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anfilt | 5 months ago

Just season some carbon steel baking pans. The seasoning is non-stick like coating. And works well enough for most things in my experience.

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burnt-resistor|5 months ago

And carcinogenic as fuck. "Seasoning" is basically plastic made from burnt oil with constituents including acrylamides.

Why not cook on less toxic surfaces that are clean?

anfilt|5 months ago

If your worried about acrylamides then you should not be browning any starchy foods. A lot cooking intentionally wants the Maillard reaction for flavor and texture reasons.

When it comes to seasoning carbon steel you should not be letting carbon build up. It's a bad habit. If your getting carbon build up clean it off with something coarse like salt or a metal scrubber. After that if you need to it's not hard to give a pan a quick touch up seasoning with oil. Carbon steel is much quick to touch up season than something like cast iron. Cast irons rough sand cast surface means you generally need a much much thicker seasoning layer.

You also should still clean the pan too! Modern dish washing detergents are generally not made from lye so won't strip your seasoning.