustained for a long enough to kill it. Dropping it from a height might bend or dent it.
Honestly, I think your best chance would be some kind of high explosive. Not a dinky thing like a hand grenade - aside from being under-powered, there’s the extra shrapnel to worry about. Maybe some dynamite or C4, with a long enough detcord so you’re not near the explosion. Of course, that’ll likely just launch it upwards a bit, so you’d want to enclose it in something that ensures most of the damage is directed to the pan and not dispersed around the edges.
Maybe ask the police to do a demolition demonstration with their little self-contained units that they blow things up in, would that be feasible? How much do you hate this pan, anyway?
I’d suggest a furnace
Paper towel. Don’t overthink it.
I’ve gone paper towel free in my house. Every need for a paper towel has been replaced in my home care, except for this one purpose.
I use a coffee filter.
I print some of the endless online discussions about cast iron care. The paper, the ink and the opinions make for an excellent mild abrasive that doesn’t permeate the pores or excessively damage the seasoning patina
Make sure to use food grade ink
We have a plastic scraper that gets anything off with a bit of water. Then I hit it with a rough sponge and water, towel dry, then stovetop dry. While still hot, I like to put a thin layer of Crisco on all surfaces with a paper towel and wipe any excess off. Having a well seasoned pan, warming up before cooking, and using enough fat or oil makes cleaning and maintaining a lot easier.
Scraping with plastic is a good way to create microplastics. Better to use a wood or metal tool
scraping with wood is a grate way to get, uh, sawdust.
And?
I turn up the heat then throw water. It boils and cleanup with paper towel. Use tongs.
I could probably learn a lot from the thread. If I don’t clean it while it’s still warm, I tend to resort to coarse salt, a bit of oil, and a scrubby sponge. Either way, it’s not easy for me to clean, especially after eggs.
If eggs don’t release well, it’s not seasoned well, most of mine are pretty nonstick but I struggle with the biggest one, the surface is not as good.
I would say baby that one. Clean it immediately then dry, wipe some oil in, almost none, and heat it while wiping it. Or make pancakes, that seems to rehab them. Long slow cooking with fat in there and something that doesn’t want to stick, getting scraped often.
