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just throw some bartenders friend in there and very lightly scrub it, it’s not the pressure it’s the action, and you will see metal again in no time
And remove the seasoning?
I can wrap it in tinfoil still!
you can take it from my cold dead hands
You tell em Taco!!!
Naw that one heats up faster
nah bro that shit an artifact from 100 BC
By ‘let it go’ you mean simply clean it? Why would you throw it away?
Can’t you just wash it?
That’s when it’s most useful because now it’s nonstick.
And an unsuspecting seasoner! 😋
And it takes longer to season aluminium!
It’s called seasoning you uncultured swine.
These people would try and polish a cast iron pan.
Or cover it in aluminum foil before they cook with it.
Or clean out a broken in tea cup
I like the creamy fermented bits at the bottom of a well used coffee mug myself.
That first cup after a vacation is divine.
My father had this tea cup he never washed out. He would leave floaters in it and go out to camp for a week.
One week while he was gone I washed this thing. I swear to god it had mould floaters in it. Fuck he hit the roof when he came home and saw it washed.
This is the first time that one of your comments made me physically gag and dry-heave. I feel delighted to finally join the club of people who have felt disgusted by your heinous humor.
I don’t know, after seeing one of those pans with a proper shine on it in a meme, I’d love to see the colour changes from oxidation when you re-season it
Cast iron oxidizes into rust so I don’t imagine you’ll see a nice patina like on copper cookware.
Aye but that micron thin oxide layer that it gets looks magnificent, if you put it in an oven at the right temp you could get it coming out almost goldlike
what? it’s still perfectly good.
Why? What’s wrong with it?
Ignore it. This is BIG Pan propaganda.
Keep your pans. You’ll be needing them. We’re about to enter into a recession.
We’re long past recession, we’re about to enter full blown depression if not already, supply chain collapse and more! Get to know your neighbours, share food, community garden and buckle up!
We’ve been in a recession for years
We’ve had one, yes but what about second recession?
If the US does kick off against Greenland. You ain’t seen nothing yet
About to enter?
How did you break into my house to take this photo?
I think they thought this was rust.
I had a nonstick coated pan that looked like this… It was definitely time to throw it away and I keep having to wait for my prince in seasoned aluminum pan comes my way
cover it with foil, brand new pan every time
Parchment paper
Alzheimer’s when
Wait till you find out about the PFAS in the non stick pans
YSK the finished PFAS in the end product like non stick pans is perfectly safe. The long molecules with strong carbon-fluoride bonds don’t interact with biology at all. You can cut it up into tiny pieces and eat it, it will just come out the other end. Even if you were to implant it inside your body, it would do nothing. Actually materials like PTFE are often used for medical implants, specially because they are so inert and safe.
So why is PFAS bad? Because in the production of the long molecules, short molecules are required. Those molecules are a waste product after use and are usually dumped. In the past they were dumped in huge amounts. However these short molecules are very dangerous, they do interact with biology and cause all sorts of issues including cancer. The people at Dupont figured this out very quickly, but chose not to report on it. It took a long time for the issue to become public. With their waste material giving the company a bad name, they said they invented a new short molecule to use, which was much safer. Except it wasn’t safer at all, they knew it wasn’t and they again didn’t make that info public. After they were found out a second time, the governments classified all such chemicals under the PFAS family and regulated all of them.
Unfortunately our world runs on stuff like PTFE, so it’s still widely used, without any substitutes available. And we keep on dumping those dangerous short molecules into our environment. And because they don’t decay over time (hence the nickname forever chemicals) they are here to stay. We’ve also found out even a little bit of it can be dangerous and we’ve dumped a lot of it into our water supply. So that’s why PFAS is bad.
TLDR: If you own anything with PTFE or similar materials like non stick pans and cutting boards, don’t worry they are totally safe. Since the damage is already done, keep using them as much as possible, so the damage wasn’t for nothing. If you are going to buy new stuff: avoid any products with PFAS as a waste product. Governments are working on regulation to make this clearly visible when purchasing a product. The less we buy, the less we produce, the less we pollute.
We think current pans are safe when used according to instructions but it’s all too common for
- someone to use it at too high a temperature, causing outgassing
- someone to use it while it’s scratched or flaking, causing ingestion
- someone to dispose of it improperly
But we need to start recognizing these are “forever chemicals”. We are adding them to our environment where they will accumulate effectively forever. How sure are we really that there won’t ever be problems, whether to us or any other part of the environment? How sure are we really that greater exposure over time, bioaccumulation, in every life form, won’t highlight later issues? Are we really that confident that we can afford to get in too deep, where cleaning and mitigation becomes impossible? No, it’s an effing stupid risk, especially for some minor convenience and when we have better alternatives
Yes agreed, all of the PFAS just keeps adding up and we know it’s causing all sorts of issue. I hope we can get that legislation in the near future where manufacturers are required to clearly indicate what products have PFAS in their end-product or in the process of making it. Because PFAS is in so many things and most people don’t even realize it. They might know about the non-stick pans, but it is in many more products, some surprised me to learn it was in it. If it’s clearly labeled, hopefully people will chose the product without the PFAS instead of the one with.
The first line of your reply is wrong, non stick pans are not perfectly safe. If we completely ignore the manufacturing waste, cooking in the pan at high temperatures, e.g. frying, breaks down and degrades the Teflon coating into a combination of hydrofluoric acid and short chain PFAS. This reaction seems to start to become noticeable at about 220C, which is practically guaranteed to be occurring an the intersection of metal and Teflon even at lower surface temperatures of 180-200C due to the extremely poor conductivity of Teflon.
When grandma starts covering the used tinfoil with more tinfoil…
There’s at least another 700 years of use left in that pan.
Future archeologist trying to carbon date my pan:
“WTF is this thing!? There are so many different layers of carbon!”
I honestly wonder if it’s possible to see what all got cooked on that thing by analyzing it in a lab.
“About 80% seems to be Totino’s pizza rolls.”
It’s for ritualistic burnt offerings of course.
