why is cast iron okay to not clean?

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Why is it considered okay to eat off cast iron that has never been cleaned, aka seasoned? I think people would get sick if I didn’t wash my regular pans, yet cast iron is fine.

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please wash your cast iron. dawn soap is FINE. i use it literally all the time. just don’t bust out the steel wool and you’ll be fine.

if you REALLY HATE hygiene and the idea of using soap on cast iron makes you want to faint… a) seek therapy and b) use iodine salt to scrape out the pan, rinse with HOT water (if it’s not burning your hand, the water isn’t hot enough) and immediately plop the pan onto a hot burner to steam off the water. that’s how my great grandmother taught me, and I’m using her pans some 100+ years after she originally bought them.

that last point said… my granny used dawn on cast iron too, when it needed it. so all these soap naysayers are just wild to me.

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