Why Don't You Wash A Cast Iron Pan?
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2023
- In this video, Mr. Cast Iron addresses how to properly care for your cookware, asking the question: why don't you wash a cast iron pan or skillet? We provide several tips and methods for seasoning, cleaning, and maintaining your cookware effectively. Additionally, we share some insights on how to clean and season your cast iron after cooking and why using a dishwasher is not a suitable option. Cleaning and seasoning cast iron is not that complicated!
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Thanks for posting this, a lot of great information for the people with problems here.
You’re welcome, Jerry. Thank you sir!
@@MrCastIron I bet you are one of a few people that understands my concern for what is going to happen to my cast iron after I'm gone. I like the old stuff a lot because it's old. I've had gatemarked stuff and those don't appeal to me but, the pretty things I know were made before I was born (1954) hold a place in my heart. The stuff you post gives me hope there will be people that appreciate cast iron in the future.
You’re welcome, Jerry! I really feel there are a lot of the younger generation who have a love for cast iron, too, based on the viewers I have. So I’m glad to see that, and that’s what I’m trying to do on this channel is to help them if I can and if they want it.
@@MrCastIron It's the people that try and fail, not due to lack of effort on their part, they work at it much harder than I do but, they fail due to the advice they're given. There's all kinds of advice on how to get a coal black and shiny pan if you want to look at it and use it occasionally. There are a lot of new people that want to use cast iron. It is not hard but, very few people will teach the basics. You're about the best, we don't always agree 100% but, you get a lot of people off to a start where few of them will fail and quit.
I wash mine LIGHTLY with a few drops of dishwashing soap, hot water, and a light brush. No problem at all. You are 100% correct with this video. Thank you sir.
You’re welcome! Thank you!
When I got my first Lodge a few months back, I binged on 'how to' videos. I heard lots of different techniques on everything cast iron. I was lucky enough to end up in the master class and here I am.
I light wash my cast iron with little or no soap, basically the soap that is left in the sponge, throw it back on the heat to remove any water then season it again every time.
That’s cool! Thanks for being here my friend!!
You are lucky!
Thank y’all!
Thanks for the info mike i was my cast iron skillet with water and salt say hello to theresa for me 😁
You’re welcome, Nate!! Thank you, and have a great weekend, my friend!
In the pioneer days, and settlers, water was a rare valuable commodity, even on the homestead, washing the iron was a rare thing..
Well, maybe lol! 😂
I use Dawn on my pans as well.
I use Dawn Platinum 10X and hot water on my cast iron with ZERO degradation in the seasoning. But then...some people don't shower or bathe either 😂
Aaaaamen.😅😅😅
Lol! 😂 😂
I use a little mild detergent and have not had any problems.
I do wash CI once a week or when it needs it. Although, for omelets, eggs, vegetables etc., anything that is cooked on low heat, I don't wash them, only wipe bits of food out. If something has a flavor I don't want in my eggs/veggies, I will rinse the pan, other than that, the flavors are mixed and add a nice touch to eggs and veggies. Same with meat pan. The egg and the meat pan are used every day, twice a day sometimes. The egg pan is slick, shiny and cooks like a well seasoned pan. The meat pan gets sticky after awhile and is rinsed a couple times a week usually.
This is what I do, but each to their own as always:)
That’s cool! Thanks for sharing your experience and techniques with us!
@@MrCastIron It's odd I know. I learned it from friends and I kind of adapted it somewhere along the line💁♀
@tallcedars2310 not too crazy lol! You would be surprised what I see and hear sometimes!
I don’t use much soap in mine, but I don’t use my cast iron very often, either. Good to see you, Mike! Say hello to Teresa for me! 🙂
I heard that! Thanks, Stephanie! Good to see you too, and I’ll tell Teresa you said hello!!
I suppose the soap thing comes from the days of lye soap, and I can see how that would be hard on iron, but I don't think that most dish soaps today would do much to hurt it.
Yeah that’s true!
I believe that idea came because a long ago large amount of lye in the soap was bad for the cast iron surface. Soaps have changed a lot and are no longer harmful.
I just put about a cup or two of water in the pan and bring it to a boil and then take it to the sink and scrub with a coarse steel wool pad and rinse with hot water- then back to the stove and heat up to dry
If people would look at their websites, Lodge and a bunch of the newish artisan cast iron producers say it is ok to use a mild soap like Dawn.
