blazinfire
Babbling Farker
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2015
- Location
- west virgina
So a dumb thought came to me the other day.. It has been a month or so since I've restored my iron skillets after finding them hidden in the oven drawer.. Been using them every day since. Got them seasoning pretty good on all 3 of them. I made a pizza in the 12" skillet the other day, when cutting it the pizza just spun around not sticking to anything!
The thought I had was basic cleaning of cast iron consists of water and a rag.. If my pans don't have anything stuck to them. I'll just run hot water and wipe it out with a rag.. dry it off and coat with oil... Then throw it in the oven for storage. If there is little bits stuck to the pans I'll put a little water in the bottom and put it on the stove to get the water to boil while taking a spatula to loosen everything up.. then hit it with a rag..
How clean are the skillets really? I mean every other dish in the house gets washed with soap water.. what makes just wiping down with water safe? is it the fact the skillets are screaming hot when wiping them off? and Is there any unseen residue that stays with the pans?
Not looking for "oh its safe, go ahead and continue cooking" I plan on continuing to cooking, I love my cast iron skillets, especially after using them every single day for the past month. I'm just curious to know the overall cleanliness of the pans by just wiping them down and recoating with oil lol
The thought I had was basic cleaning of cast iron consists of water and a rag.. If my pans don't have anything stuck to them. I'll just run hot water and wipe it out with a rag.. dry it off and coat with oil... Then throw it in the oven for storage. If there is little bits stuck to the pans I'll put a little water in the bottom and put it on the stove to get the water to boil while taking a spatula to loosen everything up.. then hit it with a rag..
How clean are the skillets really? I mean every other dish in the house gets washed with soap water.. what makes just wiping down with water safe? is it the fact the skillets are screaming hot when wiping them off? and Is there any unseen residue that stays with the pans?
Not looking for "oh its safe, go ahead and continue cooking" I plan on continuing to cooking, I love my cast iron skillets, especially after using them every single day for the past month. I'm just curious to know the overall cleanliness of the pans by just wiping them down and recoating with oil lol