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.
In: Chemistry
Being seasoned doesn’t mean you don’t have to clean it. You still have to scrape off all the food on there, rinse it off, put a layer of oil on it and heat it up to get it to start smoking.
Secondly, modern dish detergent isn’t going to harm a properly seasoned pan. The old wives tale of never washing it with soap was from the time when actual soap contained lye which would strip the seasoning off.
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