I'm pretty sure most of the automatic dishwashing soaps and pods have caustic in them. Which is also why you shouldn't put anything aluminium in them, like Al pots or pans with aluminium handles etc. They can come out pretty discolored, and caustic slowly eats aluminium.
Every company that say to use soap, are saying so to cover their asses legally.
Mike I have some bad news. I had a full hip replacement last Monday. Unfortunately in the post op chest X-ray they found a 5mm cancerous mass on my left lung. No results from the biopsy yet. I willl be sidelined for the next few weeks..
Oh, Larry, I sure hate to hear this. I will definitely keep you in my prayers, my friend.
@@MrCastIron thank you sir. I will fight this with every I have. Will talk to you later on. Thanks again.
It helps me to work with cast iron knowing cast iron is porous. It doesn't seem as bad now as it was a few decades ago but, dishwashing liquid used to have a lot of fragrance in it. I'm not sure I'd get a blind taste right but, I think I've tasted that fragrance before from cast iron. My habit is to wash my other dishes first, put a little tired dishwater in my pan, put it on a burner to heat it some, scrape around with a metal spatula and clean the pan with a stainless steel scouring pad and a dishrag. Rinse it well and heat it up to get the water out of those pores. The only seasoning I have left is what I don't scrape or scour out and that is plenty. I don't keep oil on my pans and they aren't coal black. I admit they don't look as good as a oiled up, black pan but, I can wipe them out with a dry dishtowel before I cook in them so I don't eat dust and dirt. I have a lot of stuff, some sits unused for weeks, I never have rust.
That’s interesting! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and techniques with us my friend!
@@MrCastIron I have a way that works for me and I really hope as many people as possible find a way that works for them. I don't like to see new people putting in a lot of time and effort, end up failing and giving up on cast iron. I probably spend more time looking at my cast iron than I do cleaning it. I go to my stash looking for one thing and end up looking at most of them. I hope they aren't laid to waste when I'm gone.
That's cool! Lol, thanks for sharing this with us, my friend!!
No one can argue - DO NOT SOAK your cast iron unless you want to see how fast rust can attack your wonderful skillet! So wash it, sure, but then put it on the heat again immediately so that all that moisture evaporates quickly.
Exactly!! Thanks Bruce!!
I do, use Dawn, as needed…not necessarily after every use
Thanks for sharing this with us, Rick!
Boooosheeee😅😅😅
@@cynthiawesley2318Dubz NEED to wash her iron with soap, dunn get kooties all ovva them😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@rstumbaugh43 Hater🤣🤣🤣
Lol! Y’all at it again 🤣🤣
I use dawn if it needs a good washing. Grandma had lye soap and thats why she didnt. They had a voting box at the Lodge Museum on this. 😂
Lol! Yeah we voted too! 🤣🤣
Dang i was rude. Didnt speak. HI MR & MRS C.I. Happppy Thanksgiving to yall.
Hello Cynthia!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!!
@@MrCastIron Thank yall.
@cynthiawesley2318 you’re welcome!
Ps…please give my best to Teresa!!!we need to see Mrs CI in FROBT of the camera now n again😎
Right, so we'll know he ain't done nothing to her.😅😂
Lol! I will. You’re about to see a bunch of us soon!
@@MrCastIron Awesome.
@cynthiawesley2318 get ready!
It's because grandma said. Grandma use lye soap
You're right Wes.
the reason behind in not washing a cast iron is back when soaps were made by each family was made with lye and a form of fat, well that is my understanding of the history of cast iron and people using them
Yeah you’re right. I’ve made that kind of lye soap before. Lard, water, and lye.
not many people know that tid bit of history, i am glad someone does and was it hard to make?? i know you would need enough fat to neutralize the lye to become soap.
Wash!!! Not flood but i do, ON STUBBORN & STUFF THAT STANKS noooo not stink but STANKSzzz😂😂😂 Fish for example.
Lol! I hear ya sister!!
I wash my cast iron if it needs to be washed. There are UA-cam channels (I could name names, but I won't) who state that you must never wash cast iron.
Yeah, I hear ya! Mild detergent won’t hurt anything unless you let it soak for too long! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions on this!
If your cast iron pan is seasoned correctly you will never have to wash your pan. All you have to do is wipe it with a paper towel and put it away...when you wash a pan with water, contrary to popular belief, it's not the dish soap that becomes the problem...dish soap is actually helpful because it has water softeners in it...its the water itself because most kitchen faucets are plumbed with hard water regardless if there is a water softener in the house...the residue from hard water then makes the pan stick and the more you wash and reseason the pan just compounds the problem