I have a years-long running joke with my girlfriend about tasting white wine. She always asks if I like it and what it tastes like. My response is and always will be “It tastes exactly like white wine”.

Those are very cool looking and I would love to say “Honey, can you hand me the chail mail, please.” But! A little sentless soap and a soft scrub brush does the trick, at least on my pans.

Any doctor who treats hypoferrimia with a cast iron skillet should have his license taken away. But for us regular folks, it’s not a bad way to get a little extra iron. I’d be interested in a study to determine if there is an appreciable increase in iron for people who use cast iron for cooking. That’s a pretty easy…

Sure, some of the seasoning is going to come off with soap but if you have well-seasoned pan, it’s not going to ALL come off. And it will be replenished with the incidental seasoning that is acheived when you cook at high temps with oils. Of course soap is an emulsifier but the oil that beomes incorporated in the…

We have a Le Creuset enameled dutch oven and it’s great but it can’t do anything this guy can’t. That deep pan gets used more than just about anything in our kitchen. Baking, frying, soup, etc. and we use in with the lid/pan inthe oven as basically a crock pot.

Duuuuuuude, do not buy a orbital sander to sand your cast iron. That’s nuts. If you hate the pre-seasoned pans, there are lots of good pans that you can season yourself. My two Calophon pans were cheap and they are absolute workhorses in our house. $25 bucks.

The thing is, the pan also becomes seasoned over time and lots of cooking. I use a stainless for eggs. It has a lot to do with proper use of heat and oil when cooking, too. Again, it’s not a miracle pan but the things they do well, they do really well. I probably use my cast iron to bake as much as I do as a…

Yeah, that looks delicious. My girlfriend is all about the chickpeas.

Yeah, same. I think there’s the perception that the seasoning is really delicate. But if you do it right and maintain it right soap isn’t going to hurt it. Not to mention it takes minimal effort to touch up the seasoning if necessary.

I think it’s a claim made more of woks than cast iron, but I’ve heard people I know and people on TV claim flavor as a justification for not using soap. That’s anecdotal, of course. I mean it sounds good, I guess. But I make heavy, greasy, onion-y, garlic-y, meaty dishes one night and a big chocolate chip cookie the…

The only thing more depressing than a link to an ICP video is the fact that the video has been viewed 17,000,000 times . . .

You never really know which jokes are going to land.

I have a lodge pre-seasoned pan and I still seasoned it before I used it. The factory season is not as good as putting it in a hot oven with some oil for an hour. You’ll be able to tell when the cooking surface needs to be seasoned because it will look a little dry. I have a couple ancient pans that I use basically…

That’s a fair point about lye. I did not know that there was a pre-modern adage about cast iron. But the idea is regularly held forth as common knowledge when some pretty rigorous testing and studies have shown that you can go ahead and use a little dish soap on cast iron, assuming you know how to properly season…

I know that no soap cleaning is gospel with cast iron advocates but you can use soap. If you’ve seasoned it properly and the molecular change has taken place to bond the oil to the iron you won’t be able to wash off the seasoning with water if you want to. A little soap ain’t gonna hurt.

Same in Utah. I have not seen a single Trump sign or bumper sticker. He’s got problems in Utah that are specific to Utah, but it’s still a very red state.

How could they base it on weight when there’s no way to know what a particular cord of wood would weigh? A cord of ash would be five times heavier than a cord of pine.

That kind of stuff doesn’t matter to the Hummer crowd.

There’s no fucking way that truck holds a cord of wood.

Because it makes it more expensive, which is what the buyer wants. It’s got to have the reputation of being expensive and be totally sick, bro. Dude, it’s got THREE locking differentials!