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Haha I’m gonna sit here and scrape some crust or get all the oil perfectly gone? No, not a chance. I know who put the oil there. I did. It’s simple.

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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its usually very easy to clean stainless steel. The crusty stuff falls right off with a good sponge or brush. Cast iron pans take a bit more work, but they're study enough to stand up to a tough bristle-brush without scraping.

Its those cheapo "no-stick" pans that break down as you use them and make everything impossible to get off.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Teflon, the forever chemical

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

people cooking with teflon and their dogs run across the house and hide under the bed "why they do that?" mfer they KNOW

[–] Deadend@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] downloadmydad@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

If it was bad I would have put it there it’s good posting simple

[–] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago
[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There are way better reasons to go vegan than "so I can clean less" but less risk from meat/dairy germs on used dishes is a nice perk all the same.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago

food keeping for ages is nice too. And something about to start going bad but you want to use it? throw it in a jar with vinegar and sugar + some spice. Boom it's a pickle now.

[–] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe my vegan friends are just bad at cooking, but i swear any time they use my steel pans they leave them fucked right to fucktown.

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Steel has its uses as well. I've got 2 giant cast iron pans, a smaller steel pan and a cast iron wok. It loses heat when removed from the source faster which can be useful when juggling a few pans at once and you don't want something to keep cooking after you turn off the heat.

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[–] glans@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obviously there's lots of styles of cooking but my experience is that vegan cooking tends to result in a lot of burnt stew-type dishes. I think it might have to do with not enough fat.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Working at a vegan restaurant was sooooo much easier just for this reason. Stack shelves however, reuse the same cutting board and knife for most of your prep, needing only to give a quick sani spray and wipe em down for allergy reasons and not fully sanitize in a dishwasher like with meat. Everything keeps longer/goes bad at the same rate, health code wise, just a lot less hassle.

[–] downloadmydad@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Oh what if there’s germs” heat your pan up, it’s easy. Germs die from that. Problem solved

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago

My granny said "God made dirt and dirt don't hurt", we're just following our lord Jesus by letting them lil children of God live free on our pans as He intended

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

People will literally cook a raw chicken on a pan and then eat the entire thing and then think the leftover cooked food will harm them even if cooked again.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. I personally pee on my cookware after using it.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

only after? this is revisionism

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

The mold and maggots add flavor to the meal.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I genuinely clean my wok like this. So do a lot of Chinese and other Asians. Even in professional settings. Get street food like 小炒 in China and see how they clean the woks.

Scrubbing with metal and detergent will just ruin the wok.

But yeah, scrubbing the shit out of a ceramic vessel after baking, sure. Scrubbing your woks? Pass.

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[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i have a pan i cook an egg in or maybe toast a sandwich

it rarely gets washed

when im done i wipe it out with a paper towel

its fine the heat kills any germs and there is no food bits in there just a slight oily residue its seasoned

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[–] crispy_lol@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My parents are hoarders and do an extreme version of this and these baking pans are just caked in charcoal at this point.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

grillman It adds flavor doncha know

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cast iron gang. I want that shit on there and I'm gonna leave it on there and then cover it with oil so it stays there and flavors my food next time

[–] thisismyrealname@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

please clean your pan that shit is nasty

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You only want to scrape off excess.

Cast irons are literally made to be "seasoned" i.e. build up layers of fat and flavoring overtime.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a balance. I usually give it a blast of hot water and a rub down with a cloth, dry it immediately and throughoutly and then brush it with oil. They keep a working season without getting gross that way. On occasion I'll do a full clean and re-season it after. You can just blast some oil on the pan and bake it for a while and repeat that a couple times and you'll have a less gross season than whatever food you previously made.

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[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

It's called seasoning.

[–] downloadmydad@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

The fact of the matter is dust is crust and crust is delicious

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I always thought "westerners over clean their pans" was an exaggeration until I moved out of home.

Me: Wok gets used, I gently scrub it with a bamboo wok brush thing (google it) under running water, done. No detergent or soap.

Housemate: soaks the pan for an hour, scrubs it with like 30mLs of dishwashing liquid then puts it in the dishwasher.

Like that can't be good for the environment. I used like 250mL of warm water, he used like 10 litres combined soaking, rinsing and running a dishwasher.

For reference, I made like a day's worth of fried rice and stir fry.

He made one (1) meal, breakfast, and only 2 things were on that pan: bacon & eggs

???

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

soaks the pan for an hour, scrubs it with like 30mLs of dishwashing liquid then puts it in the dishwasher.

That is excessive, but more reflective of being poorly trained than a western culture.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean he did hit the bong after breakfast so soaking may have been just him leaving it in water for longer than he anticipated.

Still I do this. Takes less than 60 seconds. No detergent or dishwasher involved, no soaking.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had roommates. Letting something soak is the lie they tell when they're leaving it for someone else. Nothing needs to be soaked if you don't suck at cooking/washing up

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well if you have stuff stuck to a pot or pan that can't go in the dishwasher, it does help to soak for a couple minutes (not overnight tho lol)

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hand wash my pots and pans. Dishwasher is for plates, glasses and cutlery

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[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

counterpoint: being poorly trained is a hallmark of western culture

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

bait It really is a case by case, pot by pot matter.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Over washing cookware is reactionary and capitalist propaganda by big soap and big nonstick to force you to buy more soap and pans

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